I watched Trainspotting, Godfather and Godfather II over the weekend…
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
ok.. this piece is all over the net and is written by some unknown person Brenda Della Casa. There is a post where someone does claim it to be his work, but I couldn’t verify it. Anyways.. it’s amazing and anyone who is 20 something can easily identify with it… so… please read on…
It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn’t know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren’t exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared.
You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren’t so great after all.
You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can’t meet anyone decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person.
One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.
You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while wining the race would be great, right now you’d just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
OK… just saw the following image on the HT site…
…and it made me wonder… what is it that these people will not do to make money ? This person (Pramod Mahajan) has been shot 3 times and after so many days is still in critical stage, and you put up an animated GIF on your site, attracting people’s attention to come and send SMSs to Pramod Mahajan. This is not an earthquake relief…. nor is it a case where someone will be benefited out of all the SMSing.
And… what is wrong with people that go ahead and actually send these SMSs… how personal are these wishes ?
Anyways… I guess the saving grace is the fact that there is also a link to a form where people can actually write message over the Internet… something non-profit.
Update 06/01/06: Due to my screw up during synchronizing process of this blog, the images abouve have been lost. Hence a tag screwed up has been added to this post. The images showed HT’s website’s homepage which had an advertisment to SMS Pramod Mahajan well-wishes.
Written and directed by Woody Allen, this movie makes a great watch. It is set in London and tells the story of an ex-pro tennis player who falls for his friend’s fiancee.
At times, you feel that this movie is similar to Closer, but it is quite different… well… totally different… The movie starts by telling how important a factor luck is in life and thats exactly how it ends. Right till the end, you don’t know how the movie is going to end. From the movie, “I don’t care if he turns out to be great, I just hope he is lucky.”
Scarlett Johansson looks hot… I mean HOT… in this movie…
I really liked this movie and if British accent is not an issue for you, this movie is definitely worth a watch. 7.5/10.
Here’s a set of Firefox extensions, in no particular order, that I really like and use regularly. I have tried to rate them and give a small description for each extension. You can click on the names and go to Mozilla’s website to get more information on these extensions and download them. Note: Most of these extensions are meant to work for windows only.
FasterFox
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
A set of tweaks to make Firefox run faster
Adblock
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Blocks out advertisements on webpages. Very very useful. Note: This extension makes Firefox crash at times when gmail is opened
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Updates list of servers to block. It works in conjunction with Adblock
Web Developer
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
A must have for anyone into web development. A lot of features and options to make temporary changes to webpages. I have used it to check the changes by CSS and underlying structure and accessibility
Download Statusbar
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Instead of a dialog window popping open separately, now when I start a download, a bar similar to statusbar shows up at the bottom.
Sessionsaver
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Gives options to save the current open windows into a session, open closed tabs and recovers open tabs if Firefox crashes
CustomizeGoogle
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Amongst many things, adds Google Suggest to all the input boxes and gives a variety of options to remove ads and link to other search engines while searching on Google
Tab X
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Instead of a single close button at the end of tab bar, creates a close button for each tab. Some people don’t like it, but once you start using it, it makes life so much more simpler
CuteMenus - Crystal SVG
Rating: 6/10 Status: Disabled
Adds icons to all the different menu items. Mostly for visual enhancements
ReminderFox
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Great extension to create reminders and to-do list. Comes with a lot of options
Bookmarks Synchronizer 3
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Synchronize your bookmarks with a file at a remote location to keep copies of your bookmarks. I use it to synchronize my Bookmarks in Windows and Linux
Screen Grab!
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Captures an image of the document being view with various options. Saves the file in a png format. I use it to keep copies of all the transaction IDs and receipt numbers etc.
Extended Statusbar
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Gives more details such as images on the webpage, size, speed and time taken to open the webpage etc. Similar to what Opera does.
View Formatted Source
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Displays the source for the webpage with HTML tag folding. A lot of options to customize the view of the source as per your needs
Groowe Search Toolbar
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Amazing search toolbar. The best that I have ever used. A must have.
Tabbrowser Preferences
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Adds itself to the options window. Has a lot options to make the Tabbed Browsing experience just the way you like it.
FlatStyle
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Makes the Firefox menu interface similar to Office XP. It’s mainly for visual enhancement.
IE Tab
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Another great extension. It embeds IE into Firefox. If you haven’t configured Firefox to option embedded wmv files, you can use this plug-in to open them up by first viewing the page in IE.
Sage
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
A good feed reader. Opens up as a sidebar.
stumbleupon
Rating: 7/10 Status: Disabled
A good toolbar for those who have a lot of time on their hands. By the click of a button it takes you to a set of user-submitted pages based on the preferences you have set. It can get very very addictive. I have disabled it. 
Performancing
Rating: 5/10 Status: Disabled
A Blog Editor that needs a lot of improvement. But still, the whole idea of being able to blog right out Firefox.. Great… Flock is already doing it as it has a blog editor integrated into it… but I like the fact that here I have an option
Crash Recovery
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Recovers the Firefox, as in, opens all the last open tabs with their current history, when Firefox is restarted after a crash
Fission
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
A kewl extension. Shows how much of a page is loaded by converting the address-bar into a progress bar. Again… it is mainly for visual enhancement.
PDF Download
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
When you click on a link to a PDF, you get an option to view as PDF, view as HTML or download it
Disable targets for download
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Sometimes, when you click on links to download files, Firefox opens a blank page as well. This extension stops it.
ShowIP
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Shows the IP of the site you are viewing and gives options to work with it
Scrapbook
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
A kewl extension to save webpages when you are researching a subject. You just keep saving the pages. It comes with a very good text search tool
HTML Validator
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Validates HTML pages on the fly as you view them.
FLST
Rating: 6/10 Status: Disabled
Saves the order in which tabs were viewed and accordingly takes you to the last selected tab when another tab is closed. I find this very useful.
Forecastfox
Rating: 7/10 Status: Disabled
Fetches the forecast for your city. I have it disabled as I prefer to goto Yahoo! weather and get the information that I need
FoxyTunes
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Play and control many different applications through Firefox itself
SuperT
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Gives you a lot of options for enhancing Tabbed Browsing experience. I used it for opening my tabs in multiple rows, so that they don’t get too small when I have a lot of them open. Also, I have used it to replace FLST.
UI Tweaker
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Comes with a lot of options to tweak Firefox UI to just the way you want it. One of the main reasons I use it is for displaying multi row Bookmark Toolbar.
I will probably find sometime and make this into a page so that I can have it in the sidebar at all times.
This is another Oscar nominee. Movie tells the story of CBS broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow’s fight against the junior senator Joseph McCarthy because of his anti-communist movement. The movie is shot in black-and-white and uses actual footage from that time and this makes the movie very realistic. The movie is mostly about the few shows of Murrow’s show See it Now, that brought about McCarthy’s downfall. It doesn’t have any action, overflowing emotions and comes across as a true account of what happened during that time.
I really liked it and would strong recommend it. 8/10.
An Oscar nominee in several categories… this is a classic… It tells about 4 years of the life of Truman Capote… how he researched and wrote his bestseller titled In Cold Blood. Loved the movie… so I am now going to try and get my hands on the novel or it’s adapted screenplay.
A must watch…. 8/10.
I know… this is a very old movie… released in 2004…. but I watched it yesterday for the first time… It was just amazing…. any day better than Roadtrip. Just loved it. I would say it is a must watch… I was ROFLing all the time…. 8.5/10.
Sheer stupidity… mostly stuff that doesn’t make one laugh.. please avoid…. 4/10.
This is just a test post… Trying to use Performancing extension of Firefox… seems like a very kewl extension.
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