I was checking out the Mozilla Firefox security page and was quite surprised to see them carrying a point by point analysis of why they were 100 times better than Internet Explorer. Isn’t this a bit unethical of Mozilla Corporation…hitting out at another company (Microsoft) and naming it so that no one can mistake whom [...]
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Cyber wars: Firefox vs Internet Explorer
Posted in Writer's block, tagged Cyber wars, Firefox, Intenet Explorer, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox security page on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Gmail – change in template
Posted in Writer's block, tagged gmail, gmail format, gmail inbox on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now, why did gmail have to change its format? Today morning, I thought I’d accidently logged onto a website, when I saw the new button-type template they have got… By the way is template the right word to describe the change in format?
Doesn’t navigating your new gmail inbox make you feel like you were surfing [...]
HTML coding – blog template
Posted in Writer's block, tagged blog templates, HTML, HTML coding, images, marquee, marquee scrolls on February 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m getting to love HTML, this is my latest attempt at changing blog templates. I did this template for a friend
Unveiling, my orginial creation (complete with marquee scrolls):
SpaceGod.com
If you want the template coding I can give it…though its not fool proof from error
Anyway I really felt like clapping hands when I managed to [...]
Hacking gmail?
Posted in Writer's block, tagged computer screen, Google, Google's security policy, hack gmail, privacy issues, security issues, wiki on January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I really like some of the cute replies that Google & wiki come up with for even serious security & privacy issues.
Google’s security policy:
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and [...]
My first story (that got published, No posted)
Posted in Writer's block on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life Down The Cyber HighwayBy D.R. Chitra(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/journalismonline/post?postID=MF1hozEJNsHxDlS5MJGeQEto3DiqoiS8AYxVQa5hIngKnDA3KgGg9QMzjvFjzln4prdL5Kkiw1cGWF-7jQ)
11.30 in the night. The MP3 collections were getting downloaded at snail’s pace. Deadline for the karoke was tommorow night 9.00. Rohit yawned and kept playing a desultory game of minesweeper, occasionally checking the download process. Just a lot of junk mail and a few ads popped up, which [...]
Shopping in T.Nagar
Posted in Writer's block, tagged Shopping in T.Nagar, shopping spree, T.Nagar on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know why men who are quite capable of pushing a punctured bike 15 km across Indian roads, are incapable of shopping for more than an hour in T.Nagar.
But the mistake of taking my untried husband to T.Nagar was all mine. I should have taken my more ‘experienced’ mama and athai. But I couldn’t [...]
TOI’s arrival in Chennai
Posted in Writer's block, tagged beat, boss, Chennai, hepatitis, HR personnel, New Indian Express, press conference, recruitment drives, reporter, tennis elbow, Times of India, TOI, TOI Chennai aspirant, working journalist, writer’s block on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re a working journalist, whose ambit is Chennai, the first mission of your life should be getting a placement in the Times of India. The TOI, which has been promising to come for many years, has finally got bored with the hype of arriving and decided to get the irksome job of getting to [...]
GOOF-UPs
Posted in Writer's block, tagged Chinese, India, Olympic Games on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chinese men walk past a signboard at a pay parking lot in Beijing, where “fee” is mistakenly spelled as “pee”. The Chinese capital has began a campaign to improve its signposting in English ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games. Among signs in need of correcting were ones for “Pubic Toilets,” and “Deformed Men” — the [...]
Disabled comment moderation
Posted in Writer's block, tagged comment moderation, disable comments, wordpress on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally figured out how to disable the comments on wordpress. For me comment moderation was frustrating. I am so irregular in updating the blog that I hadn’t cleared comments sometimes for two weeks at a stretch.
And besides I feel my site is really quite harmless and I don’t see the need for moderation. And [...]
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