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Why are we Indians like this?
2008-03-29 09:27:00 I recently read a blog post at The Naive India n talking about why we Indians don’t need to spend any efforts on initiatives such as the Earth Hour (although the comment is made in a jovial tone, rather than a serious one). Why do I have a problem with this? The reason is that most Indians ... More About: Musings
OpenDNS Performance in India
2008-03-19 09:39:00 A post at Digital Inspirations (a blog I frequently read) inspired me to finally get down and measure the performance of Open DNS as an alternative to your ISPs DNS Server. I live in India and since there are no OpenDNS servers in India, logically, despite the massive hardware behind the OpenDNS offering, the local ISP’s ... More About: Performance
Firefox 3 Beta 4 makes me happy
2008-03-19 08:01:00 I use Firefox exclusively for my surfing needs. I only use IE when I need to test a site that I am developing. Even though I am a die hard Firefox user, I still have had a love-hate relationship with Firefox so far. I like to never close my browser window. I usually have at ... More About: Beta , Firefox 3 , Happy
Speed up your Windows XP Start Menu
2008-03-14 07:12:00 If you are anything like me, you must have literally hundreds of software installed on your computer. Even though I have a large number of applications installed on my laptop, 80% of the time, I am only using 20% of them. One side effect of having so many installed is that your Start Menu becomes humongous, ... More About: Windows , Speed
Stop Comment Spam using WordPress
2008-03-08 12:54:00 I love Akismet for battling comment spam. But ever so often, Akismet also slips up. Now, you can help Akismet by tweaking some settings in your WordPress settings and further reduce your comments spam. There are two ways you can do this, both involve using your WordPress Admin Panel. Go to Options, and then go to ... More About: Wordpress , Spam , Stop , Comment
Windows Live Writer Spell Check
2008-03-06 12:42:00 I really feel a little dumb today. My biggest complaint against Live Writer has been that it doesn’t have a spell check feature. Finally Google tells me that it does have a spell check, but then why can’t I see it. So I search again. I find this post from months ago which says the problem ... More About: Windows , Windows Live , Check
Google helped me beat Comment Spam on my blog
2008-02-28 15:04:00 Here is a sure shot way to get rid of comment Spam on your blog. Take Google ’s help. Recently, my Google Page Rank was dropeed from 3 to 0. I still feature in the Google Index and search results, so I guess my site hasn’t been banned. Anyway, ever since I dropped to PR 0, ... More About: Musings , Blog , Comment
Quick Send Gmail using SlickRun
2008-02-15 14:17:00 I use SlickRun to speed up my life on my laptop. An article on LifeHacker inspired me to create a new magic word. If you are the kind that always keeps yourself logged in to Gmail (or Google) in your favorite browser, then this will be really useful for you. Now, to create the magic word, ... More About: Quick , Send
Human Computation
2008-02-14 09:36:00 Luis von Ahn gave a talk a couple of years ago on Human Computation. Basically, harnessing human power to solve problems computers can’t solve. Just to demontrate how much unused human power is available for harnessing, here are some figures he threw up on the screen: Here’s the video, do watch it if the topic ... More About: Video , Funny , Technology , Games
Another picture, with a little twist
2008-02-04 12:08:00 Here’s another picture that I took on my visit to the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary. The picture had not come out very nice because of lighting reasons. But, the form of the bird was too good, so I decided to fire up photoshop and worked on it a little: This is a painted stork that I ... More About: Photography , Photoshop , Animals , Picture , Twist
The Flying Ducks
2008-01-29 09:30:00 I took this picture on my visit to the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary near my home. More About: Photography , Animals , Flying
Wordpress Installation Hangs on Step 2
2008-01-23 13:20:00 I have been trying to install the latest Wordpress (2.3.2) on our Windows Server for a long time. The famous 5-minute install keeps failing me for some reason. My installation hangs/fails at Step 2 (where it is supposed to show me the admin password). Well, the solution to my problem turned out to be in php.ini. ... More About: Blogging , Alla
3 most useful Browser Shortcuts
2008-01-21 08:29:00 The help file in Firefox lists about 58 common shortcuts (I guess the total number must be much bigger). I am pretty sure IE has a similar number of shortcuts. But who wants to learn all these shortcuts. I use 3 shortcuts and that is all I need: Alt + D - This takes you to ... More About: Browser , Shortcuts
A day out with the birds
2008-01-20 20:50:00 It has been some time since we have been planning to visit Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary and finally today, along with some friends, it happened. The place is about 20 minutes driving from home and there really was no excuse to delay it for so long. For those living in Gurgaon, India , it is about 30 ... More About: Photography , Wildlife , Birds
The Magic of Stumble Upon (or is it?)
2008-01-17 12:04:00 Everyone would tell you that one of the best ways to build up popularity on your site over the long term is to get it Stumble d Up. And I saw the magic first hand yesterday on my blog. Below is my visitor graph: Now, if you see, my number of visitors just sky-rocketed. And sure ... More About: Magic , Musings , Blog , Upon
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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