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World Player of the Year?

It has been a topsy-turvy year this one in football. The gap between big and small teams has become smaller, and to win, tactics have proven to be more important than the individual skills of the players. A much debated question amongst fans and experts alike is who will win the player of the year this time around. It may be noted that during the years that have had a world cup, the World Player of the Year has come form the winning team: Romario in 94, Zidane in 98, Ronaldo in 2002 and most recently Cannavaro in 2006. I have compiled a small list..See if you can add to it.

April 1st Edition: You just got pwned!

This prank is sure to work. You will need

1. Access to the computer of the person you wish to prank.

2. Refer 1

What to do? Change the home page of the person to javascript:alert(“your message goes here“)

Whenever the person opens his browser, he should be getting a message that looks like this. I put it up on college computing facility computers and have heard a lot about it already

DIY Laptop Stand from PET bottles

This is something I tried out a few weeks back. It works wonderfully well;you begin to wonder why people sell cooling pads.

Anyway..
To make the stand, you will need

1. PET Bottles(I used 600 ml ones)*3

2. Tie Wraps: You can buy them cheap from your nearest hardware store

3. A Laptop!

What do I do now?

1. Align the PET bottles next to each other.
2. Make Tie wrap chains by inserting the tail of one to the head of the other. Each loop should have 5 tie wraps.
3. Place one of the loops around the bottle necks, another around the centre.
4. Tighten the loops by pulling. You may want to have someone near you to hold the bottles in the right alignment.
5. Cut off excess Tie Wrap threads.

You are done!
You get a laptop stand, that is cheap, insulating and channels all the heat outwards(due to the shape of the PETs).
This is what it should look like:

We’re Back!

Numberfail is back!
Bigger, Better and Eviler!

We had taken a long break from blogging. We shall resume posting in a short while, trying to be better than what we were before

Regards,
Team Numberfail

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Quiz Post: Football Again

X played football for Y between 1912 and 1927, scoring over 200 goals and captaining the team towards the end. He became the first ever manager of Y and remained so until 1936, when football was suspended due to an outbreak of a civil war. He was elected the President of Y in 1943, a position he occupied until his death. In his honour, Y named their stadium after him.

Put X, Y.

Quiz Post: Return of the Revolution

Connect the Pics( Not related to the title)

Follow numberfail by SMS(Works in India only)

Now, you can know when a new poat comes out on numberfail by SMS.

For this you will need to register with Google’s SMS Channels

You can log in with a Google account. Register for our channel by clicking here

You will recieve a confirmation SMS from Google, with a security code. Enter the code on the SMS Channels page and you are done.

How I keep myself updated with my mail, twitter, and the blogs I follow when I am not able to access the Internet

I shall be joining IIT Madras in some time now. Rules there don’t allow LAN and Internet access for the first four months(No idea why; they say you need to experience IIT life, as once you get  your computers, you get hooked to LAN/Internet gaming, and you will hardly enjoy  the campus; This is true for a lot of people, from what I have seen from my last year at NITK). So I felt the necessity to keep myself updated. So, with a little help from Google, and a bit of tweaking, I figured out how to get regular updates by SMS(this works only in India, though you could use some alternate services to work it elsewhere; this does not cost anything, and is way better than using GPRS/3G).

So here is how it works. Gmail and Twitter have authenticated RSS feeds. This means that feed readers trying to read these will prompt the user for Username and Password. Hence authenticated feeds are not supported by most readers. Moreover, to view these feeds, there needs to be an interaction between the user and the reader, and hence an internet connection is needed.

So we use something called a Feed-Proxy. These are sites, that automatically supply the login details when asked, and export the feeds to thier own RSS feed. In simpler words, they convert authenticated feeds to unauthenticated fields.

Google Labs India has a feature called SMS channels, from which one can subscribe to Channels created by other users. You can create your own channel, and RSS feed updates can be sent. So we use these SMS channels to send the updates to your mobile as the unauthenticated feed supplied by the Feed Proxy(Most blogs have their unauthenticated feeds, and can be accessed in a similar way).

I shall post some useful links here:

Gmail Feed(Authenticated):

Twitter Feed(Authenticated): http://twitter.com/<username>/with_friends

Feed-Proxy: FreeMyFeed-Enter the authenticated  feed address, username and password. The RSS feed link is to be used later;Copy it somewhere.

Google SMS Channels: You need to login using your Google account.If you have not already done so before, you need to verify your phone number. Click on the create channel link, select RSS feed, and paste the feed address appropriately. Fill the rest of the details and you are done.

Edit: Use tinyurl to convert your feed proxy feeds from relative URLs to absolute URLs as relative URLs may fail on SMS Channels.

SMS Channels takes some time to activate, so be patient

Los Galacticos: Then and Now

Then…

Now..

Madrid are bloody Copy Cats!