Codename Happiness

A wonderful add-on for Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:09:41 PDT

After quite some time, I'm hitting the interesting waters of the blogspot again. :)
Hi there to everybody who have landed to this blog, intentionally, or by a sheer accident!
Here's an add-on to your likeness if you are a freak or the one who dives into the depths of internet and travels all around, in search of knowledge, pictures, videos and what not!
This Mr. Add-on here, is for Firefox, and it is called Add to Search Bar 1.8, and it helps you to add any search-form that is present in a particular website.
Add this add-on to the firefox and restart the firefox, as you do for all the add-ons.
And then just right-click to the search-box and choose "Add to Search Bar" and voila, you can control the search right from the firefox.
Here are the three simple steps to add it to your Search-bar.
Step1: Right click on search-box and choose "Add to Search Bar".

Step 2: Give it a name and Icon.

Step 3: And you can choose it and use it.

Pulp Fiction: My tribute

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:11:18 PDT

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." - Ezekiel 25:17

It is not the passage that I liked, but the way Jules delivers the passage everytime he kills somebody.
Hell yeah! welcome to Pulp Fiction, baby!
Had heard a lot about this movie from people, but never got the chance to see it myself. And guess what? I watched it at least 5 times till now, in two months! Quite an achievement, eh?
There were romantic comedies, now gangster movies, my taste for sure, is expanding. :) [Will tell you the story about my other fave gangster movies later.]
Pulp Fiction is a straight forward movie with main characters coming across each other a few times, otherwise having their separate story lines.
The story is told in parts, and I tell you, it is done brilliantly. I especially liked Jules and Vincent's roles as the unassuming, indifferent gangsters. Just sheer brilliance, Samuel L. Jackson as Jules and John Travolta as Vincent Vega.
I like this piece of conversation that happens in Jimmie's house when Jules and Vincent reach there with a dead body in their car.

Jimmie: I'm talkin'. Now let me ask you a question, Jules. When you drove in here, did you notice a sign out front that said, "Dead nigger storage?"
Jules starts to "Jimmie" him
Jimmie: Answer to question. Did you see a sign out in front of my house that said, "Dead nigger storage?"
Jules: Naw man, I didn't.
Jimmie: You know why you didn't see that sign?
Jules: Why?
Jimmie: 'Cause storin' dead niggers ain't my f**kin' business!

Dark humor!
Amongst most of the things I liked about this movie, one is the pre-movie score named "Miserlou"(a Greek song).

Overall I rate this movie 9.99 out of 10. I had to deduct 0.01 for the fear of being partial to this movie. :)
A must watch for those who love, gorge on the classics.
Cast:
John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Uma Thurman.

Transcript courtesy: http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/pulp.shtml

Just a post

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:15:38 PDT

Yesterday, I came across this DVD, How to lose friends and alienate people. I would be lying if I say I really wanted to see it's content except for Megan Fox. Ohh! What a beauty she is! Oh my my!
So it starts like any other movie and ends like one, a loser becomes a hero, gets the girl, gets the life he always dreamed of, et all. Yet there are a few things I would like to make a note of. Kristen Dunst looks beautiful(considering I've never found her pretty) and plays her part very well. Jeff Bridges is wonderful playing the boss who is running the business for the sake of running it. And the protagonist Sidney Young, who always gets into problems because of his never-wait-for-tomorrow attitude, is brilliantly played by a Paul Scholes look-a-like Simon Pegg.
It has one or two nice quotes, one of which is, My glory walks hand in hand with my doom! which of course is taken from the epic Troy. Such was my likeness with this quote that I memorized it once I heard it.
I think I've fondness for the romantic comedies, be it One Fine Day, Heartbreak Kid or anything, I sort of like them. They make a great watch even when you are in deep-shit! That's what I like about romantic comedies.
One thing that always strikes my mind while watching these pretty ladies acting, is; beauty is inversely proportional to the degree of acting skills one possesses, which, of course has one exception; Catherine Zeta Jones. :)
When I was small I had this plan to go on a quest to find CZJ and marry her! :)
You think that's weird? Then see this.
Considering what these GenX kids plan to do, my plan was quite sane for the kid of that age! Don't you agree?

