A nasty take on the (lack of) success of MySpace

For the tremendous inertia that has been preventing me from posting anyting original in a long long time - I thought let me not continue to disappoint any accidental visitors I still may be having

Enjoy this little video I picked up from college humor labs

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

A trek to Churdar -9th 10th and11th May Ex Delhi - Inviting Participation

Hoping that you would include everyone who is interested via a mass email from gmail is a tall order- therefore I thought of broadcasting this message using social media with the hope of inviting comments and some discussions :)

My Mami ( yes Kaka Nagar Aunty - for some of you :) ) has planned a trekking tour to the Churdhar peak - at 12,000 ft the highest peak in lower himalyas ( well, Shivaliks) - offers some panoramic views of upper himalyan ranges and the indo gangetic plains at the same time

You could read/see more at the following links
http://picasaweb.google.com/karnail.kkr/ChurdharTrek#
http://karnail.blogspot.com/2006/06/majestic-churdhar.html

And of course some photography enthusiasts have also given Churdhar a place on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/churdhar/

The Plan is as follows

9th May Saturday
-depart from Delhi - 6 am or even earlier ( Somewhere in central delhi)
Breakfast on the way - Lunch - Reach Nauradhar before 3 pm
Begin Trekking - 2-3 hours reach Teesri - Camp overnight


10th May Sunday
Trek to the peak - return to the shiva temple - camp overnight

11th May Monday
Descend to Naura reach by 4 pm

From here there are two options:
1. Those who intend to resume work on 12th - Drive to Kalka ( 4 hrs from Naura ) take Kalka Mail at 11:30 pm from Kalka reach delhi by 6 am on 12th May - Go to office :)

2. Those who can take 12th Tuesday off - they chill out after reaching Naura - in the Rajgarh valley - bathe in the stream , wander in the orchards (Rajgarh is a fruit bowl and this season trees will be loaded with plums and peaches) - we drive back leisurely to reach delhi by evening 7 pm or so

Next Steps
Please go to the link and fill this in if interested ( less than 2 mins)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rSQ5yas0tpxqxLJVOX_OwRA

Please feel free to let friends romans and countrymen know!
Contact me (harsh.taneja@gmail.com) in case of further queries -

A discovery

This may be stale info for most of you!
For some this may reflect how slow I am to get on the web 2.0 bandwagon
but i just figured out a way to contribute to my blog directly through my gmail account!

Well this is a significant discovery for me as i can see that jhola hopefully should be a more active blog!
the inertia of going to a new website and writing in a text box which makes the whole process formal will go! Posts will be like writing yet another email - perhaps to a wall , perhaps to the fans of jhola !

Or maybe  if the posts become regular - a big if - jhola may just acquire a few loyalists -

yours ambitiously
harsh
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Harsh Taneja
Bombay

Contact : 09820116899
Mail works just as fine

Respecting the right to information

My last post was about the ease of using the right to information act.
The friend whose blog i linked to who had described his RTI application, has received a reply from the Public Information Officer (PIO)

Every question asked has been answered.While I would say that the answers were not 100% satisfactory but not far from it either!

They give you the information which is a good start point for pursuing the cause further. The RTI gives you the ammunition to take what are the recognised facts to the authrities. Media can quote this information as this is on record.

The authorities can be questioned as to the whys and why nots of what the PIO tells you. More importantly it gives you an indication as to who is responsible for the problem /issue at hand and you can think of a targeted approach to this

I am through the experience of this friend convinced that RTI is a good starting point and we all must use it as and when

Update on personal front - second post in not such a long time - so the 'revival' attempt seems on track - too early to say though

Gymming has begun to happen three days a week at least - and it has been more than three days :)

I have an interesting angle to the Raj Thackrey point of view on us Non - Mumbaikars which i shall reserve for the next post!

adios