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Roming between Dhiraagu and Wataniya

I use Wataniya as my primary mobile number apart from a backup Dhiraagu number. Basically, I carry two handsets; a Nokia N82 with a Wataniya SIM card and a Nokia 1202 (a so called Nokia bathhi) with a Dhiraagu SIM. In the past week or so, Wataniya was experiencing some (I would say, major) issues with their network coverage in some areas of the country including Baa Atoll, where I reside. Those were hard times for me in those (almost) 4 days when there was virtually no coverage. Even now, the coverage isn't completely well. Whenever I switch off and switch on the mobile, it takes a long time for the SIM card to register with the network and I had to wait for sometime before I could make a call. Moreover the EDGE (mobile internet) service is also having some random cutdowns even now. EDGE is the successor of GPRS, faster than GPRS and backward compatible. That means if my handset doesn't support EDGE it will select GPRS by default. Also Wataniya provides EDGE in some areas only. For instance, EDGE is available in the resort which I work but not available in my home island. Wataniya's EDGE is much much faster than Dhiraagu's GPRS. Even Wataniya's GPRS is faster. Moreover, Dhiraagu doesn't provide EDGE. Not as far as I know.

During the network outage, I felt disturbed and uneasy. Luckily that I had my backup Dhiraagu number, which I made great use of during the outage. But I was thinking of something else. Something more advanced and convenient for everyone. I was thinking of the situation where I may not be having a backup number. I can have a thought of how frustrated I would be. So, here comes my solution. Both the operators can have roaming agreements with each other and activate roaming during an outage. This would save us all from the hassle of an outage of a service that has become a basic need in the 21st century.

You could wonder "what on earth am I talking about?". Well, an example is the best way to explain a theory. Let's assume the instance I had in the past couple of days. Wataniya could have a roaming agreement with Dhiraagu so that they could use Dhiraagu's network and let all of us (Wataniya users) roam in Dhiraagu network, just the same way as we do overseas. Now, you could ask if it is possible. Yes, it is possible in every other way as roaming is not limited to between countries. Instead, roaming could be established between operators in the same country too. In this way, operators could relieve it's customers from the inconveniences of a network outage.

You would now start wondering why wouldn't they just do it. Well then, you better start wondering why they didn't implement sending MMS between the two operators eventhough they both have implemented sending MMS to operators in other countries.

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UPDATE

Just wanted to "update" my blog, but I have nothing to write here. Actually, it's not just me, it's the both of us.

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Still no idea of what to write. So, this is the end of it.

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Anniversary

This blog has passed it's first anniversary. Yes! This blog is now 1 year old. Actually the birthdate of this blog is 19th October. Unfortunately, I haven't noticed it until today when I wanted to update the blog after a long time of busy days. No, I'm not less busier even now. The fact that I am posting this on the way back from home, via Opera Mini on my all new N82, is more than enough proof for that. Oh, yes! This is my first blog post from this phone. By the way, if my princess is reading this, by any chance, "You made last night great! Thanx again."

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What is?

Google has always mesmerized us in many ways. Sometimes through introducing new and "tough" apps like Gmail and Google Docs. Sometimes through the cool little features in search itself and sometmes through tiny bits of humor added in between. Some of these are even called easter eggs. Google's spelling suggestion feature has some cool things to say about various things. Have a look at these screenshots.

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Missing....

First of all, mee varah sad moodegga ovegen liyaa sms eh. Ehenveema ehaa bodah alhaanulaathi in'gey.
Mashah nuves bunevey dho maadhamaa (mihaaru dhen miadhu) resortah dhaa vaahakaeh. Sorry for that. It has always been hard to leave family and go back to resort. But this time it's even harder. I know why. Coz I'm missing u. I'm missing ur support. I'm missing a part of my own self. I can understand ur situation. I really didn't want to tell this to u. But, keekkuraanee... I can't hide anything from you. I can't keep anything in my heart alone. As u said, u have changed! Not a lot, but somewhat. It's okay dear. Changes happen all the way in life. What's difficult is to get used to the change and what I want is u to be mine, forever. I know how u are feeling now. Don't feel that way. I'm not complaining. It's not only u to blame. I know I even couldn't give u enough time in the past week. Coz I was with family and I had less privacy. U do understand, right. Me too. So, what's next? I just need some more time with u. When u come back, just give me some more time in'gey. Also, give me all your time today. Just to get rid of this "missing" thing, please but only if u can. Now, are u thinking that I suffered these days? In terms of "missing", yes I did. But not in any other way. By the way, did I say "miss veyey" in the past couple of months? Look, how shy am I. Never mind about paragraphing in this sms and see, now I'm feeling little bit okay. Oh! My sms limit is over! So, bye bye and take care. Call me in'gey.

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Euro 2008 Live Scores using Opera Mini

A cool bookmark on Opera Mini is called "Live scores", and it's a site made by us to give you easy access to the latest scores in any major sport. You can try it yourself using our live demo (which functions just like on a handset).

If you're using a fresh installation of Opera Mini 4.1 (never downloaded or upgraded on your phone) you will have the live scores as one of the default bookmarks. If you're upgrading, just point your browser to http://portal.opera.com/scores.

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hAtom

This time I am adding hAtom to my blog posts. hAtom is a microformat for content that can be syndicated, primarily but not exclusively weblog postings. hAtom is based on a subset of the Atom syndication format. Adding hAtom took a little bit of time due to the complexity of the template I am using (it might be the same case with any blogger template). Validation was one of the things I always give preference specially when implementing something new. Optimus helped me with validation and ufXtract helped me have a glance at how it looks. I discovered yet another microformat tool called Pingerati which we can ping microformat enabled blogs to and it in return pigs other microformat enabled tools like technorati, etc... I also came across a tool which displays rel tag attributes like XFN, rel-tag, etc... It's called rel-lint.

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