Story of a Negative Feedback on Ebay

It all started with a usual ebay sale, and turned into my first ever negative feedback on ebay. I don't believe anyone particularly acted out of line, but I don't believe that I had done anything wrong, and ebay will not remove the negative claim. Hence I decided to write about it here, link it to ebay, so people can decide on their own and become more aware about ebay's policies. Just so you know I didn't edit any of the text in quotes, even if they had spelling errors etc. in them.  

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Open Letter to Delta, Air France and Turkish Airlines

I am not sure if I ever sent this letter to the airlines after the trip in 2009, but I wanted to publish it here. It is a nice story about the airline personnel doing everything they can to help a passenger in need.

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Create WeTravel Maps under Ubuntu Linux

I'll be traveling to Europe soon and I would like to have a navigation system for casual city exploration while I'm there. Since I do not want to pay data roaming charges, I wanted to test a software that stores the maps on the device (Blackberry 8900).  

 

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Update Gnome Desktop using an online webcam feed

Working in a lab with no windows is no fun, especially when you spend so much time there that you don't even know when the sun sets. I had a simple solution to that problem, update my Ubuntu desktop with the campus webcam.

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Manage Kodak Wireless Picture Frame from Ubuntu

I have a Kodak EasyShare wireless picture frame (W1020) and I wanted to add some new rss feeds to it. However, my windows installation is working terribly slow and instead of fixing windows I wanted to figure out a way to manage the picture frame under Ubuntu. 

 

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