Picture courtesy: http://www.imdb.com/

Things going on!

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:13:52 PDT

Well! All I do these days with my blog is change its theme! Sounds so uncomfortable. But that's the easiest thing to do, as compared to writing a post in these time constraints and recession.
Recession has hit really hard. So hard that it reflects in my blog(rather the lack of it).
All these days, I's pretty pleased with reading all the creative writings by other fellow bloggers. Well, with the so little time I get and a mental block, that doesn't want to be shrugged off, there was no other option.
And yes, IPL is happening, and it's happening big-time, the rise of Fake IPL Player is doing the rounds, more scantily dressed cheer-leaders, and more teams vying for the semi-finals berth. It is all happening. As one of the presenters said about the points table, "The middle of table never looked so good. The middle is where the meat is". I couldn't fathom the second sentence!
So, that's the news from my side.. see you all in few!(God knows whether it is few hrs, day, weeks or months)

Champion's League

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:14:21 PDT

Well! Two days of sleeplessness and I see my favorite team beaten! :(
And yes, I had to barge into one of my important trainings an hour late because of that. Now how is that?
For those who are feeling out of the place, let me enlighten you bitches... I'm talking about football, they call it soccer in US.
That brings us to an important topic, if I'm a hardcore football fan! No I ain't. But I like to watch quality football and Champion's League gives me that.
Champion League 'round of 16' first leg started on 24th. First day I watched Man Utd V/s Internazionale Milano till 0300 Hrs in the morning, which finished goalless. There were other three more matches which I couldn't watch. Second day, it was my favorite, Real Madrid V/s Liverpool FC, where hard-working Liverpool came a goal ahead of Real, in a match where Real dominated the play. Other three matches I couldn't watch as those ass*&|es don't show all the matches in India.
Now, I'm waiting for the return leg, which is almost a fortnight away.

New colors and a new hairdo

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:16:38 PDT

Yesterday, late night news covered the unveiling of Team India's the new jersey for the tour of NZ.

Team India's new jersey unveiled

. Saw Harsha Bhogle there, was surprised to see him with quality hair in his otherwise barren scalp.

Here's his new look.

The spam story

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:16:53 PDT

Disclaimer: This piece is the recollection of one of my distant memories, so it may not be exact, Though it is a real life incident, resemblance to any of you may be highly possible!

Back in the days, when hotmail, yahoo had just hit our senses, I was a naive internet dilettante. I used to create email accounts like a maniac. I had at least three accounts in hotmail, five accounts in yahoo and two accounts in rediff(if you had more than that, then you a bigger maniac, you unsocial psychopath!).
One fine day, I received a mail from some Ms. X(let's call her Ms.X as I don't remember her name and you don't need to know either). So I received this letter from this Ms. X, asking to move a huge sum of money she was about to inherit from the massacred parents. She had written that she had barely become eligible for marriage and she would inherit all the so called "huge sum of fortune" only if she got married. Her simple request was, I had to finance her flight tickets from some distant African country to my country and marry her and she would share a part of her fortune with me and go her own way.
The deal sounded so inviting. But the problem was, I was still underage to get married and I didn't have the money to buy her the tickets. Though I dearly wanted to be her knight in shining armour, I had to give up this thought for reasons mentioned above. That time, I had cursed my limited pocket money and I had cursed myself for losing a beautiful wife with truckload of money!(why beautiful? you should have read her letter, moron!)
So I gave up this idea to rescue this lady, but I was really lucky for I had another opportunity of rescuing another damsel in distress. But yet again I was left cursing my fate for the same aforementioned two reasons.
Days passed and those ladies with deep pockets slipped into oblivion, one day while talking with my friend(who of course was a bigger internet freak than me) I told him about the ladies and their stories. He laughed and said, "you a**$%&e, they all are fake, they just try to trick you to send money for the flight tickets and then... kiss your money goodbye! It is called spam!"
I became a spam wiser that day onwards and however sympathetic their mail be, they can't trick me because I don't give a rat's ass to such spams these days.
But you know what? Now a days they are trying to sell me lotteries, replica watches, viagra and some kinda of "manhood enhancing" medicines! As if I need them ;)

