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I applied twice for a barclays credit card, and both the times they misplaced (or was that *misused*) my application. Unfortunately, the only way to contact them is through email, and the reply that you get is a _standard templated_ which gets populated with your information

Ok, enough blabbering. I guess, the text below says it all (Please read the ‘read this first’ part first and then the ‘read this next’ part to get the most of the post :d ):-

Read this next:-

Dear Mr. Sawant,

We refer to your e-mail dated 19th May 2008 enquiring about the status of
your application for the Barclaycard. At the outset, we regret any
inconvenience caused to you.

We would like to keep you informed that based on the information provided by
you, we are unable to trace your application details in our records.

You are requested to please arrange to provide the correct application
number or your mobile number incorporated in your application to enable us
to advise you the status of your application. .

Yours sincerely

Customer Service Executive

24 Hour Customer Service Helpline:
Delhi
Mobile Operators: 0124-6752222, Private Landline Operators & MTNL customer:
95124-6752222
Faridabad / Ghaziabad/ Noida / Gurgaon Mobile Operators:
0124-6752222, Private Landline Operators & BSNL customer: 95124-675222
Mumbai
Mobile Operators: 022-67242222, Private Landline Operator & MTNL customers:
67242222
Pune / Nasik
Mobile Operators: 022-67242222, Private Landline Operators & BSNL customers:
9522-67242222
Rest of India
Mobile Operators: (city code)-60004444 & Private Landline Operators:
60004444
Email Service ID
service@barclaycard.in

Did you know that convenience is just a click way? Pay your Barclaycard
bills online. Just log on to www.barclaycard.in

“Please do not reply to this mail, in case you need further information /
clarifications please write to service@barclaycard.in“

Read this first:-

Hello, This is the 2nd time that i have applied for your card and have
received the same response from you (unable to trace application details).
******************** Ref no #******0266****************************** >
Dear Mr. Sawant, > > We refer to your e-mail dated 13th May 2008 enquiring
about the status of > your application for the Barclaycard. At the outset,
we regret any > inconvenience caused to you. > > We would like to keep you
informed that based on the information provided > by > you, we are unable to
trace your application details in our records. > > You are requested to
please arrange to provide the correct application > number or your mobile
number incorporated in your application to enable us > to advise you the
status of your application. . > > Yours sincerely > > Customer Service
Executive
**********************************************************************
******************** Ref no #******30481****************************** Dear
Mr. Sawant, Re: Your Barclaycard application We refer to your e-mail dated
31st March 2008 enquiring about the status of your application for the
Barclaycard. At the outset, we regret any inconvenience caused to you. We
would like to keep you informed that based on the information provided by
you, we are unable to trace your application details in our records. You
are requested to please arrange to provide the correct application number or
your mobile number incorporated in your application to enable us to advise
you the status of your application. . Yours sincerely Customer Service
Executive
********************************************************************** If
your system can’t trace the application from the ‘reference no.’ that you
yourself send as an sms to the customer, why in the lord’s name do you send
it in the first place? I sincerely am unable to understand how your system
works… After 2 such responses, common sense tells me that you are good at
_losing_ valuable customer data and am no longer interested in availing your
cards, or any other service provided by you. I just want you to send me a
confirmation that no credit card has been issued from your bank in my name
(this is to ensure that the forms that i submitted and for which you sent me
reference nos. on my mobile phone have *NOT* been misused). Thanks for all
the help! regards, Pradnyesh Sawant! ps:- Noticed just now that both the
above mails are exactly the same (including the 2 full-stops after the word
‘application’ (in the 3rd last line)). Do you use the same template to reply
to every single mail? I wonder if these replies are auto-generated and sent
out; no human touch whatsoever

Searching on Yahoo! for ‘limitinternalrecursion’ lead me to a solution to check my ~/public_html/.htaccess. I simply renamed the file, and now my site is working. I need to check how the file got screwed in the first place, and the ideal contents that it should have

Anyways, I’m feeling very relieved that my site is back in the game now!

One of my colleagues is a security guy and he suggested that I remove the “login” link from my blog home page. I initially thought that it would be a configuration parameter somewhere and searched for the same. I could add/remove modules from the blog; however, that messed up the default look and feel of the theme. So instead, I chose the path to try and change the css and php itself. I, initially thought it to be difficult, but it wasn’t so. All i needed to do was to change the “sidebar.php” and remove the section containg “Meta”. I also changed the “header.php” and removed the header, coz it wasn’t looking good with just one “home” tab.

It feels nice when you start doing something, and it works out fine

I am a huge fan of vim and today I tried out the vimperator plugin for firefox. Although I’ve started using it just a few hrs back, and that for not so much time, I’ve started to like it. I hope to put up a review for the same in the not so far future Basically, I’m trying to figure out things that’ll help me blog more .

Anyways, to give a first impression, here are a few points:-

• Took some time to get the location bar to appear (need that coz the dropdown is helpful, and you don’t get that in the pen / :tabopen)
  • The search-bar is helpful too
• The help is _extensive_ and is easily reachable through :h
• The best thing is that a lot of it is customizable and the settings can be made to persist using a rc file (so much like vim itself)
  • So, one just puts “set guioptions+=mT” in the rc file and solves the location bar problem mentioned above
• The thing that I do not like is that a <ctrl-n> takes to the next tab, so starting a new instance is not possible. Furthermore if one does start a new instance from the menu, a ZZ closes off all the existing instances (A <alt-f4> works fine though).

Will write more things after working with it a little more. Hope this helps in the mean time

Last weekend was a long holiday, and I took the opportunity to go home. The first thing I did on reaching home was give a quick visit to my family doc; showed her my annual physical test reports and took her opinion. Then in the evening I met my best friends and drank cold coffee w/ them (that was surely the best cold coffee I’ve ever had; although it came from a very common place — ‘udupi cafe’ @ chembur station).

Anyways, the next day was spent quarreling w/ my fiance. We spent the day out together, went to our favorite hotel but had only a ‘mysore sada dosa’ each . Then we went to siddhivinayak temple, but I was so mad that I didn’t even go inside. But by the time we reached back home we had reconciled .

Sat afternoon was again spent w/ my fiance. In the evening I went to balaji temple w/ my fiance and her mom. Gave them gifts that I had brought from my last trip to hong kong.

It was sunday already and time for me to pack my bags and begin my return journey. Called up juee and ahte to meet me @ vashi, but neither of them turned up . Anyways, my cousin came and was happy to meet me. She also liked the gifts that I had brought for her and her twin from hong kong.

The return journey was uneventful, but I couldn’t get a decent sleep. Saw ‘ek chalis ki last local’ and ‘nanhe jaisalmer’ in the evening. The first one is a decent one time watch. The second one, however, is not too good. However, there is one scene (where nanhe gets ‘gadha’ written on his camel and himself) that one should definitely show to his/her toddlers to make sure that the nail is hit hard