CMF Ads closing down!

Too bad!
CMF ads was established by a bunch of enthusiastic guys: BenandTurnip. After running dry with the ads, they had tried different mechanisms: fireworks ad, spike, atomic ads etc. None proved to be their nuclear option to save it.

Although I was one of the "once in the blue moon" guy there, I liked the sense of community in the forum. I also appreciated the efforts of individual help that Ben had provided to the members.

In the words of word grrls "it was good! Well run, honourable, reliable, it offered more than just a place to buy and sell ad space, CMF Ads was a micro community."

I am sure that the creative minds of CMF will come up with better ways to help blogging people.
All the good things has and ending. Be it!
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Good Luck!
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Tenth of 911 on our pale blue dot

If you are not sure why ten is ever special than any of its neighboring numbers 9 and 11, there is this movie telling the power of ten.



Looking at the voyager image taken from the edge of solar system, Carl Sagan once reflected:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Video from the Cosmos by: Carl Sagan:




Peace!

Easy Nepali Typing for Chrome &FF

This one is for chrome:

1. right click on the bookmarks bar,
2. add new page
3. on the url address, put the following code:
javascript:(t13nb=window.t13nb||function(l){var t=t13nb,d=document,o=d.body,c="createElement",a="appendChild",w="clientWidth",i=d[c]("span"),s=i.style,x=o[a](d[c]("script"));if(o){if(!t.l){t.l=x.id="t13ns";o[a](i).id="t13n";i.innerHTML="Loading Transliteration";s.cssText="z-index:99;font-size:18px;background:#FFF1A8;top:0";s.position=d.all?"absolute":"fixed";s.left=((o[w]-i[w])/2)+"px";x.src="http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/rt13n.js?l="+l}}else setTimeout(t,500)})('hi')
4. Whenever you are in the website, click on the bookmark-- it will enable the transliteration on that page.
5. Type, have fun!
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Seems it has issues... needs more experiments...

The link is:
http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_hi.html#StoreFF

Firefox plugin for Devanagarik Nepali Script

There are few options for typing in Nepali Unicode (for mac) that I am aware of
1.  First one: Use Google's compose mode with  transliteration. Most of the time, it is easy to use.

2. Then there is Firefox extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nepali-%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B2-input-extension/ (the weird characters in the link is due to the use of नपल word in the address)

It also comes with the keyboard layout.

Few experiments for ease of use:

If I wanted write:

 ठ्याक्कै  प्रसंसा
I had to press the following in the keyboard with the firefox add on (had to look into the layout) :

Q/yak/kE p/rsMsa

When typed with transliteration on in Gmail:

ठ्याक्कै प्रसंसा
could be written by just typing:
Thyaakkai prasansaa 

Semi-Conclusion:

Using the firefox addon is not so convenient... :(
tai pani aafnai ghar ko tihun mitho bhane jhai, I will give it a shot. I will try it.




Finally,
Inspired by:
http://dacharya.blogspot.com/2011/09/firefox-addon.html, I installed the Nepali Dictionary by prasansa (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nepali-dictionary/). The firefox add on helps to correct the typos.

Snake in the Dinner tonight!

Video below  shows  the battle of mongoose versus snake.


Well, Happy Teej to all.
:P