Harsha.COM ownership is changed. Due to this change, users working with previous owner will no longer able to access their email or any other services on harsha.com. If you had any time owned email address in harsha.com, mail services are scheduled for termination. Considering possibile impacts and severity that might impact old users, we can help them to close down their mail service smoothly. We have observed there are several emails landing up at our email server, if you would like to get help on them, mail to webmaster@harsha.com.

Domain hosting is moved out from previous server, hence old users can not access their mailbox, neither we can help them to download/backup/access their old mailbox.

[Update 02/08/2010] :About 15 mail address on harsha.com have been setup to reject from our mail server.

[Update 05/08/2010] :We have started unsubscribing old harsha.com email address from the public mailing lists.

[Update 08/08/2010]: 10 more email address are added to reject list, total of 25 email addresses will be permanently rejected from harsha.com

[Update 18/08/2010]: 30 odd user email ids are now blocked, But its strange no one contacted us help on these email ids, so we think these users are no longer required these email address.

[Update 30/08/2010]: We have suspended email services for harsha.com completely, we are sorry for old users of harsha.com

Too Many Crooks spoil the game, too cooks spoil the dinner, hmm… too many domains spoil the website. Well, if you ask where was the site ? again I have no answer…

But anyway.. I have configured Nameserver, domain servers now, let me think what I can do…

After waiting for 12 long years, and from last 14 months with constant watch and many back orders and 3 days of public action and 34 bidders, and 1785$ bid after keyboard slip, domain harsha.com action is now won after shelling out 13K.
Finally I’m waiting for registry transfer to my domain hosting service. Those confused with .ms extension can breath easy.

This blog is from Google Nexus One phone except battery drain so far so good.

My new twitter address is http://twitter.com/harshamaster

I’m newbie on twitter, its quite sometime since I signed up any new service. Plans to integrate twitter APIs on this site. Blog notifications should be done automatically.

My new phone Google’s Nexus One is on the way from US.. wait till next week for update on my new phone

Google Nexus One

For whatever reasons, if you have decided to signup for new a web account or application, be SURE of authencity of that website. We humans always follow some patterns in giving out information, for example using same passwords in multiple sites, passwords matching some identity common to website, name or personal data. A fraudulent sites might collect your password or sensitive data and may able reproduce passwords for your email, bank account, web applications. Technically this is called as “identity theft”.

Before you signup in any website, which may be recommended by your closest friend, do an authenticity cross check. Simple identity checks that would save you from an identity recovery pain.

• Check for website contact address, how do you expect contact-less website to be guenine ?
• Check correctness of the contact information, a guenine website will always a phone/contact number and city/address, You do not need to dial number, but can check whether number is fake or real. Use your intelligence.
• Search for web alert on sick sites. Do a web search with keyword as website name, you can readily distinguish popularity and community respect for website.
• Contact information should also match with Domain registration details, Do a whois/name-service lookup for website name. Note most fraudulent websites keep their “DNS” records secured and locked, if no sufficient information is not displayed on WHOIS lookup, then website has an either weak technical experts or smart spammers. Just avoid these websites.
• If you suspect lot more ? then just step back

Some website has 3 field signup (Name, Email and Password), do not think they do not need more information. Once you login first time, there may page length information you need to fill-in before opening website. The idea behind this short signup is “not to loose chance to miss new guests”.

Alternatively there also exists a open authorizing system in internet called OpenID which can help to protect your authenticating and personal information. Even though openID since 2005, common user acceptance is still low; may be because not every website support this method.

Before any decision, understand yourself, what you are doing. If you are signing up for every requests your friends sending or exploring all websites by signing up or if you are not trusting your Junk/Spam filters without reading them or if you are regular/highly active on more than one social networking websites, then I would easily guess you are culprit of “information influenza”.

Today is one more cheering and joyful day, when my wife Deepa gave birth to second child. Everyone’s comment was new baby boy is photocopy of me; my first child is like his mother.

Home is getting ready to give a warm welcome; I’m looking forward his Naming Ceremony.

source: MSN News

SC says,

As per the reports you (UP Govt) are spending Rs 2,600 crore. Your state GDP is only around 2 per cent. We may ask the government as to how such a colossal expenditure can be incurred.

and Mr. Mishra as Mayawati’s defence, argue

The memorials constructed for various national leaders including ex-Prime Ministers and four members of one family (Nehru) at an estimated cost of Rs 10,000 crore.

If thousand of crores for memorials after dead, and another thousand of crores while living, and levying one third of common man’s earning, then I believe shooting these bloody idiots at point blank range is no crime.

Why don’t we send these stupids to school for primary education ?

source: LiveScience.com

In 85 percent of cases, interviewees were slower when they lied.

I was wondering all these years, why do politicians give lengthy speeches ? ironically, Indian government’s punch line is “sathyamheva jayathey” meaning truth always wins.