So long folks.I am going on vacation with my dad and will be back on the 1st of January.I will be without a laptop for the whole period.The only gadget I will be taking with me is an MP3 player.I hope to catch up on my reading.You guys have a roaring New Year.
So,i found this page here. andI thought it was massively hilarious.So what do you think about it.leave a comment.
Many of you have probably already seen this in forwarded email form,
but it’s actually one of the funnier things I’ve been
forwarded. Everything you always wanted to know about Chuck Norris but
were afraid to ask. Enjoy.
22 Chuck Norris Facts
1. Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
2. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
3. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
4. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
5. Chuck Norris defines love as the reluctance to murder. If
you’re still alive, it’s because Chuck Norris loves you.
6. Chuck Norris isn’t hung like a horse. Horses are hung like Chuck Norris.
7. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.
8. Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother’s womb.
9. There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris.
10. Chuck Norris can win a game of Monopoly without owning any property.
11. There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
12. In fine print on the last page of the Guinness Book of World
Records it notes that all world records are held by Chuck Norris, and
those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone has ever gotten.
13. Chuck Norris invented cancer because he was tired of killing people
14. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.
15. Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
16. Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
17. When Chuck Norris goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
18. Chuck Norris has two speeds: walk and kill.
19.When Chuck Norris jumps into a body of water, he doesn’t get wet. The water gets Chuck Norris instead.
20. Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
21. Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
22. When Chuck Norris runs with scissors, other people get hurt.
Update (12.13.05): Click here to read new original Chuck Norris facts.
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Though,I saw this website a long time ago,I have given it much thought or gone to take a closer look at it since I thought it would be like all those other start pages.Being bored yesterday,I went there to take a look at it.I signed up for an account and it was created for me instantly.The page has a really nice interface.You can add your own feeds to it.You can also choose to display the already preconfigured feeds.The already preconfigured feeds include,web 2.0 blogs,major new sites,major sports sites among others. Overall,it is really easy to add a site’s feed.You just need to click on the add a feed button,then enter the url of the feed,and you are done.
Also,there is an online calender,game and a 2GB mailbox for every user.The mail system is really fast.
Overall,i would give it a 10 out of 10 just because it is really easy to use and configure and it has a really nice look.
Well,it seems almost everyone in the blogoshere today is blogging about music piracy. Is today a national music piracy day or what? Though,I am against the RIAA’s efforts,it is getting really annoying to go to blogs and find almost the same articles.I need something else to read.
Ahh well,I am blogging about private file sharing software.Specifically Grouper.
Grouper is a private file sharing software in its beta form.It is seems to me that it has been in a very long beta stage.I always get notifications to update it almost every two weeks.
So,Grouper as its name suggests makes you share your files in groups.You either create groups to share your file in or join specific groups to share your files in.Download speed largely depends on the connection and bandwith of whoever you are downloading your files from.
This is a personal screenshot from an old build of grouper:
On the left in the smaller panel,all your groups are listed.Those you created and those you joined are listed under the private tab.Meaning,only people in those groups can see and download the files you share in the group.In theory,this works really well because only your people you trust can see your files to download.But in the real world,people you trust dont have all the files you want to download and so you have to invite strangers to your groups or join groups made by strangers to get the content you want.You can also choose to share your files publicly.This way,everyone can download them without being a member of the group inwhich you share them.Every user of grouper has a profile and a signature video which you can watch.Grouper also has tools which help you create your own homemade videos.
Grouper is very easy to use.A new user gets the hang of it really easily and thier support system is really fast.
Unfortunately,Grouper has no mechanism in place to stop the spread of viruses and spyware.Five minutes after starting to use Grouper,I got popups on my screen.I will suggest to anyone switching to grouper to be really wary of files downloaded of grouper.Also,another disadvantage of grouper is that,during the morning and early evening,most people are not online.Most of grouper users come online at night.Meaning,connections are really slow due to the fact that almost everyone does their download and uploads at the same time.Technorati Tags: filesharing, grouper, music, musicpiracy, RIAA, mp3, privvatefilesharing, network, grouper
Hmm,so this is a screenshot showing the visual style I use on my pc.it is called the Longhorn Inspirati and can be found at DeviantART.com It is really awesome.Download it and apply it and then tell me you hate it.PS:Sorry for this subpar post but I am at this really boring family get together and I am using my cousins laptop to blog.I am just tired of listening to all my relatives yappering and yappering so I decided just to blog about this visual style since i use it and have even convinced my gf to use it since it looks really awesome.
