The story of the 'unfinished'

The valley of fear - ii was inspired from a character 'Birdy Edwards', in one of the Sherlock Holmes' novel titled 'The valley of fear'.The story inside the story, is of a detective from the famous Pimberton detective agency going deep under cover to break up an illegal organisation in the old, wild west of the U.S of A.
Thus I started my feeble attempt at writing, but without a plot in hand it was destined to fail from the start. Now after some three years ,as I look upon to revive the story, I still have no solid plot and I don't even know what to do with the characters; whether to place them in the pre-internet era or to give them a crime of sherlockian standards.

With the kind of reviews that are coming in, urging me to complete the story, I fear to tweak the original text to suite the new plot, for I'm sure I won't be able to keep upto the quality of the original.

Domain woes - resolved

I found this site http://everydns.com where poor chaps like me who can't afford to rent a server can find solace. Just go there and you can add your domain name and configure the so called A name, CNAME , whatever whatever. Essentially, my point is , you need not own a server to point your domain name to your blog or for that matter even for creating a subdomain.

The step by step procedure on how to go about it is given in Google itself. https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76049

P:S - my domain is http://autumn.co.in and the www is kept parked as of now and http://sarathainside.blogspot.com will automatically redirect to http://blog.autumn.co.in

The Webby Awards

link I came across this award way back in 2000 and what caught my attention was their five word limit for the winner's speech. And the eye catcher was Al Gore's five word speech -
"Please don't recount this vote"
A reference to that year's presidential race fiasco . Al Gore was given the webby lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet .Article

The Webby Awards is an international paid-entry-exclusive award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since 1996.[Wiki]

2009 awards-http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/the-webby-awards-in-more-than-five-words/

Netted - apologies , It's a good site :D

Well, seems my prejudiced mind has led you down the wrong road of prejudices once again. my post Netted? about the Netted site was wrong.

Sincere apologies to that.

Ever since that last post, The Netted has been sending me "netted" contents from all over the net to my inbox. The best part of which is , it doesn't spam your inbox.There is not more than 1 mail per day.

Eight most Essential FireFox Extensions(revisited)

Since the post in March 2007 [link], many a people have commented that as a good review of extensions.
As an add on, here are those extensions, plus two more , along with their current ratings and a downoad link, since that was a long standing demand.
For IE-6 users , its high time you see the web through Firefox and feel the difference.

• BugMeNot – Bypass compulsory web registration with www.bugmenot.com
  

[i don't use it any more.Long since i started knocking the right doors and totally ignoring the obscure ones.I don't wander around the labyrinth of websites anymore.]

• Del.icio.us – keep , share and discover all your favourite things Most well used.
  

The delicious top ten rocks... Comes up with a classic new site bookmarked by real people in every 1 or 2 hour or so.

• Flashblock – Replaces flash objects with a button you can click to view them
  

Still rocks....

• Google Toolbar FireFox-take the power of Google with you anywhere on the web!
  

I use it everyday without even giving it a thought.A word of caution:you'll be missing the google home page for a long time if you start using this :P

• IE tab

Obsolete

• Scrapbook – Helps you to save web pages and organize the collection

AS ever faithful thy serve...

• Webdeveloper – Adds a menu and a Toolbar with various webdeveloper tools

Occasionlly useful.Serious web-developing tool.

• Febe - Firefox Extensions Backup Extension

Well... How could have i come with this post with download links , but for this ever faithful fellow? FEBE now provides a complete profile backup!! Cool. The implication is that your scrapbook pages,bookmarks are all backed up . AMAZING

[FEBE interface, reduced for sake of readability]----------->