The Good Tutorials Effect

My blog got listed on Good Tutorials and this is what the stats show -

cool aint it?

Stuff I Want!!!

Macbook Pro - 1999$ [link]
iWork - 79$ [link]
PhotoShop CS2 - 649$ [link]
iPod - 249$ [link]
Mobile Nokia 3230 Black - 250$ [link]
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Total - 3226$

I have already made 187$ but I will deinitely make more once my boards are over. It would be freelancing Frenzy!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christamas!!

Great!!!

Today was one o the best days that I have had in my life! Access 2006 was a very great success for me. I got first in Junior Programming and also I got first in Story Writing (crazy aint it?). As I got these prizes I also got the Best Performer in the Junior category. I got fourth in Group Discussion as some of my facts according to them were wrong.
As I got the Best Junior Performer, I might even be able to get a scholarship at school!!

Not only that, my tutorial got listed on Good Tutorials and thus I got 915 hits on my blog just in one day. If you want you can check it out too at the following URL - http://www.good-tutorials.com/author/Photoshop%20and%20Web%20Tutorials . So now I am really really really happy and all the things that I wanted to happen have happened and now I will be concentrating mostly on my studies!!!

Allison Jeremy Resigns

Some are suggesting that the planned acquisition of SuSE Linux AG by Novell Inc. could reignite an old battle between Novell and Microsoft. Novell owned a competing network operating system for file and print services, which lost market share to Windows in the mid-1990s. It's a blow Novell has struggled to recover from.

Certainly, what's good for Linux is bad for Microsoft, and if Provo-Utah-based Novell does a good job managing the acquisition, it will make Linux stronger because the result will be two strong enterprise Linux competitors -- Red Hat and the newly retooled Novell, experts say.

"For most IT executives in shops that are primarily dominated by Microsoft Windows, and you like Microsoft, this merger won't change anything," said Gordon Haff, a senior analyst at Illuminata, a Nashua, N.H., consulting firm. "But if you're a Microsoft shop and you are considering some Linux, this is a further indicator to you that Linux in the enterprise is very real."

The acquisition will be good for Novell, because it will help strengthen its position in the Linux market and help revitalize Novell as a company, said Steve Kleynhans, a vice president at the Meta Group, a Stamford, Conn., research company.

And Novell is saying that Nuremberg, Germany-based SuSE Linux will benefit by gaining access to Novell's wide distribution channel and entry to a great many enterprises. If Novell can combine the two companies successfully, it will make Linux stronger.

Still, experts caution that Novell has a bad track record when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. "Certainly it's a different company than back in the day of Word Perfect and Unix," Haff said.

There is a risk that Novell won't come up with a positive business formula once it pulls both companies together. "It all looks good on paper, but there is a chance [Novell] can't get a product that everyone can get excited about, and one that makes a good business model," Haff said.

CIA

I take a little diversion back to 1982. The largest non-nuclear explosion ever recorded by satellite took place in Russia in 1982, and was an explosion in the Siberian gas pipeline. The shocking, and little-known truth about this catastrophe was that it was directly caused by the CIA by deliberately giving the Soviet Union modified software (in binary only format of course) that was engineered to destroy the pipeline.

XBOX 360

Where do I stand

I am at many places right now! Well by this I dont mean that I have clones and they are roaming around everywhere, but I mean that I ave been partici[ating in a lot of places on the internet as well as in life -

Good Tutorials
At good tutorials, I am currently only a user clicking on a few goods and I might become an author there soon! So this is my user page and this is a link to my author page.

deviantArt
I am an active memeber of deviantART as well and I submit a few deviations in week. This is me page on dA.

Rent A Coder
I am a freelance Web Designer and Web Developer and I do a little bit of freelancing when I have free time. This is my ew accoutnas I deleted the last one when I thought that I needed to concentrate on my studies. Here is my resume.

Studies
I have screwed up my PrePreBoards big time, managin only like a 60%-65% which is really realy really bad. So, now I have started studying really hard. I am concentrating on Social Science, General Science and English for now as I am sure that I cant do well in Math and Sanskrit.

