Sarah Palin

I was following the American election in the last 3 months especially after Sarah's entry into the stage. The Sarah had fed a lot of enthusiasm in the campaign and also great entertainment by her "wordsworth". Here is the collection

* "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" - as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

* "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." - speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, October 5, 2008

* "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." - explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, September 24, 2008

* "They're in charge of the US Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." - Getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, October 21, 2008

* "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, DC. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." - Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, NC, October 16, 2008

* "Well, let's see. There's - of course - in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." - unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, October 1, 2008

* "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." - speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008

* "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" - interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co," July 31, 2008

* "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." - She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it

Here is a sample video and surely you get hundreds of entertaining humorous videos like this if you just type sarah palin in youtube. Also dont forget that she is the probable Presidential candidate for 2012 election. God please save America one more time!!!

Chrome Vs Firefox

As a linux user (Thanks to AdventNet!!!) for a past three years I'm not able to give a try for chrome and also not happy with Google's Linux importance. To pacify me, I begun to compare the feature list of chrome with firefox.

Here is my comparison

Tabbed Interface
Now its a Neanderthal feature and its essential one, without this you can't live in browser space.

Dockable Windows
Using this you can move a tab into window and vice versa. I tried this in firefox by splitting some tabs across windows but it doesnt comfort for me. Believe me!!!

The omnibox
Chrome suggest you the URLs while you type the names and its also search full text and fetch the related url from history. F3 provide this and i'm comfortable with F3 search. The one thing missed in F3 is suggestion from google. The custom keyword in F3 Bookmarks is more powerful for multi site custom search.( sample list is here)

Most visited page
when u open a blank tab in chrome it shows u most visited site as thumbnails. By default its not available in F3 but u can get this by installing a add-on

Privacy mode
this is a key feature and may capture the entire browser market for google yeah chrome doesn't leave any trace of your visited sites if u choose this mode (Parent Safe!!!). The poor F3 needs some four to five steps for this.

Pop in new tab
still can't find any alternatives for this in F3

sand boxing
chrome opens every tab in a new process and each process on its own. As a 30+ tab user i can't imagine 30+ processes in my process list time will answer this. However i love the task window concept and expect similar in F4.

Very simple Interface
I hate simple "search text box" approach in browser. I use 35+ add ons regularly in F3, some of them has short cuts in the tool bars. To the extreme i love the flock interface.

Easy download system.
come on u can find hundreds of add ons in F3 add on page.

Apart from this, the mozilla community need to answer the Webkit and V8 javascript engine questions. The close watchers of browsers doen't think firefox will adobt webkit for rendering as its the base for add ons and UI. However the F3 did a major revamping in their Gecko engine and reduced the memory consumption a lot. Hope F4 will do a magic.

For chrome It'll be quite difficult to create a developer community like the one mozilla has, Even for google.

This give me relief some what and waiting for notification from google.

"Its a democratic right"

"I don't think he had expressed such an opinion. If he had said so, then it is wrong,"

"undesirable from a communist leader"

"It is very unfortunate"

"fundamental right"

"Its a democratic right. How can it be curbed?

These are reply to the Buddhadeb opinion about the bandh by our leading political parties. The actual speech of Buddhadeb is

"Personally, I don't support bandhs. Bandhs do not help us or the country. Unfortunately, I belong to a political party. They call strikes and I keep mum. But I have decided to open up the next time,Its illegal and unethical"

The Times of India article is here.

And see the list of past bandhs in kerala here. Here only you can able to see unity among all parties. Dont forget to see the upcoming harthal schedule!!!!!

Vazha Jananayagam !!!!!!

Finally finished "Last Don"

Recently I successfully finished the reading of a novel "Last don" by Mario Puzo. The first thirty pages of the book introduce you around 50 characters(All Italian names) of a mafia family & their business people. I had tried to read the book three times before my successful attempt and in each attempt i could not get time to read the book after 25 pages. When i came back, the mafia family was changed and wives were changed dramatically among the family. This forced me to start from the prologue. Unfortunately this cycle happened thrice. At last after some muck-up i reached 100 pages and after wards i could not put down the book.

The novel narrates about a mafia family,their business and their egos. You'll get every part of the mafia life in this book and the narration makes this novel a different one. Mario describes the characters,sequence of events and how the events drive the story into its end. Even you could guess what will happen next in some part of the story but that doesn't slows the speed.

This is the book that have most number of characters(100-150!!) i have ever read in English. I got a very good entertainer for my patience.