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Ever since I had a job, I constantly found myself wishing for a guide of some sort. To be honest, I was not really interested in a guide of any sort, I wanted the guide that is the mother of all guides. I wanted a guide that knew anything and everything about working in a company, knew when to oil your boss and when to oil your bosses boss, knew how to choose between jobs and how to find new jobs. I wanted the guide of all guides. Basically I wanted a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Since there is very little chance of finding one such guide on Earth (it may be stressed that such a guide is most likely in existence somewhere in the universe simply due to the vastness of the universe itself and the law of probability), I have decided to write one myself. Therefore ladies, gentlemen, androids and corporate slaves, welcome to,
The Company
According to the guide, the Company is the largest paradoxical being in the history of the universe. Anyone outside it’s influence want to be in it, and everyone in it wants to get out. The only other being that the Company is similar to is a Vogon. Therefore, by definition of a Vogon, a company is a large and unpleasant being mostly concerned with order among the people near it and a great fan of paperwork. It is not evil, in the sense of the word, but according to the people who has come into the contact of a Company, it is preferable to stay away from one. As for it’s love of paperwork, it is said that if the Companies were not in existence, there would be a lot more trees left in the universe. In fact, Composphere, the home planet of the Companies, was destroyed due to massive logging and paper-making leading to global warming and eventual destruction of the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently took a trip to Mymensingh and Sherpur during my blissful month long holiday. To be frank, it was one of the most wonderful surprises I have ever come across. Beneath the industrial development, horrible roads and absolutely ghastly electricity supply lies a beautiful world of nature. Have a look for yourself.
I stayed at Hotel Mustafiz in Mymensingh for the trip – Clean and well maintained with guarded parking and a filling station in front. Can’t ask for more, can I?
I ate at two restaurants – ROM 3 and Sarinda. Both served excellent food in a moderately clean interior. I’d recommend both
I took my own car as I couldn’t find anything for hire in Mymensingh. In case you are planning to go without a car, make sure that you hire one from Dhaka. The other modes of transport are not very friendly and definitely not comfortable
And if you can, get someone like my friend Ahmed Raihan Ahsanullah to go along. Thank you for everything brother, it was an absolutely marvellous trip.
And last but not least, if the wheel of your car happens to get stuck in a dirty clogged drain, people will gather around to see the spectacle. They will suggest that you let the tiniest one of them a chance to pick up the car by hand and drop it on the road. They’ll not listen to your requests of keeping clear of the drain and eventually someone will fall in it due to his infinite enthusiasm (at this point some of the people looking at the car will get distracted and will put their attention on the man in the drain). They’ll come even closer when you’ve managed to raise the car by a jack and are trying to build up revs to get up from the ditch. They’ll again ignore when you warn them of being hit by a barrage of sh*t laden drain water. And in the end some of them literally will get a mouthful of the foul smelling garbage from the drain and only then will they retire.
Trust me, this is what happens.
At least, this is what happened when my car got stuck.
As the initial hype (and what a hype it was) about Google Chrome dies down, people have started to post tips and tricks of customizing it to their need. Links to these tips are available below which shall be updated as more Tips and Tricks show up on the web.
- Change the default Blue Skin to Black – Million thanks to Upnishad from GeekPedia
- Put the home button on the toolbar – a silly one, I know, but still I saw people asking this in some forums. Thanks goes to Technipages and others who wrote a Howto for this
- Download Google Chrome Portable without Google Update – Thanks to Caschy
- Block ads in chrome (adblock replacement) – Two ways of doing this as far as I have found
- Privoxy – Here’s how to use it with chrome – Thanks goes to Boris Fritscher
- Admuncher – Sorry, can’t find a Howto for it
This is the list so far. Will update as for TnT rolls in. Cheers
