What do we teach our children?

In Hyderabad, India (which is true in other cities too), I keep seeing one recurring scene on the roads. Parents talking the children to the schools or bringing them back to home, on two wheelers (Bikes/Scooters/Scotterets/Mopeds etc).

It's very endearing scene as well as disturbing at the same time. Most of the parents, are subconsciously, are teaching their children to break the law, rules by breaking themselves.

Driving on wrong side of the road, taking shortcuts, driving without concerns to other commuter's convenience, over loading their bikes (I have seen 4-5 kids being ferried to the school by some brave hearts).

Children are very impressionable and they learn exactly what they see.

Do these parents care about the education they are giving their children?

Parents need to be good examples to their children.

Its a pity, these parents do not realize that they are the first teachers of their children.

Read this beautiful article/discussion A Parent's Realization: "I am my child's first teacher!"
See this Video

Children Learn From Parents


CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE!

CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE!

Helping Your Child Learn Responsible Behavior with activities for children

Children 'learn violence from parents'

Children learn from watching parents

Web Resources

I came across this wonderful compilation of web resource for any blogger or web master.

Eco Design Blog » 101 Design resource sites

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Pathetic Customer Care: Reliance Broadnet. Internet Service

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On April 11, 2008, I took the Internet services from Reliance Communications, which is branded as Reliance Broadnet. A WiMax service. They install a roof-top antenna, and a modem inside the house and provide reasonably priced Internet services.

Today, it is July 11, exactly 3 months since the hardware installed at my home, my user details have not found their way in to their database. Gosh !!!! Every time I have some network problem, it has become a great pain in the but to get any response from the Reliance Broadnet Customer Care.

The people who are manning their customer care the most inept, callous and bunch of liars. Absolutely no brains. Every time, I call, the following happens:

 

Me: My user ID is xxxxxxxxxxxx.

CC: Please wait, let me check.

CC: Sorry Sir, is this a new connection?.

Me: No, its fucking 3 months old.

CC: Sorry, but your details have not yet been updated in our database. Tell me how can I help you?

Me: I am having difficulty in logging into your Internet services, I am getting authentication failure.

CC: I am sorry sir, we need the information updated in the system first to help you with this. Let me take an offline request for updating the database with your details. Please call us back after 48 hours.

Me. I am sorry, I have already provided these details previously. Can I speak to Mr. Kaushal or Mr. Sweetam, your supervisor?

CC: Please provide me with your contact details so that I can forward your call to my seniors.

Me: Why do you need telephone numbers?

CC: I am sorry, I did not get you.

Me. If some one takes my phone number that means, the other party is going to call me back if some thing needs to be informed. So far Reliance Broadnet has never bothered to call me even once. Why do you need my telephone number?

CC: Sir this is our procedure.

Me: My number is 123344455555

CC: Please be on line. I will connect you to my floor supervisor.

Floor Supervisor: I am sorry Mr. Rajeev for all the inconvenience you are facing. I assure you that within 48 hours, your problem is going to be addressed.

 

This cycle has been going on for now, three month. And every time it's the same shameless and callous retards I speak to at Reliance Broadnet customer care. Almost every week I spend about 2-3 hours just listening to these bastards with all the lame excuses and unreal politeness and sincerity in their voices.

Please check out this Audio which I recorded in one of the many calls I had to make to them to have agonizing time.

Reliance Customer Care Recording 1

Reliance Customer Care Recording 2

If you have had similar experience with Reliance Communication's Customer Care, please do send me your experience and comment here.

Yahoo Pipes VS Google Docs Feed Reader

Recently there was an article on Digital Inspiration about the ways to used Google Docs Spread Sheet as an RSS aggregator. Its pretty neat. I tried it with few regular feeds I read and I must say its good.

As with other documents, if you choose to publish the Feed Aggregator Spread Sheet, you can share the page with others. What was not very clear in the article of Digital Inspiration and other documents dealing with this, was the Query and how I can further improve upon this idea.

For people, who have not yet figured out how to use the "Query" Field of ImportFeed(URL, Query, Title, Number Of Items), here is a short explanation (limited by my own understanding :) )

If Cell A1 has the feed url, ex: http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol

then in any other vacant cell, you enter the following:

=Import(A1,"Items Title",FALSE,10)

here:

1. A1, - is the cell number of the feed
2. "Items Title" - is the query which will fetch the Title of the latest feeds
3. FALSE - to denote that we dont want the title of the different fields to be displayed.
4. finally 10 - is the number of feed entries to be copied to successive Spread Sheer Cells

The query can be :

1. "Items Title"; Very obvious.
   
2. "Items Author"; very obvious.
   
3. "Items Description"; Synopsis of the article
   
4. "Items Publishing Date" ; I do not know the exact query, I never use this
   
5. "Items URL"; the link to the article.

I found one major drawback when I published a test feed aggregator as HTML file. The URL is copied as text, and is not clickeable. Yes it might be possible to hack and make it a valid URL, but it would have been excellent appropriate HTML tags were added to the published document.


During the same period, I was experimenting with Yahoo Pipes. I had just then come accross Pipes on some web page, and I was just descovering the features of Pipes. I admit, I am still a very novice, when writing web applications. But, Yahoo Pipes is fantastic.

The same application of a Feed aggregator explained in the above section can be done in a jiffy. By adding one component. I suggest you try pipes if you have Yahoo Account. Its much more organised than GDocs hack to aggregate feeds. What's more, you can export the Pipes in various formats.

I am not sure if the above block of pipes code is going to work in the blogger or not. But I have placed just few lines, which is a feed reader of Armstrong Photographgy

You always wanted to download great pictures from Flickr without any distractions of various tags etc, right? now you can create your own pipe which filters any thing unwanted and presents you with just right pictures.