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Faced with a really boring and annoying Christmas dinner tonight,I have decided to come sit here infront of the pc and list my favorite firefox extensions.So here they are:
These are the first extensions I always get for firefox on new machines.They are not listed in any order.And I will update them from time to time.
PS:All of them are also compatible with flock but right now,the links point to the firefox version.
So,Christmas is here again. Time to get out the gifts and drinks and have a good jolly time.I wish you all a merry Christmas especially you folks at flock. Have fun with your friends,get drunk and be safe,I’m out.
So,today,I got out of school really early and so used the free time to catch up on news in the technological world. As always,I first went to flock radio first to catch up on news from the developers of my favorite browser flock and I saw this post by Chris Messina one of the developers and primary movers and shakers of flock.I liked his vision for flock and what he said so much that,I going to post it here and let everyone read it and judge for yourself if it is realistic or not.
So there’s been some more talk lately about Flock and extensions and relevancy and Performancing’s new blogging tool for Firefox. I’m all for it. The more we talk about open source, about Firefox, about Flock, about coming up with better, cooler, faster and more usable technology, the more we’re inclined to just go build it. And in doing so, make sure that it’s relevant and actually meets the needs of real people.
I have to admit though, the potshots at Flock are becoming a little … tiresome.
So ok, I’m all about being skeptical. I’m all about looking a gift horse in the mouth, in its eyes, and … elsewhere… yah. (Y’know, you gotta make sure there’s no sneaky Trojans lurking about or whatever.)
And this post was going to about that old information autobahn thing and how there’s plenty of room for one more automobile manufacturer. And that was going to be my analogy for why Flock is a good thing for drivers, etc, etc. But I decided that’s a dumb idea. And boring to write. So let me get right down to it.
Here’s the thing. We’ve actually been pretty certain for some time that most of the features that we build into Flock will be eventually be ported back over to Firefox as extensions. Or become commodity features in other browsers. That’s the way open source should work — and the way software develops plays off itself — and we’re totally in support of that! The point is not to make a bunch of proprietary tools that only work in Flock. That would be rediculous and counterproductive. I mean, our goal is to make using all the great tools now available on the web easier to use by building a more consistent user experience. Yeah, that’s our big top secret plan.
So why build our own browser if we’re in support of this whole extension model anyway? Well, let me paint a picture of my vision for Flock and why it at all makes sense that we continue doing what we’re doing, no matter how many extensions come out and attempt to mirror our featureset.
Queue lights … cameras rolling… pull curtains … 5, 4, 3…
So in the olden days, there was a web of interconnected computers and file servers and yada yada that were conceived of as a massive network of libraries containing all kinds of hyperlinked data and information. Now, pieces of that data had individual addresses, just like booksin libraries had unique identifiers called Dewey decimal numbers. Thus pieces had a static position in the system and you used a web browser to pull up thaose pieces of data. So when someone added a piece of information to the network, say an online shrine about their cat, it got its own address, acronymically known as a URL.
So so so, jump forward in time a bit. Welcome to today, a time of spheres… blaw-go…spheres… where currency is measured by one’s attention-magnetism and linkification, where if you don’t have a blog, you don’t have a pulse and you’re dead, kaput, worse than history, see ya later, sayanaro, did you even exist in the first place? Oh yeah and what’s your feed?
Hmm. So let’s slow it down a second here. Get this, here it comes, I’ve got a visual metaphor to sink yourself into: so say you’re walking down the street, a crowded street. Let’s put you in Manhattan, or Boston, DC, Copenhagen, Tokyo whereever. Look, it’s busy. 10,000 people trampling the sidewalk concrete and they’re all in chaos, no no, wait, calm, but y’know, this is chaos theory in motion.
