An Insignificant Person

My tweets are my personal views... not my company's. Cloud Solutions Architect focussing on Blockchain, Writer, Daydreamer, Gadget Enthusiast.

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This American Life - Invention of Money episode is awesome. Yes, it is from 2011 but really relevant even today. https://t.co/faTE3DGVXd

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@RaminNasibov @elonmusk King's Quest

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@_mrchaturvedi To be honest, that’s how OTT is turning out to be. Yesterday had to sit through so many ads while watching Dacoit on Amazon Prime. Of course I can pay to get the ads removed.

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@TeslaOwnersUK @tesla_uk There’s no mention of this offer on their official site? Is this a Tesla offer or a third party offer?

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@hydcitypolice Does this include OCI holders as well?

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@impuni @KommawarSwapnil It is. Both Good Friday and Easter Monday are holidays in the UK

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@santhoo9 Link to the app?

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@atulkasbekar @CSMIA_Official London Heathrow - you have to go to short stay car park and pick up the passenger from there. And yeah! Pay the parking fee as well. So it is not correct to say this practice is only in Mumbai/India

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@ujjwalscript 2 hour commute on 101? Seattle?

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Travelled last month. Still the same issue. It is 2026. Find a way to do a visa check online!

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Dear @britishairways and @HeathrowAirport,

This summer, on our way to India, we were flying BA from LHR. We could do an online check-in before the flight but were not issued the boarding pass – as our visas to India had to be checked by BA at the airport.

We reached the airport with plenty time to spare… or so we thought. There were exactly two counters to check visas. (We had already checked in our bags using Airportr service. So we were traveling only with cabin bags.) One was in the south wing of T5 and the other, the north wing. Both had a serpentine queue with people using the counter for all sorts of stuff – not just visa validation.

By the time our turn came, it had been 90 minutes in the airport already and we were getting jittery about catching our flight. By then, the queue for security check had grown a lot. Thanks to an understanding BA ground staff member, we were given Fasttrack option and got to the gate just in time to catch the flight!

This begs the question. In 2024, why are we still dependent on a human being checking our Visas in the airport? Why is there no option on British Airways website or mobile app to enter our visa details (in this case, the OCI details for India) in advance so that they could be verified by you before the check-in process? You have the option for us to upload our passport details. So why not the visas as well for other countries?

If this is something that you cannot take care of because of some government regulations or rules, why not have more counters open in the airport to handle this? And they have to exclusive to visa check – so that we don’t have to wait behind people trying to check-in 25 pieces of baggage!

Please fix this one way or another. This is a jarring experience for most of the travellers.

#BritishAirways #HeathrowAirport

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@icelandcricket @ICC If only you had posted this on Sunday, it would have been the best Sunday Roast - beating all the pubs in the UK :D

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@VijayGopal_ @CPHydCity @Comm_HYDRAA @TelanganaDGP @GHMCOnline @IPRTelangana @INCTelangana @DCPKZHyd @VRajeshekar @TelanganaCMO @NewsMeter_In Completely echo your view. This is the IMAX screen in London for comparison. (15/70 - Same screen size and dimensions as Prasads. But this one is still IMAX)

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@FHF_Official Let me try this again. Any update on this @FHF_Official

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@M9USA_ @khajouriadeepak Please do your research properly. No ETA required for airside transit. Only if you cross border control that you need ETA.

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Hyd FRRO office. Lunch time till 2pm. It is 2:30pm now. Still no one at the counter. No one to answer. #FTITTP

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Just realised that Amber Alert is not referring to a colour! but an actual person Amber Hagerman, 9 year old child who was abducted and murdered in 1996! On the other hand, amber warnings from weather agencies is a colour grading system - nothing to do with Amber Hagerman. Thank you. Happy Thursday

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Whoever has come up with the idea of a paper straw for milkshakes deserves to rot in hell forever! #paperstraw

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@ssrajamouli Dear @ssrajamouli sir, it’s been 14 years… 😁 Your directorial skills are good enough I guess 😁😁. Bring The Mahabharata to life please.

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I'm on the waitlist for @perplexity_ai's new agentic browser, Comet: https://t.co/pVgav0Z6Up

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The Microsoft Build 2025 Book of News is here. AI copilots, GitHub Copilot extensions, and Azure-powered data magic are just the beginning.
If you're building the future, this is your blueprint:
https://t.co/LxE1ekmp7G
#MSFTAdvocate #MicrosoftBuild #AI #Copilot #DeveloperTools

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Maybe it's too soon, but I tried to gather numerical data on various modes of transport and their fatality rates (people who died vs. people involved). Considering only fatal accidents (at least one death), air travel is still not too dangerous! (Thanks Grok) #AirAccidents #grok