US attacks Iran due to recession..? who cares!!!

Placement season has started in NITK Surathkal. Everybody's slogging.
The first company to start recruiting was Accenture. Everyone's psyched about it. So, nearly half the final years attend the ppt(pre-placement talk) and write the apti. I went to try my luck too.
Round 1: Aptitude test.

55 questions. 1 hour. 11.40 a.m. Start the test.

I look at the questions. Even a 10th std student could have solved those. I looked behind at all the others writing the test. I knew i would have competition. But i was sure i was going to clear the first round at least.
"Now, i'm going to call out all those names who have been selected for the group discussion.
... Vighnesh U.. ...
.... Shashank shah....
........................
...Praveen Raj M S...."
"yes...??"
"Move over to this side of the room..."

It feels good when you are the center of attention even though if its just for 2 seconds.

Round 2: Group discussion
They called out names for the first group.. After those guys came out.. I asked one of my friends "hey what was your topic...??"
"It was silly dude.... they asked us to talk about 'pink', the colour."
" maybe they'll give us blue"
And then, the 2nd group...
"hey what topic did u get??"
" they told us some story and we had to give our opinion about that it seems. It wasn't that interesting also.."

I thought that this was going to be a piece of cake. Then they called on the 3rd group. My name was in it. So, i went in the room. The GD panelist made us all sit in a semi circle.
"okay, good afternoon everyone. Here's your topic..
Do you think US of A would or should attack Iran because of the on-going recession in their country...??"

And all of a sudden...........BLANK..............

I didn't know anything about it. I started thinking. It was the brainstorming session. ...

US attacking Iran ....
why would US attack Iran???
hmmm.... "OIL".... right on...

..... recession ........
what is it ??
value of money gets lowered...
hmmm.. speaking in economic terms... decline in country's GDP...
now, wait a min... where have i heard this....??
oh.. that's right, when jogi told me about his cousin who was working in KEANE got fired with another 400 employees... that was due to recession...
damn it.. i wish i had listened to whatever he said that day...
Coming back to reality.. how do i connect these two....???
"Okay... who wants to go first...?? "
Everybody's looking at each other's faces.
Some guy starts the discussion,
"I think the US should attack Iran.... .... .. ... ... blah blah..."
and then some other guy said otherwise...
" That's not really necessary... .... . ..... .. . blah blah......."
The discussion was going from the topic to somewhere else.. There was even a time when a guy said if this happens it'll lead to communal clashes and Al-Qaeda will attack US again..
All this time, I was just sitting quiet with a puzzled look on my face...
In the end, the GD guy tells " Let's give others also a chance" and asks me to give my opinion.
I gave a fake smile and started to tell some nonsense... and it was literally, nonsense...
And then, he gave the results and just as i expected my name was not there.

So, i thought to myself, " Whatever happens, happens for good "

And also made a resolution to read newspapers everyday....

Faviconise your blog

Some of my friends who saw my blog asked me, " Maga, how did u get that P next to your blog title da ?? ". He was actually referring to the favicon. Lot of you would have seen that google changed their favicon and their reason for this change is given here.

Anyways, i thought i'll tell how simple it is do it and how i actually learnt to put a favicon in my blog.


A favicon is actually short for favorite icon. There are three steps to follow:

1) Create your favicon:
You can create your own favicon. Use paint or photoshop or whatever and create an image that you think suits your blog best. Try to keep it as close to a square and make its size as small as possible. Possibly around 32 x 32. And also it should be less than around 10kb - 15kb. If you have a larger image, then it might not be clearly visible or it might take longer for your page to load.

Now, initially favicons were all *.ico files but now most of the browsers like firefox, opera and others are compatible with .jpg, .png and other files also (And internet explorer is not one of them). You can also create favicons which are *.gif files. Check out the favicon on this website. This was the company where i did my training. DeciDyn.

There are different favicon generator websites also on the net. You can also get gif images generating favicon sites. Just give a search.

Now that you are done with creating your favicon. You need to have a place to keep it. Somewhere on the net.

2) Storing your photo:

There are a lot of free photo sharing websites. Picasa, Photobucket, Flickr, etc, etc.
You can upload your favicon into any of these websites so that its easy to access it. I preferred photobucket because its really easy to use compared to others.
When you upload any photo in photobucket, it gives you a list of links for that uploaded photo. Now, what you actually need is the direct link to the photo. The following image shows all possible links that you have in photobucket for every photo you upload.

If you prefer using Picasa you can get the HTML code of the photo. It would be something like this.
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/xxx/yyy/photo?authkey=XIjQw#521754">
<img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/xxx/SG-zrI/AAU/VOc/s14/xyz.JPG"/>
< /a>
The link in the bold letters is the direct link for your picture. (And the above is not an actual link)

You can upload it in blogger itself. Every photo that you upload has a link which is the direct link. So, you can upload it in a post and not publish it. Whatever you do, get the direct link.

3) Change your template code.

Now that you have your direct link, go to layout --> edit HTML


and just below the <head> tag, write in the following code :

<link href='your direct link' rel='icon'/>

Here's a screenshot of the code part.(Though not clearly seen)


And after that, voila!!!

You have your very own favicon...
It wasn't that difficult. was it ?