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Posted by Jayesh on

September 24, 2008

Indian Government starts reading e-mails

The government finally decrytped the RIM network. So bow they can watch what you gave been up with that super smexy (now crap) Blackbery. However I still do admit that there are sonethings which the Blackverry does which evenn the iPhone can’t do like copy-paste XD

However getting back to the topic the governement has also been monitoring emails sent and recv. to or from India.

But as the technology they have isn’t enough to track people down they have now put up stuff on your ISP’s which will make then track you down. Which in English means if you’re sending terror treats (threats) to these nice people stop and think If your ISP can track you down or not. For the rest of however this means no priavy at all :P

So think before you send an email because the government might be reading it. Or worse your ISP might be reading it too XD

While America has been doing since the Stone Age (of the Internet). We Indians thought our government wasn’t as retarded as the Bush administraton.

I guess the smoking ban and this just proves me and many other people wrong.

I guess the government is just bored. And hence, they gave decided to read emails by other people for other people It’s great they think they can catch terrorists by using this method. Seriously dude I’m gonna start using Facebook wall-to-wall to dump a chick and shit.

Posted by Jayesh on

September 19, 2008

Analysis: Lehman and The World

The Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (NYSE: LEH) which is a global-financial service firm filed for bankruptcy protection; on September 15, 2008, the filing marks the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The following day however its investment banking and trading divisions were acquired by Barclays along with their New York head office. It impacted the world stock markets including the SENSEX and the NIFTY, the local markets in India. The SENSEX duped to around 700 points due to the horrifying news.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER) also has been facing problems and on 14 September 2008 for Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch, if approved by regulators and shareholders of both companies. Lynch also like Lehman Brothers a global financial service firm.

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) (NYSE: AIG) is a major American insurance corporation. On September 16, 2008. AIG suffered a liquidity crisis, the United States Federal Reserve stepped in to prevent financial collapse of the company. The Fed announced the creation of a credit facility (at an interest rate of 8.50 percent over the three-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)) of up to US$85 billion. It was also removed from the DOWJONES on the 18th of September 2008.

In the same week, 2 of the major and the oldest financial firms and the 18th largest insurance firm have failed. This news has been worrying the investors all around the globe.

However the Indian finance minister stated yesterday that we’re quite insolated and that the American crisis won’t really affect the banking sector of India as the banks are very well regulated. After his speech the market went ahead and closed 52 points on the upper side.

At 10:15 AM EST on the 18th of September. George. W. Bush, the president of America made a speech which made both the DOWJONES and the NASDAQ [Two of the major exchanges of America] close in the green.

A good piece of information is that Lehman’s last quarter results were good and they gifted 22 million dollars to their CEO. Which basically means that their annual reports and balance sheets were fake! A huge company like Lehman cannot be bankrupt in one quarter.

But the question which really made the markets come down was “If a big company like Lehman Brothers can have manipulated annual reports and balance sheets what about the small financial firm I have invested in?” Even in India where on the day of the Lehman Brother news the market was down by over 650 points at some point of the day.

However some analysts do believe that this was more to do with Merrill selling the stocks on companies which they have invested in since about 3 months. However all the markets need is some sensitive news and it comes crumbling down, like during a war or during the rise of inflation. And the reason for that is the mindset of the people. The people get disturbed when such news comes out and they sell their shares [Many of them even if they are making a huge loss] because they get scared that tomorrow they might wake up and the stock market would be wiped out and that has happened before.

People are blaming the finance minister of India saying that the banks here are not throughly regulated. Recently there was some news coming in about major shareholders of ICICI selling their stock, this includes the CEO, the directors etc. However this news was rubbished by the bank and it was called a “Rumor to bring the bank down”

The Finance Minister however sticks to his “Everything is fine. RBI is on top of this” statement.

As the Wall Street buzzes again, everyone has a doubt on who’s the next firm to fall.

