how the monkey tamed the fox

It surprising how a sequence of actions in a normal days work can end in a completely different domain from where it started. I am not talking philosophy or zoology here as it may appear..this is a tale of Orkut, fake profiles, scrapbook flooding and the weirdest monkey..

Well it started last week when a jobless orkut crazy pal of mine got the very innovative idea of creating a fake profile of a girl and started scrapping everyone. Well it also turns out that people here at a sub level are very technologically challenged. So, I decided to use a quite (in)famous scrapbook flooding technique from the web to flood this guys scrapbook :making public his deeds. This seemed nothing short of magic(maybe I am being a little too imaginative....but what the hell..its my blog) to the guy and for a person whose religion is orkut...this was a blasphemy and he literally sat that night and deleted all the flooded scraps...too bad I had not gone into 1000s...

But during execution what happened was...I had to IM my friend in Kanpur to ask exactly how to use the flooder...and he mentioned in passing an extension in firefox by the name of Greasemonkey. I had heard of it .. but hadnt quite checked it out. (You wouldd be surprised how ignorant ppl even in IIT can be.) When I finally checked it out..seems its a really great extension that can run a javascript(user created/downloaded) on specifically designated specific pages(decided by the javascript) . So you can basically edit a page or preprocess it locally before viewing it! Imagine skinning every page you see on web, removing adds, and a load of other stuff(scrapbook flooding anyone?)..

But the best part is the vibrant community behind the extension...making available thousands of scripts to download...this is going to keep me busy for a while!