This is 100,000 people walking down the concrete towards you, you, you’re walking the other way — who knows why? you just are — and there are these crescendoing voices around you, swirling, smashing conversations. You’re grasping at words, sounds; the ring of cell phones, change being dropped between high heels and rubber soles. A cacophonic masterpiece of human communication.
So listen, you hear something, it piques your interest, you think to yourself, “Aha.“
Moving towards it, crowd parting in front of you, shoulders meeting; you sideways, all arms and elbows, towards the sound. One motion, you blur, find the source. Listen, speak, are heard, enlightenment and voice. This is conversation. This is fleeting. This is connection and this is what sustains you.
Now there are ten of you. Ten. Or maybe ten hundred. And each one of you is having this experience. As you weave your way in and out of throng, you’re merging and joining ongoing; nascent; 1,000 year old conversations. Say your piece, move on. Don’t stay too long, surely something else as interesting is being said … just around the corner.
Ok.
Stop.
Curtain down, lights go on; watch your eyes, it’s bright.
Now that, that picture, that experience, that’s the web. Yeh, that’s the web today except imagine it with your eyes closed, with blinders on, with the sound fuzzed out, with orange icons all over the friggin’ place. And yes, every now and then some jack-in-the-box assclown pops up trying to sell you V_1agra.
It almosts make me want to go back to the old library model.
But no, see, that’s where Flock comes in. Or I don’t care, don’t call it Flock. Whatever you want, but that’s where the thing we’re building comes in. That’s why we exist, that’s why we matter, that’s what the point is.
Yeah, Firefox and Duct tape, it’ll help. Sure sure. It’ll get you some of the way there. But hell, when I’m talking to someone, engaged in a conversation that threatens my very existence, or that threatens to change the way I flip my omelettes, man, I do not want my mouth to fall off at the jaw because it wasn’t tested, wasn’t built right, didn’t have a million beedy eyes boring down on it while it was being fastened to my head, making sure the stupid thing would function in the real world without needing pliers or a tireiron to get it to function. No, I do not want my memory to hiccup, to recede, for me to lose my place in line, to have my line of thinking severed when I’m talking to someone else. I need to be there, fully, to be there in the conversation, as a whole, as one integrated thing, yes yes, a fully functioning machine. No, I don’t want to be some bootstrapped, schizophrenic, unintuitive, semi-confused and incomplete afterthought kludged together and mistaken for a vision of the real thing. No, I want more than that, I want to be as in the conversations that I have online as the ones I have offline — I want to get to the point where there is no difference, that a conversation is a conversation is a conversation. I need a tool that helps me achieve that. It needs to understand things the way I understand them; it needs to reflect the reality of what’s going on online today.
When was the last time you thought twice about the fact that you’re talking to a digital signal every time you use your cell phone?
Or how about the fact that your instant messages (which indeed seem so instant) actually travel over thousands of other people’s computers and servers before they reach you?
And your email? Even worse. If you think herding cows is messy, you should see the way email is schlopped all over the place.
The point is this. These technologies have become second nature vehicles for communication and expression. And blogging, podcasting, vlogging and the whole lot of recent “mecasting” technologies aren’t as integrated, aren’t as easy, aren’t as accessible as they need to be for them to be picked up and made as commonplace as the telephone (or cellphone, if you prefer). Point Four percent of the population is nothing (that’s 23.6 million blogs as a percentage of the world population by the way). And yet another extension is not the answer. I don’t even know if another browser is. But we need something that works to solve this problem… or at least to make it better.
Yep, we’ve got a vision for how a browser with a different understanding of the web can help. We wouldn’t be building it otherwise. This is what drives us to make Flock the best possible, most easy-to-use and most useful tool it can be, because we’re experiencing all the same problems as everyone else. Just coz us at Flock’re a tech savvy bunch doesn’t mean this stuff comes easy for us either. And for chrissake, it’s got to get easier, so much easier, if these conversations are going to include and be accessible to those who most need a voice.