P.S- Over 1500 jobs were lost in India overnight as Lehman filed for bankruptcy and this is not the end of it. The American Recession is under way and it’s gonna be huge ;)

Posted by Belmont Steve on

September 17, 2008

Hello Drunken Bastards! [Er, yeah I thought Hello World! would be too Cliché]

So most of the people on the blog/reading the blog don’t know me, and trust me I am in no mood to give a good full on introduction, I find introductions boring and pointless but as Jayesh [I swear if you put 'my boss' here, I'll kill you] pointed out that people should know a bit about me, so I decided to create a point by point summary on things which have made an impact on my life.

I’m 24 and I work for Nokia in Asia Pacific I am not married and seriously I don’t think a girl is dumb enough to spend the rest of her life with a nice guy like me. I have a dog his name is Jayesh

  • Apple II

  • Cigarettes, weed, acid, LSD

  • Scotch

  • MIT

  • Ericsson GH387 [My first mobile phone]

  • iTunes 6.0

  • Broadband

  • GPS

  • Torrents

  • Ubuntu

  • Indian people

  • iPhone

  • Windows 95′

  • DVD’s

  • My job?

  • Veronica ;)

  • Google

  • Facebook

  • Bright Eyes

  • Pirates of Silicon Valley

  • Rock On!

  • 9/11

  • 7/11

  • 26/7

  • Steve Ballmer

  • Southpark

  • iPod

  • Bandra

  • The Drunk Santa Blog =___=

  • C|NET

  • Podcasts

  • Evernote

  • Dropbox

  • Netscape

  • 6600. The Nokia phone

  • Windows XP

  • Mac OS X 10

  • EDGE

  • Apple TV

  • The Google Story

  • The mouse

  • Macintosh

  • Iron Maiden

  • Scrubs

  • Scanners

  • Indian food

  • Software

  • SDK’s

I guess that’s about it, my next post hopefully will be about something which I don’t know about yet.

P.S- I like comments.

- Steve

[Edited, revised and made fit for user consumption: Jayesh]

Posted by Jayesh on

September 16, 2008

Month Five

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the annual Drunk World! We have a lot of things we wanna tell you today.

  • This blog was started on the 4th of April 2008 with around 60-90 hits a day and now after five months we have reached 150-190 hits a day and an average of 98 hits a day which we think is huge.
  • 77% of our traffic comes from search engines, out of which 76% comes from Google. And we like to thank Google for that.
  • Most people who visit our blog use Firefox to view it and most of them are on DSL, this information is gonna be of great importance when we are making changes to the blog in the future. Also 1280 X 800 is the most common screen resolutions are what our visitors have and they have the latest Java and Flash version installed too. No 64 bit users surprisingly! :O
  • The most common ISP hitting out blog often is Compcast followed by Sify Limited.
  • Most people visiting our blog are now from America. WOO! :P
  • A person on average spends around One minute and fifty seconds on our blog.
  • 69.57% of the people visiting the blog have never visited our blog before :)
  • People use Windows, Macintosh, Linux, iPhone, iPod operating systems to visit the blog [In the same order as stated]

Now basically all those things above are good and we at The Drunk Santa believe in the coming months these numbers are gonna go way up. We haven’t been working hard enough to keep these numbers stable. But we definitely do believe in quality instead of quantity and we think blogging is a very creative field. So today we’re announcing the ‘Kicking out’ project. In which we kick out people who haven’t posted even one article on the blog. Obviously we do give them another week to come up with something :)

We’re also very proud of our theme and we are gonna stick with it for a while now. The theme which was used in between is never gonna come back. The site may take a while to load then and now and we hope that you don’t go ahead and navigate to some other page. I am also glad to welcome our newest team member on board The Drunk Santa Ship! Steve Belmont, an old friend of mine who is like me but not me.

Thanks for the support people, we appreciate it.

Regards,

Jayesh

[Co-CEO, Founder, Content Manager of The Drunk Santa]

Posted by Jayesh on

September 12, 2008

Apple Event: The aftermath

After a long night [day for Americans] we are obviously disappointed with the new iPod lineup and the way Apple is being changed. The below coversation happened between 10:29 PM - 11:35 PM (IST)

Jayesh: Apple = next Microchut :)

Sumit: Lol. iTunes 8 == mahasuckage [Mass sucker of memory(?)]

