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nirav June 20th, 2007

Assorted recommended reading for you!

• Now with Safari on Windows, if you are a Firefox fan like me, you may want to check out how you can customize Firefox to do more like Safari!
• If you are really interested in finding out where Firefox is headed, you may want to read Ars Technica’s review of Gran Paradiso, the Firefox 3.
• If you are in or around Mumbai, you may also want to drop in to Magnet office on 14th July, since Seth Bindernagel and JT Batson from Mozilla will be here. More on that in the next few days.
• You may be a great programmer, but if you know project management, you can do much better development! SitePoint has an introductory article on project management for web geeks. If you are one, check it out.
• If you are wondering what’s happening at Google these days, the Google Labs: A look under the hood is a good summary of things that will come up big in the next few months. I agree that the 411 services will be big, though I prefer to use the Thunderbird RSS reader!
• TED has a presentation from Stefan Sagmeister on how design can make you happy. Chris Glass has done a terrific job on 16 points you can follow to make happy, and thanks to him for the replacement signs for subway graphic that appears here.

Here are the 16 points, if you follow, will make you more open, creative and happier! (found via 43 folders)

• Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
• Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
• Being not truthful works against me.
• Helping other people helps me.
• Organizing a charity group is surprisingly easy.
• Everything I do always comes back to me.
• Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
• Over time I get used to everything and start taking if for granted.
• Money does not make me happy.
• Traveling alone is helpful for a new perspective on life.
• Assuming is stifling.
• Keeping a diary supports my personal development.
• Trying to look good limits my life.
• Worrying solves nothing.
• Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
• Having guts always works out for me.

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Magnet December 23rd, 2006

* You know that we have hackfest in Office. Nirav wrote about it.

* So, what we have hacked till now? We started with introduction, ideas, quake3, Pizza, movie, free hack session. I did some r&d on festival based on festival-te for Gujarati language. Telugu team did really great to work and it can be called hacking (specially to force Unicode work with festival). I also updated gnome-orca package based on feedback of Mario Lang (Accessibility Team). Finally, moved to Ubuntu edgy (some part was remaining..) at Office  (with chrooted Dapper!) and feel not much special except Firefox 2 and new graphics.
* Arun/Vinay took interview of Nirav (and me - most of the questions were N.A. to me!) and it was good exercise.

* People are feeling sleepy as Vishal is playing K-Series songs now.. :0

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