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12th Dec : Picture from BBC
20Sept: Enabling Yahoo to remember password in Firefox.
Websites like Bank of America and other credit card COs disable the feature of saving password in a browser and I think there is a good reason for that. But why should yahoo or hotmail (who uses that?) disable this feature is beyond me.
So today after I nearly forgetting my yahoo password, I decided that I had to do something about this!
Googling “yahoo password in firefox” takes to a website that really didn’t offer any help.
I had to click a bookmarklet and nothing happened after that, but it did give me a clue as to what was going wrong.
Yahoo etc have autocomplete=”off”
in their forms that disables the password saving feature in Firefox.
Here is something you can do to fix this and learn more than you ever wanted.
Install the Firebug addon in firefox, this is a recommended add-on in firefox with great capabilities.
Enable the add-on. Now open the url in which you want to save the password. (eg. yahoo)
and type your login and password
Click Tools->Firebug-->Open Firebug.
On the left right next to the cockroach is button called Inspect, click it.
Then on the right hand side type autocomplete in the search bar of Firebug.
This takes you to the location in the form where the webpage is disabling password saving.
Change autocomplete=”OFF” to autocomplete=”ON” by clicking and modifying the “OFF” word.
You just changed the form! Now click submit in the open webpage and you will see the familiar “Do you want to save this password” window. Click yes and you are all set!
22nd July:Champion at Checkers That Cannot Lose to People
Recently, NyTimes had this to say about computer's feat of solving all the Checkers Moves.
I will make a bold prediction at this point, hundred years from now, the computers would be able to solve all the possible moves in the game of Chess!
15th July: A great travel site :
Just like wikipedia, its sister site http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page is a user generated web site, with great content.
26th June: Google Maps screws up yet Again!!
After getting lost in Berkeley while finding Chinky's new home, my faith in google maps wavered a little. But two days later, when I was looking for my Immigration lawyer on this address, I lost it!!
Address: 2804 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054
The google results looked immediate suspect, since I had been to the place before.
This is what GoogleMaps gives a location in the middle of no where :)
and the correct address on MapQuest
16th May: Create your Own Spark:
My Science Buddies project is generating a lot of interest, but more than that it is generating a lot of questions. So I updated the building up guide. If you have more questions ask the SB forum (they have good experts there!!) and then possibly me. Here is the file
13th May: Ethan Bortnick
Ethan is a 6year old child prodigy, who I saw in Jay Leno today. Wow, the tiny hands could barely cover the grand piano, but what he played was nearly flawless. Beethoven, Bach and his own composition. I googled him and the fist link that came up was a link that gives rates for hiring him to play at your own private function at a going rate of $400-500 per event!
11th May: The 150th anniversary of the 1857 Revolt/Mutiny.
BBC recently featured several articles on the Sepoy of 1857. But the surprise came when it also had a picture slide show. Here is a link
06thMay: Aggghhhh... Forgetting B'days.
After 8-9 years of regularly wishing Chinky his B'Day, out of which 3 involved hitting him mercilessly in the name of bumps, this year I forgot to call him on Apr 26th. Today while talking to him, he reminded me and I felt like some one had punched me in the gut. I just felt like I had betrayed a good friend. After all you only get to make only a few really good ones in your life time...
25Apr: The Age Old Complain: Folks Upstairs
I believe that some people are never meant to be together. Renter-Rentee, Employer-Employee etc. Another such pair is neighbors living in an apartment complex. People living downstairs always have a complain against the people living upstairs. Folks living upstairs are always too noisy, not matter what.
On an unrelated topic, ever since my new neighbors have moved in upstairs, I am going crazy. They seem to be constantly moving something or other. It starts as 6:30am in the morning and goes late onto the night. The floors squeaks, cracks and shakes. I am thinking to complaining to my leasing office.
23 Apr: Bobby: A must see.
The story revolves around the lives of ordinary people on the day RFK, bobby Kennedy was assassinated. The eloquent monologue by RFK on gun control, in the end, is a must listen. That is how a leader must be rather than this. (image from BBC/getty images)
22Apr: I hate Apple.
MacBook hacked in contest at security event
Aah, I had been waiting for this to happen. So much talk about Apple being safe, hack prof, yada yada. Give me a break. Who would write a code to hack a computer that barely 4% of the world uses? Frankly I find linux more user friendly than a Mac.
Then comes another product that I love to hate: The IPOD. Apple might have sold 100Million of these but what good is a mp3 player that requires a 60MB itunes just to transfer a single song? The thing does NOT have a FM radio nor a voice recorder and cost twice as much as other mp3 player with similar memory!! Am I missing something here? I gifted one to my sister in India and I had to explain to the girl, on a international call, that in order transfer songs on this player, first you have to create a play list! What ??? Why? then some how the thing hung on her (and they rant about MS blue screen of death) and since there is no power switch, the only way she could get it to work is by letting the stupid thing to discharge and die!! Any user can tell me that itunes has more updates than MS has security patches. Then you have the pesky ipod update, another 126Mb file, just to update a MP3 which doesn't do a whole lot in the first place. My suggestion: you are better off buying a Sandisk Sansa or a Samsung.
