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There are so many paranoids who are always in lookout for products that protect their privacy. Was tag surfing my other blog and I got a link to a special bowser which claimed to wipe out trace of surfing history. Of course the developer didnt say anything about the information stored on server logs, but many people are so much excited that they usually ignore this..
OK, suspense over. The product is christened as ‘BrowZar’ and astonishingly has got a very small download size of 264 kb, and has got two wonderful skins available - black and silver. I choose the black one. (Black Hat.. 
Wow, dosent it sound like a boon…??
Might be, but boons without banes exist only in Eutopia..Here we have got ‘baboons’ 
So, whats the catch in Browzar?
1. It isent a ‘true’ web browser. It requires the html rendering engine of MSIE, which is the default engine on most Windows systems. You cannot find a way getting rid of IE. The default browsers have got full bells and whistles that include Javascript engines, plugins, BHO’s, and what nots. However we can still create useful ‘extentions’ that enhance browsing.
This explains the reason of its small size.
2. Browzar dosent store the frequently used files on the local HDD, which means that web pages load up more slowly then conventional ones. With the slow and outdated IE engine, its more worse and bad.. I hate it..
‘Cache’?? Am I sounding too geek ??
Umm.. firefox/mozilla users, just click here to view the cache stored on the HDD.
IE users, I cannot help myself saying - ‘Dump in that bogus thing and download firefox’
3. IE isent the safest and bug free web browser we have seen. It has got a wonderful but bad history of serious remote exploits. So, whatever exploits that will be discoverd for IE will be harmful for browzar too..
4. It also deletes cookies at the end but this isent an original IE feature…Its available in firefox too..
But inspite of all things said and done, its quite a useful product that will provide you with at least some privacy if not all..Good for paranoids, bad for extra paranoid, the only reason being ‘extra paranoids have got extra enemies’
(Sorry I know its a bad joke, but I couldent think of anything better.. :)All material (C) Harshad Joshi aka ‘The Firewalrus’ ,Pune MH, India 2005-06
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Once upon a time, a car was the ultimate symbol of freedom. I was 16, it was 1995 and Candlebox’s “Far Behind” was the jam to play on 99.1HFS, windows down of course. SUV’s were huge and rare. CD changers were stored in the trunk and car phones in boxes under seats. They plugged into cigarette lighters.
I’ve completely lost track of auto fashion since then. Yours is red or green and letters like EX and LX had no meaning. Neither, for that matter, did gas prices. Of course that naivete is all over now and for the first time ever, I am aware of the cars that park in our neighborhood as individual pieces. Blues and blacks are petri dishes of pollen. Silver and white bumpers boast rainbow tattoos of overzealous parallel parkers. I can point out Priuses, and the difference between S40s and S60s.
“This will be easy” he said reading the list of amenities glued to a window, “because neither of us are really that particular.” Easy for him to say, the guy with solid savings and a car payment. For seven years I had neither, and just when I’m teased by the chance to sock away a significant amount of paycheck for emergencies or a wedding, I have to give it up again. Somehow, I’m always playing Cinderella, racing against the bank balance.
Therefore, my parameters were:
*Cheap
*Reliable
*Jim could drive comfortably
One was too small. Another had too many miles. A third did not feel safe enough — one of Jim’s parameters — for Jim. This one passed the 109-point inspection, but had an airbag light during the test drive. That one wasn’t available until July.
Then, after five dealers and two Saturdays, we found one that was just right. And in two hours, I walked out with a belly fully of pizza, a title and a lot of debt. I’m responsible enough to figure out a home equity loan, but don’t trust myself with the expensive-to-replace remote-lock key.
I claim that the car purchase was such an emotional hangup because it marked another move away from the city living that I loved. Next stop: Lawnmowerland! Truth is, I haven’t had that city life since I left New York. I can’t walk to the movies or grocery store and there nearest train is a 15 minute walk away. I’ve survived, and judging by a few of the recent posts, I’m enjoying myself. So, why? Really, this latest step scares me because for seven years I’ve worked with a fear of getting fired, but also kind of romanticizing the thought. Without car payments and a mortgage, getting fired was just an unscheduled retirement.
All this occurred to me as I walked from car to home, 30 minutes later because it doesn’t yet feel right to be the first one leave the office. Along the way, I counted how many Honda Civics are protected by The Club. The Answer: most.
Noted. Anything to prevent an unhappy ending.
