21st century in desi-land

a poster somewhere in pakistan blends the best of today and yesterday, desi and par-desi...


Translation: Telenor (then new gsm cell phone service) connections are available, and oh yeah, home-made butter is also available

drop kick the singer

http://www.dropkickthefaint.com/

found on bandbaja.org blog... really cool

firefoxy

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Been stumbling in Firefox..

Firefox works for me 'cause:

. it has pretty good adblocking capability... download and install the adblock extension (firefoxy for plug-in... damn all these abstractions) and right-click and block all the crap from the web.... imagine ad-clean browsing howstuffworks, fileplanet and even hotmail

Also check out the ad-parser/remover file for firefox, dunno if there is something similar for IE... looks and removes all urls which *may* be ads like /ad/ etc.

. I can do a right-click & open in tab in background - makes browsing so much easier

It *does not* work for me 'cause...

. Memory intensive... open a window with 2 tabs after a couple of hours and it takes soooo long to respond

. Tabbed browsing does not work with alt-tab, it takes you to the next tab in order, whereas it should take you to the previous tab, like in windows

. Cannot move the toolbar buttons as easily as in IE, gotta go into "edit toolbar buttons" mode and *then* move the buttons around... cannot resize toolbar as in IE e.g. one row of toolbar on my IE has 3 toolbars are compressed together...

. Seems bulky... IE is much cleaner and lighter.. or mebbe I can make it that....

In conclusion I *really* think IE can get more downloads if it implements tabbed browsing and an adblocker atleast as good as the one for FireFox

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cool links

Fixed some bugs right before a close deadline.. been chilling today, stumbled alot.. found something really useful...

If u wanted to make a new blog interafce but did not have the time/knowledge to make one from scratch, try this one out... makes a nice 2 or 3 coulmn interface for u based on color choice for font, links etc. with the help of a generator..... support for Blogger and MovableType... font choices are limited but u can always change the code for that....just copy the source code and paste it in your blog template setting page... have'nt tried it for mine yet...

Jinnah saved man from gallows?

The story goes like this:

Once upon a time, long time ago (apparently in the early 1900's), Jinnah was a famous practicing lawyer. He took the case of a man about whome everyone said would get the death sentence... Jinnah promised that he *would* be spared no matter what.... As the trial wore on, the evidence kept piling up against him... at last he was convicted and ordered "to be hanged"

The convict and the people around him deplored Jinnah about how he promised the man's life would be saved but now his death was certain... Jinnah kept saying, just wait and see....

The dreaded day arrived and the guiltly man was made to climb the scaffold... the noose was placed around his neck and finally, the trapdoor opened...

As the man struggled against death, Mr Jinnah stood up and said, Release him, 'cause the sentence said "to be hanged" and not "to be hanged to death"...

so they released him and he went to have a long healthy life....

I thought this was some urban fiction passed around by people, but it turns out they all believed it to be true... I don't see how it can be... when you hang a man (and the executioner does it correctly), it is supposed to break the neck, causing instantaneous death; you don't *choke* to death by hanging....

Googling for the story yeilded nothing.... any ideas?

T-Rex's in F-14's

One of my fave C&H comics...

profound poetry

a rat, a bat & a cat
sat on a mat
who thought
that such diverse creatures
hang out together...
forever
like that...
sometimes they converge
on
a hat or a bat (baseball)
just like that...
true to the end
sometimes in the toilet's u-bend
the end was nigh unknown to the trio
as they sat, one night on the patio
listening to music from the jerry macguire remix jhankar...
they were bitten on the mat
by a gnat
three bites...
and they succumbed to the deadly toxins
in the smaller creature's saliva...
nice cool saliva
oozing from the sharp fangs;
it goes to show
there is
more than one way
to break a friendship...