Rang Barse...

Its been a while that I am searching for a good service that can host my photos and give a nice gallery for viewing pleasure. I toyed with the idea of buying space in Flickr, but for $25 a year for an unlimited space would be a waste of money if I don't post enough.. which I don't. A lazy ass, thats what I am. Picasa would have been cheaper, $5 for 20 GB wasn't a bad deal taking into consideration that the extra space would be shared with Gmail too. But then again, Picasa's slideshow is horrible. I wanted nice gallery badly. Even thought of getting a hosted space too.

Today, a post comparing tumblr and posterous caught my attention and found me researching what is best. Posterous had me hooked with the idea of automatic galleries when you send multiple photos in an email. That.. coupled with the fact that Posterous is on cloud granting me an unlimited space to host my photos did me in. And now i am a posterous user :D. Find my photo blog at http://sajesh.posterous.com/. The blog name "Rang Barse..." was suggested by my dear friend, Avinash. Will soon be moving posterous to a custom domain and filling up with pics. Stay Tuned....

Outlook Poem

Our office was moving from Lotus notes to MS Exchange and the process started way back in November last year. Given a choice I personally would have chosen some open source options like Zimbra but the policies are made by the higher ups not me so MS Exchange it was. And since the migration started happening around me I had been waiting for one. Between Lotus notes and MS Exchange, I would gladly choose MS Exchange as notes suck big time. But well, the technical team kept the migration on hold for few people, which included me, and i kept on asking them when. Last monday i was all set to ask them a query again . This time coupled with a poem :D. But my bad luck decided to shake things up and before i could finish the poem, i got an email from the technical team saying it shall be done this friday! and they did it on monday itself!.

anyways, i completed the poem and sent them this later. I reproduce it here for public consumption.

pichle saal ka waada tha
jo aapko nibhana tha
lotus notes hataana tha
outlook ko bithana tha

remind kiya baar baar
request bheje the theen chaar
kaha jald aa raha hai sarkaar
aur thoda karo intezaar

gaya november, gaya december
din badle calendar par
fwd mails aate hain outlook se chaaron pehar
dekh nahi paata images lotus par

outlook ki raah take hai mera mann.
dhanyawaad doonga main har kshan,
agar kar do hal mera yeh prashn
kab aakhir kab karoge mera outlook migration?