So,today,as I was browsing some tech sites,I discovered news of a new firefox extension that allowed you to blog from your browser.Since I started using flock,I have been taking this tool for granted since flock has a blogging top bar.So,there is no need to actually go to the blog site just to update your entries.But since flock is still in its beta phase,it isnt quite ready to be used as default browser and so I use firefox.It is a pain in the ass just to go to the blog site and then add and entry.I tried a blogger extension for firefox but it didn’t work out so well.It wasn’t what I expected.It didn’t actually allow you to edit your blog from your browser without actually going to the site.So,I was elated when I heard the news that such an extension like flock’s blogging top bar had been developed for firefox.I downloaded and I am trying it out.It looks really awesome.It allows me to update my blogger,wordpress and other blogs right from the browser without actually going to the websites.The only problem that so far I heard it has is that since WordPress users can’t use inline CSS,using the performance tab with the option “User CSS for content style” enabled will cause problems when using the align buttons,etc
All the same,it is a great extension. Check out more about it from its website.
Well,as i was surfing the net last night,I found mirrors for downloading these tools.Darn,I had forgotten all about these tools.I used them a long time ago.For those who dont know what they are,they are a remote administration system that allows you to control other Windows PCs over a TCPIP connection.In simple english,it means you can control another pc remotely using theses tools.If my memory serves me right,these tools were released by the Cult of the Dead Cow(one of the oldest hacking communities online). So I downloaded both tools and with the EXPRESS permission of a friend of mine(who was arguing with me about whether it was possible or not to remotely control someones pc without his/her not knowing),tried to take over his pc.First i hid the server and sent it to him.I binded it to another file and disguised it.It took only ten seconds to bind the server to a picture,and after that,my anti virus couldn’t detect the server.i tried lots of other anti viruses but only one found it.I sent this trojan to my freind disguised as an image file through gmail and lo and behold,though gmail scanned it for viruses,it didnt even detect it.Gmail which prides itself on protecting its users from viruses sent through their emails couldn’t even find a trojan that was just bound to an image file.Makes me not want to open any files sent to me through gmail.So,my stupid friend opened the image and unknowingly run the trojan.He reboot his PC when I tricked him into making a restart shortcut on his desktop and clicking it.He got mad at me but didnt realise it was a chance for me to make sure that the server started working.Lucky for me,my friend has an always on connection and never shuts of his pc.So i spent the whole night wreaking some havoc.Serves him right for doubting me,i just hope he doesnt have his parents and teachers and other important people’s emails in his contact book since I emailed a porn link in revenge for his signing me up for porn as a birthday prank.
SO,the moral to all of you out there is that,dont download files from unknown sources,especially not from the irc warez crazed idiots.Ciao.
Finally.!!I just downloaded restart firefox(an extension which restarts your firefox in in no time).As,i was saying,firefox has been plagued with memory leaks.I recently heard that,the developers of firefox have sacrificed functionality of the browser for a more prettier look.Check outraged-artists.com . God,i am just wishing for the day when Opera,firefox,flock and all those other browsers will come together in a concerted effort. Though,this may also lead to the same problems plaguing IE right now.Ah well,who knows,it may even be a good thing that all these other browsers like firefox have small precentages of the market.Since IE has a huge percent of the market,hackers,crackers or all the misfits have devoted their attention to finding its vunerabilities and exploiting it.If firefox had the same percentage of the market instead of IE,the same said misfits would have devoted their time instead to firefox to find is vunerablities.I am too tired to go into depth about that topic but i would do so later.
I just remembered that i had an account at this website.I unfortunately have a really bad habit of creating lots of blogs and promising myself to update them regularly,but I always forget about them.So,i was just looking through my past emails for an email someone sent me when i discovered all these login details to lots of my blogs.So right now,i have made a resolution(you can call it a pre-christmas resolution)to update all my blogs everyday(and so god bless me).I just hope that i dont forget about the resolution.To aide me in my quest to make sure that i remember to update my blogs,I have decided to download session saver(it is a firefox extension which preserves all the work and the state of your browser when you close it. It returns your browser to the same state when you open it).I am just going to leave the tabs for the blogs open so that I can always see them and update them anytime i start firefox.Unhhhh,got to restart firefox again,because of a memory leak.Again.
So,i just downloaded the flock browser and to test it signed up onto this site.The flock browser is reputed to have the capability of letting you post to your blog right from your browser and this post is being used to test it.I am still testing and so will blog more about it later.
