Grey Matter

Once a 94 year old great grandmother relative of mine shot a googly at me what kind of job do you do?.where should i start should i explain her the basics of computers in order to make her understand what “writing codes” mean.Or should i say some lame answer.While i was contemplating the answer for her question she asked me,”phone pudikira velaiya”(translates to “is it phone catching job”) -yes she was refering to the call center job.”I said no.appo type adikiria velaiya”(translates to “is it typing job”).I said yes(after all we type codes isnt it).But dont know whether she meant softwares or typing documents whatever it is,i was able to explain my job profile to a 94 year old granny

i tag Bala

How many of us ever know that there was something called as Gopher,veronica ,WAIS etc, that existed in early 1990s.The huge hit of WWW and its powerful and simple language HTML, put Gopher and other early Internet Technologies to the back burner.Gophers are still around–supported by a few enthusiasts and hobbyists.It exists just like an old superman living in the past legendary memories.I just cant keep away from characterizing the technologies.Think of gopher as plain village gentleman who was good enough and in came the Dude from the City(WWW )with his flashy attire(HTML) took away all the fascination of the people towards him.And the Village Heads(IE)sneakily made the village gentleman to go away.(IE actually stopped supporting Gopher from IE5 onwards.Even though they supported initially it later offered the fix disguised as a “security” fix to remove the support of gophers. We would be able to manipulate the registry and even this is not possible in IE7 as it stripped away the gopher support at the code level itself.FF still supports Gopher.you could see gopher sites in FireFox 1.5 upwards)

Gophers could be what the doctor ordered for the low bandwidth networks such as mobile networks.But since the network speeds and bandwidth are fast increasing due to the better infrastructure the return of the Gopher is a distant possiblity. gopher://gopher.quux.org/ is one of the few gophers that still exist.

Nobody can escape the chain tagging by bloggers so here am i tagged again by bala to write 5 weird things about me.

1.My memory is the weakest of any person i ever know of.Can you see the pun here?.

2.I don’t follow any etiquette

3.I have seen 13 movies in two days.(sigh i don’t get time to see any movie now)

4. I might behave snubbish at times.

5. Oh i have reached the last one.I eat large quantity of food in the slowest possible time.

i tag dinesh .(Dude 5 is not enough for you so write 10)

Firefox thats as dashing as superstar and as versatile as kamal hassan is just 5 min away from you.

Ingredients needed:

1:a good measure of patience and enthusiasm

2:a good decent internet connection

3:All the time in the world to explore the extensions.

so here we go:

• go to tools->addons in your firefox browser
• click on get more extensions link
• search for harley davidson theme and install it.
• go to recommended addons in the page
• install everything thats inevitable for you.

thats it.You have a bloated beast at your service.

Some addons you might consider other than the recommanded ones:

1:IETab you can switch between how the page will look in IE and FF

2:Tab Effect to give a flip effect when moving between tabs.

This was how my ff looked when i installed all that i required: