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I am off to the moon
2008-05-10 01:59:00 I am going to be on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which will be launching for the moon later this year. Or, at least, my name will be. The LRO is NASA’s maiden mission in their Vision for Space Exploration. Launching in late 2008, it will travel to the moon to find safe landing ... More About: Moon , The Moon
Get the right data on your Feed Subscriber Numbers
2008-05-09 15:01:00 A few days ago I discovered that your Feed Burner stats may not be reflecting the true number of subscribers that subscribe to your blog feed. I found out that the problem was that most WordPress themes have the RSS links embedded in the templates and most of us forget to change that. Check post here. However, ... More About: Wordpress , Data , Numbers
Tips to fight comment spam on your blog
2008-05-05 10:32:00 If you feel this way, you are not alone. There is a lot of comment spam on the Internet these days and blogs which allow anonymous comments (Such as mine) bear the worst of it. According to Akismet (one of the best Anti-Spam service around) more than 90% of the comments that are left on blogs ... More About: Google , Tips , Blogging , Blog
A different way to upgrade your WordPress
2008-05-02 09:20:00 I have tried my best to keep up to speed with WordPress upgrades over the various releases since I started this blog. But I have been lazy about upgrading minor releases because it’s always too much work. The scary part is that it is the minor releases which are the most important as they are usually ... More About: Wordpress
How to ensure that your FeedBurner stats are correct
2008-04-30 11:30:00 I publish my blog feed using Feed Burner . And I always used to think that the statistics shown in my FeedBurner account for the number of subscribers is correct. Well, as it turns out I was completely wrong. And your statistics shown in your FeedBurner account could be wrong as well (especially if you are ... More About: Feedburner , Stats
Google and Page Rank
2008-04-30 10:36:00 Earlier this year I lost my Google Page Rank . It went from 3 to 0. Now, as the owner of a personal blog, that shouldn’t have mattered to me, but it still felt bad. Later I figured that loosing that Page Rank was not such a bad thing after all because it helped me fight ... More About: Musings
You can NEVER BE TOO CAREFUL when it comes to PHISHING
2008-04-29 22:37:00 Notice the caps in the title of this post. You can never be too careful when it comes to Phishing . As the Wikipedia link suggests: “Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication“ This ... More About: Internet , Careful
Fixing IE7 once and for all
2008-04-29 21:42:00 A while back, I wrote about the steps I took to speed up a really slow IE7 installation that I had on my laptop. Although I use Firefox most of the time (though I am not very happy with that these days), I do need to use Internet Explorer every so often (there are certain ...
Stupid Windows Trick - Mass Renaming
2008-04-28 11:47:00 Here’s a trick which you don’t use every day, but I believe that every thing you know can come in handy some day. This is a stupid little trick that I discovered quite by chance. I am not sure where anyone would want to use this, but here’s a trick to rename multiple files in ... More About: Windows , Stupid , Trick , Mass
Exporting your Google Analytics data
2008-04-26 09:36:00 Google Analytics is such a neat tool for tracking how your website or blog is doing. Sure, there are many tools out there which claim to be so much better, and some of them are even free (though most are paid), but I still find Analytics to be a much better overall package. I was ... More About: Google , Data , Google Analytics
One of those posts about self?
2008-04-26 09:11:00 My newfound friend on the blog-o-sphere decided to tag me, and now I guess, I need to write about myself a little (and I need to remember to link my About page to this post when I am done). It’s the hardest thing to write about yourself, but thankfully there is a template going around ... More About: Musings , Self , Posts
FeedBurner BuzzBoost Tips
2008-04-24 16:51:00 I have said this before, Feed Burner is the best way to publish a feed for your website, blog, podcast, whatever. It’s not because it’s so easy to use. It’s not because it’s so cool. (It is all that). It’s because of all the features that you have available to you for your feed. Features such ... More About: Tips , Feedburner
It?s raining traffic around here
2008-04-23 21:06:00 Take a look at my Google Analytics visitor graph for this blog. That is yesterday. I posted this reply to a post on the Gmail blog and that resulted in this traffic spike. I usually get around 100 visitors a day mostly through Google search, but this was too much. Almost 3000 visitors in one day. ... More About: Traffic , Blogging , Musings , Raining
My two cents on the OBC reservation issue in India
2008-04-22 21:16:00 A lot has been said about the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the 27% reservation in educational institutes for students which belong to OBC groups. I don’t want to give an opinion on this (as whatever my opinion might be, it’s been given by others so many times). What I want to talk about is ... More About: India , Musings , Cents , Issue
Gmail: 9 reasons not to archive messages
2008-04-22 05:11:00 The official Google blog posted about why you should NEVER delete your gmail, and instead should archive it: 9 reasons to archive. I don’t know why they want people to use more and more storage space on their servers (it’s almost as if they were making money by occupying more space). Anyway, for any argument there ... More About: Gmail , Archive , Messages , Reasons
Google knows what the world is thinking
2008-04-21 21:21:00 Google gives us a sneak peek into what’s on the top of people’s minds from around the world. Google Labs used to have an experiment called Google Suggest. This was a type of Google Search which suggested keywords as you typed in the search box (presumably based on what people are searching on Google). ... More About: Google , Funny , World , The World , Thinking
