Spam email sent out

A few days ago, there was a ton of emails sent out by spammers - all those emails appear to come from an unknown email address with my domainname - stocknews9271@udaysasi.com or something like that. Most of those emails got blocked by the addressees anti-spam softwares and got bounced back. Since that email doesnt actually exist, they ended up in my Inbox as I have activated "Catch All" feature in Yahoo Domains. (From Yahoo Domains site : With the "catch-all" feature, any messages sent to an address at your domain name that does not exist will be redirected to your Yahoo! Mail account). Thus my Inbox got flooded with over 1000 emails per day for 2 days until I realised I can turn off that feature. If someone is checking this website with regards to those emails, I am glad I blogged this.. Looks like there is no place to hide from spammers.

Pepboys sucks

Just to vent out all of my frustration in a couple of words - "Pepboys sucks". I have been going to Pepboys for all my car repairs for the past 3 years. Recently I took my car to their garage to report a problem that there is a lot of noise while turning, and even more while making a U-turn. I got a call from them saying that the axle has gone bad and needs replacement. I was 450 dollars poorer by the time I got my car back. But, guess what? The problem still remains. I take my car there the very next day to report that and the guy over there says that it "could be" the PowerSteering pump and gave an estimate of 300 bucks for replacement. I really did not like his confidence and his tone and walked away. I am no car expert by any means, but I just wanted to checkout the car by opening the hood myself and I realised the powersteering fluid tank is empty, literally bone dry. The issue was that there was a leak in that and the fluid drained away, hence the noise while turning. All I had to do was buy a quart of Powersteering fluid with anti-leak and it solved my problem, atleast for now.. It was less than 10 bucks. Thw worst part of this was that I had done an oil change 10 days earlier at Pepboys and they did not check any of the fluids, though they claim to do so for every oil change.

I was so amazed to see how a publicly traded company(on New York Stock Exchange) like Pepboys could have so unexperienced mechanics who cant relate the problem to the correct part. Well, as far as I am concerned, I am never going there and I would never re commend it to anyone.

Dream turns into reality

Did it ever happen to you where you dream of something, something that you haven't seen before or does not exist and suddenly one day you get the privilege to see it in reality. Today, I came across some experiment conducted by a bunch of researchers in UK regarding capturing the electromagnetic space images on camera. They call it a Wi-Fi camera, which is an appropriate name. I always fantasised myself looking at the electromagnetic and radio waves that are produced by all the wireless networks and cellfone networks around us. 3D real-time Network maps do not seem to be fiction anymore and that day is not far..
Wifi camera