Hello All,
           Please find the link to recent trip I made....

Internet :
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ronniereloaded/album?.dir=fa92re2&.src=ph&
store=&prodid=&.done=http%
3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ronniereloaded/my_photos

In case you want to delve deeper into my Stockholm voyage, you may
venture into following link…!

http://www.fanstory.com/displaystory.jsp?id=154650

Dear friends

I have moved to Delhi from Anand (Gujarat). Kindly update my contact
details at your end. Here I can be contacted at

+91 98711 26155

Office address is

Community Friendly Movement (CFM)
K-19, IInd Floor,
Lajpat Nagar-3rd
New Delhi 110 024
Tel : +91-11-4657 4160, 2983 0179
INDIA

http://www.whycfm.org

with regards
Varun

in sab kriketers ko pathhar baand kar samundar mein fenkna
chahiye .i never like to watch cricket but they all earns lots of
from cricket













--- In Shimlahangout@..., viplav <viplav022@...> wrote:
>
> Well for person like me who do not have any special interest in
cricket,
> Indian Team getting thrown out of World Cup is not so important,
but
> after India lost to Bangladesh, there was front page pic in two
leading
> dailies in Mumbai carrying images of kids in Shimla, burning
posters of
> cricketers. Definitely  it felt good /'kahin to shimla ki photu
chappi'
>
>
> vipalv k
> /
>

Well for person like me who do not have any special interest in cricket,
Indian Team getting thrown out of World Cup is not so important, but
after India lost to Bangladesh, there was front page pic in two leading
dailies in Mumbai carrying images of kids in Shimla, burning posters of
cricketers. Definitely it felt good /'kahin to shimla ki photu chappi'

vipalv k
/

Very often i am asked by people that since i am from Shimla, am I from
J&K, but today one of my colegue crossed all limts and asked me this
question /'So how far is Shimla from Himachal Pradesh.?'/  I was amazed,
because many people here in Mumbai thinks Shimla is part of J&K. This
guy knew there is a state with the name HP, but did not knew where
Shimla is!




viplav

Well for person like me who do not have any special interest in cricket,
Indian Team getting thrown out of World Cup is not so important, but
after India lost to Bangladesh, there was front page pic in two leading
dailies in Mumbai carrying images of kids in Shimla, burning posters of
cricketers. Definitely  it felt good /'kahin to shimla ki photu chappi'


vipalv k
/

Hey Viplav

Good to see you back.. thanks to the monkey.. -) 

Sea Monkey is netscape navigator in the new avtaar. Looks good to me but
firefox and opera are my fav. I am shunning all MS products now. Call it
the fatigue thing and there are some very interesting products available
once you get out from the MS mindset.

I found Open Office OK. Mind you as a free utility it's a lot better and
I think this product should be encouraged to be used in schools and
offices. I removed my MS 2003 and am using OO. For emails I am using
Thunderbird and now this Sea Monkey looks ok.

Nitin

Hey Viplav

Good to see you back.. thanks to the monkey.. -) 

Sea Monkey is netscape navigator in the new avtaar. Looks good to me but
firefox and opera are my fav. I am shunning all MS products now. Call it
the fatigue thing and there are some very interesting products available
once you get out from the MS mindset.

I found Open Office OK. Mind you as a free utility it's a lot better and
I think this product should be encouraged to be used in schools and
offices. I removed my MS 2003 and am using OO. For emails I am using
Thunderbird and now this Sea Monkey looks ok.

Nitin

Oh and yes the SaveasPDF utility will not install if u, like me do not
have a licensed version.
So search net and will find it, original MS version, just ripped off
enough so that u do not have to go thru the verification from Bill Gates.

And i found it ;)

lav.

Nitin,
I had to format my PC recently and was left withot MS office.
I  downloaded Open Office; thank god i have a Broadband connection at
home, But i am still to use extensively, as i use MS at office and at
home it is only surfing (on FIREFOX)
I am not really impressed,at lease going by looks it is pale and
dirty, i got a pirated version of MS Office 2007, it is really cool,
however it is MS so i do not wish to use it.

Oh if u r worried about huge download, this months DIGIT magazine has
it.I m still not sure it is full version or just power point viewer,
and few other stuff added. You see my CD rom is broken and i can not
chk it. Hey i can use it and tell u though.

I also got this cool mail client from SeaMonkey and have configured my
AOL IMAP account to it. Thats why all of sudden my activity on this
group had increased, cool mail client, easy to configure; i tried
endlessly to configure PINE and MUTT, but to no use. But it took me
less than 5 mins to setup and go live with this mail client. Though
the fact that AOL has started giving 2GB IMAP configurable mail has
helped. I always wanted to use IMAP service but in the absence of any
full featured service i was not able to use it.

live free, live good,
Lav..





