thought.less.ness

Human beings have a seemingly fundamental tendency to compensate for lower risks in one area by taking greater risks in another.
- Canadian psychologist Gerald Wilde

No …. No .. don’t misread the title, this is a family-oriented blog [I hope so].
Since past few days I’ve been fighting [really] my a$$ out to install Ubuntu Linux [Drapper Drake 6.06 LTS]. And boy-o-boy am I glad Microsoft created Windows XP ! There is always one thing or another that just refuse to [...]

Another tag, but this time from Nidhi. So here goes my answers:
What according to you, is a blog?
A journal ! Sometimes personal and sometimes not so. Depending upon what one percieves it as.
How did you come to know about blogging?
Don’t remember, but it as a long-long ago.
How far it has changed your [...]

Such a long time since my last post !!

Behind-the-scenes, I’ve been busy customizing my machine to the fullest. And customization I’ve done. All the cool UI themes, icons & wallpapers I’ve gathered till date, have been used and the final product is there for all to see.
Though I don’t have the names of all [...]

I’m paranoid. When it comes to malware & spyware. So much paranoid that I run anti-spyware every 2nd day, irrespective of whether new updates are available or not.

Today was one of those 2nd days and the results that I saw, gave me quiet a shock !! Tracking Cookies on Firefox !! First I thought that [...]

For past 2 weeks I’ve been playing around with Firefox 2 - Beta 1 & Beta 2. Undoubtly it is a good step forward compared to 1.5.x.x in every way. Be it speed, memory useage, features, solidity [crashed just twice].
But now I’ve finally decided to take a step a back to installing Firefox 1.5.x.x, because [...]

1. Getting a new machine 3 weeks back.
2. Messing up the XP so that it stops self-pinging.
3. Broadband does not work since self-ping is not working.
4. Getting hyper-active and installed W2K.
5. Talking on phone while doing install [Not to Self: Never ever do that again. N.E.V.E.R]
6. Win2K getting installed after 3 tries.
7. Broadband connection successful, [...]