Life
I am still confused about why we are here. I dont understand what is the need of doing anything. I am becoming complacent. I feel that even if you do something big like make the next bext os or the most visited website, it just wont matter as in the end we all have to go inside the sun once it dies.

So this is where I stand in life and on the web.

Photoshop CS3

Guys if you are really looking forard for Photoshop CS3 Version then do check out the new interface -

Good Tutorials!

Since the day that I added my own tutorial on Good-Tutorials.com there has been no change in the homepage. Zach(owner of Good Tutorial) says that there will be one tutorial every hour. But there has not been even one tutorial since 2 days. It might be because his end sems are coming at CMU. I dont know for sure! I ust want my tutorial to be listed on Good-tutorials.com so badly!!!

Error in Blogger

I found yet another Error iin Blogger Beta. While editing your Blog's layout let us say you click on the edit button on any of the Element of the page. You make some changes and save it. Then if you want to make more chenges in it then you have to refresh the page as the "edit" link goes once you have updated and saved it. Very frustrating I must say!

iRock

Made this os Photoshop 7. Used http://www.geocities.com/psaxena_17/man.jpg . To make it. Pretty simple but cool. Will put a tutorial for this soon.

A new Venture

I have started a new venture of a blog that has Adsense(provided by Vivek) and there I will post tutorials of Photoshop. Once I have posted them, I will try to get them included in http://good-tutorials.com and then get lots of hits and get the recognition as well as the small amounts of money through Adsense!!

So check it out at - http://iPhotoShop.blogspot.com

WiiCade

There is this new website full of Flash games.This website has been made specifically for Nintendo Wii and contains games that one can play on his Wii. Even though you can play using your normal PC too, these are those games that would better be played by the Nunchuks. You can check out the website at - http://wiicade.com

DS Buttons

Waiting for the bus, on the train, sitting in cafes – we're always up for starting a friendly match.

Thing is, it's not always easy to tell if there are fellow DS gamers around.

Talk about missed connections! We know there are plenty of DS's out there tucked away in bags and purses that could be out having some fun.

DS Buttons are an invitation to play.

Grab some buttons for the DS wifi games you play and find some new gaming partners when you're out and about. At the very least, you'll have some cool buttons so you can wear your DS love on your sleeve!

Go to - http://dsbuttons.com

1% for the Planet

1% For The Planet is an alliance of businesses committed to leveraging their resources to create a healthier planet. Members recognize their responsibility to and dependence on a healthy environment and donate at least 1% of their annual sales to environmental organizations worldwide.

There is no bussiness to be done on a dead planet

iPod in Space

Hey guys! Dig this. This is a photograph of the first iPod in space look really really really closely towards the right of the anstronauts head and you will see an iPod video just floating there.


This might be the first iPod to ever reach in space.... and I dont see any Zune's around :p

Yahoo and Nintendo

The all great Yahoo and the game console makers Nintendo have collaborated in a tiny little way. You can now get Nintedno Wii accessory for your Avatar. Stuff like there game controller that is called the nunchuck and the whole Nintendo Wii Console as the background.
Also now the Yahoo Video Game homepage has full details of the new console. I dont know if Nintendo has actually paid Yahoo or not but it is totally cool

Parkour

Mongolian BBQ

The Mongolian BBQ originated centuries ago in the Far East during feasts for Genghis Khan. Soldiers would gather together and prepare cuts of meat and vegetables. Then each warrior would choose what they liked and in a way cooked there own food.

PUMA has started something similar to this. It lets you taste the art of shoemaking and pick from a generous assortment of pre-cut materials to design your own custom made shoes.

Here are a few pics of the shoe that I made -

Cool Aint it?

