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I have been doodling during classes all through my high school and the habit has hardly betrayed me in the University. And yet, ever so cruelly, none of my doodles seem to have made ANY impact at all, especially when you compare them with the ones by Gates at Davos or by Ofir at Israel ! And, MSN Search rocks! I had to dig out this link about Gates and Davos Doodles which I had posted way back in the beginning of the year. Apparently, the BloggerBar (powered by Google) at the top of this blog is supposed to search this Blog. But it yielded NOTHING. Google search for the keywords "Gates doodles enginerd" returned exactly Two (2) results which were way off target. And then I tried MSN Search. The same keywords. Four results : The first: Link to the exact Post. The second: Link to the-enginerd's February archives. MSN Search just found a new fan!

September 1, 2005. Thousands of Bloggers yesterday could be seen linking to their blogkins celebrating the BlogDay 2005. Prasoon , an avid Blogger told our correspondent about how the date 3108 (August 31st) reads like the word "Blog". Our correspondent traced the history of Blog Dayback to June 21, 2005 when Nir Ofir posted about it on his blog on the same date. It has been learnt from reliable sources that Mr. Ofir had, in fact, noticed the resemblance between "3108" and "Blog" while doodling at the first Blog conference that was held in Israel. -TheEnginerd News Service

Vanessa Tan has this link to a wonderful new experiment in User Interface Design promising click-free navigation. The Institute for Interactive Research is apparently trying to study the "change in the behaviour of navigation" and whether the missing click has any "influence on our perception of the interface." The website has three new buttons for you to experiment. The replacement of the traditional 'click' in the three buttons is as follows: Button 1: Activating the button by wiping the mouse from left to right or right to left over it. Button 2: The button is activated by moving the mouse pointer in a circular motion around it. Button 3: The button has a self activating timer. To activate, keep your mouse pointer over it for a few seconds. I find the second idea of moving the mouse pointer in a circular manner over the button extremely appealing. The other two have obvious disadvantages. The 'wipe' that activates the first button requires th...

By the way, if you haven't yet observed, Blogger word verification is still disabled here on the comments. You are all too precious to be bothered.

My friend remarked about living on Earth Beta. Apparently every software that he was using at the moment was Beta: Be it the Messenger1 or Messenger2 , or the latest Visual Studio Beta 2 . As if that was not enough, I came across this MSN Homepage Beta http://beta.msn.com First look and you'll get the feeling that you've stumbled upon the Yahoo! Homepage . I dont like the fact that they are doing away with the sidebar and the blue theme!!!

Google talk : Another uncool product from Google's stable. The first was Sidebar. If you remember the Google Webaccelerator, then, add that too. + Awesome sound quality. Runs even on an obsolete machine (mine ;) a clean and neat interface - No timestamping of messages. No logging No "Appear Offline" like Yahoo!'s stealth Too simple. The world likes it nifty! No Text colours, No emoticons [ Remember, Microsoft is about to patent them ;) ] No file tranfers btw, where are the Google ads accompanying my messages in an IM conversation? Imagine I say "I feel like sleeping.", only to find an adsense window showing sleeping pills best deals!!

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