Florida Trip

Mol and Dumma
Originally uploaded by nitboss.

Pictures from the 2003 December 3200 mile road trip to Florida. Only the first 17 pictures, as Flickr, a good service, stops a free user from uploading more than 10 MB per month. So more to come ...

Trade Shows?!

Follow up to my previous post of ego-sexuals, was browsing some cool blogs and found Xeni, shes an editor for pretty interesting blog BoingBoing

She has a gallery of pictures taken from a trade show, a porn trade show to be precise and some of its offerings are pretty interesting. Check it out here.

I saw you lying

Is this chap lying or what?
Even if he is, its quite an interesting read.

Searching my soul, just got easier

We had a revolution on how we accessed information, searched for obscure things, phone numbers, long lost friends, pretty much everything. Google keeps on gaining ground on new domains and how to search them to make life easier and better?!

So, is there really a GBrowser project? I will be glad to see IE's market share decrease and find a closure to stupid popups and security threats. Microsofts take on this? "IE will atleast serve as a channel to provide updates to our OS", is that all? Thats pretty defeatist.

Either way, with anyone able to search books, closed captions, phone books all through one interface is revolutionary. What will Google search next, our souls? I would like to know what comes out of it :)

Sex is overrated

When you are in high school and talking to your friends about sex, you think its this magical, closest to bliss, act. There is huge thriving sex industry making several hundred billions on this very notion of this copulatory act.

There is nothing wrong with sex, it certainly is awesome, but I think it is over-rated, when compared to pure and simple mastrubation. Here are some of the reasons why

1. You dont have to find a partner, all you need is yourself and some inspiration
2. You dont have to worry about the mood, getting her/him prepared, all of this has its own rush, but one has to agree, that this is probably the only good thing you will miss with a self-satisfying act.
3. You dont have to worry about protection, the only thing you will need will probably be a napkin.
4. No worry about catching some itch, you dont need.
5. You can sleep off right after you finish, you dont have to talk to your partner, this I guess is more applicable to guys.

So, in the long run, I think its quite easy for a person, to live alone, not get into any commitments and have casual one night stands, eat, sleep, drink, enjoy.

There certainly is a category of folks, asexuals, who do not practice sex, apart the more conventional, hetero, homo and bisexuals. Is there one for people who are content with themselves and occasional others? may be ego-sexuals.

I would like my machine to make the sound of the yeti

I have been struggling recently because of a really painful adware, Bulls Eye Network. This I unfortunately downloaded when I was trying to download a codec for my Windows Media Player, little did I know, adwares can come through codecs.

You have to be really watchful of programs and their behaviors of any Microsoft product, they are soo open and vulnerable, no wonder Firefox is gaining ground.

System Mechanic from iolo, a pretty trustworthy and handy tool was of no use to remove the Bulls Eye malice.

There has been little reprive thanks to the new Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware
It worked, it scanned the registry, running processes to check for any TSRs and all my files. It took couple of tries to remove all the associated programs, but atleast it did it, pretty good for a Microsoft Beta :)

The one thing you need to watch for is the not-so-clear licensing policy that Microsoft is following. It mysteriously asks if you are a legal user of the OS, even though it is not required for one to download the program. Also the program license expires after 180 days, wonder what Microsoft has up its sleeve for this one!

Whats does the Internet know you as?

Did you ever wonder what your public IP is? What is that mysterious four octet number which is your address in the confusing matrix of zeros and ones. Its quite simple though, just goto the tracert.com and volla, you have your address.

Also, there are a lot of tools which can tell, which physical location you are, just by looking at your IP. The accuracy of which, I am sure is certainly in question, because of the convoluted ways in which the Internet functions, but I am sure, they get it right most of the time.

I felt pretty spooked when I saw an ad banner of a public forum sight. It read, "Find girls in your area", and it had my city and state on it, pretty impressive, but very spooky.

Wham Spam!!

Finally, this is something one can really use when some lame websites want your email to send a registration key. It would have been a perfect world, if it stopped there. But it doesnt, so you have
Mailinator(tm).

Also, check their FAQ page Mailinator(tm) FAQ, its pretty funny.