Burning Multiple Times to the Same CD

Generally, when you burn files to a CD once, you’re done — you can’t burn to that CD again. Unless you use this little trick: First create a new folder and give it a descriptive name (something like “burn baby burn!” Kidding). Now put the files you want to burn into that folder, then go to the Applications folder and open the Utilities folder. Double-click on Disk Utility. When it comes up, go under the File menu, under New, and choose Disk Image from Folder, and then when the Open dialog appears, find that folder with the stuff you want to burn and click the image button. A Save dialog appears in which you can leave the name as is or choose a new name (leave the other controls alone), and then click Save. In a few moments, a disk image of your folder’s contents will appear in the list on the left side of the Disk Utility dialog. Click on that icon, and then click the burn button at the top left of the Disk Utility dialog.
When you click the Burn button, a dialog will appear asking to insert a disc. Do so, and then click once the blue downward-facing triangle on the right side of this dialog to show more options. Click on the checkbox for Leave disc appendable, then click the Burn button. Your data will now be written to that CD. To add more files later, just insert that same CD and then you’ll use this same process all over again, but when you get to that final burn dialog, the button won’t say “Burn” this time, instead it will say “Append” because you’re adding these files to the same disc. By the way, don’t forget to remove the files you already burned to this disc from your “burn baby burn!” folder (and the DMG file it creates) before you make your next disc image.

Best SEO Idea

This idea was given to me by Vivek's elder brother Hex. I was asking him just like that how I can get more hits from Google. He gave me a perfect idea. He told me to blog the whole engligh dictionary. Dont worry, I am not planning to do anything like that. But I was just wondering , that why does not http://dictionary.com show up for each and every or even 70% of the search terms.
The reason for that is that the URL for say the meaning of "Apple" would include some thinglike - "?", "#" etc. This is not search engine friendly. While Wikipedia has only "-" and a normal "/"
in there URL. That is why the chances of Wikipedia popping up as a search result for a word are more than that of Dictionary.com

Desire for Salvation?

Well! I just had a very strange thought. It was that -

Anyone who desires Salvation will not get it,
and only those, who dont desire salvation, will achieve salvation...

That is because, only the one who does not desire anything will achieve salvation. And if you desire one thing and only one thing i.e. salvation then too you will not be able to get salvation as you still have some kind of desires.

Of Sprites, Lightning and Radiation

I found out today what a sprite is. It is the after effect of a lighning strike, but it is not on the earth, it actually goes upwards to the atmosphere and looks somewhat like the roots of a tree. Here is a picture -

Sprites formed by lightning

Now you know what a spite is. Everybody would know that whenever there is a nuclear reaction on the earth that is a big in magnitude it send of its radiation out in space about 4000 miles in altitude. This radiation causes the communication satellites not to function. It is something like a mini-solar-flare. There is a constant radiation layer over the earth but there is a saf area where the satillites function. But sometimes this safe area is filled with radiation and this radiation goes away after some time.

Satellite not functioning due to radiation

The rate at which this radioation is more where there is day, during summer and in the equatorial area. Anyone woul guess that the radiation goes away due to the sun's light or radiation. but that is wrong. Actually lightning also occurs moe in -

• Day time
• Summer
• Equatorial Area

So actually, when there is lightning, it forms a sprite, and this sprite sends of radio waves to altitudes of 4000 miles and this clears of the radiation and the safe area is formed again

Cool aint it!!! Lightning is not only destructive, it also it very crucial or the normal working of satellites that control our communication, entertainment and the most importantly the INTERNET.

My Favourite Deviation

Hey guys, this is my faourite deviatoin. Check it out on dA -

Cartoon

Joke

Ques : How did the forg kill himself?

Ams : He kermitted suidcide!!

Error In Blogger

There is error that I found out in Blogger. Say you open the Dashboard and then go to New Post. Then you decide that you need some sleep you go to sleep and wake upu after an hour. Write the post adn publish it.
Now the problem is, the time for that post will not be when you published it, but when you actually opened the New Post page. I think this is specific to Blogger Beta, but I am not sure.

My Skool

My Podcast is a HIT!!!

