Twitter Error 500 : Internal server error

This day, I tried to log in to my twitter account with my user name and password and wooosh! It threw an internal server error(Error 500).

OS: Win Xp
Browser: Firefox 3.6.6

blog's down

My blog www.beautifulminds.in is down for the last one month.. damn, I donno how to revive !

It all started with some issues with host. I cancel the hosting account and sign up again as one of the server's of the host was creating issues.. but now, everything is hay wired!

Bug? Error? Manoramaonline

I was browsing through the manorama site and then I forgot my password.. I tried to locate the forgot password link and after a couple or more tries, by looking in to the common area where the forget link should be, I went ahead and clicked on contact link. I was in emart. After typing in the query, I clicked on send and oops.. I was presented with an error.

OS: Win XP
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8.

Alexa Ranking change annoncement page : Issue

Alexa announcement page throw some error.. have you experienced the same?

Guest bloggers needed in SQAGuy.info

A new website is launched called SQAGuy.info. The site need some guest bloggers, who can write in project management and software Quality assurance. The information can be found out in the sqa Guy's site. The compensation will be the linking back to profile/ blog page (Pss.. no monetary compensation).






Any one interested in writing about how to bug a programmer and how not to? :)

leave a comment here with a method to contact. Else use the SQA Guys contact form

Buggy Screens from The Indian Railways?

I used to commute between Alleppey and Ernakulam daily and The site which I check for he train timings is trainenquiry.com and this website is designed and developed by CRIS (Centre for Railway Information Systems). Last day i was checking for trains passing through alappuzha and I was amazed at the esult. There was an indefinite delay express(check the last entry in the picture![click to enlarge!]). That data must have been a test data and the developers forgot to remove the same after testing. I will be mailing this to them as well so that they can remove the same.

Over all the site is good. But have minor faults like these.. and yeah there is no information on Ernakulam Junction station as well.. when I choose that station it always says "Sorry no train is Arriving on the selected station in a given time frame (24hours). Please try again!", and the fact is that the ernakulam Junction, or Ernakulam South (Or simply South) is one of the busiest stations in Kerala. Is someone hearing?

SQA - Cartoon _I need to take a leave

For the last couple of months i was noticing that some of the ggole queries for the SQA cartoons land in my blog... Yeah his blog have some QA content and I've written about cartoons as well.. So this time its a cartoon.. Cartoons on quality Assurance. I donno who have drawn this but am gonna use it as it is.. hope you enjoy the same... Click to view that!

Bugs, testers and extra functionality.

The Software we uses may contain lotta bugs... and its the duty of the testers to eliminate them before the final release.. err.. the actual sentence would be, to find and report them.. so its like what Terminix do. or rather may be its done b the programmer itself. What ever the case is it must be bug free. A software can be said to be as a good one, if it is usable in the eyes of the final user, if its functional in the eyes of the tester and if its less buggy in the eyes of the project members(and of course in the eyes of customer and testers as well.)

Extra functionality.
Extra functionality is always welcome. but imagine a customer complaining that he is directed to other pages on certain keystrokes or certain combination keys(for him it may be undesirable). That will be a pain. So when ever a customer gives out his requirement(s), either stick to the same or discuss with him what ever extra functionality you are gonna add. This clears the last minute debate(over the money and functionality) before the release.

Notepad.. Simple to use.. But is this a bug?

OS: Win Xp
Software: Notepad


This day i was trying to type something in my computer.. and i move around the items easly using ctrl + arrow keys.. accidentally i went in to an awkward situation.. my entire texts shifted to left side(looks like left aligned.. and the special characters and dots(".") appear at the start of the sentences..!

For those people who in search of these things.. Please do check and advise..

I found the key combination!!!! i pressed left ctrl then left shift right cntrl right shift and then left arrow key
.. the same is reversed when i pressed left ctrl + left shift

i tried in other XP computers here.. but in vain...!


Here are the screen shots..! click to see a bigger view..!






Screen 1 : normal.. some characters typed in

Screen 2: Abnormal, letters shifted to left (like left aligned)










Screen 3: Abnormal, this article typed in and selected (Cntrl+A)





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