What is your gmail ID ?

Mine is mandar.deodhar@gmail.com .. not just this but mandardeodhar@gmail.com, m.a.n.d.a.r.d.e.o.d.h.a.r@gmail.com and many more. Total 4096 addresses like this.

Got the trick ?

The dot in you username is redundant. You can place it anywhere (except starting and ending) or just remove it. All mails addresses are valid.

Checkout this screenshot: (open in new tab to see it zoomed)

 
Just see the red marked stuff. I have sent a test mail to different addresses and all mails are delivered to my Inbox. Also, google is ready to help you out with this Help.

Hence if you are having 'n' letters in your email addresses, the nyou actually own 2^(n-1) distinct email addresses on google. Isn't that interesting ? I just accidentaly discovered it. Digged it a bit and realized its a nice feature. Helpful if you have a website where you are subscribing using trial for few days and login requires a fresh valid mail address. Great.Prince.Of.Czechoslovakia@gmail.com can have 6,71,08,864 addresses. (Dont try to register it now .. its already gone .. yours truly has taken it just now ;-) )

Now the interesting question is why google is doing this ?
My answer is, google's motto is to organize the world's information. For google - mail, blogger, orkut, reader, docs is not just a service. Your user name is a 'profile' which has behavior which can be learn by machine learning algorithm to display targeted advertisements. Removing non characters is a simplest method to do string matching. Hence it gives google a chance to unify your different profiles as one. Any more suggestions are welcome.

Few off topic stuff now .. if you look closely, you can see there is no chat box or send invites box on left side of gmail. They are redundant hence I removed them using some simple hacks. Similarly, the right side advertisements are also totally useless. There is no way I am going to click on them .. Still let them be there .. thats google's bread and butter which allows them to provide great 'g' apps for free.

I AM IN

For last three months I am taking lot of interest in the World of High Finance. Somehow problems, issues, disorganization, failures attract me more than success stories. Today was Black Friday for BSE. Only one script gained 6 paise rest all down. I think this is the time to step in.

Several people told me to wait as the market will go down further. I am not starting the actual investment; I'll involve my brain first, learn things, develop my logic. And by December I'll start using my DMAT account which is blank for last two years.

I am neither an investment banker nor a broker who manage huge sum of money (of others ofcourse). There is no way I can change anything. I'll be managing my small amount thats it. Do not think of investing in MANDY Holding Pvt. Ltd. It has a credit rating of ZZZ--

I need few things from few people. They are so high profile that they can not deny giving it

Courage to take responsibilities and challenges


Some real talents in democratic world


Keeping Humor alive over all success and failures


Mistakes and Yet Arrogance ...


A vision and out of box thinking

You know what ... ;-)
Sales and Marketing skills and his statement I am not afraid to start things from the beginning.


Cut throat competitiveness, vision and professional management


And above all ... patience


et cetera et cetera .. Hope you all don't mind giving it.

Lets see how it goes. Hope I'll find some place in the list above.


Best of Luck to Me !!!! :-)