I made my Podcast for all the Need For Speed songs and it has already become a hit. I mean it is not a very big hit, but it being my first podcast ever the response that I have got is pretty great! The first song that I put in it, that is Luv Me or Hate me has got 74 plays. Cool aint it?? You check it out too.

Sony Sports : S2

Designed with an active lifestyle in mind, the 2GB1 NW-S205F is the perfect companion on your workouts. The unique, cylindrically shaped MP3 player is packed with features including a calorie counter, pedometer, stopwatch and a built-in FM tuner with programmable presets. Create playlists for your levels of exercise activity and the Music Pacer will switch playlists based on your pace--whether walking or running. The Music Pacer function can be turned on or off at any time. Finally, with the Shuffle Shake feature, easily turn on the shuffle feature simply by shaking the player three times. The NW-S205F touts a durable aluminum construction that is also water-resistant2.

Tazo!

Remember the Tazos that use to come with the Lays or Cheetos packets? I finally realized why they were named so. If I remember correctly, the first tazos to come in India were that of Looney Toones. Remember the Tasmanian Devil, al the Looney friends call him Taz. And a Tazo similar to the Tasmanian Devil, when launched goes at a very high speed and is constantly rotating. Thus from -

Tasmanian Devil > Taz > Tazos

People dont change!!

Blogger.com was made by Evan in 1998, then he sold it to Google and went on in life. After that he made ODEO.com . Now there is a striking similarity in both Blogger's and ODEO's upload section.See it for your self -



This is the image that comes when images are being uploaded to Blogger.com









This is the image that come when Audio is being uploaded to ODEO.com






There is a striking resemblance between these to images as the owner of both the websites used to be same. Cool aint it?

Counter Strike : Easy

I finally finished the Easy level of Counter Strike : Condition Zero a few days back. This is my first time ever that I have completed a "LEVEL" of any of the big games. I am used to playing small games like Mario, Donkey King, Road Rash etc. Feels great!

Homer Simpon's email ID

Well when I was watching old episodes of the Simpsons today I realized that Homer Simpson actually reveals his email ID to this Private Eye Agent. I dont know if it exsists or if I should tell you the ID but here goes. It is -

chunkylove53@aol.com

I promise I am not making this up. I actually heard him saying this ID. Try it out!

LadySovereign

Luv Me or at Me

powered by ODEO
It's officially the biggest midget in the game.
I dunno.
Make way for the S.O.V.

[Chorus]
Love me or hate me, its still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then Thank you!
If you hate me then F*** you!
[repeat]

I'm fat, I need a diet.
No, in fact i'm just too light
And i ain't got the biggest breast-s-s, but i write all the best disses.
I got hairy armpits, but i don't walk around like this.
i wear a big baggy t-shirt that hides that nasty sh**.
Ugh!

Never had my nails done.
Bite them down until they're numb.
I'm the one with the non-existent bum,
Now i dont really give a....Ugh!
I'm late for my shepherd's pie
Like a high maintenance chick missin' her diamonds.
I'm missin' my clippers size.
Now bow down to your royal highness.
No i dont own a corgi,
Had a hamster, it died cuz i ignored it.
Go on then, go on report me,
I'm English, try and deport me!

[Chorus]
Love me or hate me, its still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then Thank you!
If you hate me then F*** you!
[repeat]

I'm that funky little monkey with the tiniest ears.
i don't like drinkin fancy champy,
I'll stick wit Heineken beers.
Whoops, might burp in ya face,
A little unlady-like,
What can i say?
Well oh gosh i'm not posh, male wit odd socks.
I do what i'm doin YEAH!
So everybody's entitled to opinions,
I open my mouth and sh** i got millions.
I'm the middle kid, the riddle kid,
I'll make you giggle till your sick
Cuz my nose jiggles while i spit.
Yeah i do have some stories
And its true i want all the glory.
Go on then, come on support,
I'm English, try and deport me!

