Maths is simple

Recently one of my friends had this status line on his yahoo messenger
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. "
A little googling and I got this Math Quotes site that told me that this comment is from John Louis von Neumann, the guy who gave the Von Neumann architecture.
This is something I can totally relate to, as I guess would most of my engineer friends. Handling a software engineering job is the easier part of life.

A birthday and 2 movies

Going by my recent posting frequency, my life should have been either too boring or too busy to blog. On the contrary, life has been eventful in a good sense since some time with lots of events happening in the last few days.

It all started with a fantastic birthday on 1st, followed by back to back movies on 2nd and the 3rd. I got the maximum no of wishes this time around, from both family and friends (also got maximum no of gifts this time ;-) ). Considering the kind of introvert guy I am, its absolutely amazing to see how much networks I have got just because of the iitian tag. This also makes me notice how networking sites like orkut would become more and more important to lives.

Watched "XXX-2" on 2nd and "Mumbai Express" on 3rd. Movies of completely different genre, Both have a common "lacking great performance by lead actor". Ice Cube in XXX-2 had no sense of dialogue delivery while Kamal Hassan, though no doubt a great actor, do not have that kind of quality when it comes to comedy. His not-so-good hindi is also a big hindrance. I would still give both movies an average rating.

Another interesting incident that happened on 2nd was the lost and found of my mobile phone. I forgot my mobile on the restaurant table only to find half an hour later that it was missing. I had no hopes of getting it back but to my surprise, I got a call another half and hour later from a guy who took it to his home. I have been on a lucky streak after a long long time and I am enjoying it to the fullest.

Gmail shows "Who's Boss"

I was surprised to see when checking my GMail account. Is this another April Fool joke. No this isn't, as it wasn't when google launched Gmail on 1st April last year providing 1 GB of email space, virtually unthinkable at that time. Today, Gmail has increased its storage to more than double.
While other email providers are still fighting over the storage, with yahoo recently announcing to increase its free email storage space to 1 GB (don't remember the link to the article :( ),Gmail has made it such a trivial thing.
Gmail adheres to its philosophy of unlimited storage and proves it yet again. No wonder I am a fan.

Update: Here's the link to Yahoo's Announcement.

"Sanjay Goel" On Google

Well, nothing much to be crazy about, but now I can tell my friends to search my name in google to get to my blog ;-).
Due to some unknown reason, google doesn't cache the individual links on this blog and sometimes even this main page is not cached.
Hence if the search results change later, I have atleast one proof ;-)

Tweaking Firefox

Just came across this link to the mozilla forum which discusses about various firefox tweaks for improving its performance.
If you find it too long and bloated to read, you are not alone, so did I. But hey, here is this really handy utility Firetune, that would do all this for you.
I just ran it and selected the "Fast Computer, Fast Connection" option for my office pc and my firefox is now noticeably faster.
I always like this line "Your favourite application just got better ;)"

Jab main chota bachcha tha

This picture was taken during my first year house day function. Besides me, gullu, singla, sandy, suchit, bansal, nirjhar, makhmoor and dasa are part of it.
I wasn't the smartest of guys at that time, but what's the big deal, neither am I now :D .
Finally I have been able to scan all the college time pictures of which I have been the sole owner till now.

Boy who topped NASA

Just can't stop laughing on this ... it certainly happens only in India ;-) ... The amazing part is that even an Italian newspaper Repubblica.it published this.
btw, this guy anil writes well :-).