Firefox and retarded browsers

Check this video out and if it doesnt make you laugh, Ill buy you a drink!!



If you havent already...get Firefox today!!

Phony doctor gives free breast exams (Reuters)

I read this today and was laughing all by myself for 5 minutes. I think this is hilarious, but I have to agree with the the author of Eyebeam reBlog, this man is pure genius!!

Phony doctor gives free breast exams (Reuters): "Reuters - A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday.


ok I know this has nothing to do with art or tech, but this is hilarious. This guy is kind of a genius. A scary looking, icky genius, but a genius nonetheless. --SZ

Originally from Yahoo! News - Oddly Enough, ReBlogged by sonia zjawinski on Apr 20, 2006 at 11:02 PM "

Welcome to web 2.0

If you are a relatively ignorant person like me, who is trying to keep up with changes in technology, you must have heard the buzz about web 2.0 and wondered, what the hell was it all about? Atleast for the past 2 weeks I have been hearing a lot about web 2.0 and how cool it is blah..blah..blah. So anyways I decided to use some of my time to google it and actually did find some good stuff. If you want to know more about this then I highly recommend that you go here and check this article out. Its a long 5 page article so if you dont have the time, the picture attached below will give you a quick brief understanding about web 2.0

What I really liked in the description below was it says Web 2.0 is "an attitude, not a technology". Pretty cool eh?



Btw, I just realised today that I am a power web 2.0 user, so may be I am not that ignorant after all!!

How to fold a shirt

I saw this video yesterday and it totally blew my mind! After seeing it for about 7 times I still wasnt sure how the lady pulled this off. May be it is just way too simple for my engineering mind. Check it out, I am sure it will cut you a considerable amount of time to fold your clothes.

Driving in India

I found this video mentioned on Slashdot today (Embeded below). After being in the United States for while, it looks really scarry. I can't beleive I once used to drive in these streets under this very similar conditions, that too a stick shift, Maruthi 800 with lousy brakes. Pretty wild.

However such experience does help, now in Germany, I drive a Audi A6, 3.5 liter V6, 6 speed stick with a top speed of 230 Kmph (I have tested the top speed!!) and am able to truly, sincerely appreciate the engineering of both the Audi and also the Autobahns here.

Ok, That's enough bragging for the time being, Check out the video!



Btw, I just submited the video to Digg.com, got digg it here

The Firefox Bus

I saw this in the front page of Digg.com today and wanted to share it with everybody. Being from India myself, its quite common to see such work on buses and trucks and I dont have one bit of a doubt that its real and not photoshopped!! Check it out below

"While coming from Mysore, we suddenly saw a big Firefox logo pasted on a bus. We stopped the car and and stopped the bus which was about to leave and took these photographs. I wonder if the artist knew where the logo came from"

read more | digg story

Notetaking

This is an article I read about notetaking on Lifehacker which I thought was pretty neat and could be quite useful. I usually attend a lot of meetings and I think using a mix of these various options will help me organize things better. So check out the article! Its here

Btw if you are wondering whats with the different colors, well I was going through some of the presentations made my Tom Peters, a management Guru and just saw how his presentations had these really different bright colors, contrasting backgrounds and really every other slide was in a different color. I have never sat through one of his presentations, so I dont know of the colors mean anything or if they are just to keep the audience engaged, but I thought that was effective way to mix things up and keep the audience guessing. You can check out one of his presentations here. So I figured, I could make use of this cool technique too, in the worst case even of nobody reads my blog, it will atleast look good at a glance (I think!!)

Ciao

To Read

I know I have been boring everybody with a ton of tech blogs, but for some reason, I have just been totally hooked on the tech stuff recently and have really enjoyed blogging about things to glory!! Again, yesterday I found this and just couldnt restrain blogging about it. I wanted to write about this site earlier, but as usual procrastinated....

Anyways I read about this site yesterday where you can go, register your email address and then it will give you a bookmarklet, which you can place in your bookmarks toolbar (I did!). What this does is whenever you find something interesting, it will email the page to you when you hit the bookmarklet. This whole process takes less than 3 secs.

I was really excited to see something like this, as I read a lot of Lean Enterprise and other business blogs, some of which have really interesting articles, I would like to save and use later for preparation of work related training materials, quoting examples etc., This seems like something that would just work great for stuff like that, where in I can email it to my gmail account and have it forever.

To organize things better, this is what I did in my gmail account. I setup a filter which automatically filters the emails sent via this bookmarklet and automatically labels it. This is how you can do it. This is really pretty simple but for the benefit of the people who dont know this....