[Chorus]
Love me or hate me, its still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then Thank you!
If you hate me then F*** you!
[repeat]

So i cant dance and i really cant sing.
I can only do one thing,
And that's be Lady Sovereign!
So i cant dance and i really cant sing.
I can only do one thing,
And that's be Lady Sovereign!

Need For Speed Carbon Intro Video

Hey huys this is the Need For Speed Carbon's Inrtoduction Video. Check it out!

Need For Speed Carbon Screenshots

Just thought I would share some of the Need For Speed Carbon screenshots with you all. Here You go -

Tony Hawk and BMX!!!

You know the game Tony Hawk Underground right! Well you would also know that it is a complete skateboarding game. Now that where you are wrong!

You can also ride a BMX bike on all the Tony Hawk locations as well. Just go to the cheats section and write the follwing code there - "the_condor". Remember the underscore in between. And voila now you can also ride the BMX on THUG2!!!

Virtually Real

I think people confuse real life with games a lot. Today, when I saw Anuj(a.k.a LaLa), a senior of mine playing Need For Speed Underground in Auto transmission, I told him that he should pla in manual as it gives more control. He says to me, "Have you ever driven anythin apart from a cycle?".

Alright, so I might not have driven anything aprt from a cycle or skates but I do know a lot about Need For Speed(definitely more that LaLa). Knowing how to drive in real life and the one in NFS are two extremely differnt things. They are not interconnected whatsoever. And even if he has driven a car I am so sure it is not even close to the tuner cars that are available in the NFS series.

So sometimes, just sometimes people should realize that if they can do something in real life they would be able to do it in a computer game as well and vice-versa!

The Perfect Day

Today was the perfect day of my life. I know it sounds strange that in only 14.7 years I was able to find a perfect day but still it was. I woke up at around 7:45 AM which is niether too late nor too late. I had my favourite breakfast, I mean the one that I have been having for the past 12 years. I did some History(which I agree was a little boring). Then we had Pav Bhaji and quite amazingly I actually liked the Bhaji part too.
Then after some more of Social Science we had lunch that was Pav Bhaji again. Then some more history and after that I gave a Math Mock Exam that went pretty well that went better than my last on that was really reall really bad. After playing some small Flash Games and Internet Checkers we went to have Pizza. The Pizza was really nice and the 1000 Island Dressing was sooooo tasty. Now I am Back...going to do some more studies.

So the day was a perfect balance of Studies, Family Fun, Blogging and Food. I totally wish to have more days similar to this in my life.

Roger That!

I recenty read about the origin of the phrase "Roger That" which is vry fruquently used in Military and in Counter Strike too, so I though that I would share it with everyone. When people were using the Morse Code, to say "Yes" or "Ok" they would sen "dit-dah-dit"or "._.". This is also R in morse code. And according to the "Alpha Bravo Charlie" code R is Roger. Thus its voice equivalent became "Roger!" or "Roger That!".

Universe Revolved

Uivers Revolved is a three dimensional alphabet. It invites the readers to play with their imaginative mind and thinkbeyond the conventions of their familiar reading method. It is pretty cool you can check it out at UniversRevolved.com. You can download the font for your PC from the Download Section. Like the above picture looks like a lamp and the word "LAMP" is also written in the picture using this font. Cool eh?

Happy B'day Appu

Today is the Birthday of Delhi's best amusements park's mascot's birthday. It's name is Appu and it is a big pink elephant. For celebrting its 22nd B'day today the tickets to the Amusement Park were reduced. This park would be decommsioned soon cause they building a new park under the same name and mascot with much better rides and a better location too.

My Room is Back

Finally after around 2 months I recovered the operating sytem of the computer that was lying in the study room. Now, I can swith on the computer even late at night and will also be able to get new songs as the other PC does not have any bit torrents. Even though this computer not even half as good as the other one, but I still love it cause I have learned everything that I know about computers on this computer. Its good to be back!

Yahoo to Yahoo Plus

One features that were originally only in Yahoo Mail Plus has now come to the normal Yahoo Mail as well. The feature was a shortcut in the sidebar that alloed the users to search into there Attachments and there Photos direclty. This was not possible in the nomal Yahoo Mail which is not BETA. Try to look for something like this in your sidebar -

Now you can enjoy this kinda useful feature as well without paying any money to Yahoo!

