Cookies.

It is not about the cookies that we eat.

When trying to access gmail from a new web browser from linux 12 cookies were loaded before google would let me see the login page. I don't know how many cookies would be there in an hour's browsing. I had the misconception of cookies as objects that try to steal my data or those that would make my system more vulnerable to attacks. I regularly remove cookie manually. I had allowed them only because I thought them to be necessary evil which allowed proper functioning of a webpage. However this article at wikipedia says that "cookies are simple pieces of data unable to perform any operation by themselves. In particular, they are neither spyware nor viruses, despite the detection of cookies from certain sites by many anti-spyware products".

கற்றது கைமண்ணளவு; கல்லாதது உலகளவு. வேறென்ன சொல்ல.

Heavy Problem

The third biggest problem that is facing the people of the world after the more probable global warming and the less probable nuclear flareup is weight / fat / cholestral/ obesity. There are a million websites offering "weight loss tips" [ well it is actually Results 1 - 10 of about 2,110,000 for "weight loss tips". (0.16 seconds) in google on 24/12/2007]. Reader's Digest covers Weight loss like nothing else with a cover story on weight loss every 3 months or so. Even I went on to cover my "7 day weight loss" program on a daily basis only to find out that it didnot work for me. But that was in February 2006. Now I am older and wiser(!) by almost 2 years. So I'm gonna give it another try. It'll start after Christmas and end on the second day of the newyear. This time I'm planning to have a close watch on the progress that I'm expecting to make.

PS:

Whatever you see above were written on 24th Decemner 2007 and the post was left in cold storage since then. So was the "7 day weight loss" program. I forgot all about it till today when i came back to see what's in my blog list.