Akshay picked me up at 7am to make the trip from Pune back to the Mumbai airport. Traffic was bad so we didn't arrive until 11:30am.
Upon arrival, I went right to Customs. With all the delays, I was expecting this to take a long time. I was pleasantly surprised. I waited for only about 10 minutes to talk to a Customs officer. He took me to their storage room where I was able to claim my equipment. After signing 9 forms, I was allowed to take my case. I still had to get it through the Customs checkpoint.
As I walked up, I noticed that the officer I was going to have to talk to was the one who shook me down for $83 on Friday. He recognized me as well. I was hesitant because I didn't have another $83 to give him. I had already changed all my dollars to Rupees.
The officer says to me, "You are the one with too many laptops." I say that I am. He chuckles, then just stamps my form and let me through. Apparently, $83 goes a long way in India.
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Akshay and I then made the 3 hour drive back to Pune.
We arrived at the first client site about 3:30pm. The work went so smoothly that we decided to push onto the other location instead of delaying this until the morning. I successfully finished at the second site around 9pm. Its just a shame it took me 2.5 days to get to this point.
Oh well, at least the work went well.
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Hi
There is going to be a Blogcamp in India on 16th of June. Around 250 bloggers will be taking part in the event.
This is what they say on their blog: "The way unconferences work is that, you don't have an agenda, rather we will put up a white board, where participants will themselves add the topics they are interested to speak upon. Depending upon the number of speakers we will go for multiple threads. There will be some intense discussions, we will have a lot of fun and yes there will be blogging, video blogging, photo blogging, podcasting ... everything under the blogger sun."
The registrations have started. We are planning to have 250 participants from all over the country. There are some people taking part virtually, using youtube, slideshare, skype etc. if you are interested please add your name to the wiki.
Check the:
wiki: http://barcamp.org/BlogCampPune
official blog: http://www.blogcamppune.blogspot.com/
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