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Aftermath of an Accident
10years i’ve been riding bikes and its now that i had to fall from it. Doc-1 said that there is a hairline fracture to my right elbow, the severity of which he couldn’t gauge. Doc-2, back home, looked at the x-ray and said that he doesn’t see any fractures. But advised me to keep the cast on for the next two weeks.
Well the news got my friends giggling – they placed me with a fractured right arm, full arm cast, directly into my wedding night! So much for my friends’ support.
The only thing i like about the whole sick-n-out for two weeks is that i can have mom’s food for two weeks. Other than that its a disaster.
Why? Well to start with, i’m in Kerala and its not the rainy season. So if i sit for 5 minutes without the fan my arm starts to sweat and it starts itching. Its the most helpless i have ever been.
I have to type with one hand and during this time Google decides to send me a Wave account. 
The fact being that i havent been this idle and jobless since… i dont know. I hate being idle. But what can i do? So i spend my evenings having tea and the Indian-Donut (vada) 
P.S.
It took me 2hrs to type and format this post
Google Chrome – First Impressions
What should i comment on this browser. First thing that caught my attention was the cool technology that went into this beautiful little app. Remember the days when we used IE, then Fx came along and just tripped and toppled our whole browsing experience. Fx came up with the idea of tabs, imporved browsing experience, plugins etc. etc. You name it they had it, or rather they were ready to include that in their next realease.
I feel the same when i see Chrome or Google Chrome. Its the coolest idea that we can have for a browser at this point. A browser that doesnt crash or rather does a good crash. It never affects any of your other open sessions.
The best fact – its open source. That means that even my granny can get the source code and help Google imporve it or can come out with her own Hare-Rama-Rahe-Krishna Browser for the religious kind.
After the initial interations with other users over twitter. I found that people have some common issues, worries, concerns etc etc and not to mention a funny stuff too.
Prasanth a fellow Mutineer, found the shift to Chrome taking a toll on his mental heath, it was too mentally tiring for him.
Sivaprasad was able to download the online installer, but as he was sitting behing a proxy and had to authenticate the installer didnt finish what it had started. He was kind enough to send in the fix for the problem which he found here.
For all those who need a complete offline installer, i have uploaded the same in my site and is awailable for download at this link – Chrome Download. This was Allajunaki‘s idea
Interestingly Kiruba reported and error thrown by Chrome that read - “Google Chrome has encountered a problem and needs to close. Please tell Microsoft about it”. 
Waiting for more reactions…
(first post on/using/with Chrome)
The Googled Life
Larry and Sergey would have never thought this would happen.
Any one with the bare knowledge of the internet knows about Google. It has now more or less become a house hold name. Just like the Saans-Bahu soaps. May be i should never ever compare anything to the Saans-Bahu soaps. Its more of an insult than a credit. Now the fact is, you want some thing Google has it. It has grown over the years with innovative ideas and acquisitions. You need some thing, google it!!! It has in fact become the de facto solution to most of our searches. And searching IS googling.
The mail, integrated with a chat, integrated with a social-networking site, integrated with a photo album, integrated with a video sharing site, integrated with an online office apps…. phew! One can just be hooked on to Google for the whole day.
In fact everything that we use online, is in one way or the other “Powered by Google“.
Not to mention the kind of work environment that they have and the countless eyebrows that were raised all with the same question – “Is that an office?”. Employees in the technology sector dream to work at Google.
But what really made Google, Google. Looking from a surfer’s perspective its the experience. Its like the perfect blend of coffee to make the perfect espresso. A simple page with nothing more than to let you search. No unwanted fancy stuff. More than that its the integrated environment that hooks me up with Google. The usage of a single ID to do multiple stuffs. The hustle of remembering the user ids and passwords are gone. One login and mail, messenger, album etc. etc.
So which other site offers all these – NONE. Equally likable by both techies and normal people.
Just visit the Google Products page and there is something for everyone. We all have been pwn3d by g00g73;
“You have been GOOGLED…”