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Surprise!

Yeah, I was using Windows Vista recently. Fear not, all ye penguin brethren, I’ve not turned over to the Dark Side of the Force. I was just testing my computer project on my dad’s laptop.

So here I was, playing with the Devil’s Instrument, and I tried renaming a file. To my utter astonishment, up popped a dialog box, the sort you get when transferring files, which said ‘Calculating time remaining to rename file‘! Time remaining to rename a file! WTF!!!

I was a bit too dazed to react, so no, I couldn’t reach for the print screen button before it went away, a few seconds later. But this is RICH – calculating time remaining to rename a file.

I told this to Arjun in an IM chat (using Pidgin, on Yahoo!, if you must know)…

(09:58:16 PM) Ankur Banerjee: btw, I was using vista one day
(09:58:20 PM) phoenixarjun: :O
(09:58:23 PM) phoenixarjun: omai gawd
(09:58:37 PM) phoenixarjun: that should be on computer symposiums : “greatquizzard: btw, I was using vista one day”
(09:59:07 PM) phoenixarjun: i’ll even digg it
(09:59:12 PM) Ankur Banerjee: lol
(09:59:14 PM) phoenixarjun: LOL
(09:59:22 PM) phoenixarjun: rofl

Big surprise for the poor fella. Hope he didn’t pop a vessel or anything amidst the excitement.

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Let’s Not Make It Yahoo! + Microsucks = Yahoo!sucks

A bit of cheerful news on normally miserable days filled with business analysts taking about Yahoo! being PWNT by Microsucks. Jerry Yang recently said he’s trying all avenues not to get bought. Yahoo!

Former Yahoo employees who know Yang have no doubt he is exhausting all avenues that might allow his company to escape Microsoft’s clutches.

Jerry bleeds purple and gold (Yahoo’s corporate colors),” said Rob Solomon, a former Yahoo executive who spent six years at the company before leaving in 2006. “He always envisioned building a company that would be around for 100 years, not just 14 years.”

Way to go Jerry! Yahoo! fans have your full support on this one. What I feel is that Yahoo!’s board is desperately trying to come up something so that they don’t have to sell to Microsucks, and yet, they don’t want to lean on Google AdSense as a crutch to survive in the aftermath either – because that would be quite demeaning to them too. Yahoo! spent a lot of time on Panama, and on tuning it’s search engine (which I feel is definitely the best) and I’m sure they don’t want to give up on all that now.

I spent some time fishing around, and finally found the full text of Jerry Yang’s email.