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Use Google Web History to remember where you went
2008-01-14 06:17:00 This is what happens to me all the time: I spend a nice amount of time searching for something by constructing better search queries and end up finding it; but then I forget to bookmark it and when I need it next, I need to search all over again. Ever have that happen to you? Sure ... More About: Google , History
Google Woes
2008-01-14 05:52:00 I wonder if anyone noticed, but my PageRank has dropped to 0 from 3. When I first noticed, I thought it was a bad dream. I just went to sleep thinking that when I will wake up it would be gone. But it persisted. Well, I have cleaned up links to external sites which can be ... More About: Google
Roadside Wisdom
2008-01-05 07:50:00 Watching a video today on the Internet, a pearl of wisdom was dropped on me. Here’s something that everyone should make their mantra: “The Key to Happiness is to Choose Happiness” Here’s a link to the video: http://explore.org/explore/india?share=mo ment&id=55 Don’t forget to watch some of the other videos on there. More About: Video , India , Musings , Wisdom
TFS31002: Unable to Connect to Team Foundation Server
2008-01-04 13:57:00 There are many reasons for why the TFS31002 error comes up. Usually its related to permissions configured for accessing TFS, firewalls blocking ports, wrong versions between Team Explorer and TFS, etc. This is what most of the posts tell you when you search for this error on Google, Live, or Yahoo. We did not have any ... More About: Microsoft , Foundation , Server , Connect
The Year of 2007
2007-12-29 00:25:00 Here’s a look at the year for this blog. This has been the first year when I have actually blogged regularly (or relatively so) through out the year. Here are some of the notable points for this blog: Since the beginning of the year, there have been approximately 20000 page views on this blog (not a ... More About: Blogging , Musings , Year
I bought a new Camera
2007-12-27 02:35:00 I recently took interest in photography and went and treated myself to a nice new camera: the Canon EOS 40D. It’s one of the newer offerings out there by Canon and boasts some nice features. It has a 10.1 mega pixels CMOS sensor. It’s fairly fast with an ability to snap 6.5 frames per sec ... More About: Photography , Gadgets , Camera , Musings
Widgetbucks quota met
2007-12-14 05:09:00 A couple of months ago, I installed WidgetBucks ads on my blog. There was a $25 sign-on bonus, and a $50 minimum payout to PayPal. It was irresistible. Last month, I cleared the minimum of $50 and thus I knew I was in line for a payment, however, my WidgetBuck account was not updating to ... More About: Blogging , Monetization
Compare two metrics in Google Analytics
2007-12-13 14:28:00 Google Analytics recently added Graph Mode (among other things) which allows you to see two metrics in your default graph at the same time. Earlier you could only see one at a time. As you can see above, you can choose any two metrics. When I choose Visits and Pageviews as shown above, I get ... More About: Google , Google Analytics , Metrics , Compare
Office 2007 SP1 Installed and No Big Difference
2007-12-12 06:20:00 SP1 for Office 2007 is now available for download from Microsoft and I went ahead and installed it. The download speed was a little low because I guess there were many who would be waiting for it to become available. Well now its installed and rebooted. I will try to see if there are any ... More About: Office 2007 , Difference , Diff
Share your Gmail Story
2007-12-11 06:18:00 I have been using Gmail for the longest time. Ever since you had to get those special invitations to get on. I have even traded one of my invitations. I have used Gmail to keep in touch with friends forever. I have been having the same Gmail conversation and it has more than 3500 emails ... More About: Google , Story , Musings , Share
(mis)understanding Agile
2007-11-29 13:10:00 A little bit humor is always good to demonstrate what something is or isn’t. This Dilbert comic strip ‘borrowed’ from Dilbert.com says it all. Now depending on your experience with Agile , it may be demonstrating to you exactly what Agile is; or it may be demonstrating exactly what Agile is not (but is usually ... More About: Programming , Funny , Understanding
IE7 Slow on Windows XP
2007-11-28 09:38:00 While I am heavily a FireFox user (though I hate it for my own reasons), I do have to use Internet Explorer from time to time (for example when I need to visit the MS partner site). Anyway, my particular version of IE is 7 and it used to bug the hell out of me ... More About: Windows , Slow , Windows Xp
An Open Source .Net Resource
2007-11-22 09:08:00 This post is to introduce everyone to an upcoming .Net resource that I have been following lately. It’s called Open WinForms. I take great pleasure in pointing everyone towards this resource because I happen to know the author personally. His name is Ramesh and he is a colleague at work. He maintains this site in his ... More About: Programming , Open Source , Source , Open-Source
Wordpress Help - Displaying a good Tag Cloud
2007-11-20 14:08:00 By default, if you use the Tag Cloud Widget, chances are that it won’t give you a good looking Tag Cloud . After I migrated to the widget world, my tag cloud looked like this: Is that ugly or what? But that’s what you would get once you have a lot of posts with a lot ... More About: Wordpress , Good
SharePoint Server 2007 - Basic vs Advanced Setup
2007-11-19 15:41:00 As I was contemplating on installing Microsoft Office Share Point Server (MOSS) 2007, I suddenly hit a roadblock: which setup type to choose? Basic or Advanced? Is there a feature difference between the two? I couldn’t decide. What I could glean from the documentation is that the only difference between the two are the following: The Basic ... More About: Setup
BlackBerry and Vodafone in India
