Thursday, January 8, 2009

2009 new year in goa

this new year has been full of fun in Goa with 8 other frnds. We had a 3 night and 4 days tour to Goa with the college friends. Stay was arranged in Park Plaza in Panaji which costed Rs.3000 for a double bed room plus an extra bed for a day. We started from b'lore in train at around 3pm on tuesday and reached madgaon around 6AM and 1hr journey to Panaji. There is direct shuttle to Panaji, if we take bus it would take 2hrs. After refereshing in hotel, we left to Calangute and Baga beach( these are adjacent beaches) and those foreigners kept us roaming in the beach continousily for more than 4hrs :-) giving good eye exercise. Who motivated us more was the golden gal :-) .Then these stupid guys made me have lunch at 5PM... huh this would have been the first time, that i am having a late lunch. food is not that good in the beach though the beach is lined with 100-s of hotels. Since that night is the new year night, we stayed in the beach till 12:30 PM. It was a good to have invited the new year from the beach.

The next day, this stupid Ram wanted pilgrimage journey and arranged for South Goa trip with the help of Goa tourism board where they showed us 2 churches, museum and a temple. that day was full of bus travel. At night, it was Ravi's birthday. He got so much birthday special punches from guys except me. The reason i didn't beat him is that, the momemtum might turn to me :-)

Next day we again moved to Calagute beach to have parasailing and water biking. They got Rs.500 for parasailing and 200 for water biking. They said they will take us for a lumba para sailing, but the lumba was the boat ride. They took us in a boat to around 2kms in the sea and they lifted us for parasailing which lasted only for around a minute :-( . It was a good ride but the duration is disappointing.

The final day, we just relaxed in the parks and did bit of shopping and returneddd

Overall its a good place for honeymoon with good beaches and scenic places. and really a good place for water bearers, i mean drunkers

outlook switches

day before y'day, all of a sudden,I was unable to delete my outllook 'Sent Items' folder. And it gave me an ultimate __Microsoft__ error message "You don't have permission to delete.." huhhh, if i don't have the permission to delete my mails, is it that Bill Gates will come and delete my mails :-) . Sys Admin folks did this that and finally said some background work is been done ( ooops outlook does some background work for more than a day :-), may be it has gone for a heavy lunch in the middle of its work, preventing me to delete my mails). Then they reopened outlook with 'cleanfreebusy' switch. I don't know what it does internally, but it solved my problem. These Microsoft guys are good enought to introduce bugs and have restart as the solution for it, aah even this restart don't work at times. I hunted the net and found few more switches like these, which will help us live with this buggy boy.


Command-Line switch Purpose

------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- /CleanFreeBusy Cleans and regenerates free/busy information.

/Cleanfinders Removes saved searches from the Exchange Server store.

/CleanReminders Cleans and regenerates reminders.

/CleanViews Restores default views.

/CheckClient Prompt for default manager of e-mail, news, and contacts

/Recycle Starts Outlook using an existing Outlook window,if one exists.

/ResetFolders Restores missing folders for the default delivery location.

/ResetOutlookBar Rebuilds the Outlook Bar.

/Nopreview Turns off the Preview Pane and removes the option from the

View Menu.

/CleanSchedPlus Deletes all Schedule+ data (free/busy, permissions, and .CAL file)

from the server and allows the free/busy information from the

Outlook Calendar to be used and viewed by all Schedule+ 1.0 users.

/Safe Launches Outlook without extensions, preview pane or toolbar

customization