Atleast for us….

Where else could you have the pleasure of completing a whole paper in about 10 minutes and watch your poor mates try to complete their’s in 1 and a half hours and fail miserably? I took French, and ofcourse I know if I were to study French in France, I’ll get a boatload more of stuff, but right now, we have as much stuff to study as a STD I boy, so we’re enjoying it by teasing out the Poor Tamil and Hindi Guys who sweat out over nothing…..

The real bummer was, most of our Answer Papers were only two papers of written Sheets, while the Tamil Question Paper by itself was some 3 Papers of Printed text….:D

Inside .NET

Err, I forgot to mention that my Mid Term Exams started yesterday, so the Inside .NET Articles would be a bit delayed…..

The Indian Blogsphere has been rather abuzz for the past week about the Blogger Blackout. I’m calling it a Blackout, rather than a Ban, because that is what it is. It’s a blackout because it just lasted 6 days. And, that’s because it was accidental. The causes have been debated a lot in lota places, so I won’t be talking the same thing again and again…

Inside .NET

Anyway, putting that behind me, I’m refocusing after some sound advice from Aswin, I’m now goanna write a series of Articles entitled Inside .NET. Look for them with the prefix [Inside .NET] to the Title[Just like this post]…… Hopefully, I’ll learn something along the way as well:D

P.S. How’s the new Design?

After my previous Phisihing Site Post, I just thought I’ll post this Phishing Site I got through mail today. The beauty of that is, it escaped Google’s Filter, and was infact using a Google Adsense Ad Link as the Phish Link, which translates to an IP Address that has Paypal.com appended to it………

The cool thing being, IE7 detected it as a Phishing site

The News that Indian Government’s blocking blogs, albiet unknowingly, is all over the web. But, looks like the ban has been lifted, as I have been able to access blogspot from School. Gotta test it at home, and then, I’ll have a clear picture… A blog post comin up in a few hours time:D

Thanks, and Keep the comments coming….

I’ve been trying to get the message through: I’m switching from Firefox to IE7 Beta3. I first typed out a rather long post some 2 days back, but Blogger just swallowed that up! I didn’t even know that till Aswin pointed to me that there was no new post on my blog, even though my IM Status said “New Post”….. Opensource Conspiracy, eh?

Anyway, I tried again. Atleast, I tried to try again, but after the luxury that Performancing gave me, editing in a TEXTAREA didn’t appeal to me at all…. So, it just rusts out there in the Drafts….

As I was pondering what to do, Krishna hit me with an Idea that I’ve forgotten: The Post to Blog feature of Word ’07! After thanking him profusely for reminding me for it, I posted a test post from Word, and since everything seems OK, here I am, typing this post out in Word.

Anyway, the reason I ditched Firefox is

• 100+ MB Memory usage with just 10 tabs open, with the claim that it’s a feature, not a bug.
• Frequent Invalidation of the whole window a.k.a Whiting
• Unusable Feed Reading
• Opening lots of tabs makes them too small, and undistinguishable
• Full Screen browsing isn’t really Full Screen
• Firefox is not really “alternative” now.

And, just to bore you with one more list, I choose IE7 Beta3 finally because:

• I’ve never seen it cross 100 MB. Even with some 20 Tabs Open.
• No Invalidation problem, though this maybe because of the deep integration between Windows & IE
• Awesome Feed Reading. Seriously.
• Opening lots of tabs just doesn’t keep making them small, but “flows” them around, keeping them readable.
• Full Screen browsing rocks. They got it right this time.
• Actually, IE7 is pretty “alternative” and hip now.
• The Killer is, however, Programmatic Access to the Feeds through a clean & well designed.

Ofcourse, they’ve fixed most of the Security holes and added Tabbed Browsing & Popup blocking, without which IE7 would not have even been in consideration. I would’ve switched at IE7 Beta2 itself, but then it kept crashing too much, and I was not yet fed up of Firefox at that time, so it had to wait till Beta 3…..

Kudos to the Firefox guys. They woke the sleeping bear, and now there’s a ton of innovation around the browser market. And, I’m lucky enough to participate in Browser War v2.0 as a Mercenary. May the best browser win:P

Anyway, this means, I’ll write my posts full screen in a real word-processor. Cool……

Enjoyin.. But, maybe…. I’ve been inexplicable sad and desolate and crying for some time last week for no apparent reason. So, just leave a comment, and

Just testing how Blog Posting works from Office ’07. If this works as expected, they have got themselves a killer feature….