Incognito

Recently, I installed the Google Chrome Browser for linux, and was just checking its features, where I found the incognito browsing mode. One Ctrl+Shift+N later, I saw the Incognito window popping up, with the following text on it:

You’ve gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.

Going incognito doesn’t affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:
Websites that collect or share information about you
Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit
Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys
Surveillance by secret agents
People standing behind you
Learn more about incognito browsing.

Key Points:

• Surveillance by secret agents
• People standing behind you

I’ve been laughing at this for the last 10 minutes :D

Vacation Slip

As I was thinking of what to write under “Reason for Leave” I wondered whether “Desperate need of free Internet” qualifies as a legit one.
In retrospect, maybe it does.

PS: read free as in free speech not free beer :-)

PPS: This post was made through the “free” Internet.

On perception of working internet

Since yesterday evening, internet access was shut off for some stupid reason in campus. Today afternoon, normality was restored, but some people continued to complain that internet is not accessible till like 5 minutes ago. I went on private chat with one such person and after a few lines checked my Firefox window to see 4 tabs not loading, and all of them being on google.

That is when I solved his problem and told him, Google, not internet is not working.[i suspect someone played around with our dear dns server]

Is this what internet has come to?

Random Stuff

Long time it seems since I have written anything here. Thought i’d unsettle the dust a bit. Also, with impending exams, I am pretty jobless. This post actually was started off in the summer, after a particularly unique experience at a party at my friend’s weekend house. I don’t really have anything much to say today, except for cribbing about heavy schedules brought on by being in junior year. So, I thought I’d just pen down (rather type down) a few random things going on, or random observations, or conclusions, or whatever.

1. Boston Legal is the best thing that ever came out on television.
2. Most girls in college get into relationships by junior year. (with reference to my thermo prof, I don’t mean to say wrong relationships)
3. Ambience and company regulates how much you get drunk more than the alcohol, or the rate of ingestion of it.
4. Too much electronics can’t kill you, unfortunately. Even if you wish so :P
5. I get to see my new Lenovo T400 within a month :D
6. Boxers are the best form of underwear ever invented.
7. JAM magazine is utterly ridiculous.
8. I think I have asperger’s syndrome.
9. I have never to date given the Shut Down command to my current computer. (aka deep_thought)
10. My new computer’s name is yet undecided :(
11. Funny as it may sound, I always end up chasing girls who are committed, or unavailable due to whatever reasons.
12. Dogs don’t like my alarm tone.
13. I hate using the multimeter in the continuity mode.
14. I got an A in PS-I. Surprise Surprise.
15. I like to make word counts on posts odd numbers, if possible prime.
16. I really would like to try a case someday, just to feel like a Thakar one day.
17. I took a whole of three hours to write this post (was watching Boston Legal side by side)

Its good to write something on the blog after all this time. Hopefully next post will have some intelligible content. Cheers till then.

Global Worldwide Internet Speed Test

Check this site out:

http://global.speedtest.pl

Sexy website gives the strength of your internet connection.

Here are the results of my shitty internet provider: