Archive for January, 2005

Fun With Clients

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Written English conversations provide for a lot of funny moments.

Firefox on Steroids

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

Well, sort of anyway. Till now I had been browsing with vanilla Firefox. Suddenly, I now have 12 extensions loaded:

Foxylicious
FoxyTunes
View Cookies
Disable Targets for Downloads
OpenNewWindowFromHere
Tabbrowser Preferences
DictionarySearch
TinyUrl Creator
Web Developer
Tweak Network
ColorZilla
Copy Plain Text

Funny part is that I was doing fine without them but now like their presence enough that I would not remove them either. At least [...]

Upgrade Time

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

I have been putting off doing some upgrades to my system here at office for some time now. I guess now is the time to go ahead and do them:

RAMI had 512Mb RAM a few weeks ago (266Mhz) but I saw that WinXP was using 500+ Mb of page file all the time and a [...]

HDD Soup

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

One of the reasons I wasn’t actively blogging was the increased workload caused by failure of my primary 120G HDD that I use as my data storehouse in my PC. One day it was working fine, and suddenly the system blue-screened and WinXP told me it had done this to protect my data. Jokes aside [...]

Return to 0.5k(b) SPAM

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

So today I return to my blog and find 512 comments. These had accumulated in the last few days of my blogabsence. All SPAM. All deleted.
Can’t help but notice the coincidence of the number. For most part, I found it amusing (though the sheer amount of clicking required to get rid of all the messages [...]