Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - L. Da Vinci

The issue of Internet Explorer browser resizing images, has been bugging me for a while. What it basically does is enlarges the images about 25% or so and thus it appears jagged and/or pixelated.

Luckily came across this post, “http://www.tutorials-win.com/IE6/Enlarges-Images/” that helped me to fix it.

Thanks heaps tutorials-win

I cannot confirm the authenticity of all these facts.

1. India is the world’s largest, oldest, continuous civilization
2. Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called “the ancient city” when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today?
3. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
4. India is the world’s largest democracy.
5. Grammar constitutes one of India’s greatest contributions to Western philology. Panini, the Sanskrit grammarian, who lived between 750 and 500 BC, was the first to compose formal grammar through his Astadhyai.
6. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
7. The World’s first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
8. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
9. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
10. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India’s wealth.
11. The art of Navigation was bornin the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit ‘Nou’.
12. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
13. The value of “pi” was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
14. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
15. India exports software to 90 countries
16. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
17. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
18. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
19. According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called ‘Sudarshana’ was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya’s time.
20. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India..
21. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
22. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
23. The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population
24. Islam is India’s and the world’s second largest religion
25. Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C.E and 52 A.D respectively.
26. The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world’s largest religious pilgrimage destination, larger than either Rome or Mecca, with an average of 30,000 visitors every day giving donations to the temple of $6 million (U.S.) daily.
27. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

Apple has released Mac OS X Leopard. And… it’s coooool. Features like

• Desktop Stacks - a much neater way of presenting files in a folder,
• Time Machine - that takes out the hassle of regularly backing up files. And for lazy ones like me, who pray every morning, that my system doesn’t crash and my hard drive doesn’t corrupt and Windows safely recovers from a serious error.
• Quick look - allows to preview files without opening them. Windows has this feature but it only gives a screenshot of the file contents. Whereas Leopard for eg. allows to preview Video files, That’s neat. I like it!!
• And of course Boot camp - that allows to run Windows on MAC. For the PC users like me, still a bit edgy to make the move, and worried about all the softwares I’ll have to re install and get new serial cracks, IFFF they are available.

So should I make the move… Yes, says my brain. But Mr. Brain, Mr. Bank Balance is in direct conflict with you and wants you to STFU. But Mr. Brain is very aggressive and says , “Go and find a rich girl friend who wants to birthday gift you a Mac Book Pro (with Leopard OS X)” !!!

Well, now that I know “The Secret”, all I gotta do is send out “I want a rich girl friend” waves, “whooosh”, “whooosh”….. Can you feel it? Now it’s out there and I just have to wait for the Universe to respond…

Psst: Mr. Universe, your time limit is 3 months, starting from today