Monthly Archive for February, 2006

Story behind the photos in my site

Published on February 28, 2006 in General stuff. 4 Comments

It’s been more than a week since this site was launched. I have been asking two guys to design the header portion of my site where I can add my photos. The reason was because all my fans wanted to see my photo flashing in my site. Here it goes to all my fans. �hehe! J

I had to cajole my brother in doing this photo thing for me. These pictures were taken at my home by my brother-in-law. We used picasa to collage the three photos and after some work in Gimp, it has come good. It is not very bad though.

Ok, Let us come to the story behind the photo. If you look�closely, the first photo, in which I look side wards, shows how pensive I can be. The second one shows some sort of reluctance to laugh. The third one shows my brashness and how I look like when I laugh out loud. So, this one collection shows all about me. It has come so natural that a lot of my friends suggested me to send it to Discovery, animal planet and national geographic. Grrrh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fools! They don’t know the meaning of a natural photo.

Whatever, this is my own site and it should show how I look like and I don’t want to cheat others with a gaudy photo. May be like the ones which our Indian heroes release before a film shoot. Please feel free to comment how it has come out.

P.S.:- My Brother when trying to bring the photos to the right has done something wrong that the caption in my t-shirt shows�mirrored.

Firefox- rediscover the web

Published on February 27, 2006 in General stuff. 4 Comments

I was introduced to firefox may be a year ago. Usually, a lot of computer stuff I know comes through my brother or through friends. This particular browser got my attention when I joined geekstogo, a free online forum for computer help.

I initially was reluctant in using it. Then I read a blog about the browser and learnt how it eases browsing on the web. I don’t use all the features but a few things I like in firefox are tabbed browsing, multiple search engine search, RSS, extensions. I have stopped using IE except a few cases where the site programmer has programmed in such a way that it only work with IE. One great example is bsnl’s broadband website. Shortcut keys are great in FF. I use ctrl+T and ctrl+k to such an extent that it has become addctive. But the sad part is that I am not allowed to use FF at office. I am handicapped without FF at office.
At home, I am used to FF to such an extent that I open a single browser window for an entire browsing session and open multiple tabs in it. I have not used the firefox browser which runs from a USB drive. This is a cool feature that it runs from the USB drive and there is no need of installing the same in the pc. it is called the portable firefox.
Interesting thing is that FF, has captured a good market share among browsers. One big reason is because it is free and developed by an open source organization Mozilla. So there is going to be room for lot of improvisations. One may not wonder if IE becomes extinct in a few years. Moreover, google donates up to $1 for referrals which suggest to download firefox with google toolbar.
Apart from these, FF is a very safe browser that it does not allow ActiveX controls and BHOs and other exploitable scripts to run in it. IE is more vulnerable to these.

After all, patronizing a free product is easy though!

Please help to spread firefox and promote good quality software.

Still thinking of migrating from IE to Firefox?

A pair of sunglasses made me think a lot!

Published on February 22, 2006 in provoking Perceptions. 11 Comments

I am starting this post bemused with the fact that most human beings follow certain illogical views.After all,I was also following a lot of these quite sometime ago.

Ok! let me stop beating around the bush and come to the point here. Not long ago, I yearned to buy a nice pair of goggles for myself.That was during my college days.I could not afford it then. after I started earning, I bought a good and stylish pair of sunglasses.it cost me around 1350 INR.Initially, I bought it with the intention to show off. A lot of my friends had a mindset that sunglasses are to be worn either when you go on a bike or on occassions when you go out with a girl. Pedestrians with sunglasses always get a weird look.As if sunglasses are made only for people who go around in bikes,they get admiring looks.I had an argument with a guy in the sunglass issue and he surprised me with the following logic.I am putting the same word he uttered.

“Machi (slang for a friend in Tamil) sunglasses suit only bikers because they drive at high speeds and chances of eye getting all the dust is high”.

What I wonder is,

1.aren’t pedestrians walking on the same road where the pollution levels are the same?

2.Aren’t sunglasses used for eye protection?(protection against UV rays and polllution)
3.Who in the world has told that sunglasses are to be worn only by bikers?

when I asked him,there was no answer.I understood that people have a lot views which are completely illogical.Atleast, I am pretty sure that I will have a little of them.
Now a days, I have started wearing my glasses when I ride my bicycle and I have started to enjoy a lot of gazes from gals.This way, I am getting a few!

hehe!:-)

Hey World

Published on February 21, 2006 in Just for Jolly. 23 Comments

I am happy to write a post is my very own blog site. It wouldn’t have been possible without balaji, my wonderful brother.I remember that I started blogging a few years back in a free blog site and stopped it after a while. May be the cost of internet in India, where I live,might have stopped my proceedings further. Anyway, it’s better late than never.This blog site has come to me as a birthday gift from my bro. Thanks Brother!

A lot of contents in the site is going to be useful (I swear!) and few things may be useless.One thing is for sure. All my contents will be humorous as I am a humor monger myself.

That’s it for now.Will blog more!