Today I noticed in my IE6 that non-existing sites and other errors are taking me to a site titled “Internet optimizer”. I looked into my installed programs and I was quite surprized to see a program called “Internet optimizer” installed. I am puzzled because I never installed this and also I never allowed any auto-install (scripts) from any sites. I uninstalled this damn thing. From then on, the IE6 started throwing up pop-up pages and new pages relavent to the sites that I am visiting. So strange. This is painful. Anyone have an idea about this?
Today “Varalakshmi Viratham” is celeberated by some of the Hindhus. On this occassion, married women pray to the God for the long life of their husband. They undergo fasting in the morning (To compensate, there would be a couple of unlimited meals with a lot of varieties in the afternoon 
Indian women are (were?) too sentimental that they should die before their husband. Long live Indian husbands!
Now the redirection of myriad-zero.net works fine.
http://myriad-zero.net is redirected to http://puggy.symonds.net/~praveen (URL Frame)
http://blog.myriad-zero.net is redirected to http://myriad-zero.blogspot.com
Also the mails to the new domain are redirected to my personal account.
Today I am encountering a strange problem with IE6. When I search for something in Google’s site, IE hangs abrubtly. I don’t know the exact reason for this. I am working out to find the same.
Today is the b’day of my 4 yrs old niece Keerthana. May God bless her and long live Keerthana.
After enough amount of googling, I admitted that today is the b’day of Linux. Shame on my side for not knowing this so far(I am using Linux since 1999). Anyway, better late than never.
Here is a brief history of Linux from Li.org.
http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php
I recieved a mail (forward) a few minutes back from Rekha, titled “Happy b’day Linux”. It also claimed that on Aug 25th 1991, the first public announcement about Linux came from Linus. Find below the mail (supposed to be) from Linus Torvalds.
Hello everybody out there using minix-
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem due to practical reasons)among other things.
I’ve currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that i’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them 
Linus Torvalds torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi
I was browsing LinuxQuestions.org and came across this quote as signature of an user. Very impressive.
If we all thought of our father’s father’s father’s father’s and so on for about 6000 fathers before us… we would all be thinking of the same person!!!
Nice to know I got family everywhere I go!
Yesterday I bought my APC UPS from RM Computers at Ritchie street. The price was INR. 2700. The UPS has 3 battery powered outlets and one surge protected outlet. I installed the UPS and booted into Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. The software given with the UPS, “PowerChute” worked fine on Windows. It gave the information about the available backup time, battery charge, power drawn from the UPS, etc. The data connection between the UPS and the computer is through USB port. Then I booted into my Debian Sarge and installed “apcupsd” and the configuration was pretty striaght forward. I edited the file “/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf” and “/etc/init.d/apcupsd” and started the daemon. It runs flawlessly. You should have “usb-hid” compiled into your kernel or you should insert this module. APC UPS; worth the money.
It is almost 24 days since I stopped smoking. There was a couple of miss in the mean time. Quitnet played a major role in this attempt. Anyone who tries to quit smoking must visit this site. These guys are doing an excellent job.