Blake Ross
Now, you would associate Blake with Firefox, prodigious coding skills, celebrity status (he is 20 now) and a stand-out student in Stanford. Turns out Blake is a also writer with fabulous sense of humor. Check it out here for yourself.
I am going to use Firefox as a default browser from now on. He promises freedom from spyware. That’s quite something. The only problem - reading Tamil blogs. If only they fix that issue in FF, I would remain devoted to Blake and co for ever. I heard Blake has planned a start-up. I also heard he interned for Netscape when he was 14.
I could not help but imagine the plight of an Indian student of comparable age and intelligence. If only someone half as good as Blake had been in India, he would’ve been lectured on the need to get high marks in std X and later XII, ideas about reservation, discrimination blah blah. By the time he reaches 18 he would’ve resigned to do something ’safe’ and better find a ‘high paying job’ in an ‘MNC’. To hell with innovation.
If at all some scientists and engineers have achieved something in India, it is in spite of the education system and not because of it.
I personally knew someone who was an original thinker in his college days, someone who I thought would do some path breaking research. But then, India and its academicians taught him a serious lesson. He is now happy doing some silly coding for one of those MNCs.
And our university chancellors are keen on banning cell phones in their campuses. I don’t know what next. Maybe something like a grill to separate boys and girls in the class room. Of course all will be done so that ‘maanavargal gavanam sidharadhu’.
Sigh.
I want to ask all these folks one thing. When these vice-chancellors did their schooling, there were no cell phones to distract their ‘gavanam’ right? How come they still turned out to be idiots like this?
Vazhga our education system, Vazhga outsourcing.
January 2nd, 2006 at 1:20 am
Hello sonthakaarare..RELAX PLEASE !!
Have a great new year !!
January 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 am
prabhu
hehee, adu vera idhu vera
wish u a great new year:)
January 2nd, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year my friend
January 2nd, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Happy New Year PK!
January 2nd, 2006 at 3:38 pm
“how come they still turned out to be idiots like this” - Nalla kelvi
January 2nd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
New yeara kondadunga frind, intha yearavatu nalla kalampokalam namma pasankaluku.
January 2nd, 2006 at 4:33 pm
arjuna,
nandri ha, wish u a greta yr too:)
bala(karthik)
thank u. a very happy new yr to u too
WA
ellam unga blog post parthuttu andha adhangam:)
jeevan
neenga sona seri:)
January 2nd, 2006 at 10:32 pm
u r right PK.
But we shld also look at it in diff. angles. In the US, any field is as good but in India it is not. So parents/society take the liberty to instruct the student into getting high marks and be in the safe route.
If you ask why this should happen, then we can list it as developing country, restricted fields to make money, etc.,
Creative and sportive talent is not properly nurtured. But not all is lost. Its improving, despite slowly.
January 2nd, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Yubba,
Happy Peaceful Noo Earu.
Konjam Font size increase pannu - indha vayasaana kaalathula konjam kashtamaa irukku
Kusumbesh
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:10 am
@nk
maybe u r right. but how r we going to be world class if our education system is ancient in its syllabus and taliban in its administration?
irukara limits la we shud try to retain the spirit of the world class insitutions if not the funds IMHO
January 3rd, 2006 at 1:41 pm
i too face this difficulty in using FF for tamil posts. So I use IE for tamil pages alone.
Hope Blake fixes it too.
January 3rd, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Dear PK
I have been using Firefox and opera for quite some time
its great, and yes you have extensions to take care of tamil unicode issues.
Most of the time the tamil unicode works sometimes it doesnt
well there is an extension called view in IE, you download that, that way you dont have open ie, firefox will do that for you.
January 4th, 2006 at 12:28 am
PK, wish you a very very Happy New year! havent read ur post…but thot shuld wish u first!
January 4th, 2006 at 9:05 am
ghannu bhai
seriousa FF evlovo better. free from spyware periya vishayam.
i will check out that extensions . thanks
ama idhu enna oru nalaiku oru cartoon character? ethanai mugam ungalukku:))
IBH
THank u. Happy New Year to u too…:)
eppo India visitng?