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Off to Lisboa..!!

The 'where', 'when', 'why', 'how' & 'which' , when you are in Lisbon.

Get travel tips, places of interest, maps, hotels, restaurants, nightlife, and dangers before or when you are travelling in Lisbon.

Passport Tearing at Indian Airports....

Be Careful at the Indian Airports,  This is a well organized conspiracy by Indian  Immigration, Police, Customs and Air India staff with networking at all the Indian International  Airports.. Be careful when ever you give your  passport to Immigration/ Customs/Air India  staff. The pass port can be easily tampered and  can create trouble to you. They have found easy  way of making money from NRIs.

This is the way  it works:

At the time of the passenger's  departure, if the passenger is not looking at  the officer while he is stamping the exit, the  officer very cleverly tears away one of the page  from the passport. When the passenger leaves the  immigration counter, the case is reported on his  computer terminal with full details. Now all  over India they have got full details of the  passenger with Red Flag flashing on the Passport  number entered by the departure immigration  officer. They have made their money by doing  above.

On arrival next time, he is  interrogated.

 

Subject to the passenger's  period of stay abroad, his income andstanding  etc., the price to get rid of the problem is  settled by the Police and Immigration people. If  someone argues, his future is spoiled because  there are always some innocent fellows who think  the honesty is the basis of getting justice in  India ....

Please advise every passenger  to be careful at the airport. Whenever they hand  over the passport to the counters of Air India,  or immigration or the customs, they must be  vigilant, should not remove eyes from the  passport even if the officer in front tries to  divert their attention.

 

Also, please pass  this information to all friends, media men and important politicians. Every month 20-30 cases  are happening all over India to rob the NRIs the  minute he lands. Similar case has happened with  Aramco's Arifuddin. He was travelling with his  family. They had six passports. They Got the  visa of America and decided to go via Hyderabad  from Jeddah. They reached Hyderabad . Stayed  about a month and left for the States. When they  reached the States, the page of the American  visa on his wife's passport was missing. At the  time of departure from Hyderabad it was there,  the whole family had to return to Hyderabad helplessly. On arrival at Bombay back, they were  caught by the police and now it is over 2  months, they are running after the Police, Immigration officers and the Courts. On going in  to details with him, he found out the following:  One cannot imagine, neither can believe, that  the Indian Immigration dept can play such a  nasty game to harass the innocent  passengers.

 

All the passengers travelling  to & fro India via Bombay and Hyderabad must  be aware of this conspiracy. Every month 15 to  20 cases are taking place, at each mentioned  airport, of holding the passengers in the crime  of tearing away the passport pages.On  interviewing some of them, none of them was  aware of what had happened. They don't know why,  when and who tore away the page from the middle  of the passport. One can imagine the sufferings  of such people at the hands of the immigration,  police and the court procedures in India after that. The number of cases is increasing in the  last 2-3 years. People who are arriving at the  immigration, they are questioned and their passports are being held and they have to go in  interrogation..

Obviously, the conspiracy started  about 2 to 3 years ago, now the results are  coming. Some of the Air India counter staff too  is involved in this conspiracy.

Portugal give North Korea a thrashing

Awesome match. What a game it was. 

North Korea got themselves in a lot of trouble and let in 7 beautiful goals by the portuguese players. Very nice football int he second half and they really deserved the win. 

Portugal-North Korea... 7-0..!! 

Football fever hit the world

At last its 11th June. The kick-off of the greatest championship of the year. THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP!!!

And like always it will always be Spain.. Quiet some time that I gave up favoring portugal.. Oh yea... lets see who wins..

Till then happy football fever mates..

Viva la Espanha!!

Google going the Bing way

It is 10.40 a.m. and its been three times that Google home page has changed its background image. So much like Bing.com. Check it out. Right now its an image of a warehouse with a city in the background. Awesome shots. 

Its Crisis Time

I am taking part in the Crisis Square Mile Run Series this June. The money I raise will help homeless people across the UK. Please give generously.