Finally I have a simple theme in my blog

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:17:16 PDT

From the past few months I was thinking about changing the blog's theme, and finally I found one, which is as simple as it can be.....
It has really been a truly looong time since I last posted that blog. Life hasn't been a cakewalk since then....
Changing the job, therefore changing the work domain has really bound me. Work, work and more work was what I was doing. So, obviously no blogs were possible. But now I've learned most of the tricks of the new trade, I wish to continue from here on.....
My television is calling me coz it's T20 international between Sri Lanka and India today.
So till the next blog it is goodbye!

End of might, mate???

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:17:29 PDT

Is this the end of world supremacy Australia used to have in cricket? Are they only good at "motor-mouthing"?
Looks like they are, according to this article in espn-star site. :)
I feel sooooooo happy!!!!! :)

A quick hi

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:18:04 PDT

I know, I know, I was absconding from normal blogging for last few weeks... :)
Reason for it was, the change in job.... or should I say a better paying job! ;)
And yes, I witnessed a lotta things in those past few weeks, I screwed up my Motorokr E6(frens sms me your numbers), Bangalore hosted the Gorkha Saanjh (and I was busy clicking pictures)... dashera came and went by, australians are here for the test matches, dada has announced his retirement and lot more...
And yes, m planning to buy one lappy soon, it would be a HP-Pavilion or a Dell-Studio.
So keep your fingers crossed as there'll be a lot of creativity flowing down here from my side.
Till then
CIAO
Luv
D

The Google Chrome - browser with gears

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:18:20 PDT

I have this unfulfilled desire, a desire most of the Technology Labors aspire to achieve, and yours only is not an exception. And this desire increased by leaps and bounds when I read Comics adaptation of Google Chrome - The Web Browser with gears, an epitome of how and on what they work on! And their official blog confirms it!
A common product, if you look at it first, but as I went through it, it unveiled a lot of promises(and I'm sure Google keeps it!).
I think I'm dragging this thing too much so let's break the ice, I'm talking about Chrome - the Google browser with gears!
Tabs have revolutionized and eased the way browser's UI is presented. And Chrome will revolutionize the way tabs will work.
With product as such, Google marks yet another presence in the Internet(as if they din't do anything till now! *poor me*). And the reason they have mentioned to make it open-source, competition, is what left me flabbergasted. Kudos to Google for bringing up the Chrome into the scene in an open-sourced version. May god bless IE. :)
And the best thing is, it's getting released today!

Twin treat this year, on the eve of Independence day

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:19:58 PDT

Who would have thought somebody from India would do it! Who would have thought, Tajikisthan would lose hands down!
But India shines, despite the serial bomb-blasts, despite political turmoil over nuclear deal and despite the rising inflation. Abhinav Bindra made us proud by winning us the Gold in Beijing, and so did the lads of Indian football team, by drubbing the holders Tajikisthan by a scoreline of 4 - 1. It marks the rise of another star in making; Sunil Chhetri. I ain't sure how far will he go, but what I am sure about is, India has talents, no two thoughts about it. Only if the talent search would have been a li'l more organized, a li'l more unbiased. Hope everything will fall in place, everybody will know the talent's worth.
A proud occasion for India and the Indians on the eve of this year's Independence.
Let's pray a few more medals are on the way to India.
And last but not the least;

Happy Independence Day

More photos during weekend

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:44:45 PDT

After a pretty long self-induced hiatus, I held my camera with a purpose this weekend, and the results are here for all of you to see! :)
First of them captures beautiful mood of the pups playing;

And this is the last one, near my cousins' place, there is a unused plot, where a non-functioning tractor has been standing still for almost a year now! This picture was taken in color accent(selective coloring) mode.