Jayesh: Not really. It sucks on Windows, yes but Mac one is really good. The memory hog is very less compared to iTunes 7.0.6 on mac + I like grid view :)

Sumit: 2 new features != new version. What is the genius shit anyway?

Jayesh: genius = you click one song and it makes a playlist of say 25 songs which is similar to that song you have selected based on other user libraries. Need to have an iTunes account for it

Sumit: Doesn’t work in proxy :S

Jayesh: Abe iTunes account hain? :S

Sumit: Yes, made at home. Lodatunes never works with proxy :@ [Loda :P]

Jayesh: Lodatunes \m/ http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/86292/z.JPG < Check how genius worked.

Sumit: (Y)

Sumit: Bc acclerometurr on ipeed nanu [Bc = Bhenchod, ipeed nanu = iPod Nano and accelerometurr = accelerometer]

Jayesh: iPod nano is a sucker :|

Jayesh: I already used 4G aaj :| It doesn’t feel good like 1G iPod used to… Curved screen causes glare on screen. Lulz!

Sumit: accleroometurr \m/

Jayesh: Yes but with clickwheel you forget what to do :S

Jayesh: You think menu button on clickwheel will turn into play/pause

Sumit: lol

Jayesh: But it doesn’t apparently.

Sumit: haha

Jayesh: Morphing clickwheel hona mangta tha [There should have been morphing clickwheel]

Sumit: Neeche chota sa likha aana chahiye “kata chutiya” [Translation not available]

Sumit: ab click wheel use kar [Translation not available]

Jayesh: Lol.

Jayesh: Only old Touch/iPhone getting genius old 6G/Nano iPod walle not getting genius

Jayesh: Nano also has shake-shuffle :P

Sumit: Shake hard it’ll start shuffling?

Jayesh: Yes :S

Sumit: Shake hard and white things come out xD

Jayesh: I kept shaking it just rebooted. :S

Sumit: Lol

Jayesh: If only @white things though.

Sumit: ipron nan0

Sumit: Different versions for men and women.

Me: iPod orgasm-ed :D

Sumit: Lol

Jayesh: Dude oTouch! short for orgasm touch :P

Sumit: Touch at right places and it moans and orgasms?

Jayesh: Pwned :P

Sumit: New iPeed Touch in India?

Jayesh: Not yet. Wait for like 24377238237 years.

Sumit: lol I have to get it from United shitates States.

Note:  I know this post was about the Apple Event but you can’t really blame us for not talking about all those fancy new iPod’s which were out, like a new Touch which is similar to the iPhone and the Nano 4G which looks like the 2G iPod :S

P.S - Microsoft has not given us a Zune to speak against Apple. In fact they have given us a copy of  Vista ultimate. Yeah well they thought that shit could help :S

Posted by Jayesh on

September 10, 2008

Apple Event

My predictions were as follows:

  • iPod Shuffle [Redesigned, more storage] - New colors nothing else changed.
  • iPod (Classic) [White color :@, Bigger screen, more storage, cheaper, probably will run on OS X] - Nothing on it. ONLY 120GB model available now
  • iPod Touch [Minor changes, cheaper, more storage, GPS] - YES expect for the GPS and more storage. The devices will come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB versions. The 8GB version will cost $229, down from its current $299 price. The 16-32GB versions will cost $299 and $399. Minor changes made to UI. Built in Nike+ iPod support. Oh and built in speakers + external volume keys.
  • No new Mac’s :P - Right.
  • iTunes 8.0 - Right.
  • Stock of Apple Inc; (NASDAQ: AAPL) probably will go down cause of no new Mac’s - RIGHT traded after the event at 3% low.

Posted by Jayesh on

September 9, 2008

Indians: A report

A movie like Rock On failed to make a mark in the mainstream even with its brutal guitar solos and great drumming by Luke Kenny and gutter vocals by Farhan Akhtar which clearly indicates something: we Indians are different from people. Below is a detailed report on Indians as people.

