Bon Echo Alpha 3 now availale

Bon Echo Alpha 3, the last alpha milestone of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 was released yesterday. The new features include

• anti-phishing support
• client-side session and persistent storage
• search history along with search suggestions for Google and Yahoo! searches in the SearchBar

The first beta release is expected in june. Get more info @ Bon Echo Alpha 3 Milestone Page

Quit

Not my creation... taken from a fwd...

One day I decided to quit...I quit my job, my relationship, my
Spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. "God", I said.. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me...

"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"

"Yes", I replied.

"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo." He said.

"In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I
would not quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit." He said.

"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...
But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle." He
said to me.

"Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling,
you have actually been growing roots?"

"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you."

"Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a
different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."

"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high"

"How high should I rise?" I asked.

"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return.

"As high as it can?" I questioned

"Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."

I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope these words can
help you see that God will never give up on you.

He will never give up on you!

Just Be Positive All the Time

Hope i could be this optimistic in life... hmm...

Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0

The version 7.0 of the popular editor is out. Some of the new features that have been added are:

• Spell checking support for about 50 languages
• Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
• Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
• Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
• Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
• Vim script profiling
• Improved Unicode support
• Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
• Translated manual pages support.
• Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
• Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
• Printing multi-byte text

Download Vim 7.0 @ Vim Homepage

Linux.com has explanations for some of the new features

Bon Echo Alpha 2 released today

Bon Echo Alpha 2, the second development milestone of Mozilla Firefox 2 aimed at developers and testers, is now available. Changes include inline spell checking in text boxes, automatic session restore after a crash and changes to the default tab behavior.

Get more info @ Bon Echo Alpha 2 Milestone Page

++ Bon Echo Alpha 2 review can be found here.

My Google Talk looks like this

This is my themed version of Google Talk ver 1.0.0.92. If any one wants this theme, feel free to contact me.

Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?

"Slowing down light used to be considered a neat trick for physics wonks. But researchers in New York now say they've pushed light into reverse. And as if to defy common sense, the backward-moving light travels faster than light."

Read on here

Courtesy slashdot.org