Tata IT wiz!

Tata held it Quiz this year in Delhi. I got to know that I am going to participate in it yesterday. So we went and got to know that around 200 teams for differnt schools had come for the quiz. My Partner was Vibhor . The Prelims were kinda easy and we made it to the final 6. The finals were totally killer. We were only able to answer two questions and came 4^th from the six finalists. It was okay as I did not know that it was going to happen and also the standard of quistions according to me was very very very high. but, stilll the prizes that I got were great(some would say, I found them rather boring or useless) . Here is the list -

• Speaker Set
• Coffe Mug
• T-Shirt
• Coffetable books
• Fastrack Watch
• Manorma Year Book
• CD Case
• Sports Bag

Useless thing wont you agree. But still the first prize was a laptop and the secod one was an iPod Nano. Next time I am sure I am gonna study and appear for this quiz!

Exin 1-2-3!!

Ah! Exun the big one! This computer symposium was a really good one for me. I went for four competetions from which I won at three of them. The Results were -

• Third in Senior Quiz
• Second in Junior Quiz
• First in Programming

The senior quiz was really reall really tough man I mean we had no idea what was goin on. We had chances of winning the Junior Quiz too if Vibhor and I hadn't screwed up a little bit.

But still! It was a great experienced and one of the DVD's that I got from Exun that was suppose to contain the video was empty I can be put to personal use! Yipeee! Free 4.7 GB!!!!

Mario was everywhere!!

Do you remember those good old days of what we now call Retro Gaming. Games such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Popeye and even Space Invaders. Then, gaming was not as intense as it is now it used to be plain fun. I have also noticed that at that time Mario was everywhere. Here are a few examples -

Punch Out: It was the only official NES title to make use of MMC2, Multi Memory Controller. dont you see that the guy that is saying "fight" looks a lot like Mario.

Donkey Kong: As we all know that Mario made his debut in video games in Donkey Kong.

Cleaning: Even the NES Cleaning Kit features a huge picture of Mario cleanging the box.

PSP : NFS Carbon

These are the details of the Need For Speed Carbon: Own the City that have been released for the PlayStation Portable. If the PC one too has the same features then it is going to be one hell of a game.

Need for Speed Carbon takes handheld racing to a whole new level with all-new crew-based gameplay and an exclusive east coast open-world city. Settle an ongoing turf war by building an unstoppable crew, winning races against your fiercest rivals, and outwitting the cops. How you choose and manage your crew will be the difference between victory and defeat. The city is yours for the taking with Need for Speed Carbon the ultimate in handheld racing.

Crew-Based Racing —Choose up to two wingmen from your crew to race with you and trigger their unique skills on the fly to dominate the opposition and give you the ultimate racing edge.

Race and Cruise an Open World —Explore and race in a city filled with alternate driving paths, diverse race modes, and hidden secrets.

Control the City —Win circuits, sprints, lap knockouts, and other events on your rivals’ turf to take over the city one neighborhood at a time.

Licensed, Tunable Cars —Choose from more than 25 real-world cars—each uniquely equipped with their true-to-life physics—and then customize its look and performance to suit your crew’s style.

Crew and More —Choose a unique graffiti logo for your crew, select your signature crew color, and load a custom soundtrack.

