11-11-11 and a 21

Today is an interesting day since it bears an interesting date. The date is pretty palindrome-atic. 11 is the number in the spotlight. Today is the 11^th day of the 11 month of the 11^th year of the 21^st century! Wait a minute! Where did this 21 come from in the line of 11s? The date would have been more perfect when it came in the 11^th century. Guess the date is not perfectly palindrome-atic after all. *giggles* Nonetheless, it is an interesting date and we should enjoy its interestingness while it lasts.

I Live!

I was remembering of Mushoo from Mulan recently and also remembered his dialogue "I live!". As soon as i remembered this, i knew i had to post it. So here goes:

I LIVEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Yes i live and i am alive and very much present in this world. Was just absent from this blogging part of the World Wide Web. But once again thanks to all the die-hard readers who kept coming back to check up on me. Now the question is that for how long am i going to stay "alive" here before once again slipping into a "coma". *Ponders over the thought!*

Eid ul Fitr 2011

Just wanted to wish all visitors a happy Eid ul Fitr! May you all have lots of yummy "sawaiyyan" and get loads of "Eidee" too. I am wishing the same for myself as i am greedy for both food and money. *giggles*

May we all have a wonderful Eid! May we all be able to find the gratitude in our hearts for all the blessings Allah keeps bestowing upon us in abundance! Ameen.

3 Annoying Things About Firefox 6

Yesterday I finally upgraded from Firefox 3 point something point something to Firefox 6. Yes I was living under a rock for so long (Sue me!) *giggles*. But I finally decided to come out o the hiding and face the music. While I am loving the overall feel of the new version of the browser, there things are driving me bonkers!

1. In the “older” version whenever I right-clicked a link, the option “Open Link in New Window” would be at the top; and “Open Link in New Tab” would come right after it. Not in the “new” version their order is revered. So now unintentionally I am opening my links in new windows (due to the habit of selecting the second link on the pop up menu) when I actually want them to open in new tabs. That’s a pain!

2. The “older” version used to consume about 200,000K of my memory in addition to the same chunk consumed by the “plugin-container.exe”; making it a grand total of 400,000K plus of memory consumed just by a browser. And I used to feel it slowed down my PC. Now in this “new” version, both the browser the plugin-container.exe consume 100,000K each more memory; bringing my total to 600,000K. Crap! Now my PC is slower than ever!

3. The “Reload” (or refresh) button used to sit nicely on the left hand side of the address bar in the “older” version. I always preferred that location for the Reload/Refresh button. I hated it when Internet Explorer moved it to a tiny spot right after the address bar. Seems Firefox also got inspired by that and has shifted this button to the same location as in IE. Now every time I need to refresh a page, I have to look for that darn button for a couple of seconds, before I can hit it. This even more annoying than the Annoying Orange!

I know I will get used to these changes too and there will come a day when I wouldn’t even remember this dilemma. But for now I am in a fix and temporarily regretting my decision to upgrade.

Firefox people, could you send me one of the cute fox cubs you used to show on the live cams to take my pain away, please! *bats eyelashes while making an angel face*

Tale of FBISE and the Online Result Inquiry

I blogged on Islamabad Metblogs after a really really long time. Here is what i said when i finally broke my silence there:

Tale of FBISE and the Online Result Inquiry

I wish that FBISE takes some measures to improve the performance of their result inquiry web site. If they need someone to test it, i would be happy to help.

Midas Wannabe

We all grew up listening to the story of the king who had the golden touch; King Midas who would turn anything he touched to gold. Though the story had a sad part where the king turns his daughter to gold, along with all his eatables and drink-ables, but the part about the golden touch had always been really fascinating for me.

These days I am reading a lot on making money online via blogging. The more I am reading the more I am longing for that "golden touch". I am imagining myself to be just like Midas and churning money out of every piece of word I write a.k.a. turning everything to gold.

Wish I can meet a "fairy" too who can grant this wish of mine. ;-) Otherwise I will have to work my ass off to fulfill the dream. And i am way too lazy to do that. *giggles*

Who Is It?

I wonder who do i know is in (or currently visiting) Australia, Poland and New York, USA. Wanna tell? I would love and be thrilled to know! :-D

Sometimes: Music to the Rescue

Sometimes I listen to the music on full blast just to suppress an ocean of “noise” raging inside. Music does temporarily rescue me till the “next” time.

I Think: Why Are There Indexes?

Have you ever wondered why are there indexes and glossaries; tags and bookmarks; references and pointers? I think they are there so that we can go back to the good (marked) stuff again and again. These “markers” are little helpers that show us the way when we forget the path.

Flowers On Black

I have always loved flowers in all shapes, sizes and colours. I have always loved taking pictures of flowers. Looking at flower makes me just so very happy. Now i am crazy about another thing related to flowers, that is, creating images with lone flowers on black background. Like this Pansy below:

And the Calandula:

Love this single daisy on black:

And love the pair too:

I did a rose this way as well:

Now i am after several other flowers which want to "do" on black background. I have even started taking two types of pictures of flowers. One as a full composition as a scene. The other as close-ups for this black background project.

I am totally in love with this project of mine and hope you like it too. Don't forget to leave feedback in the Comments section. Have a nice day!