Click here to sponsor me..

Google's with new Caffeine web index

Search engine Google has changed the way it indexes the web and says 'Caffeine' produces much fresher results .

The way Google searches the web changed fundamentally this morning when it announced that its index would now be based on the "Caffeine" system it first mooted in August last year.

Although the new method will not be directly visible to consumers, it means that the company now updates its entire web index constantly and incrementally, rather than trawling the web over periods of about two weeks to produce an entire new index. Tom Stocky, Google's Director of Product Management, said that it paved the way for a host of new innovative services. 

Read more: Our new search index: Caffeine.

Love Story & Exorcist now on Abode of Ebooks

Love Story by Erich Segal, is a romantic and funny, yet tragic story, that over 35 years ago had an entire generation in love, in tears, and spouting "Love means never having to say you're sorry".

 

To get your free pdf copy:

http://abode-of-books.blogspot.com/2010/03/love-story-by-erich-segal.html 

 

 

The Exorcist is a horror novel by William Peter Blatty

 

To get your free pdf copy:

http://abode-of-books.blogspot.com/2010/03/exorcist-by-william-peter-blatty.html

Adsense account blocked

 

Damn. Dint think it would happen again. Te second time that my adsense account has been blocked. So frustrating.

My first day at Web Optimiser

After a really long wait and tiresome job hunting, finally got a break.. What a relief..

But... The job is 3 hours ride by bus. Like usual I dint get on time.  Damn the traffic jams..
Hoping the day goes well.. Got work to do now.. Cheers... Bye

Abode of eBooks has 6 more ebooks

Artemis Fowl!! The name just caught me eye when I was searching for some novels in our local library. Beautiful cover and the jist tempted me to read more. I wouldn't stop myself. 6 beautiful fantasy novels by Eoin Colfer.

1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

2. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

3. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

4. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

5. Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

6. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Happy Reading!!

Em's Free Software's Blog

It wasn't fair at all. So long kept this blog simply idle and dint post anything there. Its high time I started posting links and articles about latest and widely used software's. Will sort them out and add links in the top navigation. It will help in the usability of the blog. Hoping to make some time and keep adding more and more free software's out there.

Em's Free Software's Blog.

Old Kingdom Trilogy has been added to Abode of Books

Old Kingdom Trilogy or the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix has just been added to Abode of eBooks.. Sabriel, Lirael & Abhorsen..

The story is about Sabriel and her mission to protect the living from Free Magic. Lirael confronts the evil power that  is rising. Abhorsen, the evil one, is waking up and increasing in power. Will Lirael be able to confront this and save herself and The Old Kingdom? Read on for more...

Visit the blog to get pdf's of the above mentioned novels. 

Google is being generous...Page Ranks for this blog!!!

I got a real surprised. Really surprised!! This website got a page rank 0. Couldn't believe it. It looked like I was the only visitor to this site. This blog used to get just around 10 page views a day. I use Google Analytics to track this. And I hardly post i this blog.
Is Google being generous. If they are I am very impressed and happy that my second blog that has got a page rank. The other one was Abode of Ebooks. It's just 5 months old and already out of the sand box. (:

Date and Time no longer "Undefined"

Free downloads, free blogger template downloads, free............. That's what always catches our eye when we search for downloads. But like always there is and always was a hidden catch to it.
The other day I downloaded a theme from a blogger template sharing website. It was a really beautiful one and a friend of mine liked it. After uploading the theme we got a stupid error where the date is to be. It was showing undefined instead of the date. I was so curious about it. Went through the entire code wondering where the error was. Damn. I couldn't find it at all.
Lol. It was such a joke when I went back to the site and saw that it wasnt only me who was gettin the error. And guess why the error.
All I had to do was to change the format of the Time Stamp format in the Setting tab. Was in such a mood to bang my head somewhere. Went throught the entire code so minutely wondering where someting was missing for a 15 seconds job.