Hope you all liked few of my work! please pour in those comments if I could have done more justice to these pictures!

Happy Friendship's Week

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:20:10 PDT

So, this week's Happy Friendship's Day week. Everybody says so! I wish a very happy friendship's week to my all my friends, near and dear ones, long lost ones, those who are in constant touch and those who have forgotten the legend by the name 'D'. :)
And I also wish the same to all you readers, and pray to god, may you all achieve everything you wish for!
Ciao!

Maps : answer to my confusion!

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:20:35 PDT

Here's something that may amuse you all. Pretty useful for person like me, who have no sense of direction, whatsoever!
I find remembering the directions utterly uncomfortable. Unless walked for a week regularly, I don't get the idea about how, what, which and where about the place!
But thank god! here's the savior. Dunno about whose is this initiative but it has indeed made my life easier to move around the city! It gives you all the details about routes, place searches, bus routes and even live traffic. What more can I ask?

Here's how it looks like, try it to believe it.

Five Blasts rock Bangalore

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:20:49 PDT

Shit! I'm scared man! there have been 5 serial blasts in Bangalore, around the place I work! :(
The situation is like, whether to stay back at office or to go home.
Normally these people target intellectual properties, you know! Intellectual properties... like me, like my office!
Oh my god! How am I going home today? God be with me. Mommy, I want to go home....

Lighter side of the story: I'm not as scared as I've written above, I simply want to go home earlier than usual, so making myself prepared to skip rest of the day's work! :)

Still, you people around Bangalore, be cautious. That's what I can say.

Similarity....

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:21:19 PDT

One of my friends forwarded me a mail with a chain of Dilbert specials. This(in my opinion) was the best, matching my office life frame-by-frame. I felt, as if Dilbert's creator knows me! :P
On the other hand, I think I'm losing my originality! :(
Anyways, you lot enjoy the post!

Click on the image to enlarge it!

Meeting place blues

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:21:26 PDT

Hee yo people! I've come out of the hiatus, to serve you all! :)
before coming, I thought "comeback post has to be something amusing!", so here is a small work of art from my side.. done inside the conference room, I hope you all must be thinking by now that I was a mere audience. But hey! I had done my part of the briefing(to the Superior), and my creativity oozing out(as always :)), this was the after-effect:

Hope you all will appreciate it! :)
Bye for now

Beat this! :)

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:21:45 PDT

It was one of the contents of a forwarded mail. But I found it so amusing, I couldn't stop myself from posting it here(even though it was forwarded).

The title of the picture: Parenting is by example
And the headline: Children learn fast. Don't fight at home

Sticky Notes

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:55 PDT

Have your even given a thought about how much paper you waste in office? All those meetings, trivial li'l details about your work, everything that you jot down in your notebook, or a sticky note. Now think about it, how much you must have contributed in consumption of paper, and harmed the environment, you paper-scoffer!
So here's the deal, use the e-sticky note. Serves the purpose of a sticky-note, without wastage of paper! And the best part is, it comes for no extra penny, and even better part is it's not a shareware!!! :)
I recently downloaded it, and I'm using it. Here the link to download it: www.tk8.com/easynotes/
Hope you all will!

Baap of music streaming sites

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:55 PDT

Tired of searching your favorite songs online? Well, rise and shine, I've a good news for you all. We have a savior now, it's called Songza. The bad news is, you can't download it. :)
But I guess unplug will make our lives simpler. :)
Anyways, it's a good site for all the music lovers. Check it out here.

Were you involved?

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:55 PDT

A follow-up for my previous mail. Finally I laid my hands on ff3(for those morons who have no idea what ff3 is, it's firefox 3)!
A mail was waiting for me when I opened my gmail. I clicked on it, and it took me to this page
So I have the new improved version of my favorite browser! with few add-ons. There's really a dearth of add-ons for ff3, but looking at Mozilla's initiative, it wont take long when you'll be using unplug with ff3.
I left you all wanting with the last post, regarding the positives ff3 has brought.
Click here for the complete list.
Finally, the link to download it : Firefox 3
Till then, ciao!

