April 29, 2009
April 28, 2009
Delhi Daredevils will rule IPL2
Well, I have been to Goa recently for attending a workshop organized by DRDO - FICCI on "Commercialization of DRDO technologies". It was a fun trip and will write about may be in next post. But IPL comes first.
I am sure that by now people will start agreeing with me that Delhi's team is one of the strongest team in IPL right now. Well agreed that Deccan Chargers has been giving excellent performance till now and they have won 4 out of 4 matches they played. But a long season of Twenty20 is a real killer for the players and I am sure that all the star performers will start under-performing by the fag end of the series.
So you may ask whats so good in that. Well the point is that in Delhi Daredevil the star players namely Gautum Gambhir and Virender Sehwag are still to fire. Once they come in form they will blast away all the competition. I just hope that their performance will peak somewhere towards the end of the series. Well, I am not counting out other players and many match winners are in the team but lets accept the fact that Viru is sufficient enough to win the match.
Today's match with Rajasthan Royal will be a really tough match for Delhi's team. Reasons:
1. Rajasthan team has performed really poor and they will fight with all their vigor and energy to prove themselves.
2. Delhi's team will be under serious pressure to match the record of 4 wins of Deccan Charger.
3. Shane Warne can come out of an Ace out of his sleeve any time.
With all these challenges, I will not be disappointed if Delhi's team loose. Only they should not loose a match from the jaws of victory.
I hope that all things go well for Delhi Daredevil and they return India with IPL trophy. Best of luck to Viru's team.
I am sure that by now people will start agreeing with me that Delhi's team is one of the strongest team in IPL right now. Well agreed that Deccan Chargers has been giving excellent performance till now and they have won 4 out of 4 matches they played. But a long season of Twenty20 is a real killer for the players and I am sure that all the star performers will start under-performing by the fag end of the series.
So you may ask whats so good in that. Well the point is that in Delhi Daredevil the star players namely Gautum Gambhir and Virender Sehwag are still to fire. Once they come in form they will blast away all the competition. I just hope that their performance will peak somewhere towards the end of the series. Well, I am not counting out other players and many match winners are in the team but lets accept the fact that Viru is sufficient enough to win the match.
Today's match with Rajasthan Royal will be a really tough match for Delhi's team. Reasons:
1. Rajasthan team has performed really poor and they will fight with all their vigor and energy to prove themselves.
2. Delhi's team will be under serious pressure to match the record of 4 wins of Deccan Charger.
3. Shane Warne can come out of an Ace out of his sleeve any time.
With all these challenges, I will not be disappointed if Delhi's team loose. Only they should not loose a match from the jaws of victory.
I hope that all things go well for Delhi Daredevil and they return India with IPL trophy. Best of luck to Viru's team.
April 23, 2009
IPL 2 - Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super King: My view
If you have seen my orkut account then you may be aware that this year I am supporting Delhi Daredevils team to win the tournament. As I usually don't watch much of TV and my wife has a schedule for watching TV I don't get to watch the match completely. However, I got to watch the thrilling end of the match. Truly, the match could have gone anyways but today was Daredevil's day. One thing which I observed during this match as well as during the earlier matches as well is that the spinners definitely have an important role to play in this tournament. The second last over during in which Daniel Vettori bowled and completed the run-out of Goni helped to win the match. I won't call it a turning point of the match but will give its due importance. One player whose contribution may have gone unnoticed during this stellar performance of Ab deVillers and bowlers is that of David Warner. The way he fielded in the deep and took the catches made spectacular saves of boundaries really deserves appreciation.
Well more in next post..... Happy IPL 2
Technorati Tags: Cricket, IPL 2, Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super King
Well more in next post..... Happy IPL 2
Technorati Tags: Cricket, IPL 2, Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super King
April 21, 2009
Backup Search Engine Plugins in Firefox
Recently, I was planning to format and reinstall my OS. So I thought of how to backup my browser (Firefox) settings and addons. Well luckily, I had downloaded the .xpi files earlier before installing the add-ons so no problems with add-ons. How cunning and intelligent of me. Next I backed-up my bookmarks using bookmark manager. Well thats the easy one and next I got stuck. What to do to backup all the installed search engines. I tried to get my hand dirty and I found a directory containing various plugins, extensions, add-ons, bookmark backups and search engines etc. The listing was
IT may be located in a different folder in your computer so be wary. I thought of copying the profile folder as a backup but then this looks a risky way and I thought this may be the only way when I discovered an excellent plug-in for firefox. The plugin is FEBE
The detail description for FEBE is
FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).
