The Butterfly Effect

1. I read this blog post by Arjun Bharadwaj; in the comments is a link to this neat tool to import FB contacts to Google. 
2. I re-blog about the plugin, and post it to Mashable's G+ profile                                        . 
3. Mashable reblogs about it and publishes it online again
4. Facebook does not like people using this, and blocks the plugin
5. P.S. Gunaa V figured out another way around it; Just export the contacts from FB to Yahoo/Hotmail and import them to G+; To import chat contacts, follow from Step 3 here. 

Migrating to Google+ just got so much easier

*EDIT: Instead of step 1, you could simply export your contacts to Yahoo/Hotmail, and Import them directly to Google+. Works much quicker. Follow the rest of the steps to import chat contacts**
Xkcd summed it up very well the day it was launched. I am sure that I am not the only person who has had enough with Facebook. The news feed was always full of shit; Plus is a very refreshing change indeed.

To add more people to your Google+ however, they need to be on your Gmail contacts list. I managed to get it done with some help from a few blogs here and there. In short, here is how one goes about it:

1. Get this plugin that transfers FB contacts to the Google CSV. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ficlccidpkaiepnnboobcmafnnfoomga# . It takes a lot of time; It took me nearly 2 hours to get done with around 600 contacts. 
2. The contacts will be under a Contact group called Imported from Facebook. Now Click compose mail, and add Imported from Facebook in the To section (Google will auto-suggest it; It will replace that with a list of all the contacts). Copy this list and save it to a file called a.txt
3. Open the Terminal in Linux and type in the following command: cat a.txt |  sed -e 's/,/,\n/g' | sed -e 's/".*"//g' | grep  -i @gmail.com > b.txt
4. This will save all your .gmail.com contacts to a file called b.txt. 
5. Click the pop down button immediately on the right of "Chat" on Gmail. Click add contact. Now, paste the contacts from b.txt, 100 at a time (If you try to paste too many contacts at the same time, Google will throw some error) and click Invite to Chat. 
6. Now your Find and Invite list will be populated with your FB contacts. Also, chat invites will be sent to all contacts with a Google account. 
7. You are done. Switch to Google+ and enjoy!

Mobile testing

this is  a mobile alert test
ping
qwerty

sadasd

sgdgsdg

Scrabble rule change: WTF?

I have been a scrabble fanatic for some time now. I used to play on the internet and barely missed out on money at my college fest. Anyway..coming to the point.. The rule change.. I only read about it today morning.. It is utter bullshit! You can make words backwards they say. You can use celebrity and city names too. I don't think scrabble purist people will like this at all. The game standards are going to the dogs!

This is not the first time Mattel has screwed up lately. They banned Scrabulous( a site that allowed people to play Scrabble over the Internet) for copyright infringement. It was met with a lot of flak, but unfortunately, they came through.

The three idiots(2)

There were three friends from IIT Madras and three from Anna University, Chennai. They were stranded at the Pune Railway station and were on their way back to Chennai.

So the first part of the journey was from Pune to Bangalore by train. The Anna people bought three tickets. The IITM people bought only one ticket. When the Ticket Checker came by, the IITM people all went inside a toilet and put the ticket out. So they got away.

They all got off at Bangalore. The Anna people were a little pissed after the incident. This time, they bought only one ticket. The IITM people didn't buy any. When the Anna people went and hid inside a toilet, one of the IITM people knocked on the door. Out came the hand and the IITM people took away the ticket and headed for the opposite toilet.

They all got off at Chennai Central. The Anna guys barely managed to make it there. They were now very pissed. The last part of the journey was from Chennai Central to Guindy station by suburban rail. This time, the Anna people decided not to buy tickets at all. The IITM people bought three tickets.

Unfortunately, there are no toilets in Chennai suburban trains!