I already pay through my nose for the Mosso master hosting account (USD 100 per month) that I use as a part of package deals for my website and blogging clients. I decided to check out Bluehost not because I wanted to change my host, but in an effort to get more information so I can present more options to my clients (current and prospective). I was looking to sign up for their affiliate program (I eventually did).

One oddity that I found while signing up for the affiliate program was that although the account will be sold for USD 6.95 per month, the affiliate on making a sale would get somewhere in the range of 8 to 9 times more. What the? And then I read that they have one of the best affiliate programs on the web! No shit! You pay 6.95 to Bluehost through me, and I get 9 times more than that? I was obviously missing something here, so I opened up thier live sales chat window, and the conversation went something like this:

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Chrome colored insects is not what this post is about.

Google, not so long ago, came out with their own version of the Internet browser, called Chrome. It made all the hype necessary with such a product from such a company.

I have covered my initial reaction to Google Chrome in the Chrome bug report. This is my follow up of sorts, not to report more on bugs, but to tell you why it is OK to have bugs.

First, I have not used Chrome for the last one week. I am online essentially through a browser, 4 hours a day on average. That browser is obviously Firefox. I first had Chrome on a smaller machine (128MB RAM), so I figured the slowness (my biggest gripe) was partly due to the smaller RAM (although Firefox was not having that ’slowness’). Then I tested used Google Chrome for more than a week or 10 days on a bigger machine (2GB RAM). The slowness was apparently not there. But there were other things…

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Universe is big.
Now, as I take my foot out of my mouth, I will let you know that Stephen Hawkins is the king when it comes to talking about space and the universe.

The modern day scientist genius, Stephen Hawking is almost completely paralyzed  (due to a long and growing illness that I can’t pronounce even upon trying - acronym is ALS). I first read one of his books The Brief History of Time as the book was gifted to me by my brother. This was eons ago it seems, but I have read the book many a times since, and have found the information extremely well laid out and easy to understand.

The awe inspiring world we inhabit is by all means nothing compared to the universe that our world inhabits.  A must read for anyone who claims to be alive.

Get the book now if you already do not own one. It is only one of the best selling books ever!

And to top it all off, CNN is now letting people ask a question to Mr. Stephen Hawkins. Head over to the CNN post and leave your questions in the comments section.

This post is about the new internet browser released by Google called Chrome.

Google Chrome is still in beta of course (another eternal beta like Gmail, perhaps?)

Here are the few good things that I have found about Google Chrome:

1. It is by Google
2. It is minimalist i.e. it does not come crammed with features that you hardly, if at all, use. (someone go and thank 37Signals for rightly starting this trend perhaps?)
3. It looks ‘light’, almost breezy, compared to when I fire up Firefox. (anyone here still firing up Internet Explorer should seriously consider getting Firefox. Chrome still is in its infancy, whereas Firefox is the cool, resourceful and intelligent fella’ you’d want to be friends with. Internet Explorer is the forgetful professor no doubt that not many people relate to anymore. Improve your browsing experience by downloading Firefox)
4. It is multi-threaded. Translated into English it would mean that it stands a chance of being much, much faster than any other browser, for the time being at least (it has the capacity to use your computer’s resources most efficiently).
5. Google Chrome is highly web-standard compliant. What this basically means is a well-rounded experience by all users of the Internet and a sigh of relief for web developers around the world. (more on Google Chrome’s standards compliance straight from CSS-horse’s mouth :P)

But Chrome is new. It is bound to have bugs. Internet Explorer is old and still has them. Google is known to produce products that are ‘out there’ when it comes to being bug-free, but a software is a software is a software.
Here are the bugs that I have found so far (I am not being technically correct here; by bugs I not only mean things that don’t act like they ought to act, but also some things that act in a way that I don’t like):
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