Twenty- five Seven

Smart kids diagnose Smartphones- Day 4 WTFOW#5

July 13, 2016

Smartphones and smart kids

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Coming from and analogous age when phones were rotary, music was recorded on vinyl discs and plastic tapes , and parcels were delivered by postmen, digital had another meaning. I’d only heard about them in mathematics and biology . So when the world became digital, I was lost. When did phones become smartphones?

And what did they mean by smartphones being intuitive? Are inanimate objects intuitive?

But when my grandson Wow Dinga swiped the screen of my smartphone with the practised ease of an adult, I understood. Nor was this skill gender specific either. Ms. Papaya followed suit. And today Little Po all of one, made a grab for my phone too. These kids seem to be wired into today’s technology!

However, I realised how smart kids really are only today. For a long while Wow Dinga’s Peppa Pig and Blippi refused to download via YouTube on my IOS devices. For months I grumbled about the wifi, the internet speeds, the service provider and even the gizmos themselves. What was the solution? Talking to Apple was quite the task because of the lousy phone connection to begin with. I don’t know how to get in touch with YouTube and Vodafone isn’t exactly my best friend.

Smart kid and smart diagnosis

After seeing me struggle with a download for an hour, Wow Dinga stepped back and pronounced with all the sagacity of a three year old,

” Your app is all wrong.”

I was stunned and dismissed it as a smart ass comment he’d heard somewhere and was repeating.

But when I called up Vodafone, I was told that I should delete the current application and re-install a new app as there must be a problem with the old one!

Now who was more intuitive? My smartphone or my smart kid?

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A Weird Story of Blog traffic & Real Traffic – Day – 3 WTFOW #5

July 12, 2016

A strange comment on blog traffic.

Strange things happen in the Universe like this when people confuse Blog Traffic with Real Traffic.

Late last week I found a comment posted on a blog post written in March of this year.

After getting over the shock of having an old post recognised, I read the comment and was really taken aback. The visitor obviously got the whole thing wrong because he was complaining about the traffic in MUMBAI. This is what he had to say.

I am Sandy Gaitonde I am from Mumbai now leave in Canada I came all the way to Mumbai with traffic solution as I have police background and by law enforcement experience. DCP Chavan Traffic North Zone liked it but then he took me to CP Bharambe man who think no end of himself who treated me with arrogance and tossed my proposal without knowing about it and then I flew back to Canada disheartened. Mumbai will have no future as long as these kind of people will be in deciding post. IPS officer should go and work outside Metro areas specially if they are not from that town and they are handling traffic as in simple word neither they know city nor they know chemistry of local people and it applies to CP Bharambe who is wasting taxpayers money right now. Jai Hind

While I am fighting issue on our Mumbai traffic system. I saw by my own eyes how much suffering traffic cops go through in Mumbai while in abroad we have separate department for by law enforcement which does tagging, towing of vehicles who obstruct. They also look after abandoned vehicles. In Mumbai Traffic cops go through all jobs and it is too much for their size and number of vehicles we have. I also try to put this point with CP Bharambe besides car pulling we create a By law enforcement it will make big change I told him but he had no interest in listening as he was just waiting for me to leave while I was talking I was interrupted several times with his personal assistant for no reason and I was told to leave in short I was kicked out. CP forgot I was foreigner who traveled from so far because I care for Mumbai and I had no selfish motto but rather than appreciating my effort he looked at me as some silly civilian who just came to his office to bug him and same time he did not want to accept his challenge as he dose not care much for poor traffic cop who suffers on streets of Mumbai and I realized that. But time will change for Mumbai soon with new system will fall in place one day. As our environment is fully destroyed in Mumbai with no natural mangrove but CP Bharambe said to me environment is different issue and not of his concern while mind you pollution and environment goes hand to hand and traffic dose create pollution we all agree. Jai Hind.

And this is what he had to say on Monday

Please sign my Petition for Mumbai Traffic

Hello friends we have been fighting long battle for our dear city Mumbai. Our roads, infrastructure and traffic is in disaster condition so we found solution but as Mumbai Traffic Joint CP Bharambe has been negative about it and do not wish to help. He does not care being outsider but we care for our city because we grew up in this city and we love Mumbai.So we decided to take it to our CM and we are signing petition. I am attaching link over here kindly click and sign it. We need your support as without your support we can not make clean and green Mumbai with less traffic and and better environment. So if you love aamchi Mumbai please sign it This is for us and our future generation who deserve to breath clean air and enjoy better traffic on road. Jai Hind.

Comments and Blog Traffic

To most bloggers comments are common. Till I joined Blogelina’s Commentathon in September last year , my posts generated a mere handful of comments, if any. It didn’t really matter till I joined that Blogfest and learnt the importance of comments. Amd meaningful ones at that. Yet my blog continued to remain “uncommented” and “Unliked” till the A to Z Challenge this year. That was when I had the most comments and most visitors.

In November last year, I had the highest number of visitors in a day (240). What was more surprising was that my About page generated the most footfalls.

What was so special about that day that made people keen on knowing more about the person behind the words?

I still don’t know.

Have any of you had such a weird experience? Do you treat this as junk/spam or is it an SEO mistake picking up on your key word?

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Making Rainbows Day2 FTOW #5

July 11, 2016

Have you ever seen a rainbow on the books by your bedside?

A rainbow in my bedroom

It was a very wet weekend and the babies were sniffling away. The mood inside was as grey as it was outside. Suddenly Wow Dinga shouted out ” Look Abu I’ve made a rainbow! ” His enthusiasm was contagious and we ran inside, partly out of curiosity and also apprehension. What rainbow did he make in our bedroom?

And there he was, his brown eyes twinkling with excitement as he showed us the rainbow he had made with the PostIts that he had stuck randomly over Abu’s books!

Making rainbows

Over the last few months we’ve got used to such summons because as Wow Dinga grows, so does his imagination.

One afternoon when he spied some smoke coming from a building across the road , he brought out all his fire engines and sounded their sirens ( nee naw nee naw nee naw) as he called us to watch as he put out the fire. Till the smoke from the burning leaves dissipated, we had to witness him hiss at the smoke while his imaginary water pipe helped extinguish the flames.

[stextbox id=”grey” mode=”css” direction=”ltr” shadow=”false”]When was the last time you made a rainbow? When was the last time you let your imagination run wild? When was the last time you played make believe? When was the last time you indulged your inner child? [/stextbox]

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