but this time, they’re just being arseholes. isps across the world have gotten flak for it, but airtel decided to jump on a bandwagon that’s been tipped over several times already. do they not do their research?

rant being over, here’s how their latest rubbish works… when a user types in a web address that doesn’t exist (i’m using AirtelIsRunByRetards.com as an example), your browser should take you to a page that says the web address can’t be found. what airtel has done is this: they take that page and chuck it out the window (ha ha! pun!); and show you their own page, with their own ads, run by a company called “on speed.” well, the r&d team at airtel is definitely on something, but i’m guessing it’s a more malicious drug.

nice work. what’s next? insert their ads into search results? net neutrality, scumbags. look it up.

disclaimer: i don’t normally use internet explorer, but a screenshot about crap deserves a crappy browser. get firefox.

and this season’s assholes: the agency responsible for this fiasco had it coming… what were they trying to scrimp on this time? the 5k that it would have cost them to hire a half-assed doctor?

yes.. it’s to do with (yet another) client ripping us off.

someone once mentioned that my bad-mouthing lousy clients on my blog would deter potential clients. i don’t think so. honestly, i don’t give a fuck. we’ve made it ample clear that we’re selective about who we accept as clients. even at the cost of not getting as much work as we’d like to. it’s better that way, than to workfor people who turn heel overnight. and run at a loss in the long run.

and if a “potential client” is threatened by the thought of being written about, there’s definitely a lot of dishonesty lurking in his mind. we don’t need that breed of client, thank you.

but really, 6 movies a day, including repeats? and a name that’s a rip off of two rival channels? and unnecessary censoring? and english subtitles on english films? and incorrect ones, at that?

i was watching scary movie 2 the other night, and there’s this one bit that’s a spoof on charlie’s angels. you know the bit with the prodigy’s smack my bitch up. that’s right… censored lyrical subtitles: snap my picture!

that’s right… dth and regular cable guys don’t give you that, do they?

four jobs i’ve had: (not really jobs.. but things i’ve done)

• a couple of hundred gigs
• celebrity cricket match / wedding planner
• something at a web start-up (my only job, ever)
• am also an assistant architect (similar to assistant regional manager)

four movies i could watch over and over:

• high strung
• this is spinal tap
• a clockwork orange
• in which annie gives it those ones a.k.a. annie

four places i’ve lived in:

• cochin
• ooty
• koottickal
• delhi

four tv shows i like:

• m*a*s*h
• the office
• coupling
• ‘allo ‘allo

four favourite foods:

• - pass -

four places i’d rather be:

• anywhere but delhi

four people i’m tagging:

• pg
• gary
• asif
• your name here

i’m a man of the world, i am.

i really should be getting back to work.

that’s crap enough on its own, and then they create mutants, like the guy who met with an accident and lost his “toe and fingers” of his left foot.

the digits on your foot are called toes, retards. yes… all five of them. unless you’re sithandra, in which case they’re all fingers. yes… all five of them.

serenity now!!!
-frank costanza

What book are you reading?
just finished esmond in india. disliked.

Favourite board game:
qwyjibo

Favourite magazine:
rsj before the ricky martin issue was pretty good. when it was still printed on cheap paper. and when they didn’t just use the internet to get articles.

Favourite smells:
coffee and cigarettes. preferably together. especially coffee made by basit.

Favourite sound:
anything by don martin.

Worst feeling in the world:
the thought of a 9 to 5 job

What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
cigarette. cigarette. cigarette.

Favourite fast food place:
mc dhyani. no branches anywhere.

Future child’s name:
as in a child from the future? i imagine it’d be on the lines of “moon unit” or “pilot inspektor”

Finish this statement, “If I had a lot of money I’d…”
retire

Do you drive fast?
drive?

Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
wtf?

Storms - Cool or Scary?
neither. just depressing.

Do you eat the stems on broccoli?
and why not?

If you could dye your hair any colour, what would be your choice?
hmm… could i just wish for more hair on my head instead?

Name all the different cities/towns you have lived in:
delhi, cochin, ooty, and a little village named koottickal.

Favourite sports to watch:
anything that doesn’t last over half an hour.

One nice thing about the person who sent this to you:
gary really knows how to spell.

What’s under your bed?
if i had a bed, i’d know.

Would you like to be born as yourself again?
not particularly. i wouldn’t really like to be born again. cruel, cruel world.

Morning person or night owl?
night, wouldn’t it be?

Over easy or sunny side up?
i call it a bull’s eye. if they can’t get me that, i’d like an “ishcrambul”

Favourite place to relax:
where ever i be.

Favourite pie:
this is getting painful now.

Favourite ice cream flavour:
extremely arduous. but try the flavours at gourmet ices, in rajinder nagar.

You pass this tag to –
pg, asif, surdy,

Of all the people you tagged this to, who’s most likely to respond first?
pg. he likes the bloggery.

the united nations is even more ambitious: giving each address/person a url under .post using which the postman will find us. good luck with that dream. at domaintools, there was a better idea: just use your own domains. and let the postman do a whois, and deliver accordingly. not that that would ever happen, either.

semi-related anecdote: when i first shifted to delhi, i sent my dad a letter with just my last name and the pin code. it reached. kerala is convenient that way, unless you’re a generic nair or menon. anyone wants to try if it works in delhi? send me something with pottenkulam/110025 on it. if it reaches, the man’s getting his diwali bonus.