First hit settings in you gmail account and then goto labels. I created a label called "to read". Upon using the bookmarklet a couple of times I realised that the email was always sent from toread@info.cc, so I setup the following




Then hit next to finish setting up the filter. I checked the skip inbox button, so the mails get archived automatically and whenever have the time, i can goto the to read label and read the articles. (see below). Then check apply label and select whichever label you want applied (to read in the example below)



Just hit update the filter now and you will be all set. Whenever you find a article you want to read, just hit the bookmarklet and you will have it under your to read label. I can see this being a great advantage especially if you use outlook express or thunderbird, where you can download all your mails and read it in a plane or something like that. So this way, you can still use an internet based rss reader, but by emailing articles you like to yourself, review them at you own leisure later.

Ciao and a Happy Tamil New year's Day and Happy Easter to all!

Imagify your name

I came across this site which searches flickr's letters pictures and shows your name (or whatever you type in) as a bunch of letter images. if you dont like what you see, you can click on the letter and it will replace that with another image (for the same letter ofcourse)

As you can see above, my name in images. What I thought was interesting though was that, the very first time I submitted my name, the K in my name was shown with the K from Starbucks Coffee. Anybody who has spoken to me for 10 minutes know that I survive because of starbucks coffee and am a walking, talkin commercial for the company.

I think this might be a cool and really easy way to post your email address or other information online, so people can view it and you can avoid getting spam mails.

By the way, I first read about this article in Lifehacker

It's about time

Finally!! Google introduces Google Calendar. Sucker that I am for google products, I might soon find myself using this calendar.

The only thing that concerns me though is that, I am not very excited about the idea of the whole world seeing my social events calendar, which is well EMPTY!!!!!

A new calendar will now tell me the same thing the whole world tells me - "Get a life"

By the way, a quick update, I just played around with G Calendar a little bit and it is pretty cool. I am not really a calendar person outside of work, for which I guess I will have to continue using sloppy RAM sucking Lotus Notes.

It's about time: "Posted by Carl Sjogreen, Product Manager

We're all busy people. Whether it's work or play, school or family, every day is filled with stuff that takes time. Keeping track of schedules isn't easy, and frankly we haven't been too happy with the tools available. So we invite you to try Google Calendar -- a tool that simplifies keeping track of events, special occasions, and appointments -- whether they’re on your own agenda or on the calendars of contacts who opt to share their schedules with you.

First, we tried to make it fast and easy. You can add events just by clicking and entering one line of simple event information. No muss, no fuss, no cumbersome forms to fill out. And it’s integrated with Gmail so you can add events mentioned in messages to your calendar with just one click.

Second, we wanted to make sure you could use it to see all the events in your world. It’s drop-dead simple to see calendars from your friends and family, or calendars you find with the built-in calendar search tool, right "

Some great pictures

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Originally uploaded by Paulvision.

I was generally surfing flickr today and came across this great set of pictures taken by Paulvision. This is just one picture, to view the entire set of 48 of his/her best pictures click here

I would highly recommend it if you have some time or if good photography excites you!

Juhu beach

juhu beach
Originally uploaded by vego007.

College was fun. Especially days like this when we bunked college and went swimming all day in a beach, eating lotsa "parotas" with the free kurma along the east coast road followed by a movie in prarthana

This picture was taken in Juhu beach (there is a beach along the east coast road called Juhu Beach) on one of those typical days.

Video Wallpaper

Okayyyy then, here is a post that is fully written by me and even the video was shot by me...Now how often does that happen?

Some time back I was playing around with Youtube and came across this video about how to set a video you are watching as a desktop background. I thought that was fascinating and have really been using that feature in VLC player since then. Often times we find that there are videos that we just have to watch continuously (Like Shakira'a Hips dont lie - see below)

Here is a tutorial on how to do this:-

Now between Youtube and Google Video, there is pretty much everything I want to watch. It has almost all music videos, home videos and even some tamil and hindi comedy clips. However to play these in the background you need to download them to your hardrive. This is how you do it.

First copy the URL of the particular video, see example from you tube below (Circled in Red)



Then goto KeepVid and paste the URL. Click the tab above to indicate if its a Google Video or You Tube etc., and then hit download. It will then give you the option to right click and save as.
See below:-



Once you have done this now open up the file and follow instructions in the video below. btw, this video was shot at 3.30 in the morning in my hotel room. I coulnt go back to sleep after I woke up thristy in the middle of the night, so bear with me, I might sound drugged!



I just recently became a member of Youtube and have decided I am going to try and post a video blog once a week. After all its a lot easier and quicker than having to write about stuff and also I think does a much better job of communicating and also keeping the attention of the audience. Besides more importantly it suits my procrastinating, lazy self better. What the heck...after this tutorial, you can even set my video blog as your desktop background!!

FON: WiFi everywhere!

This is a really interesting piece of information. I can see the logic behind this. For some reason, I have recently become soo addicted to the internet that, if I dont have high speed access for a day, i feel like I have lost my left hand!

