Google as a Proxy

When we were at the university we were restricted to access some sites on the internet. Accessing those web sites had been a big challenge and we tried several ways to overcome that. I could really remember my campus days while I was reading this article. It explains how to use Google as a proxy to access those banned sites; i.e.: accessing other sites through Google servers. (Google is always accessible from any network).

Two tricks have been listed.

1. Using Google translation service
   A request is made to Google to translate the required page (already in English) to English. This is done by replacing the section in red with the required URL, to which the access is denied by the home network.
   http://www.google.com/translate_c?langpair=zh%7Cen&u=http://www.myspace.com/
   
   
2. Using Google Wireless Transcoder
   This is a straight forward method. First access the page at http://www.google.com/gwt/n and then enter the desired (banned) URL in the text box there. Only drawback here is that, the page is rendered to suit a modile browser. Something is better than nothing!
   

I'm sure that the author would definitely be honoured by those who have been suffering from the firewal restrictions.

Weekend madness

Employees often welcome the weekend, especially when there have been too much workload for the week. We all need to rest at least once a week, otherwise it will lead to health problems. Thats the serious side of the issue.

But people create funny pictures, showing the behaviour of the employees on Mondays (start of the week) and on Fridays (end of week). I do enjoy laughing at those pictures and sometimes I wonder the authors imaginations.

Here is one example, where I couldn't stop looking at the baby's facial expressions.

Hey.. enough watching that baby! Now its time to return back to your work. He he he!

Love vs Marriage

Today I received this nice piece of joke through email and I think I should share it.

A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.
But the rule is: - you can go through them only once & cannot turn back to pick."
The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw one big wheat, but he wonders....may be there is a bigger one later.
Then he saw another bigger one... but may be there is an even bigger one waiting for him.
Later, when he finished more than half of the wheat field, he starts to realise that the wheat is not as big as the previous one he saw, he knew he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted.
So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand. The teacher told him, "...this is love... you keep looking for better ones, but when later you realise, you have already missed the person ...."


"What is marriage then?" the student asked.
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back.
But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."
The student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not to repeat the previous mistake, when he reach the middle of the field,
he has picked one medium sized corn that he felt satisfied, and came back to the teacher.
The teacher told him, "this time you bring back a corn.... you look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best one you get.... this is marriage."


Did it make sense? :-P