Learning Computer Science without Computers
2008-04-16 13:17:00 For me, computer science always existed outside a computer. Or maybe I was taught that way. I learned about binary numbers in my mathematics class and I also learned about what makes a computer tick, I learned all about AND gates, and Flip Flops, and what not. Programming a computer came naturally and I never ... More About: Science , Computers , Computer , Musings , Learning
How to make the battery last longer on your laptop
2008-04-15 20:58:00 All of us laptop users have at one point or another wished that our battery last a little while longer when a power source is not readily available. There are many things that you can do to ensure that you get the maximum out of your laptop’s battery. And all of these are easy things. Below ... More About: Laptop , Battery , Make
Running multiple WordPress installations using the same MySQL Database
2008-04-14 21:04:00 Did you know that you can host multiple WordPress installations on the same MySQL database? If no, then this article is for you. There can be many benefits of hosting multiple WordPress installations on the same MySQL database. Usually hosting providers have a limit of how many databases you are allowed to create with their service. ... More About: Wordpress , Running , Database , Mysql , Installations
Resize your pictures in a snap
2008-04-11 13:30:00 I regularly need to resize pictures that I have for various reasons (sending emails, embedding into documents, embedding into blog posts, etc.). This usually requires opening up some image editing software to resize the images. This can get painful if there are multiple pictures to resize (suppose I had to share pictures I took from ... More About: Pictures , Snap , Resize
Further clarification on various versions of .Net
2008-04-09 07:18:00 Scott Hanselman has an excellent post clearing the confusion surrounding .Net Framework versions. Although, I did take a shot at explaining my understanding of them, but I guess I wasn’t entirely correct. Here’s a summary of Scott’s explanation: So, the CLR in 3.5 is still the same one as 3.0 and 2.0. The difference is ...
Compare Documents Side-By-Side in Excel and Word
2008-04-08 21:47:00 A post earlier on How-To Geek reminded me of a function that I use very frequently when I need to work with multiple documents in Word or Excel . The How-To Geek post talks about how you can select multiple windows on the taskbar and then right-click them to tile them vertically (a technique that I ... More About: Office , Compare , Side
Accessing Session from inside a HTTPHandler
2008-04-08 12:37:00 Here something I didn’t know before. By default, you cannot access the session from within an Asp.Net HttpHandler. To be able to do that, your handler class has to implement an extra interface: System.Web.SessionState.IRequiresSessionS tate So, the declaration of your class looks like this: If you don’t do this, and try to access Session object from within the ... More About: Programming , Inside
Live Search scores one over Google? for now
2008-04-07 20:34:00 Versus I have always liked how Google Search can be used as a command prompt on the Internet. However, here’s something I discovered today which Google Search doesn’t do while Microsoft ’s Live Search does. Microsoft Live Search solves Algebra. Yup. That’s right. Look at the screen shots below: I guess kids can check their homework ...
Geographic distribution of blog readers
2008-04-05 10:56:00 Where do your readers come from? Readers for this blog are from all over the world. Some are of course regular readers, other come and go. This is what Google Analytics shows me of my blog visitors over the past month: As can be seen, the visitors are from all over (most coming from the ... More About: Blogging , Musings , Distribution , Blog
Google adds scrolling to its ad units
2008-04-03 22:25:00 I recently noticed that the AdSense ad units that display on my blog had funny arrows in them. Earlier I thought that they were some bad Html code creeping in somehow (angled brackets) but these were appearing consistently I dared to click on one, and the moment I did, the ads displaying in the unit ... More About: Google , Musings , Units
WordPress 2.5 - will the fun never end: Gravatar Support
2008-04-01 20:06:00 For some reason (call it my naivety) I don’t like to install plugins to my WordPress installation unless absolutely necessary. I also always wanted Gravatar integration in this blog, but didn’t want to install the plugin. So, imagine my joy when i discovered that there is built-in support for Gravatars in WP 2.5. Well. it ... More About: Wordpress , Support
Zooming really is smart in FireFox 3
2008-03-31 20:00:00 I run my laptop at a resolution of 1920×1200. Given this low resolutions some sites are nearly unreadable and so I usually have to zoom into the page (Ctrl+Scroll Wheel) till I can read it comfortably. What was irritating is that if I zoom into a page and then on the same tab I navigate to ... More About: Firefox , Smart , Firefox 3
A review of the latest WordPress: 2.5
2008-03-31 14:22:00 Yesterday, I installed the latest WordPress release (release 2.5) and now that I have had a chance to play around with it, its time to quickly talk about the first impressions. And it’s all good. Brand New Dashboard: Most of the visible changes in WordPress are around the administration side. Here is what the new Admin ... More About: Wordpress , Review
Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 - it?s all good
More articles from this author:2008-03-31 09:46:00 WordPress 2.5 just got out and I decided to upgrade as soon as possible (I was also getting some weird database errors all of a sudden and most evidence pointed towards WordPress code not able to handle newer MySQL databases - after upgrade the issues are gone). It went simpler than the last time I upgraded. As ... More About: Wordpress , Good 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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