Lisa recently brought the Conservapedia to my attention. This Wikipedia article describes it pretty thoroughly: It’s a wiki-based encyclopedia designed to counter the perceived liberal, anti-Christian, anti-American bias of Wikipedia. I sampled a few articles, and its own conservative, pro-Christian, anti-foreigner bias is far stronger than anything I’ve ever seen in Wikipedia. Just check out the Breaking News section of the main page for a sampling.
The Wall Street Journal article begins: The House Judiciary Committee passed a sweeping overhaul of U.S. patent laws, a move long sought by technology companies eager to streamline the process and reduce the costs of patent-infringement lawsuits.
Although there is mention of amendments made on July 18, the WSJ does not mention that the second window of post-grant review was eliminated. The WSJ quotes Congressman Berman:
“This legislation is designed to improve patent quality, deter abusive practices by patent holders, provide meaningful, low-cost alternatives to litigation for challenging the patent validity and harmonize U.S. patent law with the patent law of most other countries,” Mr. Berman said in a statement.
IPBiz observes that the first two items mentioned by Berman are “patent quality” and “abusive practices by patent holders.”
Of the text “low-cost alternatives to litigation for challenging the patent validity”, with the “second window” gone, the low-cost alternative will be available to people who identify a patent to challenge within a certain time frame after patent issuance and have money (estimated at $100,000 to 200,000) to mount the challenge. One can easily see that the small inventor or university inventor is far more likely to be the target, than the initiator, of this sort of challenge.
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The coverage by Stephen Heuser of the Boston Globe is more detailed as to the opposing players. His article begins:
Biotech and high technology, two key Massachusetts industries, are often seen as allies — innovation-driven businesses that depend on a highly educated workforce. But this week they’re on opposite sides of a fight playing out in Washington: How to overhaul the nation’s patent system.
Sadly, however, Heuser screws up what happened on the post-grant review matter. Heuser incorrectly writes:
The biotech industry appears to have prevailed, at least partly, in a significant early battle.
Yesterday the House judiciary committee completed its mark-up of the bill and eliminated the new avenue to challenge patents, according to an analysis by Hans Sauer, an intellectual-property lawyer for the Biotech Industry Organization in Washington.
Only the “second window” of post-grant review was removed in the House bill. The “first window”, which can be effectively used by challengers who BOTH monitor issued patents AND have $100K or so to spend on challenges, is still available. Smaller entities who do NOT have $100K to defend such challenges are the big losers. The current route to challenges, re-examination, imposes less cost on challenged patentees.
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See also the IPBiz post of July 18: http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2007/07/press-release-by-coalition-for-patent.html
AND
Getting the Patent Reform Wars Back on Track
AND
Post-Grant Opposition: a Bad Idea
There has been a Harvard study that shows exposure to fresh flowers increases compassion, and decreases anxiety and worry. During the darkest months of Winter, we can reach out the the southern hemisphere for cut flowers such as this gloriosa lily, or fragrant roses. It was found that people were less negative after a few days with flowers in the home, and the benefits extend to the workplace also. So receiving flowers generally makes people feel happy, beyond just the natural reaction to getting a considerate and beautiful gift. The greatest mood boosting effects were felt when the flowers were placed in the common areas of the home. People want to see them first thing in the morning. We know the mind and body register the smallest event, and it’s good to know that exposure to flowers predispose to love and compassion. Here is a message from the Dalai Lama on the benefits of cultivating such states. Personally I think they have an effect on general well being, whether or not there is a spiritual component. Reconnecting to nature itself through beauty predisposes us to a state of happiness.
Here is an article that tells more about the study.
The flowers above come from a nice British site with lovely pictures that are pretty uplifting in and of themselves, that gives many ideas for the use of flowers in decorating gifts and for seasonal accents, caring for them in the home, floral trends and ideas.
Smith and Hawken in the U.S. also offers flowers suitable for decorating gift packaging, such as small white amaryllis.
It’s almost March when means the second best time of the year (or maybe the best if baseball and football in October is not your thing) is just around the corner. Despite Florida’s loss I still think they have to be the favorites to win the Tournament, mostly because they have the exact same team which won last year. Every team Florida has played has been gunning for the Gators, much the same way every team looks forward to playing the Super Bowl Champions.