1. We elect people we like on the basis of their face. Most of us haven’t even herd of what they have to say about whatever. The people who do listen to them speak probably are present there for the money. People who don’t even go to vote say they hate politics and that the government which has been elected is the worst government in the history of India. People who can’t vote don’t even know the general idea about voting. After 60 years of development and copying the United States of America we still don’t have e-voting.

2. Our media people hype things which are not important. Instead of concentrating on the issues which the government should take care of, they show footage of the reality show Big Boss. They also information like high inflation public and cause a scare which causes people who don’t want to raise prices/understand inflation raise the prices of products they sell. Hindi news channels talk about how crappy our government is and how notes are being printed by the D gang.

3. People say they are open-minded but when they see a guy and a girl together they all think the same thing: “Holy shit that dude is getting that ass.” A guy and a girl cannot be friends. Having a boyfriend/girlfriend is ‘in’ and people who aren’t in a relationship/banging anyone are said to be gay :|

4. “Sex is a bad thing which should be saved after you get married. Sex can make you a slut.” Yeah that’s what parents are telling their kids. But what the oh-so-smart kids don’t realize is that those parents had sex when they ‘made’ them and you can’t prove if they did it before marriage or after it XD

5. Let’s face it even though our civics textbook says we are a secular state. We hate minorities. A proof is of what has going on in Orissa since days now. [I can't really elaborate on this topic more because I can't be sensitive atm :|]

6. We are against development. We just are, we wanna be protective about our culture and our heritage but we forget that those things are not gonna feed us. We need that Tata plant in Singur. But no, agriculture is the top priority! We earn so much from the primary sector :O

7. We Copy: It’s in our blood. We copy from other countries, we copy in exams. We copy everything and anything we can. Like the skywalk? WTF? You guys don’t even have proper highways and you are spending millions on a stupid piece of road which is useful to …?

8. We say that people who study in India should stay in India. For? A call center job?. Heck over population in our country is making this country go nuts. Plus the lack of jobs due the the development forces a person like me/anybody else who dislikes the system in India go to the U.S or the U.K or to Africa.

9. We watch all Ekta Kapoor serials and then go ‘WTF does that woman make man’ If we don’t get what she makes, how about we stop watching it and switch on to Discovery and shit? Oh no wait how ice is melting doesn’t matter to us! We love Tulsi so much <3

10. We get influenced easily from movies. We seriously are after Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na, I have seen at least ten girls buying a cap/hat like the one the girl wears in the movie.I see people wearing sunglasses and ‘Rock’ tees in college after Rock On. After Ghulam in 1997 the song ‘Aati kya khandala‘ was used for eve teasing and many people burned their tongue with that trick Aamir Khan did in the movie. Kids go in the balcony and try to sit on a broom and fly after watching Harry Potter. People are scared of crows after Phoonk. WTF?

Maybe all these things apply to me too, maybe :P

[No sentiments wanted to be hurt by the post, I'm sorry if they were. I do understand that the post is quite offensive if you have a good reason you can email us thedrunksanta at gmail dot com and we will take it down :)]

Posted by Jayesh on

July 25, 2008

Savita Bhabhi :The Indian Toon Porn Star

[We are in no way affiliated with Savita Bhabhi or the website, do not click the link if you are under 18 or 21 or if it is illegal to watch porn in the place you reside. Also don't read the post if you are underage as it does have some sexual content. Parents please note that we are just providing information and we are not into making your kids look at naked toon women. We are sorry if this post disturbs anyone. We also feel sorry for the people who don't want to/can't watch this shit]

Now, most of the people don’t know who or what Savita Bhabhi is which is sad because Savita Bhabhi is the first ever Indian toon porn star! Now before you people who already are in a relationship and are getting some ass scroll down, let me tell you that the story line of Savita Bhabhi is hilarious and it’s definitely worth checking out if you are bored of the same non-funny porn on various sex sites and also if you just need to laugh. Some people obviously disagree and say that this is against our Indian culture [You know the same culture where the Kama Sutra originated]

According to the website of Savita Bhabhi, the character has been inspired by the owner’s real life ‘hot bhabhi’ who didn’t wanna reveal her true identity as she is married, which is just wow.

