Vijay Basrur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Came across a lovely quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson on this post by Gotham Gal

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Test from Wordmobi

Trying out something cool. Managed to install Wordmobi on my Nokia phone. Works like a charm. Hopefully this should empower me to blog when I am mobile. Now to see if I can actually keep blogging!

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Roadside Mehndi

Roadside Mehndi

Originally uploaded by Vijay Basrur

Never seen this around. Especially kids getting it done. Seems quite popular at this street corner in Andheri West

Makeshift transportation device at polling booth

Makeshift transportation device at polling booth

Originally uploaded by Vijay Basrur

Guess this is for senior citizens. God save the ones who opt for this.

Google Chrome

So well there’s another browser that hits the road. Yawn? Not really since this time its from Google.

I downloaded Google Chrome yesterday. Considering I have been a Firefox fan for years now, I was not going to be easily satisfied. But I was. In fact I was pleasantly surprised. The fact that Google has kept Chrome at a measly 600kb file it launches in a flash and is very fast. One of the problems I have had with Firefox (and not that I am complaining) is that multiple extensions & plugin slow down Firefox, especially the launch, and it hogs up resources if you are using many of these plugins. Infact I use ScribeFire to write these blog posts.

But Chrome was blazingly fast. The tab sctructuring is neat and the layout is pretty simple. But since the browser has become the portal for your browsing experience, hardcore Firefox fans will find the plain vanilla experience (sans the plugins & extensions) very boring.

While I enjoy the speeds Chrome brings in, most of my browsing will still be on Firefox, atleast for now. But I am going to be clued on to Chrome to see how the open source community takes this ahead.

Finally a home on the web

After trying out various options, blogging on various blogging platforms I decided on setting up my own home on the Internet. And its right here.

I chose GoDaddy for the hosting service and am thoroughly impressed with WordPress for the blogging platform. In fact WordPress obviates the need to know HTML.

Also I merged both my personal & travel blogs into one blog here. After all home is where everyone comes to at the end of the day

Second Life