Order Food view Twitter! Faasos!
I, and my family, love Faasos! We love their wraps! They are delivered hot and are simply delicious!
We discovered them by word of mouth - the mouth of my brother-in-law Rohan Padhi, who likes to keep it stuffed with choice food whenever and where ever he can find it. The problem is that he runs everyday and the stuff he stuffs his mouth with does not immediately take up residence around his waist and belly. Not fair! But I digress. As usual!
Back to Faasos. The chain started in 2003 in Pune and has now opened multiple outlets in Mumbai, spread out over the large city to cover almost all parts of it. Padmaja had done the ordering so far and I had not visited their web site till yesterday. I did and was pleasantly surprised. The web site itself is very well designed and executed.
I of course ignored everything else on the site and concentrated on their menu 
Only after eyeballing that and salivating over thoughts of my next Faasos dinner did I look at the rest of the web site. That is when I was very pleasantly surprised.
They offer 2 thing I have not seen anywhere else:
- Use Twitter to Order
- Delivery at Train / Bus stations and at Airports
As far as I know this is the first use of Twitter to order food from a restaurant. At least in India. I haven'ft tried their Twitter based service yet but intend to do so as soon as I can convince Padmaja that one more Faasos dinner will not add too much to my waist And that I will exercise it off as soon as I can. Promise. Cross my heart.
The second innovation is delivering at Railway Stations and the Airport. Of these the airport is the simpler task. Anybody who has experienced an Indian Railway Station will agree that it is a scene of such chaos that delivering to a person or group at one of our stations is a herculean task. I am very interested to see how they pull it off. Perhaps during our next vacation!
Do check these guys out. They are great!
The Chocolate Mystery
I had a meeting at 10 this morning. came back from the meeting at about 11 to find a "Chocolate Mystery". Somebody had left 2 chocolates on my table
The Mysterious Chocolates
Rediff Mail – Forward to GMail
My wife and brother-in-law bought an iPad for my father-in-law, Sudhakar Padhi. I of course got the job of making sure it is all setup with the appropriate accessibility settings so that he can use it. He has low vision and used to read a lot before his eye sight started deteriorating. It is stable now but he has trouble reading anything less that font size 32.
Anyway, he has been using Rediff Mail - don't ask me why! I created a new GMail account for him and configured it on the iPad. Then I went over to his Rediff Mail account to set it to auto forward all emails to his new GMail account. The "Forward your emails to another account" setting link did not work. Finally figured out the hack after some Googling...
Works only with RediffMail "Classic"...
Log into the RediffMail account in any browser. The URL will be something like this: http://f1mail.rediff.com/prism/maillist. Replace maillist with forwardyourmails?action=forwardmails&email=YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS&leavecopy=1
Voila!
Thanks to good folks at "Wisetechie Blog : Ctrl your Tech Life" for the hack.
Dell Puts Misleading Advertisement in Mumbai Newspaper
Dell is putting completely wrong & misleading advertisements in newspapers in India!
I am shopping around for a laptop for my mother. Something on the smaller side, 14" screen or smaller, not too heavy. Word processing, web browsing, movies, video conferencing etc. Went to Croma yesterday and looked at what they had to offer. Walked away without buying though I was eyeing a Samsung model - Pentium dual core, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, 14" etc at approx Rs. 23,000/-.
This morning I saw the a Dell advertisement in today's DNA: http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?pgNo=5&edcode=820009&eddate=2012-3-22.
Dell Inspiron R Series:
14", Intell i5 Processor, 4GB or RAM....
Starting at Rs. 22,900/-
What??? That was my initial reaction. The advert said "pre-budget" prices. So I thought yes it might be true. I accessed the DNA e-Paper web site, found the advert and called a few of the dealers.
All of them told me that the advert was from Dell and was a load of CRAP. Wrong - "Galat Hai" were some of the kinder words used to describe Dell and it's advertisement.
Then I decided to call Dell Customer Support: 1800-425-4026
Spoke to Vandana, one of the Dell support reps. She told me that the model in question starts at Rs. 32,000/- (approx)! I told her about the advert and she told me that it is NOT CORRECT.
What is going on Dell? What are you guys trying to do? Cheat people by showing them such an advertisement and then making them pay 50% more with suave sales pitch once they walk in your door?
Shame on you!
Misleading Dell Laptop Advertisement - DNA March 23, 2012
Elephanta Trip
We decided to visit Elephanta on a Sunday last October. Left early from our home in Juhu and drove to India Gate. From there we took a ferry to the island of Elephanta. The ferry ride was nice. We had comfortable seats and we enjoyed the ride.
These photos were taken on the ferry to Elephanta.
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