Now I am not posting this to get hits, seriously :P I am posting it because I think India’s creativity is going places. Oh and also because I am trying to post things daily on the blog.

And before I forget, Savita Bhabhi is also available in several Indian languages, including Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Punjabi among many others. There is also a forum available for questions or comments. So go ahead and check out India’s first toon porn star at http://savitabhabhi.com

Enjoy ;)

Posted by Jayesh on

July 24, 2008

Apple acts like the Government

The AppStore is a great thing isn’t it? You get all your iPhone/iPod Touch apps from it, it’s like a hub for everything iPhone/iPod Touch. But there is more then what meets the eye. Every person who puts his app for a price on the iTunes AppStore has to pay a 30% ‘maintenance fee’ to Apple. That’s fine for huge game developing companies like EA, Sega, Gameloft. But not every developer is a Sega, for others 30% is a big deal. So these n00b game developers are putting their apps for free on the iTunes store. Apple is disappointed by this news and was encouraging the developers to charge for their work as the business model of the Appstore is based on Apple getting the 30%. A survey actually pointed out that 71% of the apps on the App Store were going/already free, which is huge :)

However Apple isn’t charging any fees for hosting these applications on their lame servers. I say lame because if you recall the iTunes servers were down when the new firmware came out for the iPhone/iPod Touch also the same time when the iPhone 3G was launched. The AppStore is not a bad thing but Apple is being a dick about it. Yeah, there I called Apple a dick :P

So how is this related to the Government? Well the government taxes people and do nothing great for them, I am obviously here talking as an Indian. You see how I can get our government into all most anything? That’s what I actually wanted to prove :P

Anyway, the iPhone is a money making cow, as my friend Sanjit Nair rightly said. And the AppStore is just the beginning. It’s a huge platform and now it’s actually being treated as a gaming platform like the PlayStation Portable or a PDA. Most of the 3rd party applications are inclined towards the entertainment aspect of  life, some of them are great utilities which help you to navigate through life more easily. I have personally tried most of the free apps, some of them are by far the most lamest thing ever created and some of them actually blow you away.

My favorite application list includes; Cube Runner, Spell Number, Scribble, CheckPlease, PhoneSaber, Blip Solitaire, Bubbles and eReader. [The links provided here when opened will open up your iTunes, if you don't have iTunes installed you can always get it here]

As far as the paid applications go, I decided to stay away from them the main reason being I don’t have a credit card. Sad? Yes very sad indeed. Anyway I am really waiting for Super Monkey Ball to be available for free through hacks or something.

So to just sum it up : AppStore is great but Apple charges every developer who puts his application on the AppStore for a price which is why many developers are thinking of putting their apps for free and probably adding some fancy very WEB 2.0 ‘Donate here’ button. Or maybe they could get sponsors/ad-sense or whatever.

Oh and I have decided to stand in line for the iPhone when it’s launched in India, a night before outside the Vodafone store but the problem is I don’t wanna get one, so I am asking people around who want to get an iPhone and I could stand with them XD

Posted by Jayesh on

June 14, 2008

Month:- One

It’s been a month on this domain, and we are still in business, not like real business (thanks to our readers who are lazy to click ad’s)

Anyhoo, I’d like to share our statistics and other plans.

Statistics/general Information:

  • 1,071+ hits in the past one month
  • Busiest day : 20th May (The day when the Skywalk post had been posted, it got 91 views!)
  • We have posted 20+ posts in total so far.
  • We got 244 hits in the first week, 240 in the second, 252 in the third and 222 in the fourth.
  • We have a Beta versions of Podcasts out.
  • We have over 7 authors.
  • According to Google Analytics people spend around seven minutes reading our blog.

