Lo and Behold - What a solution...

This new KB Article: 833786 points to steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive Web sites and malicious hyperlinks. One of the solutions posted in the link really cracked me up:
"The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar"

An even better solution would be to stop browsing the web all together - that way, you can never go to a malicious web page :) :D

I've reached it

And you might've too but have not realized - so here, I have it for you! Drumroll... The End of the Internet

A New Hope...

My cousin Nikita delivered a boy this evening (IST). He weighs in at 5.7 pounds and from the description I got is "pink, red, white, tiny and very cute" (sic.) Interestingly enough, she delivered on her marriage anniversary so now the kid has no excuse of forgetting his parents' anniversary I say! Such luck! Another sign that it's time for me to throw in the towel and actual commit... Yeah Riiiiight! :)

Kill Bill Vol 2 - Teaser Trailer

Here's the link: Enjoy!!! - Especially Mr D :)

So What! - Updated...

I put a little scratch in the bumper of my car while backing out of the parking lot. I was looking for obstructions in the side view mirror and didn't see the support pillar in the lot. I goofed up but should I kill myself over it? I think not! As Scott Adams says, even the smartest people on this earth can't be intelligent 24x7 and hey, I'm not even close to being the smartest on this earth - so I deserve my leeway :) I'm sorry, but this is something that money can fix so no point feeling like shit about it...

This has been a pretty relaxed week. Saw two pretty light movies too, hung out with Vijay and Anu and tidied up my act. Now I wait for my passport application to be approved and the process to begin - have I delayed too much, I guess only time will tell. Somewhere inside I still harbour the hope that I will find my old passport - wishful thinking.

Dil Chahta Hai is a fun movie especially when you are armed with a remote equipped with the FF button :) As you can imagine, we FFed through most of the serious parts in the movie (those with Mr Akshaye Khanna ruminating) and saw Saif and Aamir do their thing. I think Preity Zinta is immaculately cute (yes so I'm a fan) and it didn't help much to see Kate Bosworth today in Win A Date With Tad Hamilton. After seeing such pretty women it's hard to come back to reality and pick someone to be with. But a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do :) Ohh, now I know why I didn't see the pillar, I was thinking of Kate... :)

Update: The White Girl or Indian Girl dilemma continues...

Yahoo! News - New Worm Attacks Windows Computers

The worm infects your machine if you click on the attachment, which is an exe. Though in today's day and age, if people are naive enough to double click on an exe, maybe their computers deserve to be infected. Someone has to say it, I did. And like divine justice, my computer might be the first one to actually get infected... :)

The Sun might rise from the West

I just read this article at Network World Fusion - Sun to Windows-certify x86 hardware - and couldn't believe what I was reading. The Sun-Windows rivalry has become the stuff of lore; the one thing Microsoft hates from the cockles of it's heart is Sun (and I'm sure the feelings are reciprocated). Sun certifying it's computers to run Windows marks the opening of a new chapter in this rivalry - Sun has always claimed Microsoft Windows is an inferior operating system compared to Solaris but it's giving in to the Windows juggernaut indicates that (supposed) superiority isn't bigger than the laws of economics - you might be ostensibly superior but might not necessarily be the most successful or popular among consumers. Just to clear the air though, Windows is Number 1 today, whichever way you look at it...