You'll know what crap work/stress means when you are sitting in a cubicle confined to doing EVERYTHING which is useless, knowing that doing it will no way help you in what you plan to become and being unable to shift out of it

Finally, I got the template fixed :) Comments requested. Features provided: Not sure whether all are available on other browsers. We have a policy which prevents us from installing softwares not provided with Windows. New colorsMy photoMinimize-Maximize panel, my favourite. Everybody seem to be awing

Dont worry if the template looks bad right now. I screwed up with the template and am correcting it offline. I was bored with the old template

Was reading "The Google Story", when i got this wierd idea. Consider a stripped down version of Linux, meant only for doing simple things such as browsing the internet, to read from the various drives (which is primarily meant only for storage of personal

"Deadly thing, this inner voice. That's why most folks pretend they can't hear it. Or choose to drown it out. Because listening to it may mean acting in ways which are strange and unacceptable in society." These are just some of the wordings on

As if there were not enough political parties in India, another new one has been set up. But this does seem to be different. Paritrana has been started by a group of "well educated" (Most of them IITians) indians. Had never delved into politics

I have been having these various itch since quite some time. Both about what i am doing here (where i work) and what am i meant to do. Finally, i have decided "I need a job change". I guess IT services industry was never

Just could not help linking to "Some women are like Internet Explorer...". Here a guy working for Opera has given a comparision of various browsers to women. technorati tags: women, broswers

Tried adding a comment on a friend's livejournal blog, and it gave me an option of using an OpenId. Sounded interesting and i had to go and check what it is. Yup, as the title of this post suggests, OpenId is another Single-Sign-On. Checked

Till now, i had no reason to shift to a different browser. I mean, what the hell, IE does work right? And most of the web administrators do keep in mind IE, considering the number of persons using IE. So why did i have

Firstly, no i am not dead (how surprising!!!). Was busy with work, and later was busy with how to get out from work. During the past few days, i am observing some changes. Changes over the net, changes in my attitude towards my official

Blog power, do you believe in it? Summary: Gaurav Sabnis blogs a link to an article to a magazine called JamMag.The "concerned party" in the article issues a legal (?) notice on him via email.Threats issued to Gaurav's employer.Blogs protesting this starts

Found a superb aggregator called Attensa. It's an MS Outlook attachement, and retrieves all my RSS feeds. Finally i dont need to go to blog lines any more. They referred to another site called Del.icio.us. This site is a primitive manner of

Been busy lately and so have not managed to post for quite long. But I just had to post this. This post is dedicated to all persons who dont know anything about the fight between MS and Google: Check out the links starting from:

Been observing since past few days. Is Start copying google??? Or is it the other way. But anyway i am keeping accounts in both. If you don't know what i am talking about: Check, start.com/myweb http://www.google.com/ig. http://www.

Suddenly struck me.....Are'nt single sign ons becoming popular? First it was Microsoft with their Passport. Now google suddenly seems to be moving towards it. If you dont know what i mean check their, personalized google, Search History, and Gmail. You can use the

Bloglines seemed to be showing me that there is some problem with my blog's atom feed

I was using Callback (AJAX) to retrieve a page i had developed . Lets start all over, I was using AJAX to retrieve a part of the contents of a web page. Cool, simple, it downloaded without a pain, then I innerHTMLed it to a

Think.... A web service (or maybe just a ASP page) renders and serves an XML generated based on the inputs passed to it. A web browser picks it up, uses XSLT to transform it into a lovely page. And what do you get, an

Was browsing the net, and found some old link to BOFH. Not sure as to how many used to read PCQuest some time back when it used to come, but i remember reading them, with of course re-reads and re-re,etc...i can go

Me, victimized. And i had always assumed that i have no chances of remembering that place which everyone used to call "Engg. College". Guess i am human cos i had this sudden rememberance, of college. or to be more exact, the time in college.

Remember the post "Wondering what happens inside those .NET classes?", where i mentioned about "Reflector". Well, I found some really tooo goood add-ins for them :D. (I had not known about the add-in feature). Anyway check .NET Reflector Add-Ins, or check out the Add-ins

Realization dawns...... Lots of Will power is required to shift away from Wills Power. I guess 75% of the presons who read this, will understand what i am talking about.:D

This XmlHttpRequest thingie (aka Ajax as pointed out by Rakesh), is getting INTO my blood. Can't help it, the features provided are really good. Gone are the days when we required to call form.submit(), everytime we needed to validate simple items, etc. etc.

Enough of idle minds' posts. Instead got down to the engines of coding and coded the "Top News Stories", available on the right :D, on the side bar. Initially on load of the page, i was planning to show all the current top stories,