Naveen's Exhuberant Marraige

"Killer" Naveen has finally tied the Plain-knot!! Here are few pics...

Wishing them a happy and consummate married life.

KarmaYogi's whimsical weekend

KarmaYogi had an unpredictable weekend.

A close friend loses someone close to him and an other close friend gains someone in his life. Is this the Law of nature that one has to lose something to gain something?What makes it more disturbing is the fact that I have to be evasive about it.

Being disinterested is one, but having mixed feelings is something rare of me.Knowing the person I am, I will need some time to understand this recondite.

A Handfull story of star wars

LMAO !!

A terrible F1 accident

Saving a Life or........?

Yesterday, while I was going home,I saw an ambulance have an accident at the Kumble circle. At the circle, the reckless driver hit an Indica, wobbled and hit a Zen and 2 bikes!! The patient in the ambulance woke up from the bed and looked out of the window.

The Lady Traffic inspector at the circle pulled the Ambulance guy out. Here is the conversation between them.

Driver: Madam,... adu................
Traffic Inspector: mucho bayyi, vodsakke baralva Nimma &*^*$$$ ! Slap (4 times)

The people around spared him not because he was slapped, but because he was the Ambulance driver. All dispersed quietly only to put us in a huge jam.

The scene was hilarious for a moment, but in retrospect, KY thought... is the ambulance killing 4 lives to save one?? What is the purpose of an ambulance? Does the duty of an ambulance lie only in saving lives of people who call them for help? What about others who are outside their line of duty?

Too much to ponder about but too little time to save!

What's wrong with American Companies?

Here is a good article on how things are at the stock market with respect to American companies. Things have changed a lot!

-KY

KarmaYogi Writes.....Firefox 3 planned!!!

Firefox 3 is out... err, not exactly,the feature list for firefox 3 is out !! Developers released a preliminary list of requirements for Firefox 3. The new target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year.

Among the list of mandatory requirements, read, what is the most likely to be included in Firefox 3 we have:

• Improved interaction with Add-ons: clearer, more coherent language; less steps to install; more visible way to configure add-ons, probably to be moved back to the general Options window, which I hope deeply; more noticeable alerts when updates are available; a permanent restart Firefox button.
• Support for remote bookmarks, bookmarks and history annotation.
• Files could be handled by web services. If I am reading this correctly, this could mean you would be able to click on an attached document and open it with something like Writely or Google Documents. And perhaps, as I asked Santa, the ability to redirect mailto: links to web email services.
• A much needed print support to prevent cut paragraphs and true WYSIWYG.
• The much requested MSI installer which will be a much welcomed improvement for IT administrators as it will ease deployment and updating of Firefox across a company.
• In the security front: support for Microsoft CardSpace and OpenID (check tomorrow’s article for more coverage on this). Smarter credentials handling.
• Airbag, the Google backed open source crash reporting tool will replace currently licensed TalkBack.

Among the highly desirable requirements:

• A private web browsing mode.
  
• Save web pages as PDF files, integrated with history. That would be just awesome.
• Support pause/resume downloads across sessions.
• Make Firefox help accessible only while online.
• Microformats support.

Nice to have:

• Unified bookmarks/history. Does this mean no Places?
• Support for Windows Vista parental controls.A complete downer for Firefox when confronted with Internet Explorer 7.
• Tab grouping and expose. This sounds like the foxPose extension.
• Windows Group Policy.
  
• Allow add-ons to be installed without rebooting Firefox.
• Simplified interface to manage downloads. Can it be simpler?
  

You can read the complete Firefox 3 requirements at Mozilla Wiki.

Apple releases iPhone

Apple Inc ( No longer apple computers, Inc) released the widely anticipated iPhone. The iPhone is a combination of an iPod, a phone and an Internet communicator. The iPhone runs MAC OS X!!! The phone is ULTRA THIN.. has a 3.5" wide screen, and a single home button.It carries an innovative UI design, a trademark of apple since its inception. It has the patented multi touch feature where you can swivel the display settings by your finger movements. Easy Mail, music and camera access options. Phone book has a simple interface.

Truly a NEXT generation phone... Steve Jobs, increasingly gaining my admiration for his vision and gradually taking me away from Microsoft. More information on iPhone here.

KarmaYogi will review this phone later in the month. Yes. KarmaYogi has managed to get his hands on the Beta Version. Man.. I can't wait to get my hands.. err.. fingers on it :D

Smooth Operator..... KarmaYogi Says so....

As of yesterday, 1630 hrs IST, I am a proud owner of a 250 GB internal HDD customized to behave like an external HDD !!!This is where we beat the Americans Hands down. The usual external Hard Disk comes with a USB 2.0 compatibility with a 16 MB buffer for the Hard Disk.Of course, the speed of transaction is restricted to the USB. The Indians came up with a better Idea. They came up with a casing for the internal HDD, which then acts like an external Hard Disk. The cost is more affordable for an internal HDD and what more the speed is guaranteed to be at least as much as that of the USB drive...

Enough of the introduction. I made up my mind to purchase one and after inquiry found that a Guju colleague of mine wanted to buy one too. I was happy not because I would get a good deal if i buy two pieces , but because a Guju colleague was buying with me !! We went to the SP road and asked at the first Shop. The shop keeper candidly asked "SATA" or "ID". I went "Huh?". He began to explain me, "SATA" HDD has an internal buffer of 8 MB and an "ID" HDD has 2MB. For the gyan he gave us, we think he could have easily replace our college professors. I asked the price difference and he said the difference was only 100 Rs. We were all glad that were intelligent enough to ask the price and that we beat the system to get an awesome configuration for the same price. You would think we did it, but the surprise was yet to come.... when we asked for the casing. The SATA casing costed 1000 Rs and the ID casing cost 500 Rs. My Guju colleague who goes bonker for every 10 Rs, went bonkers 50 times, mathematically.. ( bad one..) . He was still not happy with the price. We went looking for a remote corner shop which does not do a good business hoping that we can get a better price. He took me to a shop far away from the street in a building on the first floor. The shopkeeper there was a Mallu trying to speak Hindi... arghhhh... We bettered the price by 60 Rs. My guju colleague was happy, we bought our internal-but external-HDD and left SP road. On the way, we stopped at Adiga's to relish good food and to feel happy that we bargained for the BEST deal at SP Road.
I was a bit worried with the HDD and was wondering if the HDD would actually work.After coming home, I formatted the disk and started dumping in data. The HDD was smooth and worked well. The whole shopping experience, all fell into place, my Gujju friend and the HDD both qualify as Smooth operators...

How to make and keep your New Year's resolutions

Blogger Alexander Kharlamov has some good advice for New Year's resolvers who want to stay resolute beyond January 1st. For example, break down your resolutions into small actions:

Separate your NYR list from your ToDo list. If your New Year's Resolution to lose weight includes an action to "buy gym membership", take it off your NYR list and put it on your ToDo list - and then, of course, execute it.

Much like the way GTD distinguishes between projects and next actions, goals can be achieved on any day of the year by just writing them up and breaking them down. Have a safe and happy New Year!

How to make and keep New Year's Resolutions [Documenting Success!]