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Uh yeah...so my friend and I half-rewrote our 3 column Zen theme to make it look good..and cool IE7 breaks it down like a biatch. Ie 6 is not a lot better..but atleast not as worse. Firefox, Safari3, Knoqueror, Epiphany et al worked with it as smooth as clockwork..Validates..except for the Star Selectors (Which I later realised dint work with IE7 anymore) Much to my selective Php n00bishness.. I thought the get_browser() would be blocked by most hosts as it would have to 'phone out' to the client browser... Contradictorily, It wasnt.. Much to my lethargy to write elonquent code lines with hundreds of $_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT] thingys, I ran into the Browscap module whilst randomly browsing in the contrib.module section on the cvs...Just what I needed! So now that the Browscap module populates a full list of browsers that exist, all I had to do was spend a couple of hours on writing something to filter site compatibility by browser...and obviously IE 7 was getting nothing but the phptemplate_maintenence_page! Earlier, I was driven to the verge of baldness, suicide, depression after continual pissing around with conditional comment lines to get IE7 to use a stylesheet it likes...But sadly enough, IE remained obstinate. All that done, Ie7 blocked and IE6 warded off with a warning, a google ad script for the IE7 maitenence page... It was a happy ending. function phptemplate_maintenance_page($content, $messages = TRUE, $partial = FALSE) { drupal_set_header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); drupal_set_html_head('@import "'. base_path() . drupal_get_path('module', 'system') .'/defaults.css";'); drupal_set_html_head('@import "'. base_path() . drupal_get_path('module', 'system') .'/system.css";'); drupal_set_html_head('@import "'. base_path() . path_to_theme() .'/maintenance.css";'); drupal_set_html_head(' '); $output = "\n"; $output .= ''; $output .= ''; $output .= ' '; $output .= drupal_get_html_head(); $output .= drupal_get_js(); $output .= ''; $output .= ""; $output .= ' '; $output .= ''; $output .= ' '; if ($messages) { $output .= theme('status_messages'); } $output .= $content; $output .= " "; $output .= " "; $output .= ""; return $output; } So that was the override of the default maintenence page in the template.php.. Ofcourse, you can add all the styles you want in the maintenence.css...but again, Dont take the trouble for it's IE7.. you may have to do another maintenence / persuasion page for IE7 might screw up on the CSS again. Feels like heaven to get IE7 out of the way. Might do some more tweaking.. a filter by navigator.Platform / OS detection as a parallel disparate set that can be operated on with various combos of browsers.. Maybe make it easier for myself to block this stupid linux chauvinist I know

We've seen all the misdirected kannada chauvinism by arbitrary retards on Orkut.. Yeah, I mean those folks who created that "Bangalore's full Go Home" community...flamed useless e-wars to prove they were gangsta...and had their community deleted too. But all that I got to notice there was relatively unprovoked flamery against Northies. Sure, There 're them arbitrary retards...but obviously they aren't the folks who make the majority..Atleast, so far as I know..I'd rate less than 50% Northies as being anything ignorant. On the contrary, Here 're the Tamilians..Of whom I'd rate Atleast, a good 80% or more to being fanatics. Tamil sadly, is about as or (in all probability) perhaps more  a staple regional language here in the capital of Kannada..Than Kannada itself. If I were to do a survey about my friends' circle.. I'd probably find out more than 50% of them, who've been in karnataka more than a generation still cant speak a whiff of Kannada!.. All tamil flamery comes during the Cauvery issue and gets forgotten in millsecs. I amn't against Tamil or anything as such..But on the contrary a huge Tamil fan so far as it's beauty as a language goes...But really, Whilst in Karnataka..Please care to respect Kannada for we've an identity of our own. Do we try to speak about in Kannada when we are in Madras? Not that we'd survive doing that either. This is in the wake of a rather (stupid) hilarious incident where I got into a rather nasty fight where I got knocked about by 6 arbitrary sons of bitches.. While I was rather stupid to  (!shut the fuck up and move on to keep move on).. What irked me and made me lose my temper was that these bastards spoke in Tamil continiously whilst I politely asked them to speak in Kannada.. Such is their audacity..and in Karnataka too. Not to mention yet again, That I completely lost control off my wits for that few minutes. The end result = A shaky tooth, Plenty of wounds in the mouth that would soon evolve into painful ulcers, This would require Oral Anasthesia to ward off the pain for a couple of weeks..Not to mention the stammering whilst speaking to people !...Yeah, all this happened and I can still laugh it off So I board a bus from home till Indian Express..and I dont hear a fucking whiff of the native language except for the conductor!..There's Tamil all around..No shortage of Telugu either.. aye, there's malayalam as well..Not to mention the omnipresent 'national language' hindi... I really find it intriguing that kannadigas still take ignorance to all this... There 're the retarded morons who go about the Kannada-Tamil relationship et al... And give me excerpts from Periyar's Aryan Invasion Theory.. I've not but the patience and calm to tell them to go fuck themselves.

http://thatskannada.oneindia.in/column/ravibelagere/index.html

I'll beg to differ about aavaraNa, but for the most part..Ravi Belagere happens to have most pragmatic takes on things. Truly an articulate genius.

Trying to recollect some of the better stuff on DD

• Mile sur mera tumhara
• Baje sargam har taraf se
• Poorab se
• eek chidya anek chidya (?..Not sure..I was far too young then )

I can distinctly recall more..but somehow, far too unclear and deep inside thoughts to output !...Seriously LSSP and the creative stuff they came up with was amazing ! ...Those were the kind of things you'd watch without switching channels like you do, with ads on..(You dint have the choice then though. No Satellite TV ! ).. I wish DD can go 10 years back in time.