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Archive for March, 2006

Exam Time

My minor tests start from Sunday (ya sunday only ) . They will continue till Tuesday so i wont be able to blog during the time . It is very important that i do well in these papers as it will improve my GPA ( placement time is coming near ) . So guys , do wish me luck .

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  • Nature’s Beauty

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    I get these sorts of views from my hostel balcony when the weather is nice .It is so much fun to sit there and enjoy the cool wind . Wind that makes you feel alive. You close your eyes and let it caress your face. It takes you somewhere, but only in spirit. You feel you all the master of the universe. You think blurry unformed thoughts of hills and trees, somewhere high and clear, and you think you can smell the earth and the essence of nature itself in the unbound wind. Then you’re back, and the desire dwells up inside you to run, to climb, and explore and live.

    The photos are taken from my cell so the quality is not that clear .

    Bink and Smacker RAD video Tools

    Came across this Player while searching for a player to play “.bik” files . It is quite a good player and converter though i havent tried the converter but i tried playing .bik files and they played ok . This is a good tool for the gamers who like to keep Videos of some of there fav games which are encoded in .bik format .

    So for every gamer out there who wants to play the .bik files provided in the games , you need this .

    Download here

    I havent tried the converter yet . When i do i will keep you posted .

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  • Filed under: Tech, Media Players
  • Yahoo woes

    Yesterday when i tried to sign in to Yahoo Messenger i was unable to do so . I tried a couple of time but did not succeed . At that time i thought that there was a problem in the server or the college has blocked it again but the same thing happened for 2 hours . Then i decided to go the website and check my Yahoo mail . There i got the same error that my password was incorrect even though i hadnt changed it . I was quite shocked that how could a person hack my account , remebering at the same time a recent post by my friend qwertymaniac whose yahoo password was also hacked recently . I clicked on the lost passoword link . I was taken to a page where i had to enter my Bdate , Zip code and country . Luckily i remebered the correct info as i had entered the correct ones while making my account . But after submitting the info i got a response saying that ” For your protection your account has been temporarily disabled “ . I dont know what was the reason for it and how can Yahoo do such a thing . I sent a mail to there Customer Support but in there response they gave me links for ” Forgot password ” etc . I emailed them today again giving them full details of my account and explaining my problem . Hope i get my account back . I have been using it for 6 years now and all my contacts are in it . Have any of you guys faced such a problem ?

    P.S. to Qwerty : Are you sure your account was hacked. I mean the same could have happened with you .

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  • Filed under: Tech, Messenger
  • “-ism”

    When people (some people) say “-isms”, they mean words that specify a belief system–Marxism, Hinduism, Baha’ism. One day, for no particular reason, I looked for, and found, some -ism words that aren’t actually -isms. Here some of them are:
    anachronism
    aphorism
    criticism
    tourism
    electromagnetism

    exorcism
    metabolism
    rheumatism

    mechanism
    somnambulism
    stereoisomerism
    witticism

    Instant Messenger Forwards

    I have been getting a lot of forward messages on my yahoo messenger . Some claim that today is rose day , i love you day etc . Some say that Yahoo is going to shut down all account who dont forward this message to there buddies . Many claim that an …. person is sick and yahoo has decided to pay 10c for every forward . Some claim that on forwarding the message to everyone in your account a new list will appear in the messenger which wil show all the people even if they are in invisible mode . Some claim that if you dont forward them within a day Bad Luck will come to you .

    The latest trend in such type of forwards is the “add your name to the list ” style . You write your name in the msg and forward it to your buddies . Your buddies will add there to the list and forward it .

    The amount of messages have hugely risen in the last 1 year . Now whenever i login to messenger 6-7 such messages are waiting for me .

    Dont know what people gain from this . If anyone has some idea do enlighten me .