This is what I have Mobiblu
25th Feb Oscars and a Brilliant Speech:
I haven't seen the Last king of Scotland, but Forest Whitaker's acceptance speech for the best actor was one of the best Oscar speeches I have ever heard. Here is a script from www.firstshowing.net
“Thank you. Thank you. Just a second, just a second. OK. Take it. OK. I wrote something down, because I thought if it would happen that I would be a little overwhelmed and I am. So, OK.
When I was a kid, the only way that I saw movies was from the backseat of my family's car. At the drive-in. And, it wasn't my reality to think I would be acting in movies, so receiving this honor tonight tells me that it's possible. It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in South Central L.A. in Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them, and to have them happen.
Because when I first started acting, it was because of my desire to connect to everyone. To that thing inside each of us. That light that I believe exists in all of us. Because acting for me is about believing in that connection and it's a connection so strong, it's a connection so deep, that we feel it. And through our combined belief, we can create a new reality.
So I want to thank my fellow believers in The Last King of Scotland. I want to thank Peter, Jeremy, Andrea, Lisa, Charles, Kevin, James McAvoy, Kerry, Stephen, Fox, DNA, Channel Four. I want to thank the people of Uganda, who helped this film have a spirit. And finally, I want to thank my mom and my dad. I want to thank my wife Keisha, my children, my ancestors, who continue to guide my steps. And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime. Thank you.”
15th Feb: "Ringa ... Fall Down"
While standing in the queue at Costco, I see two 4,5year old siblings, a brother and a sisters, and they were singing a nursery rhyme, oblivious of the life around them (the tired parents doing groceries, the busy cashier etc). The part they were enjoying the most was "Atishoo, Atishoo, We all fall down!", which they sung as "Ringa... a husha... a busha... falldown". And I was immediately take back 20year ago, when my sister and I used to sing the same song. She is getting engaged in ten days, how time flies...
By the way the origin of the rhyme is quite sad, check this
14th Feb: The Missing Angles
As I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR and an interview with one of the founders of The Missing Angels as playing. The Missing Angels is a support group of parents who have had a still born child and they work for various rights for such parents. At first I was a little surprised over all the hype, because the mother on the interview was making a case for having birth certificates for such births, where as the current system just provides for a death certificate for the miscarriage. Then she went about describing how some times even in late stages, the mother's umbilical cord wraps around the unborn child to literally suffocate him and leads to a still birth. "Often the mother is left grappling with the fact that she killed the unborn baby, while she would be expecting the little palm of the child to curl around her fingers, she gives birth to a lifeless blue body...."
That hit me.
13th 鬼子来了(Devil on the doorstep):
This Chinese movie directed by Wen Jiang. It is certainly one of the better movies that I have see in a long long time. It is a story of a Chinese village under Japanese occupation at the end of WWII, but more than the political element, you must see it for the human element. The end will certainly surprise you.
10th Feb : Stupid
Tag line from the TV show Maximum Exposure. Earth: The world's most dangerous planet.
9th Feb 2007: Movies:
Black Dahlia (Ok), Autumn Spring (Babí léto Czech movie) (Good, must watch), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room- It's Just Business (Good, must watch)
4th Jan 2007:Prairie Home Companion Jokes
They come once a year, but they are always worth the wait. Here is a transcript of the show
25th Jan 2007: Science Buddies. Create Your Own Spark
My project on Science buddies
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_ideas/Elec_p027.shtml
23rd Jan 2007: Costco stands behind its customer!
Exactly 2 year 2 months ago I purchased a Nike CV-10 watch + pedometer + heart rate monitor for $134.99 from Costco in Aloha Oregon. Some time 5-6months ago, the pedometer refused to communicate with the watch, so all I was left with was a watch. I had given all hopes on the watch, until a good friend told me about the Costco’s return Policy. Armed with my receipt, I show up at Costco, Sunnyvale, and lo and behold they took back the defunct watch and returned me $134.99, no questions asked. Now that is customer service!
16th Google: the New Microsoft ?
Our beloved company is going down the drain. Previously, when I searched an address in google, it showed 3links (a) maps.google.com (b) maps.yahoo.com (c) mapquest.com. As of today when I search a address, I only get a maps.google.com link and as for the quality of the map, here is a comparison. I have shown two points connected both ways. Distance by google 8.1mi. Check the distance in mapquest, 4.1mi!
maps.google A to B: 6.8Mi
maps.google B to A: 8.2Mi
mapquest A to B : 4.4Mi
15th Jan: My first video
Here is my first online video of a small bot that I recently made.
34 sec - Jan 17, 2007
Description: This is a very basic Lego Tribot. When programmed, it waits for the ball in front of it. As soon as a ball is kept within 20" of the Tribot, it opens its claws. When you give the voice command (sound sensor), it moves forward, until it senses a ball in front of it (touch sensor) . On the next voice command, it grabs the ball and reverses back. Then when it sense that it has reached the end of the course, (black line -->light sensor), it stops and drops the ball.
If you're having trouble watching the video, try copying the following URL into your browser:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4699178432965335866&pr=goog-sl
14th Jan: Check the a snapshot of the BBC World headlines!
and to think that yesterday I saw the movie "Guru", wherein they both were couples!
14th Jan 2007: Lego Mindstorm NXT
The Cover! The 4sensors and 3 Motors
The very first test program via Bluetooth. Watch the 122406_nxtmov.3gp
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