Firefox3, set for a world record

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:55 PDT

Yes, it is true. Much awaited Firefox 3, the savior of those, haunted by Internet Explorer, is releasing tomorrow!
I had downloaded the beta, rc3 version from their ftp site, but had to downgrade soon as it didn't have the compatible add-ons. And while trying to hack the browser configs to disable compatibility check, I screwed it up bigtime. My browser wouldn't start, and kept on saying, Firefox crashed!
So only respite was to downgrade it to 2.0. And that's what I did.
Few +ves for firefox 3

less resource hungry, compared to ff2,

smooth scrolling of the tabs really fascinated me,

address bar information, ie, when you type a site address, it not only gives you the site-addresses you have visited previously, but also the details about the site(by details I meant, the site title and sub-title). It also does the pattern matching while you are typing. Pattern matching is done with site address and title, unlike ff2 or any other browser, where you only have address address completion/prediction,

And the information on favicon. Once you click on favicon, a window pops up which give you the brief info about the page, how the data transmission is taking place(encrypted or not), etc.

In short, a browser to own.
Negatives:

Very less number of compatible add-ons. I hope the developers across the world will come up with the ff3 compatible add-ons soon.

And ff management have come up with a unique idea, to set a Guinness World Record of a top downloaded software. As I found out through the articles, no such record exists till now, so they'll surely achieve this wonderful feat. And here's their page where you can subscribe, so that they can send you a mail, when ff3 becomes available for download!

So please visit DOWNLOAD DAY 2008 and subscribe yourself and help them achieve their record.

Lalu follows the pack

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:55 PDT

After the film-stars, now it's politicians who have embraced the blogosphere. Once hesitant of technology, now a blogger, that's Sri Lalu Prasad Yadav, our very own railway minister for you.
It's not me but this article in Economic Times says so.
And whatever Lalu does, he does it with elan, like his blog. His blog not only has the posts but the audios to go by. Seems whatever Lalu said was first recorded and then later given the form of a post.
People too are interested in his posts and have responded to him, and huge number of comments show it.
By now, you all must be curious where if could be. So here it is.

The accidental post

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:55 PDT

Needless to say, I'm short of thoughts these days! :)
It must be because of the lateral pressure I'm facing in my profession, or may be I'm too much into something clandestine... :)
Well, finally Euro '08 has started and after initial matches, it looks like The Neatherlands and Germany are the strong favorites. Portugal holds the edge, but my money's on former two teams. Only problem is, it's ruining my sleep, for I'm awake till 0230 Hrs most of the days, and it's visibly reflecting during my office hours. Power naps they say.. :)
I'm hitting lows these days, and somebody is backing me through and through during these hours of need, I feel so privileged and proud the the way I chose my eternal happiness.
And in between all these chaos last week, Jannat happened. :) By Jannat, I didn't mean the heaven, I mean the Emraan Hashmi starer hindi flick. It's okie. I wonder why people overlook him as an actor! May be because all his movies' songs have done well in the past, and they have so well that they have overshadowed his acting skills. By acting skills I mean they way he does all those useless, leave-your-brain-at-home-to-watch-me-act stuffs.
He acts well, no doubt, but I see something lacking, may be the aura, signature style(barring his kisses, I see no signature style in him) and the star-power. But yet, he's the god's loveliest child.
Long time ago, in one of the stand-up comedy programs, one comedian cracked a joke, here's how it went:

God created the world, and after its completion, he looked over from heaven and thought, wow! what a wonderful thing I've created, now there should be somebody to enjoy this wonder. And then he created Emraan Hashmi, and told him, 'See my child, this is what I've created, now go down there and enjoy its beauty'.

And from that day onwards he wishes he'd never taken that decision, coz Emraan is enjoying more than god himself. :)
Oh yes, we were in Jannat, isn't it? Okie, this movie is good, 2.5 out of 5. Suddenly, Taare Zameen Par's father looks sooo old in this movie. Watch it if you want to see Emraan Hashmi, doing dirty things to this new actress. :)