--- In Shimlahangout@..., "Nitin" <bnityin@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Devinder
>
> For people like us who don't have a "licensed" word in the dicitionary
> and that too for MS products.. I think doPDF is a great utility
>
> Please let me know if you have any feedback for freeware Open Office.
> Its a 95 MB file. Just wanna be sure before downloading it.
>
> Nitin
>
>
> >Devinder Singh THAKUR wrote:
>
> MS Office 2007 has also got option for generating PDF docs….and
> this is provided by Microsoft website freely as a plug-in for licensed
> MS office 2007
>

hi,

I recently came across a small piece of news which i wish to share with
you all.
This news came in a daily in Mumbai.
http://www.indiaprwire.com/businessnews/20070221/18238.htm

     BSNL is planning to withdraw facility of telegram in almost all centers
across Himachal Pradesh, and the reason cited was that due to new
technologies like email and mobile phones; telegram is no longer needed.
     I wonder have Himachal Pradesh such a high density of mobile users or
net users that it prompted BSNL to withdraw such a grass route service.
     Frankly i personally have never used telegram facility, but has it
become so outdated of we have many internet connections.Fews days back
when shimla experienced Snowfall, i recived few pics from my friends
back in town, two of them usign broadband connections. However i still
think that net penentration is not as much and not to that level to
prompt such an act on the part of BSNL.

Feel free to comment, thats what this group is all about ;)

Viplav K

Dear Devinder

For people like us who don't have a "licensed" word in the dicitionary
and that too for MS products.. I think doPDF is a great utility

Please let me know if you have any feedback for freeware Open Office.
Its a 95 MB file. Just wanna be sure before downloading it.

Nitin


>Devinder Singh THAKUR wrote:

MS Office 2007 has also got option for generating PDF docs….and
this is provided by Microsoft website freely as a plug-in for licensed
MS office 2007

Thank you Nitin and Happy Holi to you all

cheers
Varun

Wishing all Hangouters a very Happy & Colorful Holi..

Have a great time

Nitin

hi

my self hemant sharma

resides in delhi

basically from shimla/vikas nagar

studying management in delhi

thanx

Greetings,

Today we completed our first year as an information resource on Himachal
Pradesh. I am forwarding you a few articles which talk about what all we
did in past one year and our vision for future. With this we would like
to thank all the people who have supported us all this while.

A citizen journalism effort in Himachal completes one-year
By: Vividhaditya

It’s been an eventful year for HimVani as it celebrates its first
anniversary. It was on February 14th 2006, HimVani started as a blog on
Blogspot. So before I go into flashback, I’d like to thank all the
citizens of Himachal Pradesh for making HimVani a great success. It
initially started as my personal ramblings on Himachal Pradesh – as a
blog. And then Varun, Sanjay, Nityin, Surekha, Neha, Hema, Vikas,
Swadesh, Shekhar and Ms Saroj Thakur came on board. However, I’m happy
to say that today it isn’t any more just our website. It’s the citizens’
property today, who’ve made grassroots journalism a great success. Why
we call it grassroots journalism and why not citizens’ journalism, I’ll
delve into later.

http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/a-citizen-journalism-effort-in-himachal-c\
ompletes-one-year/610/grassroots-journalism/admin/



HimVani spells out its vision for Himachal
By: Varun Rattan Singh

Working on a new initiative is like raising one’s children. It brings
its own anxieties, worries and happiness. Today our small baby -
HimVani.com completes one year.  What started as a small community for
Himachali's in 2001 has taken shape of an information resource for the
people and by the people of Himachal Pradesh. The story of how we
reached here is long and probably I will talk about it some other time.
For the time being we have one year experience of running an initiative
behind us. So is it time to sit back and celebrate or do we plan ahead
and set some more targets for us in the coming year? I have been
deliberating on these issues for a while. I think it is time to share
some thoughts and probably open the house for people to give us a feedback.

For a long time we have kept one word in our mind i.e. Catalyst.
http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/himvani-spells-out-its-vision-for-himacha\
l/611/developmenteconomics/varun/



A turn around the hill
Sanjay V

Trudging through mindspaces that unfurled on Himvani over the past one
year, I can only say the landscape ahead is no less enchanting. Much
having already been said by fellow travellers, I can only say it has
been a spiritual journey for me, a pilgrimage exploring the vast
possibilities and layers of meanings that can be attributed to living in
the mountains, especially Himachal. Himvani, in fact, is an expression
of this feeling for each one of us and that is why we have been
cohabiting here in virtual space as well. That Himvani is growing
exponentially is reason enough for us all to keep moving towards a new
horizon of hope and contented living.
http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/a-turn-around-the-hill/613/opinion/sanjay\
versain/



HimVani can be a store house of everything pertaining to Himachal
By: Saroj Thakur

It was by chance and not design that I came to know about HimVani! Why
is it that we take for granted all those things that we get so easily?
Like the fresh air that we breathe, all those qualities that set us,
Himachali's, apart from others, were always taken for granted by me. It
was travelling out of state and interactions with many others that make
us see and appreciate values, attitudes and beliefs that make us different.

I came in contact with HimVani when I posted a write-up “What makes me
proud of being a Himachali” on my personal bog. And after that it is
history.
http://www.himvani.com/news/2007/02/14/himvani-can-be-a-store-house-of-everythin\
g-pertaining-to-himachal/612/grassroots-journalism/sarojthakur/


with warm regards

Varun Rattan Singh

Team member
www.HimVani.com - The Voice of Himachal
Rediscover your roots !