Future Plans:

  • We plan to get Google ad-sense on our blog.
  • Also, we plan to post after every 2 days no matter what, and for that we need authors.
  • We plan to change the theme of the blog, soon.
  • We plan to get our podcast listed in iTunes.
  • We plan to appeal to more people
  • We also plan to test our skills by writing stuff in different genres.
  • I plan to get a custom teeshirt made.

Please note : If you want to be a part of the blog and if you can post regularly (atleast once a week) you can visit the ‘Contribute’ page or the ‘About’ page to contact us.

Posted by Palak on

June 8, 2008

The ‘BEST’ ride ever

Have any of you guys experienced a bus ride in ‘Mumbai’ atleast once? I guess once is not enough, every time I travel in a bus is a whole new experience. In Mumbai the buses which are the easiest and cheapest way to travel through long distances is owned and operated by The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking. The service called BEST Sure there can be a debate over the local trains versus the buses, but humans can travel through buses.

When you board a bus the T.C. (Ticket Conductor) usually asks where you’re headed, however most of them don’t bother even to ask that and you have to call him. Mind you, ticket conductors here are hotheads. When a passenger who is even willing to purchase a ticket doesn’t because the T.C. doesn’t bother, the T.C. grumbles “In logon ko toh conductor onke saamne khada chahiye” and here I do blame them. You guys (guys = T.C.s’ ofcourse!) are the T.C. Ticket Conductors for the love of God, the passenger couldn’t care less, he’ll be happy to save his money. Alright if some even dares to ask for the ticket, they start grumbling for change. If you have no change (which is mostly the case) then either he’ll ask for a rupee or so more or he’ll threaten you! Threaten being the keyword here, threaten you in the sense not kill you but threaten you that either he’ll give the change back if he gets some change from other passengers or he’ll say “Tikat pe likh ke denga” I haven’t interpreted that sentence well as yet but probably he means that the next time I travel I’ll just have to show that ticket, and I would have to just pay the difference if any. Yeah right it’s normal to just keep a small piece of paper safe, and what if I want that change now? What if I wanted to smoke ‘beedi’? Should I show that ticket to the beediwalla too? Is it the new Rupee?

Coming to the bus drivers I must say they are “hotterheads” as compared to the T.C.s and are more prone to get involved in conflicts. And here is a hilarious thing bus driver and T.C.s relationship is like a husband- wife’s because most of the times when drivers are involves in a conflict T.C.s play the wife’s part and cool down the driver. They also yell at the person who was involved in the conflict with the driver.

Bus drivers can be of two kinds - “Wildcats Or Jackass”. Oh, I forgot to mention one thing which is universal amongst the two is either they are colorblind or there is no such thing as “traffic signals” in their dictionary. Wait do they have a dictionary? Do they know what is it? Questions are arising, when are we gonna get the answers? Sorry India TV distracted me. Anyway back to the point, both of them are ready to pounce on any one abusing or even kindly blaming em’ for their mistake or asking them to apologize.

Moving on with the classification the “Wildcat” breed are the ones who don’t care whose on the street and you just need to sit back people and enjoy the ‘fright’. One good thing is that you literally zoom to your destination.

The Jackass breed, on the other hand, are the ones who know velocity to some extent but blank w.r.t. acceleration. You feel like getting down and pushing the bus even though knowing that you can’t. (At this time I wish that some lame-ass superhero would save the day) And then people start grumbling “Yeh kya bail-gaddi chala raha hai?” Unfortunately you can’t choose as such any one of the breeds. Even though they should paint the buses in different colors, black and white or something. You just have to pray that the driver you get is comparatively normal and of a good breed. I don’t get it why employ ‘hotheads’ & ‘wildcats’ to operate a mode of Public transport? Maybe because the government has a secret service which wants to reduce the population of India and then it can give ‘Roti, Kapda Makaan’ officaly to everyone.

YOUR EXPERIENCE MIGHT BE WORSE!

Credits : Written by Palak | Edited/Title-given by Jayesh.