Thought Overflow

Living in India, I hear a lot about the stars not being aligned right, the days being bad (or good), and a whole lot of other supersticious beliefs. I am not imprudent enough to dismiss them outright, but I personally don’t believe much in that kind of stuff…at least I didn’t until what happened today (and the last few days).

For the last three to five days, I’ve not been able to receive some emails sent to @gurdit.com email IDs. I haven’t been able to figure out the problem, but I tried a lot of things. I signed up at EveryDNS to manage my DNS settings and do all sorts of things. As things generally happen when I try to fix technical issues, I made the problem worse, and it took Yunheng (again, the saviour) to finally do some magic and make things right again. He did that today. As of now, I think I should receive any and all mails you send to my @gurdit.com email addresses.

As for the superstition, here’s why I alluded to it in my opening paragraph. I got the strangest error on my cell phone today morning. I had no signal strength even though I was in the heart of the city. Upon switching my phone off and back on again, it gave me a “Unable to register SIM” error. I’ve never seen that before. Just to make doubly sure that the error’s not on my phone, I put my SIM into my friend’s phone, and what do I behold? I get the same error on her phone, except that it was … *Drumroll* … in Hindi!. So, I decided to just give up. In the evening, another friend of mine had to make a call. When I gave him the phone and told him the problem, he restarted it and imagine my surprise when it just caught a signal and started working. Maybe phones have feelings of rebellion sometimes too…

Anyway, see the link? Tech issues, both solved by someone other than me, who pretty much did the same thing I tried to do to fix the issues. Or maybe it’s just me seeing patterns everywhere.

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