Block F 38 | Institute of Rural Management Anand | Anand | Gujarat | 388
001 | Phone No: +91 99985 24165

If you have Adobe Reader 7 or earlier make sure you turn off the option "Display PDF in browser". Follow these three simple steps to turn it off.

1. Start Adobe Reader
2. Go to Edit > Preferences  or press Ctrl + "K"
3. Select Internet in Categories
4. Make sure that the Display PDF in browser is unchecked.

Make sure you follow these steps as soon as possible or someone could be going through your personal information online. The flaws in Adobe Reader can get information by only visiting a webpage. It could be used to gain way too much private information from your browser. Make sure you turn it off before you end up loosing a lot of personal information.

Greetings,

HimVani.com is a Voice of Himachal (VOH) initiative - a sincere effort
to generate public awareness and responsiveness towards sustainable
living in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. The HimVani.com
website is an effort to present and debate the true state of things in
Himachal, and to act as a catalyst to trigger social consciousness.

We are looking for a web designer who is willing to 'PARTNER'
with us and be part of this upcoming social enterprise. The person
should have sound working knowledge of open source content management
systems such as WORDPRESS/DRUPAL/JOOMLA. If working with a start-up
inspires you and giving something back to the society is at the back of
your mind than feel free to drop in a line.

We are also on a constant lookout for WRITERS for whom writing is a
means of expressing emotions. At HimVani we just don't seek people who
can write about social problems but also suggest innovative solutions.
Being a voluntary initiative we don't pay in monetary terms but
definitely provide a platform to publish your stories with your byline
and copyrights.  As Google recognises HimVani.com as a news source so
your words will travel far and wide.

Carpe diem !

Varun Rattan Singh

PS: Please forward this mail to people who you think will be interested
in our activities.

Team member
www.HimVani.com - The Voice of Himachal
Rediscover your roots !

Block F 38 | Institute of Rural Management Anand | Anand | Gujarat | 388
001 | Phone No: +91 99985 24165

Hi,

I am forwarding you a mail with respect to initiative taken by Narinder
in Bangalore. I will request interested members of the community to
please contact him and take forward the process of organizing Himachali
group in the garden city.

with regards

Varun Rattan Singh

Team member
www.HimVani.com - The Voice of Himachal
Rediscover your roots !

Block F 38 | Institute of Rural Management Anand | Anand | Gujarat | 388
001 | Phone No: +91 99985 24165

With Windows Vista coming out in two weeks, countless gullible fools will probably spend a fortune on major upgrades, or new computers, just to make Bill gates another $80 Billion. A full version of Vista (as opposed to an upgrade version) will probably cost Rs.18000 to buy. I'm willing to bet a full copy of Windows Vista Premium will cost more than a bottom of the line brand new computer. Don't believe me? Just wait and see.

There are at least four versions of Vista, and I'd suggest not buying any of them unless Microsoft has changed dramatically by reducing prices, offering free technical support, posting an email contact number for suggestions and complaints, done away with PRODUCT ACTIVATION (the worst idea ever), and releases a free service pack 3 for Windows XP that removes the PRODUCT ACTIVATION feature, includes all cumulative updates for Windows XP from the last service pack 2 release up to and including the present, and fixes the ridiculous limits on hard drive sizes that exist for no other reason than poor planning or an intentional oversight to make you buy the newest version of Windows!

It drives me absolutely crazy to know how many millions of people are going to go out and make Bill Gates even richer than he already is when they must know deep down that they're just going to get ripped off again by him. How can anyone support product Activation, no technical support, and no way to even send an email to the company when all they get for hundreds of dollars is poorly written, bug-riddled computer code?

A full copy of Windows XP costs between Rs. 6,500 and Rs. 7,500. A bottom of the line Celeron Processor that will run it with no problem can be bought for as low as Rs. 2000. In what world does it make sense for an operating system to cost as much as triple the cost of the CPU chip that runs it?

Don't buy Vista, and send Bill Gates a message that he can't keep using his monopoly to charge insane fees for an inferior and defective product, with a copy protection scheme thought up by a mental midget. No more Product Activation or unrealistic size limitations used as a poorly disguised marketing ploy to get you to buy the latest version of Windows just to get an operating system with new errors and new limitations that must be overcome.


The best copy protection scheme in existence is this: a reasonably priced product with free technical support and (yes, here it comes) an actual manual that explains the features. If a software company can produce a 3 GB video game, supply a manual, free technical support, email contact information, and then charge between Rs. 1300 and Rs. 2500 for their product, then why can't Microsoft? Is Microsoft just not very good? (like anyone needs an answer)


I think it's time IBM, Dell, Gateway, Compaq, and HP got together and produced a new operating system to give consumers a real choice. Don't kid yourselves, they have the resources to do it, they just need to know that there is a market.

Again, don't rush to buy Windows Vista. 

Dear Varun and S

Many thanks for the wishes...

Nitin