“Then I replied to them, a“The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build” Nehemiah 2:20; http://ref.ly/Ne2.20

“In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.” Psalm 18:29; http://ref.ly/Ps18.29

Its inspiring that there are people praying for me. People praying even without me asking them to pray. Its motivating and humbling to know that others think about and care for me. This might sound strange. But these people are ones with whom I last saw more than a year back. We have occasionally talked. But that’s about it. I have not told them that I was looking for a job. And yesterday, I get a mail that my old prayer fellowship is praying that I get a job soon.That is just amazing. (And it show the true Christian love).

This is why I’ve always believed that relationships are more important that any other worldly accomplishments. I would rather have wonderful friends and family and be happy, but poor than have all the riches in the world, but no one to share my joys with.

I pray that the Lord may guide me through the difficult paths of this life.

Oh, the interview went well. They didn’t ask many technical questions. Here’s one more verse to inspire for the week.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5; http://ref.ly/Jn15.5

I’ve got a few ideas from this. I’m off to try them out!

Here’s a video of the history of the seatbelt.

Here’s to saving more lives!

UrlbarExt

To quote,

UrlbarExt extends the Location Bar with set of commands to (Make Tiny URL,Copy URL,Search site,Go up,Tag pages easily ,Navigate through sequential URL’s,View page cached version,Unblock filtered websites and Surf anonymously using online phproxy servers).

This helps to shave a few key strokes from repetitive tasks. Like, copying an URL, searching a site, creating a tiny URL for a link, etc. This is one add-on that is highly recommended for power users.

I use bit.ly to create tiny URL’s. bit.ly provides statistics for each short URL. This makes for great info. However, the default bit.ly URL shortener in UrlbarExt does not save this to your account.

Follow these steps to use your bit.ly account with UrlbarExt.

• Go to Tools -> Add-ons.

• Find the UrlbarExt add-on and click on options.

Firefox Addons

• Click on the Tiny tab (the second tab from left).

UrlbarExt Options

• Add a new service by clicking on the + symbol. This will create a new url shortening service. Change the caption to whatever you like.

• Enterthe following into the api column.

http://api.bit.ly/shorten

• Enter the following into the Arguments column:

version=2.0.1&longUrl=%?url%&login=user_id&apiKey=api_key&history=1&format=xml

Replace user_id with your username and api_key with your bit.ly api key. (You can get a bit.ly api key at http://bit.ly/account). Update: Replace these terms in the string above.

• Enter the following into the Filter column:

<shortUrl>(.+)<\/shortUrl>

This will filter the output and return the shortened url to the address bar.

• Make sure to select this new service by clicking the radio button in the # column.

• Click OK and you’re set.

In short, this is what I’ve done. Using the 2.0.1 version of the api, I’ve given a long URL to bit.ly and asked it to shorten the URL. bit.ly will then return the result in xml format. The shortened URL is listed within the <shortUrl> tag. Filter the resulting xml for this tag and we get the short URL.

Reference: bit.ly api documentation at http://bit.ly/s8BO.

Check out this video of what HTML5 can do.
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/connecting-html5-video/

Of course, a version upgrade is never complete without breaking something. My upgrade listed the following extensions as incompatible. Hopefully, these extensions will get upgraded soon.

• Aardvark
• Current Site IP
• Evernote Web Clipper
• feedly
• Google Gears
• Google Notebook
• mediaplayerconnectivity
• PostRank
• Tab Mix Plus
• YSlow

Ubuntu on VirtualBox

To learn more on setting up VirtualBox, check out this great post at Lifehacker.

And if you want pre-compiled VirtualBox images, head over to VirtualBox Images.

This post is about how to get the Guest Additions running for Ubuntu. Why would you want to run the Guest Additions? For one, it provides full-screen ability. Complete screen-size, not the teeny window size that is present by default. There are other goodies too, such as, mouse-pointer integration and improved performance.

The only drawback is the license. These additions are covered under the PUEL license, rather than the GPLv2.

Alright, now how do you get the additions working. I’m using Ubuntu as my guest OS. But, these steps can be easily modified for other Linux OSes too.

1. Mount your Ubuntu cd/ISO from the VirtualBox GUI.
2. Mount the VirtualBox Guest Additions by clicking on Device > Install Guest Additions.
3. Once Ubuntu is up and running, open a terminal and find the kernel version by running

   uname -r

4. Run the following command to install pre-requisites. (Replace KERNELVERSION with the output of the above command).

   sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-KERNELVERSION

5. Depending on your platform, run the VirtualBoxAdditions installer

   sudo sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run all
   (Use VBoxLinuxAdditions-x64.run for 64-bit platforms).

6. Restart the machine.

Note: For Fedora (or rpms based machines), run the 4th step as

yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc

Source: Robotification [via FedoraSolved

“Everything changes; without change, nothing remains.”  – the Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.).

Source: Thinkexist – Nietzsche
Thinkexist – Buddha