Why email upload is slower than other http file uploads?

I just now tried, tried and tried but no lucks sending a 2meg pdf file via my gmail a/c to one of my friend gmail a/c, and in last I need'd to use my favorite file upload site you send it and they could upload the same file in less than 2 minutes of time.
I think it is not only gmail but other mails also I tried sometimes back and they fail to upload files if file contents are even little bigger.

Today is last nite of Nguyen

I have been following Nguyen's case from around 3+ months, He is Australian citizen and was caught in 2002 on Changi airport, Singapore with around 400gms of heroin(~26000 normal doses) and will be executed tomorrow morning(hang till death).
Till a week back I was thinking because of extra-ordinary efforts from Australian media(mainly smh and age ) and even oz'y govt. lobbying he will not be executed and will get clemency and life in prison, but Singapore is firm on his decision of death penalty even though Australians was lobbying real hard for him, indeed they threaten Singapore by putting trade sanctions against him and they even knocked the doors of U.N and international media but all in vain! Now from last 2-3 days Australians lobbied for his mother to hug him before his execution, even John Howard made a personal request for this to Singapore PM but no success, Though I am glad they are allowing Nguyen to hold hands of his mom and brother's, here and here is the news story about it.

No doubt Singapore is strict country, but in this case to me it looks like they was try'g to show also that w/e they have done till now was correct...execution looks like too hard punishment for nguyen who don't have any criminal record as well as his first crime that too didn't hurted anyone.
Also I would like to see one more political leader now in Amnesty's candle Ad


Tags: Nguyen Tuong Van Nguyen

What I am upto?

It is really being long I felt like writing something ... looks like I have lost my spirit, I seems tobe in low energy these days! Life is moving bit slow ... looks like everything is still around me and nothing is moving; I am feeling like a bird in cage and really try'g hard to find the way to get out of this cage, not sure this is a real cage or just a net over my mind.
Though one good thing happend yesterday that I got my SCEA p3 certification result emailed to me yesterday, and I just got pass'd. But surprisingly, I don't feel like party for it ... not at all, WTF !

Google analytics indirectly apologizes from users?

Google indirectly apologizes for the temporary removing google analytics, following is the snippet from the mail I got from them just now.
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Hello Google Analytics User,This is a quick update to address some issues you may be seeingin your Google Analytics account and what we're doing to respond.First, due to extremely high demand, we've temporarily limitedthe number of new signups as we increase capacity. This allowsus to focus on our primary objective--to provide a great userexperience for our existing users.Next, here is current information on the most common questionswe're receiving:
1. The 'Check Status' button is being reworked to check forproperly installed tracking code. This should be fixed by theend of November.
2. The '+Add Profile' link has been temporarily removed untilwe increase capacity. We'll alert all current users when thefeature is restored.
3. While we increase capacity, you may see longer than normaldelays in data showing up in your reports. All data continuesto be collected and no data has been lost.For additional help with your Google Analytics account, weencourage you to browse or search our online Help Center athttp://www.google.com/support/analytics?hl=en.Thanks for your patience as we improve Google Analytics and addresources to ensure a high-quality service.

Me and My Fathers relationship

It is pretty strange relationship, We usually talk very less even when I am at home, now over the phone probably in 1-2 months and that too don't last 3-4 minutes, and if lasted more than 5 minutes than must be problem in line and we couldn't hear each other and so look so long. In my parents I am more close to my mom than my father, but sometimes it is really strange to know by someone else or by mom that though my father don't say to me but how much he do care about me, well not only from him side it is true at my side also, but I always hate to find that I never able to confess this thing in front of him ... never !

Days need to be longer than 24 hours?

I never liked fact that it is only 24 hours in a day, Indeed I do change this for myself over the weekends or when I am on holidays(2 or more days), usually I make my day of 28 hours by loaning every day 4 hours from next day!
Indeed I just did a small research on days length on other planets and some planet have days as long as 100 days though some have as short as 10 hours, but I think if someday humans start migrating to other planets, mars should be first choice bcz it have ~24.6 hours in a day.
Here is a nice link where someone has specified some good reasons behind having 28 hours in a day.

Natwar singh & Jaya Bacchan, two different sides of Indian politics

I am not a big political buff, but being Indian I do like to read and stay aware with current political happenings in India
Firstly Mr. Natwar Singh literally pissed me off by sticking to his seat like it was his life line, despite of all news papers flashing his name in UN's Oil for food program.Okay for moment I agree with congress and Natwar Singh that Paul Volcker is a CIA spook(Or maybe pakistani agent), I also agree even UN hates him bcz of personal reasons*** But common, what goes in stepping down from the seat for sometime while the things get cool and committee gives its report? That too at age of 70+ someone’s behavior at this high position literally sounds %@#%, And on another contest whole govt has also done a excellent job, they won’t completely throw out Natwar Singh, but will make a committee, while they never made any committee for as serious thing as bird flu till guys in WHO literally pushed them to take atleast some measures.
While on otherside is there great lady Misses Jaya Bacchan gave this excellent speech in UN against Pakistan, and words was so loud and clear that no one could say anything against her, I really wonder, why not people like her comes ahead and take more responsibility and literally throw out people like Natwar Singh out from govt.

Tags: Jaya Bacchan Natwar Singh India

Madonna: Confessions on Dance Floor

I heard this latest album(releasing next week) of Madonna today morning while getting ready for work on VH1.
Can't stop myself from appreciating her!
Excellent performance, a big no to Lindsay Lohan,Alicia for few weeks, and Pink Floyd maybe for a day :-).

Tags: Venture reviews

Would you like to send email yourself?

