Actually… my phone number hasn’t changed. I just figured out what you need to dial from the United States to make my phone ring. Try: +91.9880.2394.90 or, from a landline, dial 011.91.9880.2394.90.
The phone system here in India– like a lot of other “systems” is kinda mess. I was trying to call a number in Delhi today, so I asked Vivek– “say, what’s the area code for Delhi.” “011,” he replied. Well, 011 didn’t work. So I asked him “I’m having some trouble with this.” “Oh, you need another number,” he replied. “Try … 2” “Oh. Two. Of course.” But then… adding a 2 between the area code and the phone number worked. Heh. So anyhow. I’m pretty sure that I have the right number, now.
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In other news… I’m just going to keep rubbing it in:
Bangalore: 84° / 59°
Bozeman: 23° / 31°
Mmm.
We have snow so bite me!
And Mark, it really doesn’t bother us (well, me, at least) that it is only 30 degrees here. So, nothing to rub in. I’m pretty sure you miss it. 🙂
Ha ha. You’re completely right, William. I don’t suppose “rubbing it in” is quite the right terminology. I’m just amused by the difference. I DO miss the snow, but I’m also enjoying this perfect summer weather. =)
Mark, i’m still rather surprised you havn’t adopted the new rss standard icon 😛
The standardized icon is ONLY a standard for Firefox and IE to display in the address bar for CSS enabled websites. It is NOT the generic icon for placement on websites with RSS feeds available. Futhermore, I do not pander to RSS 0.91, 1.0 or Atom, so using a generic icon would leave RSS 1.0 users a little confused as to why my feed doesn’t work.
it’ll only become a standard if little monkies like you start using it 😛 I’m hoping with the using of the firefox feed icon it will turn people on to RSS a bit more. Computer abreviations turn the general public off of really great things.
Also, i read in the paper that last week Montana’s democratic senator was giving a talk in Bangalor and approx. 5 other places in India about outsourcing. Would have been interesting to see, and perhaps for someone like you a taste of home.
But I still maintain that the mere fact that Microsoft and Mozilla happened to both use the same icon in the address bar to indicate that a page has an available RSS feed doesn’t mean that every website needs to adopt this icon as well. If Mozilla and Microsoft agreed to use the same “Home” icon, I wouldn’t change that, either. It’s just a broswer thing. It’s cool, though, that Microsoft is being forced to consult Mozilla about things like this– that Mozilla is enough of a force that Microsoft can’t just bully their way into whatever they want.
BAH! *mumbles old-guy like*