If there was ever a place that needed its information organized and universally accessible, it is India. Bank transfers in India need IFS codes - they are like bank routing numbers in the US. For years the only way you could get the IFS code was walk up to the branch and ask a specific person. Things have changed since then, but even now only private banks go to the effort of mapping a bank branch to its IFS code so that we don't have to remember it. Thats not the end of it though.. the mapping is horrendous. If you aren't already confused by IFS codes for a single bank location, cryptic acronyms for names will.
I finally found this page today and it has a much better, and likely authoritative listing of banks in India that participate in electronic funds transfers. Hope it makes someone else's life easier.
9.23.2010
Electronic banking gone kaput
9.05.2010
progression
I started listening to World Vision podcasts this week. First of all, the stories are amazing. The reasons kids, especially girls can't go to school are unbelievable. But the most moving stories were those where moms/dads did whatever they could to make their children's lives better even as they remained deprived. That is perhaps the most human of all things.
We have a better life than our parents because they wanted us to do better and spent most of their adult life making that possible. It is now our turn.
9.03.2010
Managing email notifications in Facebook sucks
So I want to shut facebook from sending me emails.
The link in the footer of each email send me to a page which has a single checkbox - checked - enabling all notifications from facebook. Click on it and submit, the page just refreshes with the check box enabled again. Wonderful.
Fuming, I go to the page that manages all notifications, there are a 100 checkboxes for each event in Facebook, and not a single button to enable/disable them at once.