How to be Lazy

Laziness is the key to success. Here are the rules of being lazy:

1. Never do anything. If you wait around long enough, someone else will do it.
2. Don't move. Moving is overrated.
3. Never run. Running is the worst thing you can do. I had to run once.. big mistake.
4. If something is not in your reach, you don't need it. Before you get up to get something across the room next time, think. Do you really want to get up and walk all the way there and all the way back to get it? Yeah, I know. I felt stupid for moving all those times.
5. Don't have an opinion. Opinions are thoughts, and thoughts are work.
6. Don't work. Working is for suckers. Be a CEO if you can, they never do anything.
7. If you have to move, fuss about it. Make it well known that you're pissed off because you have to move. Sigh a lot. Drag your feet and arch your back at 60 degrees (bad posture helps you to conform to the shapes of couches when you sit down, and it makes you look tired).
8. Sleep as much as you can. Contrary to common sense and popular belief, sleeping is very productive.
9. Don't talk. Talking requires the movement of your jaw.. way too much work.
10. If you have to work, do a half-assed job at it. Example: If you have to rake leaves, push them out into the road or into your neighbor's yard. If you have a riding lawn mower, run over them a few times until the pieces are small enough to hide in between blades of grass.

I have more rules, but this is taking more effort than I thought. I'll update this later.. if I'm not too tired

Two Chapters to complete!!

Okay! So now I am home and I have around two chapters of maths to complete so that I can give the B.T. mock test and actually get good marks in it. I need to get like above 85 so that I can have the confidence that I need for the PrePreBoards. So, probable I will be dishing out a post on Quake and Condition Zero maps when I have completed them. If I dont complete them I will be up all night to do some other study and then probably blog.

I have to go to MODEM tommorow...so wish me luck!!

Blogging from School!!

So it has come to this now!!! Now, that I have decided that I will not switch on the computer at home I ned to do everything from school i.e. check mail, blog and sometimes maybe even Orkut. Sothis is my first post from school. I think I WILL switch on the computer from home too ocassionally and you can expect a big post then!

Manually defeating the master!!!

Today I went to Avi's house to give him the songs of NFS Carbon. After copying the files I wanted to play Need For Speed Underground 2 on his PC so I did some races nd after doing a Magazine cover he told me to Jump to Garage and then save my Career. Then he told me to Quick Race(Why?) and then he started to do a StreetX on Manual Gear(I use Auto) he did a race of 10 laps with no opponents and told me to just watch.

I watched and after he completed the race he went to options chages the transmission to Auto and told me to do the same track with the same preferences. I switched it to Manual, just to see how it feels. And on the second try I was only 0.56 seconds away from the time that he took. I also beat him in one of the laps.

It was the first time I had ever beaten him in racing. It feels great man!! Now I have totally switched to Manual tranmission.

Dilli Bandh!!

There has been a Dilli Bandh everal times here but the first time ever has it ever effected me and it is quite annoying. Due to this the schools are closed and I cant meet my friends. Also several computer symposiums are being postponed. For example WARP that is the computer symposium of DPS Mathura road was on 7th and 8th of Novembor but the government advised all the private schools to remain closed on these days. I mean I was to go to around 2 competetions one the first day and on 1 on the other day. But now this symposium has been posponed until further notice. I hope that something like this does not happen to MODEM or Exun.

VV R ! T ₤ |_ ! |< ₤ T # ! $

I have noticed that many people these days have started to use alternative characters for the normal alphabets. It might look cool to some people but to me it is just stupid. I mean I also think that writing in the way we SMS is stupid like - 'hi dis is m. hw r u?'. But atleast this still has a reason as it is easier and faster to type but this one is -

• Difficult to understand
• Difficult to write

I have no idea why people are writing like that.

The butt-shot!!!

I recently got Counter Strike: Condiotion Zero and while I was playing I realized that apart from the head shot that kills the other person immediately, one can also use the "Butt Shot". Just aim at the enemy's buttock while playing through a sniper rifle and shoot. The person dies immediately. I am also sure that, that person's health was full cause I was playing de_dust with me alone as terrorist and three others as counter terrorists. I had only seen two other bots whom I had killed in one shot(the headshot that time). I will try this more number of times and confirm!!

My PR is 4!!

Finally after so much research in SEO and a lot of waiting, my page rank(PR) on Google on searching "Prateek Saxena" is 4. I thought that Google would never index my blog because I could not see the results for a very long time approximately 3 months!!!

Also I come first when one searches on "Prateek Saxena blog". Check it out -