Sankho Mallik's Web Log.

I use a few different browsers during my working day. To do my simple browsing, email checking, etc etc, I use Google’s chrome – because it’s fast. To do any web development; I use Firefox – because of the plugins. I can’t work without Firebug, the w3c Validator, and the Web Developer tool bar.

But near the end of a project, there comes that time to check the… other… browsers. Internet Explorers 6-8. I don’t use IE for even accidental surfing – strictly for cross browser checking. So I haven’t changed it’s settings or anything, and I’m forced to view it’s default home page.

Yeap. MSN.com.

Somehow, whenever I’m in the middle of debugging a site under IE6, I always manage to learn some new facts courtesy of Microsoft’s top notch web editors.

Bill Gates(‘ company) drops some knowledge on you:

1. The average annual salary of an janitor… in 1958. ($3,455)
2. The ever pressing issue of “Who looked hot” at the People’s Choice Awards
3. Fruit bats get kinky, just like us
4. Miley Cyrus! Not Hannah Montana Anymore!??
5. Old people get married at Whole Foods. Good old fashioned, hard hitting online journalism.
6. Does this city make my butt look big?
7. Puppy CPR

More to come!

Not a serious post, but, I am kind of a big deal.

Just wanted to let you know that I’m now the #1 result in google when you search “Sankho.”

Given the number of people I’ve ran into who share my name (1), along with the number of people I know in web development who share my name (0), this may seem like an easy task.

If it weren’t for wikipedia.

For weeks, which felt like decades, I’ve been wondering about this Sankho Chaudhuri fellow. How can a dead Indian sculptor’s wikipedia page be deemed as more important or relevant in the eyes of google than me?

Google, has though forsaken me? Even after I stopped using because I was too lazy to download a cracked copy gave up on Microsoft office for Google documents?

No longer! I now top the charts! Though I must admit that I pray that my link won’t positively affect the sculptor’s wikipedia page’s page rank, and thus invalidate this whole post by bumping his dead ass back to the top. That’d be ironic.