Florida has been playing much closer games than most people have realized, and were actually down by 11 to Alabama at half time last week. Billy Donovan’s team have not been playing with a great deal of fire, while Vanderbilt undoubtedly considered Saturday’s matchup their most important game all year. Not that I blame either team. The closest Vandy will come to the National Championship is beating Florida, while Donovan has to prepare his team for another month and a half of basketball.
Which leads me to my second point, I think the Gators stand a better chance of winning the National Championship if they lose in the SEC tournament. Everyone knows the Gators have the talent to win it all, it simple comes down to whether they want it enough. Getting handed a loss in their conference tourney would give the Gators that chip on their shoulder to motivate them come NCAA Tournament time. After all it worked last year.
Finally, be sure to check out my sunshine state roundball update at the Sticks, this and every Monday until the NCAA Tournament.
Oh yeah, Vandy’s coach is a dick.
(The sun goes streaking across the sky over a fast changing Potsdamer Platz, as captured by Michael Wesley over a period of two years.)
On blogs discovered recently or otherwise.
Aesthetic Grounds: on public art and public space.
art torrents points us to Christian Volckman’s Renaissance, No-Stop City by Archizoom Associati, and these Gregor Schneider catalogues.
candyland, whose installments of touring the bush we are always eagerly awaiting.
Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.
Glenn Peterson, a fellow presenter at CIL took me through some of the behind the scenes. At the moment he is working on mashup between Google Maps and Flickr which will show their branches on a map with address and contact details. He is including geotagging, so that you get a Google image of the branch, which will also show nearby geotagged images. They use Cold Fusion on their web server, which works well with Dream Weaver their HTML editor. Their database info is kept on Microsoft Access which has a nice interface, is easy to learn and to use. Glenn has also developed some Microsoft SQL databases, mostly for their most heavily used content. Their webs server is Apache – windows based, as are most of their servers, however some do use Linux. Four web servers are used – one for the public website and one each for the staff and public ILS access. The final one does their catalogue integrations and has access permissions which the web servers don’t. They also have a separate development server for the website which has the same structure as the production server. Scripts have been written for many different functions (green with envy, green with envy), including one that saves the users login card number and pin on their computer so they are automatically logged in when they visit the library website. A script is also used to gather their patron comments and attach them to the catalogue records. It also brings together comments from all the different formats and editions of the same title, ie. Audio, large print etc. They use an OCLC list which returns all ISBNs which are related to any given ISBN, which they cache so on their server, to speed up processing time. Each comments page also brings in related information from Syndetics. Glenn has also been talking to the team at Library Thing about how they could use their tagging feature and their recommended list on the HCPL catalogue.Glenn scripts in Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) to bring all this together. The script seeks out staff reviews if available before getting the Syndetics content, if not there then it seeks content from Amazon. It also links to booklists that include that title in it. They also have audio reviws to listen to (not podcasts at this stage, although they are looking to make them so), using a Flash audio player. It can also call in customer views from Amazon, recent comments and gives you the option of adding a comment. There are RSS feeds on the titles and comments. A script gathers the last 4 hours of comments and sends them in an email to a team of librarian on a rotating list, just to scan for the content and remove any inappropriate ones - this is rare.Comments have a name link which if clicked will take you to other comments left by that person - a form of reader recommends. Would like to make those commenters links into a a list of profiles with more information about the commenter, including their booklists etc, bringing a social networking/building community capacity to the space.They have bought Wii gaming consoles for the branches, testing the water with this.
Jody Wurl is the newest member of the Web Services Team and is a Teen Librarian. They have an online Teen advisory group who contributes blog entries, highlighted websites and polls to the HCPL Teen Links webpages and they have automatic RSS feeds for their teen events and new books. You can also change the colours on the teen website, I will leave it to you to find the Easter egg that uses this feature in a cute way on the site.Teen Links has two sets of subject guides - Teen Topics (teen issues) and Do your Homework. At the moment, Jody does all the links but she is looking to get the same model as is used on Book Space, with multiple contributors working. There is strong interest in readers advising at Hennepin, so they have good teen reading lists.
The At Your Library part of their site needs work, so Jody hopes to get the soon to be developed teen advisory groups in the branches to possibly contribute a webpage and blog posts for each branch. Each library has its own webpage with community links, friends news, library events fed in from the calendar, library news - which can be submitted. Some information is hard coded - ie. hours, the photo, special services etc.
