Archive for January, 2008
400 signups! ApnaBill.com is going to rock!
January 28th, 2008
What a sight it was - to see the signup counter at 400!
In just 75 days, we have registered 400 potential users - and this could have not been possible without immense support from our friends and family.
We are working day and night to launch the website into Alpha version…. and trust me, it would totally be worthy of all that wait 
So, just in case - if you havn’t registered - please register at our Beta Signup - and we’ll buzz you as soon as we are ready to rock the prepaid mobile world!
Just before ending, some stats I collected off the registration data…
Signups from different mail services…
Gmail: 210
Yahoo: 97
Hotmail: 28
Others: Rest
With a ton of thanks,
ApnaBill.com Team
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Just in…
January 24th, 2008
ISS M Team - From left - Aseem, Rehan, Siddharth, Me, Nitin, Anand & Naresh (missing from the pic are Murtu and Shubra)
The food at Northern Frontiers is damn good!
Munching {something} lol
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Run Nitin, Run!
January 23rd, 2008
We were asking Nitin that when is his birthday from past 2 weeks & his answer always used to be 
(silence) - we had wowed that we’ll not leave him if we get to know his birthday ourselves, using our own means.
Well, that wasn’t tough! Today, our cake shy dude had more cake on his face than what he ate 
Today was his birthday!
Wish you a very Happy Birthday Nitin
But what impressed me today was his sporty spirit! Though he hated all the cake on his face - he still very happily added this picture to his Orkut profile without any second thoughts! - Whats done is done - Keep it up dude
We then all gathered for a group pic…
Boy! I desperately need my hair back 
:(
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Fixing PNG transparency issues in IE6 and its brothers!
January 23rd, 2008
One thing that was eating my head ever since designing the UI for ApnaBill.com, was the PNG transparency issues with IE6 and its elder siblings (its brothers and sisters born before him). A picture can only best explain this…
Why on earth did IE ever existed?
Thanks a ton to Manuj for reporting that bug - We needed that kick on our backside, we are a bunch of lazy as*es!
As you can see, my PNG image is totally screwed!
A quick google search will lead you to http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/05/css-png-image-fix-for-ie - the solution is simple and works without changing any code in the HTML. Just a css is required with a conditional include.
Make sure to copy the 1×1 pixel transparent.gif off the author’s website. Without it, you might end up getting small red colored x marks behind your images. This mini transparent image is rendered as the background of your PNG image.
The sticker size is still creating problems when shown on bigger resolution screens - but thats just a tiny fix - Sunday’s task lol
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Why are people always like that?
January 19th, 2008
I was back on the joggin track today evening and to my surprise - each and everyone was running/walking again in clockwise direction… why did no one even bothered to switch directions? Time and again I’ve seen this strange habit amongst pupil to just follow - cant anyone think different? It isnt written anwwhere that everyone has to move clockwise lol - And when I started running anti-clockwise, people who were getting onto the track started joining my direction???
On top of that, when I was walking around the track for a warm up, the lights suddenly went out. We though its a power cut again. But then suddenly I saw a fire on the ground, picking up flares on the dry grass. It was a short circuit. What’s weird was that people were least bothered - leave alone the short circuit, the fire even didn’t bothered them. Everyone just continued walking around that area - whats happening to everyone? Not bothered atall?
I managed to get hold of a care-taker, who killed the fire with sand.
Sometimes, the general public attitude is soo strange and ugghh…
Just to end the post on a light thought, a great shot I found in my archives - way back from the good time in Atlanta
The ISS Gang at Norcross Jain Temple.
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