Like it?I know am late. But I have arrived. With Firefox. I installed it on my machine this morning and migrated all my bookmarks and cookies to the new browser.
Having used IE7 for few months now, I felt there's no new learning required to use FF. Their look-n-feel are somewhat similar. Since Firefox has a much larger contributing community, I think it has lot many user friendly customizations.
Which feature of Firefox you think scores over IE7 ?
A small explosion happened this morning. I chanced upon this word.
Info Graphics.
That's the word I must have been looking for many days to describe “presenting information in pictures”
What a perfect example here to tell you what I mean by that. Coffee Drinker's cheat sheet. I will not utter a single word now.
I have not seen the two previous two. This one is a great entertainer. The Bourne Ultimatum. Loaded with all the punch and the stunts. Start to finish. Take all my stars. Don't miss this one watching on the big screen.
And look for these wittiest lines of the movie.
Vosen: [in car, on cell phone] Perhaps we can arrange a meet.
Jason Bourne: Where are you now?
Vosen: I'm sitting in my office.
Jason Bourne: I doubt that.
Vosen: Why would you doubt that?
Jason Bourne: If you were in your office right now we'd be having this conversation face-to-face.
I pick them on my way. Some times it's a construction worker, a tailor, school going kid, security guard and so on. The road which I take to my office has no rickshaw or city buses. So there will be one or the other waiting for a lift.
What do I gain ?
- Squirrel Social service :)
- A little joy that you saved them some time and few bucks.
- Note of 'thank you'
- You can tell others that you did, like here.
PS: This pic took me a minimum of 10 drafts to get the posture of the bikers.
Look at this pic. It’s a strip from a very old book titled Banish the mysteries of Electronics. Of the several illustrations it has, I liked this one. IE = IC + IB , transistor currents relation.
I never understood this relation or atleast never reasoned it, when I was doing my graduation. To discover something which is so simple…years later is awesome. ( Click on the picture for better clarity )
You will appreciate this more, if you know that these currents a have non-linear relationship. Small base current controls large amounts of Collector current. But only till a certain point. Once the base current crosses a certain threshold, it has no effect on the flow of the collector current and we say that transistor is saturated.
Bringing out such a non-linear relationship in a picture is tricky.
Great piece of imagination.
Thanks to Levin who picked up this book for me, from Commercial Street's second hand book shop.
7 years in IT. Innumerable number of mouse clicks in a day. Countless. Single Click, Double clicks, Scroll, drag and moving around on the pad. Thumb and the first finger of my right hand are tired. It started showing up a week back. Unbearable pain with repetitive injury inside.Paapa. I needed to give them a break and show some vacation time. So I did. How ?
Left hand. It never occured to me that I have a left hand I can use. I swapped the button functions. And am training my left hand to do the job of right hand.
Shift in roles takes some time. Initially, when I was moving the mouse with the left hand fingers, my idle right hand fingers imitate and try to do the same in air. I can see them.
With a week behind me now....little practice and patience, lefties learn.
Two hands. What a wonderful built-in redundancy.
Hey try this. I connected two mouses ( mice?) to my PC. You can, because there are multiple USBs and discover that only one works any time. Try Try.
Top 10 search keywords which brought you to my blog in last 1 year
1. arvindtm.com
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4. kaviraj profile kannada
5. arvindtm
6. 1mbps = 1000 mbps
7. sarjapura blues band
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10. high heels
Thanks to Analytics
Sick off for a day, after a long gap. How did I engage myself ?
Picking a movie is lot easier now. Just check how many have you ticked in this list ?
My hands won't be that full for few days at office. I wanted to get something drawn today. A second look at calendar told me that August 15th is around and Jaago-India call is going to be splashed over the place. This one is specially made for Bangaloreans.
60 to Indian Independence 
I wanted to insert Parliament house for a paradox somewhere, but dropped it later. Human chain around the mall was a real kicker. It took me few strokes to get the baffled look on the face. I think this one is not bad. Like it ?
When somebody writes a 'what-is' and 'how-to' primers I feel much of the text goes unread when there is no illustration. I happened to read one such article in the morning. Web 2.0 primer And thought, let me add my bit to the article by sketching these cuties.
Click on the pic to see the enlarged
Basically I wanted to illustrate the following points
Information discovery – It changes how people discover information
Personal expression – It gives users a greater ability to express their personalities to others
Efficient connections – It makes meeting new like-minded people more efficient
Am I ok ?!
Am running a talk-format in office for over a month now. It's nicked as 10-20-30, invented by Guy Kawasaki. I have tweaked a bit and applied at our office. This is the email message footer which goes out for that talk-invitation.
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10-20-30
That is for 10 slides, 20 mins and 30 people.
Internal Knowledge Sharing Sessions.
It’s open to anyone who would like to share their new learning and unlearning and anything under the sun, moon and a irvana.
Why 10 ? - Research says any presentation beyond 10 slider is a “drag”.
Why 20 ? - So that you don’t look at the watch.
Why 30 ? - Capacity of the main Conference room. ( 30 size font in the original version)
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It's just three sessions old. So it's early to know if it's a hit.
Think of such a format like this. A movie trailer. You like the movie or not, but the trailer does not bore you. It has the drama, the action, the casting, but does not reveal the plot or the suspense. No story told. And it gets over in a blink.
Presentations, shorter the better. Tell what is most important. Details can wait.
Don't you think so ?
It's frustrating. I had downloaded the trial version of Microsoft's onecare, the anti-virus, when I purchased my laptop. I wanted to stick with Microsoft. So today, I thought of converting the free to paid version. But Activate clicks from the client lead me nowhere. Wasted three hours just to figure out how to make a purchase. Annoying windows live website.
I call it quits.
I am downloading a open source anti-virus. Did you know there is one. Calmwin. Dowload it here. It's completely free.
Google Pack also has Norton anti-virus, but I read that it's free for only first six months.
Which anti virus do you use ?
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