This will put any men to shame!

February 20, 2006 20062 6:55 am | In Personal | Comments Off

What can you say?

'FuriousFirefoxTabs' vs 'OMGOperaTabs'

February 18, 2006 20062 10:03 pm | In Tech | 1 Comment

Read about this in this guy's blog. Thought it would be interesting to see how Opera will fare when I open up 180 tabs over 6 windows (30 tabs in each window)

Opera:

Memory Usage: 379,284K
Laptop Specs: a 4 year old Compaq Presario 1500AP, 512MB RAM, P4 - 2GHz, WinXP

Firefox: - from here

Memory Usage: ~487,000K
Laptop Specs: Sony Vaio, 1.7Ghz, 1GB ram, WinXP

Why not try it yourself and send me a screenshot of it!

Blogspot promoting Wordpress?

February 13, 2006 20062 4:33 pm | In Personal | 2 Comments

This is weird. I've just recently updated my old blogspot blog and after saying my goodbye and all, I get this message:

Are you looking for Boringest - 74.6% needed!? It is temporarily out of service. Please try again in a few minutes. Meanwhile, discover a better blogging tool.

I've also attached a picture here in case, it really will be gone later. *Click on the pic, for a larger version.

Funny isn't it? I'm not sure if this happened because I decided to end the blogspot blog or it really is temporarily out of service.

On Beer, the Brain and Buffaloes!

February 12, 2006 20062 9:59 pm | In Funny | Comments Off

Finally an excuse for drinking too much beer. This is sometimes known as the "Buffalo Theory" of Beer…

A herd of buffalo can move only as fast as the slowest buffalo. When the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first.

This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.

In much the same way the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, we all know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.

In this way regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.

That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers, and that's why beer is so GOOD for you!

What happened in the 16th century and how it affected 2006!

February 12, 2006 20062 9:38 pm | In Personal | 2 Comments

This is going to be a history lesson which will be useful for sounding intelligent during pub crawls, boring dinners and whatnot. Here are some facts* about the 16th century:

(*Thanks to Andy's tip off, apparently it's an urban legend this one…lol)

These are the more interesting ones…

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.
Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake." England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."