Tagged by Aniket Anand.

The rules: Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the next three sentences. Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.

I picked up the nearest book and  what a pity! Page 123 had only 3 sentences! (I hope people don’t mix sentence and line. I believe a sentence to begin after a full stop and end on one)

So I picked up the next to nearest book and here are the 6th, 7th and 8th lines:

“you don’t care about anything but business.“He had heard it all his life, pronounced as a verdict of  damnation.He had always known that business was regarded as some sort of secret. shameful cult, which one does not impose on innocent laymen, that people thought of it as an ugly necessity, to be performed but never mentioned, that to talk shop was an offence against higher sensibilities, that just as one washed machine grease off one’s hands before coming home, so one was supposed to wash the stain of business off one’s mind before entering a drawing room.

These sentences are from the book “Atlas shrugged” by Ayn Rand.

I tag: Neta, Akshari, phani, and sudarshan.

The McD way…..

I don’t remember what was the last time i went to Ascendaz for a quick snack or anything else.Today after the visit to tebma shipyard with randwa, i somehow convinced him for a treat in the “vanakkam to chennai” fame McDonalds.I never had a chance to try a McD earlier.

The place is good, and the prizes are lower than expected. Rs. 150/- is all what was needed to satisfy both of us. I straight away fell in love with it’s Mcveggie burger. Next time anyone going for a quick snack, ping me, i may be interested

Rejuvenation of Quintessence

I stated this blog to fill it up with anything and everything i want to share with the dimensions.Today morning i was browsing through the posts on this newly designed wordpress dashboard(thnx to wordpress for the fresh design) and i realized that a lot of posts are jsut pure technical work which don’t go with the theme of the blog.

Though technical is the way i see, but it will be nice to do some filtering of the content. So next time you come to my blog don’t be surprized if the things look a lot more organized and different, and wat better time than the muggin breaks to finish off the job .

Easter eggs…..

I found these easter eggs of softwares while browsing some sites, i tried  a few and they actually worked

 Picasa Teddy Bears

How to find it: In Picasa, press Ctrl+Shift+Y. What you get: Your photo library taken over by teddy bears! Keep hitting the key combo to add more bears. [via PC World]

 Firefox Kitchen Sink

How to find it: In Firefox 2 and higher, type about kitchensink (no colon in there, unlike about:mozilla!).

Correction: Looks like this one only works in the Firefox 3 beta. Apologies! What you get: An automatic redirect to an animated, ASCII art kitchen sink.

There are a lot more just a google search away .

Orkut Spam Controlled!!!!

Finally……

After myself and Vatsap with lot of bloggers globally threw shit on orkut spam policy, they finally solved the issue of Spam comments.They have formuated a technique to track these scraps using javascript to flood the whole friends list with shit.They have lost quite a no. of users to these spams, and a lot of tech bloggers have started wondering whether these spams were misdeeds of some nasty hacker or a well planned attack on destroying ORKUT.

Let’s leave these rantings for larry & sergey to figure out, and scale the Impact.

The impact was huge: Straight away 1050 odd scraps reduced to 961 scraps.So much junk!!!

Wonder what took them so much time to resolve this issue?

Keep wondering……. I too don’t have an answer

Back in the Arena…

Quizzse make you do random and do not do at any cost type of things.It can be whatever blah , shit etc for you, for me it’s going back to gentoo.In case you don’t know what gentoo is , the small image is enough to explain, don’t get it? CLICK the image.Still no clue, then better use the cross in red box on the right top corner of your browser window, it will save you n00bies some ‘faltu’ time.

It’s been months since last time i was on gentoo.But why do one have to leave Gentoo on the first place?depends. In my case it was overkill of time while compiling a custom gentoo build.I had to do some typical mugging etc. to get my cgpa in the all respectable range of 8.0+, and lot of design work which can only be done in windows.During the time i spent on gentoo, i developed into a big freak. At times i never used to have a clue of which slot of the day( night included ) i am working in.

I explained the problem to senior nerds/geeks of the insti namely Ch!tt0r and mOturi.Both of them had only one advice.Do not waste time in third year.Anyway i wasn’t doing anything specific in linux which can’t be done in windows.All i had was a small piece of software which was to be ported to .NET anyway.So i dumoped a custom compiled gentoo! I didn’t even create an image of the installation, as that would have compelled me again and again to have some fun.

But now this sem arrived with anything but studies.outcome of which is ‘fulltoo’ free time.I can overkill.There are some tasks also to complete, which you will come to know in the subsequent posts.

And something weird happened? After the installation i wasn’t happy with the look and feel of KDE-3.5.6. I tried lot of styles etc. put a full Kore Mod, but still i was pained.It looked sick.The reason was the crystalXP theme i was using on windows.It’s SEXY.I had to do something. Luck prevailed for once and i logged into gnome, just to check it out.I had never used gnome before.It was faster and looked more solid than KDE. But It never appealed to my eyes, until i saw some screenshots shared by a l33t and they were smooth and appealing( read SEXY).There i was; MOD max for last three days.I tried almost all the themes in gnome.Finally settled with the black theme; again thanks to Vista inspirat2.1.

That’s it!!!Keep watching the space for few more screenshots.I am trying to embed a google presentation , but wordpress doesn’t support it.

Finally i changed my header…

I had one of my GIMP fits again last evening.I was not happy with the default header image of my blog from lot of days.I thought of changing it lot of time, but no “pseud” ideas popped up.Finally yesterday i finally thought that i will just put whatever i am able to create in two hours.Gradients have always attracted me, So i just put two gradients and some text formatting.While playing with the GIMP toolset, i made some random strokes and they were looking kind of good.That was it.There i had my new header.