2007-11-16 12:48:00 I got a BlackBerry and life has changed (for better or worse). But this post is not about that, it is about my first impressions with the device, the software, and the service. I got a BlackBerry Curve 8310. I have a plan from Voda fone (which recently acquired Hutch, my previous service provider). Since this ... More About: India , Gadgets , Blackberry
Google OpenSocial - bringing social networks together
2007-11-02 18:25:00 Well, don’t know about that, however, I can’t help but fall in line with all the Bloggers, and talk about Google OpenSocial . Google has launched OpenSocial which according to them “provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites.” Let me try to figure out what this means. So, if LinkedIn implements this API ... More About: Social Networking , Social Networks , Networks
Genetics and where we are going with it
2007-11-02 11:24:00 I have recently finished reading an excellent book by Michael Crichton called “Next”. It’s about the crazy world of genetics and what are the various things happening around the world using the newly discovered techniques and exploring a yet unexplored territory. As usual, it is hard to tell fact from fiction in this novel. Anyway, a ... More About: Reading , Genetics , Going , Goin
It happens only in India
2007-11-01 13:19:00 On my way to work a couple of days ago, I witnessed a couple going on scooter. I decided to take a picture: This lady is sitting on the back seat, and there is a guy in front who is actually riding the scooter (not visible). I am going to run a caption contest for this ... More About: India , Funny
The best Feed Readers round up
2007-10-30 19:30:00 As some of you may know, I serve my feed through Feed Burner and so, even though I don’t have a lot of readers, I still check on my Feedburner stats from time to time. Well, today was amazing. I recorded an all time high number of subscribers, a number which is around double the average ... More About: Readers , Blogging , Round Up
Halo 3 vs Bioshock - Bioshock wins
2007-10-28 13:08:00 This post was a long time coming but I had to make it. I have owned both the games for some time now and I got both of them together (I live in India and so games don’t become available immediately, and since I bought my XBox in the US, I have to buy them ... More About: Halo , Halo 3 , BioShock , Wins
WordPress 2.3.1 to support tags in Windows LiveWriter
2007-10-25 08:37:00 Well we all now know that to be able to insert tags in WordPpress 2.3 when using Windows LiveWriter we can use the keywords feature: However, now WordPress 2.3.1 will have support for using the Insert Tags feature in Windows LiveWriter. Good to see this as it allows me to set a reminder to ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Support
How to see when Google crawled your site
2007-10-21 20:18:00 Just in case you want to know when Google last indexed your blog, site, page; here’s a fairly quick and easy way to get that information. (I am sure there are many ways, but this works the fastest for me). Go to Google.com (or use your Browser Search Box if it is configured to ... More About: Site
Meet the Wumpus
2007-10-18 15:14:00 This is a Wumpus and if you don’t know what a Wumpus is then you need to start reading one of the best blogs (I think) on the Internet. It is called Coding Horror. Jeff Atwood, the author, calls this his power animal. It’s his personal brand. He has it on his car, his clothes, ... More About: Musings , Meet
How not to gain an extra day per year
2007-10-17 20:49:00 I posted a while ago about how to gain an extra day per year. This post is to tell everyone how bad an idea that was. I posted that we should always stand by our laptops rather than hibernate them or shut them down. This way, when we open the lids again, it takes very ... More About: Extra , Year
Today is Environment day in the Blogosphere
2007-10-15 19:48:00 Today is the day. The 15th of October. The day where we all talk about the environment. My blog is personal, so anything I put on it is my opinion. And today I am going to be opinionated about the planet, ecology, environmentalism, nature. Who was it who said: “We do not inherit the earth ... More About: Environment , Blogosphere , Today , Envi
Akismet versus Comment Spam
2007-10-10 10:36:00 I have ranted in the past about how Akismet misses some Spam comments. (Just in case you don’t know, Akismet is the best anti-spam service in the world, so you should find the plugin for your blogging platform and install it). But it’s about time I talk about how helpful it is. I went through ... More About: Versus , Comment
Intelligent World Time in Google
2007-10-06 22:53:00 I used to have a shortcut on my FireFox tool bar to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/. The reason I say, ‘used to’ is because now it’s gone. I recently discovered that Google has a world time feature built into it’s search. I love it. So now if I need to know what time it is in Munich, Germany; ... More About: World , Time , Intelligent , Gent
Microsoft .net Framework code available
2007-10-06 17:20:00 Microsoft went and did another good thing. They have made the source code for the .net framework available, though not at Open Source. It is available for reference and you can configure your Visual Studio so that your debugger will step into the framework source code while debugging. However, since everyone loves to bash Microsoft, there ... More About: Microsoft , Code , Framework , Ework
Now the bad about Windows LiveWriter
More articles from this author:2007-10-06 14:59:00 I posted before about switching to using LiveWriter for posting to my blog and all the good things that LiveWriter offers. Well, now that I have used it to write a lot of posts on my blog; I am going to talk about the bad things in LiveWriter. Of course, most of the bad ... More About: Windows , Blogging , Musings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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