So yet another plugin solving my problem. Well thank you users and developer community of firefox for coming up with yet another excellent plugin.
Now FEBE is installed in Firefox and ready to backup my firefox customization.Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox addons, Backup firefox
C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[????????].defaultin my computer running on Microsoft Vista.
IT may be located in a different folder in your computer so be wary. I thought of copying the profile folder as a backup but then this looks a risky way and I thought this may be the only way when I discovered an excellent plug-in for firefox. The plugin is FEBE
The detail description for FEBE is
FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).
Features:
* Schedule automatic backups on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
* Save backups in time-stamped folders to easily identify when the backups were created. Specify how many folders you wish to keep and FEBE removes the oldest.
* Backup reminder. FEBE can alert you if a backup has not been completed in a specified number of days.
* Comprehensive results report with links to the author’s extension/theme homepages.
* User-defined backups. Make backups of virtually any file or folder - Firefox related or not. Just specify what to backup and FEBE does the rest.
* Extensive built-in help files. Just click the little blue information icons in FEBE options.
* FEBE 6.0 uses native Firefox zip/unzip components. Much, much faster than previous FEBE versions that depended on external, third-party utilities.
* Upload backups to your Box.net account automatically or with a single click. (FEBE 6.0)
* Verify your extension directory. Upgrading to Fx 3.0 sometimes leaves garbage in the extensions directory. FEBE can clean it up. (FEBE 6.0)
* Quick Backup. You can quickly backup as many or as few individual extensions/themes as you like. They can be saved together in a single, installable xpi file (Similar to CLEO). (FEBE 6.0)
* … and more!
Once installed, FEBE is available from the Firefox Tools menu. An icon can be placed on the toolbar via (right-click on toolbar) > Customize...
Important: FEBE 6.0 is for Firefox 3.0 and above only. For Firefox 2.0, use FEBE 5.0.
FEBE for Thunderbird (TEBE) beta is available at http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/tebe/tebebeta.html
So yet another plugin solving my problem. Well thank you users and developer community of firefox for coming up with yet another excellent plugin.
Now FEBE is installed in Firefox and ready to backup my firefox customization.Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox addons, Backup firefox
April 13, 2009
Veegaland - An experience
Kerala is well known for its natural beauty and charm. People who come to Kerala usually use Cochin as the key spot to move around in Kerala may be Munnar or Kumarakkam or Backwaters or Fort Kochi and so on...
But a real beauty lies very near to Cochin (Just 10 kms). Its a amusement park with all the natural beauty and fun. The name is Veegaland। you may ask what so special here compared to amusement park anywhere. The speciality is the nature around it. While designing and implementing the park no compromise has been made with nature. The whole scenic beauty and lush greenery is visible from various rides, view points and games. The real memorable experience will linger your mind for days and weeks to come once you visit Veegaland.
Well why am I saying so much??? Because I just had the experience few days back. All the nice rides, cars, special shows, water park, cleaniliness of world standard, no cheating by vendors, everything is great there. Only thing which is not good is that one day is not sufficient to enjoy Veegaland. Go ahead enjoy this video and decide yourself.
But a real beauty lies very near to Cochin (Just 10 kms). Its a amusement park with all the natural beauty and fun. The name is Veegaland। you may ask what so special here compared to amusement park anywhere. The speciality is the nature around it. While designing and implementing the park no compromise has been made with nature. The whole scenic beauty and lush greenery is visible from various rides, view points and games. The real memorable experience will linger your mind for days and weeks to come once you visit Veegaland.
Well why am I saying so much??? Because I just had the experience few days back. All the nice rides, cars, special shows, water park, cleaniliness of world standard, no cheating by vendors, everything is great there. Only thing which is not good is that one day is not sufficient to enjoy Veegaland. Go ahead enjoy this video and decide yourself.
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