Let there be Light !

Whatz wrong about life

I always have wondered why many significant things in my life happen when I do not have the desire or experience to handle them.

Well, as the adage goes .. Good decisions are made from experience , and experience is made out of bad decisions.

Anyway, found a chain mail that did the rounds a year ago

I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way.
Then you live in an old age home.
You get kicked outwhen you're too young.
You get a gold watch when you go to work.
You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You do drugs, alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school.
You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have noresponsibilities,
you become a little baby,
you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...
and you finish off as an orgasm

Blogs that have caught my eye of late

Shuuros - Very informative and a lot of useful links. Guy seems to be quite patient. Posts are usually detailed.

Sakshis - Another Monu in the making. She posts atleast 5 entries a day (some days, that is an understatement). Note that many of her posts are daring (to the orthodox folks). True-to-the-word Mumbai gal.

Divyas - Just a few posts old, but has a rapidly increasing hit counter. Her last post (it has been some time since she posted this) still generates comments !!! I hate that :)

Rams - This guy too seems to have tonnes of patience. Many movie-related posts along with the other informative ones. Like his blog layout.

Arzans - 6 detailed posts on 25th alone. Shows how addicitve this guy is to the blogging world.

Snellen eye chart for IT

Snellen eye chart for IT
Originally uploaded by Idol.

This just reflects what happens in IT companies outside US. For folks who are wondering what a Snellen chart is .... it is the reading chart that we find at the optometrist's clinic.

Clipboard hack

Reposting with the workaround ...

This seems to be a dangerous security vulnerability

Just follow these steps here:-

1) Copy any text

2) Click the Link:

http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm

3) You will be able to see the text you copied on the Screen.

NOTE: If you are using to save PASSWORDS / Cr. Card#s / IMP

Info in clip-board Read carefully...

Do not keep sensitive data in the clipboard while surfing the

web. It is a single line code to extract the text stored in the

clipboard to steal your sensitive information.


This works only in Internet Explorer

How to Prevent
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Solution:
To prevent this, in Internet Explorer,
a. Tools > Internet Options > Security
b. For Internet, Custom Level > Scripting, Disable "Allow paste operations via script"

A cool Ad

A creative Ad !

Adult rating for newspapers too?

From Deccan Herald ...

New Delhi, Aug. 18: The top court on Thursday issued notices to the Centre, the Press Council of India, two English dailies and two news agencies on a public interest petition (PIL) seeking laying down of rules and regulations to ensure that minors are not exposed to obscene material, which could be classified as Adult (A) and Universal (U) as is done for films. Petitioner Ajay Goswami through the PIL sought direction of the court to the Centre and the Press Council of India (PCI) to constitute an apex committee to look into the problem of minors being exposed to obscenity through the depiction of erotic materials in the press and to frame rules to curb the same.
After preliminary hearing, a bench of the court comprising Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti, Justice G.P. Mathur and Justice P.K. Balasubramanyam issued notices to the Centre, the PCI, The Times of India, Hindustan Times and the news agencies Press Trust of India and United News of India.“In order to increase their circulation in the age of cut-throat competition,” the petition said, “newspapers are throwing etiquette to the winds much to the prejudice of the interest of minors through (the publication of) obscene materials,” alleged the petition.
“Newspapers are publishing titillating material in the form of SMS jokes, articles on pornography, sex education (which at times is more pornography than education), comments on porn magazines or movies categorised to be viewed for ‘Adults only’ in addition to semi-nude photographs,” the petitioner alleged and pleaded that there was an urgent need to protect minors from their bad influence.
The petition said that news items on beauty pageants and the like may not seem obscene prima facie, but the presentation or photographs accompanying them “may cater to the prurient interest of the public at large.” The petition said that no guidelines had been framed by the PCI to protect minors from being exposed to such “newspaper obscenity.” There is no statutory force that compels newspapers to follow such norms that the PCI lays down, it said.
The PIL sought regulation to ensure that obscene material would not reach children. For that, one way would be to classify them into categories. The categorisation should be “bold enough and published at the top,” said the petition. It said that it was the duty of the government, being a signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under Article 19 of the Constitution to ensure that children are protected from obscenity, the petition said.
The PCI is vested with certain powers as per the Press Council Act, 1978 and to carry out the aims and objectives of the Act, the Centre is empowered to make the rules on the subject. The Council is also vested with the power to make rergulations for the purpose sought in the petition, the petitioner said.

US consulate announcement

An announcement from the US consulate

Existing Appointments May No Longer Be Modified – New Appointment Required. Effective immediately the modification function, which enables an applicant to reschedule an appointment without having to re-enter an applicant’s entire information, has been deactivated due to apparent abuse of the system. The U.S. Embassy regrets the inconvenience this may cause some applicants. Those who wish to change their appointment time are requested to first cancel their existing appointment and then create a new appointment by re-entering their data and making a new appointment. The Embassy is working diligently to resolve this issue.Thank you for your patience.

Shoot at sight

Some of the funny photos that I have shot-at-sight ...

My Photo Blog

Coutrallam Falls

BlogThis extension : 4 Firefox

The BlogThis extension available for Firefox seems to be very useful. Saves a lot of keystrokes.

Online bus reservation for Chennaites

From a forward ..

A very useful link especially for residents of chennai.

Just visit this website to book a ticket.

U need to pay Rs.10 extra in addition to the ticket price. If u provide all details there, they will give you a code. U need to remember that code. U should b there in Koyembedu Bus Stand 30 minutes before the bus departure time. At the reservation counter u need to give the code no and pay.

Convergence

These girders are actually parallel !!

Monu's poem for this pic

"They said we are parallel lines and that this gap between us would never converge.......
How wrong were they....
Should we call them for our wedding?"

Back from a break

Had been to my home town for a family get2gether. Am back from the break now. Tried to blog from a cafe, in vain. The browser kept throwing a Javascript error !!

Autorickshaw menace -

I hear through a contact that the Controller Office of Auto Unit, Bangalore has stated that no auto driver is allowed to ask 1.5 times (charges) before 10:00 PM , neither will he be given extra money on account of rain.

There are Auto Complain Unit phone no (Bangalore)
22253500
22260554
22207750

Lets C if these numbers cut any ice

Getting worked up easily now-a-days

I have noticed that i get worked up very easily. Now, thatz something unlike me. But hey.. thatz the truth.

I think the stress from work is getting on to me and so is the fast pace at which the world is moves now. There were times when we had more time alone .. time to retrospect upon things that we once enjoyed, things that have gone wrong ....

Now, on a typical monday morning, my so-called fast-paced schedule is as follows
I get up just in time for my karate classes. One gruelling hour there. Come home, have a bath (there are some friends for whom 'bath' rhymes with 'white elephants' ), gobble up my mandatory breakfast, rush to the office, come back home after work and have dinner b4 hitting the sack.

I wish the world slows down which would allow me to slow down as well.

IT Kaadhal / IT Love

Spotted on the Internet ..

Avan kalyanam mudindhadhu ..
Aval peryar password aanadhu !

Translation
He got married
Her name became the password !

Anniyan - Take 4

All-time record !

The first movie that I have seen more than 3 times. Yesterday was my 4th time. Good to go for one last time B-)

Infra Lumino