Cheap, affordable wireless for everybody...thats where Ill put my money!

FON: WiFi everywhere!: "$25 for a WiFi Router... Free access to the other people with 'Fon' routers, and the ISPs are happy because they get $2/day from outsiders. It's like Nycwireless, but without pissing off those who footed the bill for the pipes. --AM

Originally posted by agmilmoe from del.icio.us/agmilmoe, ReBlogged by agmilmoe on Apr 8, 2006 at 05:18 PM "

Shakira's Hips dont lie

This is a new Shakira single called Hips dont lie. For some reason, I am totally mesmerised by this song and the video. I have watched it some 200 times and still want to keep watching it.



I am soo fascinated by this I even wrote a poem on this subject..it goes like this

Shakira Shakira
your lips dont lie,
when you sing your hips dont lie
cause watching your hips
gives me kicks

watching your video,
better than doing Sudoku
makes me go mad
and want to dance like
"gorillas gone wild"

Shakira Shakira
you are like Keer(a) (Poetic license: Keer in Hindi)
reading this might make you sigh
but remember
I am high

Shakira Shakira
her hips dont lie
check this out and You'll know
my lips dont lie!


P.S> One Sunday alone in a hotel room means lots of You tube and Google video..its become such a integral part of my browsing and it feels like to best thing since sliced bread.

Good Video!

Here is a video we call can learn from...
I just really liked the theme of the video..which is "Never grow up". Check it out. It shows Ronaldinho playing soccer while he was a kid!






I have had similar talks with some of my friends over wheather we tend to perform better if we dont know the consequences of our actions. What do you guys think??

P.S> btw I just reached Germany and just had one of the best flights I have had in a long time! more about that later

Only in the United States

I saw this in CNN today. Although I dont care much for Bush's Leadership, there is some truth to what Bush says as far as tapping phone lines goes. However the point I wanted to make with this blog was that, one thing that I trully appreciate about the United States is the freedom of speech. In how many countries can journalists, leave alone ordinary civilians question the political leaders and tell their leaders that they ought to be ashamed of themselves in front of the whole world and get away with it?

May be this is in part a reason that fuels the "American Dream". God bless America

Productivity tips from Bill Gates - How He Works

Check this out..This is how Bill Gates works...The only really cool thing I thought were the 3 big ass monitors. For a long time now I have been wanting to won one of those babies...hopefully someday in the near future, Ill have enough money to justify spending $400 on one of those. Unfortunately I am a little poor compared to Bill!

Productivity tips from Bill Gates - How He Works: "At Fortune, Bill Gates talks about his workflow and his organization system. On top of his marketing stuff on his products, he talks about couple of key things that involves in his daily work life. Here are some key points: Paperless. Email is the first communication medium Uses email filtering to drop down the number of incoming emails [...]
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Reuse water with a toilet seat sink

Check this out...I thought it was a pretty cool idea. Especially where I grew up, in Chennai we had a lot of water scarcity and this sure beats having to wait for hours in a line to get couple of "kodums" of water.

Reuse water with a toilet seat sink: "

The Cool Tools weblog points out the Toilet Lid Sink, a topper for your toilet tank that first makes the water it uses to flush available for you to wash your hands.

With each flush of your commode, clean water that would otherwise go straight down the toilet is first routed up through a chrome gooseneck spigot to dispense pure water for hand washing. The Toilet Lid Sink installs easily without tools, is attractive for any bathroom and is a great space saver. Shuts off automatically. Porcelain-like white plastic replaces your existing tank top and adjusts to fit standard toilets up to 8in wide and 18-22in long. Built-in soap dish.

It looks a little goofy, and I imagine the toilet seat gets in the way of your washing your hands, but being a total sucker for water conservation methods that don't involve not flushing (yeek), I'm impressed. The Toilet Lid Sink'll set you back 90 bucks.
Toilet Lid Sink [Real Goods via Cool Tools]
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Vegetarian diet for weight loss

Check this out...Just what I have always been preaching!!

Vegetarian diet for weight loss: "David Pescovitz: A new scientific report suggests that a vegetarian or vegan diet is an effective way to lose weight. From a press release about the report, published in Nutrition Reviews:

Vegetarian populations tend to be slimmer than meat-eaters, and they experience lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other life-threatening conditions linked to overweight and obesity. The new review, compiling data from 87 previous studies, shows the weight-loss effect does not depend on exercise or calorie-counting, and it occurs at a rate of approximately 1 pound per week...

'There is evidence that a vegan diet causes an increased calorie burn after meals, meaning plant-based foods are being used more efficiently as fuel for the body, as opposed to being stored as fat,' says (researcher Dr. Neal) Barnard. Insulin sensitivity is increased by a vegan diet, allowing nutrients to more rapidly enter the cells of the body to be converted to heat rather than to fat. Link

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