Kinda weired, but not so weired If I say that these emails will be delivered to me on 11/2006 and 11/2010, and It will be really interesting to get some past memories back in future, that too in my own written email.
If you wanna try the same, here is the link of Email time capsule by Forbes

Mov'g blog to my own domain

Firstly, If you see http://long-wind.blogspot.com on your address bar in browser? than it is time to modify your favorite to WWW.SP2P.NET as your looking at place where I don't publish anywhere.

Actuall it is being pretty long that my last hosting service from tubu expired, and till now I was using my domain sp2p.net redirect to long-wind.blogspot.com but just now I have got amazing hosting deal from dreamhost and it took me only 15 mins in this complete migration, I guess credit of this ease goes to blogger, It is the reason that I have stopped myself from migrating to awesome wordpress till now.

So from now, my blog domain is again WWW.SP2P.NET

Cost of keeping phone on bed while sleeping

Today it happened once again after 1+ years that somehow while I was sleeping and my phone was laying somewhere on my bed that I pressed those magical numbers which lead to deletion of my all calendar entries, now for coming months I will be forgetting birthdays and anniversaries of my friend and relatives and hearing complains from them later on, really frustrating and annoying feeling, I always realize after the loss only that I should have kept backup of my phone memory.
But despite of this incident happening 2nd time now, I would still like my phone only to keep those tasks stored and I don’t want to feed those details on any of the website, but this time I would make sure I would take backup atleast.

Faced DRM first time, it stopped me playing my song on my music player

DRM, Till now I am sure I have heard enough , mostly the horror stories that how it will stop living us with full freedom and all, and really even heard stories from other people that how bad it can be, but never really realized till today when it really stopped me playing my favorite song on my ipod!Following is what I get when I try to play it on itunes, i.e. can't even play on my system



Really can't stop myself saying "BIG THANKS" to apple for doing this to me, showing who will have remote control in future, for now I am moving to windows media player, and I am already seeing atleast one benefit, I see it consumes far less CPU cycles than what dirty iTunes used to, but really afraid if I update windows too and it might stop playing this song there too ...

Tags: DRM apple ipod windows media player

Flock, a new browser or firefox with different theme & few plugins?

I beleive this is again one of overhyped thing, and it was hyped simply because it was hot, and it was hot because it had keyword WEB2.0 browser.
Today only I got beta preview of flock and I am using it to browse from past 2-3 hours now and really don't see it any different from firefox, indeed in reality it is just a firefox only with change of few things, And I would rather say, they have changed whatever it was possible to change without touching the core part of firefox, I could smell this thing clearly when on download page of flock I see version even for mac and linux, otherwise it is not at all possible for a startup to launch for all these 3 platforms.

Following are the points which prove flock is not a new browser:

1) user agent header flock sends to a web server while making connection
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/2005
1019 Flock/0.4 Firefox/1.0+
2) Type about:config on address bar and you will see what exactly config page you see on firefox
3) You can run a XPI and XUL in flock

I don't think I need any further point for proving flock is firefox with a theme and maybe some plugins pre-installed.

Now look at some of the points where flock is better than firefox
1) Favorites, It looks good to see a browser integrated with my delicious without any problem, but I thought I would be able to use by favorites with much ease, unlike in firefox where livefeed is shown all under one name, I wish there could be separate sub-menu's for my each tag, thus I can move easily in my favorites, but flock also didn't fullfilled my this wish., But still it is better than any other one.

2) UI looks much neater than firefox though I wish they could change the color of menu's also, that dark color over light really looks ugly.

3) Blog editor looks neat, though I couldn't reach to my blog using that editor as my current firewall is blocking blogspot, so I tried one of wordpress blog, and since past 15 mins it is still trying to detect my blog setting, But I consider this might be a problem at my end, and it is really handy to have a blog editor inside browser no doubt about it, indeed I believe flock do notify event technorati when you publish your blog from flock.

4)This one is my favorite, Flock has added very nice accessibility feature in dialog box which says "Allow text to be selected with keyboard" I really love browsing with caret on, as I mainly a qwerty person, but yes you can enable this feature even in firefox with about:config --> accessibility.browsewithcaret to true :)

Technorati tags: firefox flock flockfox IE7

joining the IM islands

Couple of hours while I was jogging around my condominium, just to make sure that I don't have any regret on monday morning about not working out this weekend too; While I see some friend of mine talking to our another friend in Denmark and suddenly a thought come in my mind, how come these differnt mobile providers are able to talk to each other, well, reply is surely simple, they have to comply to standards else they will loose business, now another thought comes in my mind why is it tak'g forever to join the IM networks, this is really unfair to isolate millions of people in peaces, though jabber is really good start, but it is not backed by any major IM network and neither any govt. so it might take forever for world to migrate to this protocol and companies like AOL,Yahoo,MSN,ICQ are going to make this client better and better but will not open there network, and surely they don't view any economic benefit, while in truth there can be alot of not only social benefits but economic benefits and VOIP over it can be like bless directly from god, so I come back from jogg and after quick bath get stick to my system again and try to search if this was any time in past planned or any organization is try'g to make sure all they can communicate, and I get this beautiful story according to which yahoo and msn might open gates to each other by mid nxt year, here is the link, this news truly put a light in my eyes, atleast things have started to change now, hopefully one day all IM networks in the world will be able to interact to each other as smoothly as a call from one mobile operator to another mobile operator.

yahoo msn jabber meebo

delicious is down right now

Okay, I really don't wanted to write this, atleast not after my past post, But can't help, I am right now facing one of the inherited disadvantage of web2.0, that is your system can't do anything without server, and pretty strange feeling, but yeah delicious is down right now, and I really dunno what to browse now, as all my favorite links and todo-read etc lists are there, without it I'll be just end up wasting time in surfing things of no use to me ...

Tags del.icio.us delicious web2.0