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Friends Youth Magazine

Posted by Brian in Life on February 14, 2009

An old magazine from 1977, 4 years before I was born. Found in my grandparent’s house; thought you guys may find it interesting, especially Anand’s secret :)

Friends July 77 InsideFriends July 77 Cover

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HDFC Bank – Special Message FAIL

Posted by Brian in Life on October 4, 2008

For at least a year now, I have seen this message greet me when I login to HDFC Bank’s NetBanking site. I have better things to do and always ignore it.

But today I finally gave in and clicked the link…

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The Goan Restored

Posted by Brian in Life on September 29, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I lost this site due to human error. Unfortunately I had no backups at all (big mistake, duh) and have only just managed to restore most of the site by hand. I restored the blog posts using Google cache and a friend’s Akregator cache, I’ve had to painstakingly re-post each entry. Other parts of the site which hadn’t been moved over to Wordpress were safe on my machine and I restored those immediately, though I did lose all “in progress” conversions of these pages.

Had a few files missing all over the site, some which I discovered as late as today :( For all of you who took the time to comment, sorry, lost those.

On the brighter side, I’ve invested all of $.05 in Amazon’s S3 service and will be storing weekly backups there.

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My New Job

Posted by Brian in Life on August 26, 2008

…and my new boss.

Okay, I was just planting a few saplings on instruction from my aunt, sometime last week. My holiday ended today; I’m still in Goa, but am now working with different tools and writing some too ;)

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State of Maharashtra Hates my Name

Posted by Brian in Life on July 5, 2008

Around 8 years ago, I got my first license, for motorcycles. Everything looked kosher until I noticed my name incorrectly spelt as Brain. I decided to live with it and have used it as proof of age and proof of residence several times, nobody seems to notice the mistake.

So when I started driving lessons, I made sure my name was correctly spelt on the learners license I was issued at the beginning. On the day I completed my driving test, the driving school filled out additional forms and I checked the spelling, again. I asked if I needed a new photo and they said it wasn’t necessary, all details would be taken from the learners license, including some biometric details and my mug shot. So I didn’t bother highlighting the problem in my older motorcycle license. My mistake. All details were copied, except the name. Hooray! So, I’m stuck with this for another twelve years… Brain Victor Fernandes. Cool beans when you’re eighteen, irritating when you’re twenty six.

I can get this fixed, of course, but I’d like to know how much longer this will continue to be accepted everywhere. Hey, remember to check back in twelve years for the results!

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