Ann Melrose, former children’s librarian and Web Services team member took me upstairs where we both were taken on a tour of Ridgedale Library, one of Hennepin’s regional libraries. Check out the Flickr photos. They are in a building, which also houses a county service center, as do their other 2 regional libraries. They have renewable floor signage, lots of study rooms and wifi throughout the building. Self-serve holds are huge. 116 public PCs, 14 catalogue only, only ever all booked out on a Monday night or weekend.
The amazing thing was their automated materials handling system. Anything returned to a chute, whether outside or at the desk, is conveyor belted up to the second floor, where this amazing locally made (Minnesota that is), shift, sorts, returns and delivers the stock to trolleys, either ready for shelving or to go to one of the other branches or holds, as appropriate. At least one staff member monitors the system, at peak time there are too. Check out the Flickr photos. In another HCPL branch, the conveyor runs under the floor at one stage, so you can watch the stock move along - the kids love it!
After the tour, Ann did an awesome job covering the children’s side of the web at HCPL. KidLinks is the latest iteration of their website and is coming about after extensive consultation with local Grade 5 kids. The graphic designer has created the layout, the programmers are working on creating it in the development server. They will be using Flash mouseovers and sounds. Launch date is June 4th.
Children’s book reviews area added with the same web tools as others at HCPL. In the summer they make it a competition - all reviews are added to their Access database and a randomiser draws the winners who get book prizes. Looking at having 5 x a week long summer book clubs this year, using Moodle. They must register to contribute and Ann will try to organise it so that all participants in each group gets online together at the end of the week to chat.
KidsLinks news is a monthly kids email newsletter, which has 2 book reviews, promotes events and has links to cute sites. It is created in HTML each month, but they use a script to send it out to all the subscribers in their database. Also doing a birth to six newsletter with relevant content for parents and caregivers in the same way. Looking to do RSS feeds on them.
Kids polls on the webpages changeover automatically every Sunday night. All questions are grabbed automatically from a database and Ann usually has a few in reserve. She is also able to reuse old questions after a few years. The kids love the polls.
It was an awesome day at Hennepin and I can’t thank the Web Services Team enough for their time and all they covered in such a short period. You guys are inspiring and I will be taking much from my time there, for quite a while to come. Thanks!
We came home a few weeks ago to a house full of ants. Ants were eating our food, drinking our beer, wearing our clothes. Ants do this. They invite themselves over and refuse to leave. They make pests of themselves. Also? They bite. They bite me, anyway. Billy says that’s because I’m not patient. His theory is that ants only pester impatient people as a little reminder to them to be patient.
I guess. But the only thing I’m really impatient about right now is getting these ants out of my house. They bit Wyatt, too, our 9 year old, and he’s pretty goddamn patient. He’s our Charles Wallace. He can catch any animal (”Can I keep him, Mom? I already named him–I call him Angry ’cause that’s what he is!”) and grow any plant. Right now, we have no real yard to speak of, yet he’s growing lentils, sunflowers, blackberries, dill, roses, a cactus, beets, cantaloupes, irises, basil, blueberries, aloe and a Venus fly trap.
But ants can get to anyone. They’re really annoying. When the ant bit Wyatt, he yelled, “If Nature was a guy, he’d be crazy!”. This from the kid who said, “Instinct is biological education”. I tried telling him that the ant bit him instinctively and he answered, “Yeah, I know. I hate him.”
Well, I have to say, I hate him too and I hate all his friends. I’ve gotten very good with my squirtgun full of Trader Zen (a Trader Joe’s cleaning product that contains grain alcohol or something else I might drink, so it kills them instantly). And still they send wave after wave of little soldiers onto the battlefield of the kitchen counter — why? Hardly anybody ever returns from these missions. Idiots.
Ryder, our 14 year old, says they must think it’s some sort of insect Valhalla. That no one ever bothers to come back because it’s so great there. Maybe. Idiots. At least Vikings understood that you had to die first.
And don’t tell me not to hate ants. Whenever I say I hate ants, somebody tells me not to. They usually quote T.V. — “I saw a nature special on ants once; they’re very advanced. They have war…and…slavery…”
Idiots.
By the way, I heard the completed solo album for the first time last night. Nine months in the making, like a big, fat, angry baby. Joe’s finished mastering it (again!) and it is brutal–in a good way. I gotta call everyone who worked on it and thank them. It’s a real gift to be completely happy with a record; it almost never happens. I owe them all “five bucks and a candy bar”, as Martin says.
Love,
Kristin