Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Spam 2.0 Collection
April 2, 2008

I am tired of the stupid messages people keep sending me incessantly :
Check out Jaxtr
Free SMS link
See me on Gazzaag
Check me out on BigAdda
Leave me alone , to my antisocial self.
Why doesn’t GMail have a new Web 2.0 spam filter in which I can set it to ignore all new stupid Web 2.0 startups? It [...]

FiredFox
February 2, 2008

Just ran across this image, couldn’t resist posting it.

(from http://www.greghughes.net/ )
When will the darn thing get better ? Right now, firefox is winning on linux solely due to lack of a better competitor. I swear to god that I would use IE7 in Windows! Hoping to see Safari on Linux soon!

Weekly Computer Maintainence Schedule?
February 2, 2008

Martin over at gHacks has a post on his “Weekly Computer Maintainence Schedule“.
He run 7 apps in series every week!!!
My computer is not there for me to maintain, it is for me to use! You know how many apps I have in my weekly maintainence schedule? Zero! Zilch!
The sad thing is , I wouldn’t have [...]

FSF India
October 23, 2007

I don’t know why or how , but today I landed up on the FSF India page.
First off, these people seem to have forgotten that GNU and FSF are too different projects. Now the different might seem trivial too most , but I don’t expect the FSF India site to be called gnu.org.in! Comeon, pay [...]

AdWords : Context based?
October 22, 2007

I was recently checking my mail in gmail and check out the sponsored link at the top of the page.
Isn’t GMail supposed to have smart adwords? Where it would decide based upon context etc. what ads should be shown?
Can’t they just see my user-agent and know that I am using firefox! Looks to me that [...]