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Kerala Bar Camp 2 Scheduled
2008-01-25 14:49:00
Event details Feb 3 9:30 A.M. Venue (fixed) DOE (Department of Electronics) Seminar Hall CUSAT Thrikkakara Camp us You are informally invited to join us at the BarCamp in Kerala along with your pillows and your loudest snore. It will be greatly appreciated if you can blog about it or spread the word about it somehow or the other. If you blog ...

Say Tnx for the links
2008-01-25 13:30:00
If you have been to the DigitalPoint Forums in the past few months, you might have noticed the new player in the link sales area - TNX.Net. They are one player who got my attention by promoting themselves extensively on the blogs I read and on DigitalPoint. I never really gave my time to link sales ...
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Update Wordpress leaving your hair intact
2008-01-24 21:12:00
Update Wordpress leaving your hair intact. Seriously! I have Wordpress on majority of my sites and I have a bad headache each time I do a upgrade. I find it tiresome hair-pulling to have all the file backups and database backups and deactivate the plugins, upload new files and all that. Takes me about 30 ...
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Just Realized: Stray Dogs Need to be Protected!
2008-01-17 21:04:00
Stray dogs need to be protected, for the better of poor bike riders like me. You should probably know by now that I am not a biker as such. Bikes for me are just point A to B transport hardware. Yesterday me and my friend were going out shopping small time when ...
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Easy Making Money Offline
2008-01-10 21:14:00
I have not been very successful with affliate programs in the web world, so I recently took up a affliate agency program with a bank here who pay per sale. I know it sounds pretty cheapass, but every penny of money counts and the way I am planning to make money is a mixture of ...
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First Adsense Check: Millionaire?.?
2008-01-09 21:27:00
Millionaire? Not Exactly Last week I got my first Adsense Check from Google. Nothing else for a better New Year Gift! Hope I keep getting these every month! How much was it? The check was a huge princely amount of 127$! Yep, I have not left out any zeros on either side intentionally or otherwise! First? Yep, right ...
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BarCamp Time for Kerala
2008-01-08 21:27:00
One of my resolutions for the New Year was to connect with more techies and webbies offline and hence have a pool of contacts I can always count on to have a drink or a watch a movie together or maybe simply ask about their adsense earnings for the week ;). Orkut was my first ...
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I Know Why Eve Tasted the Apple
2008-01-07 17:59:00
Yesterday night at about approx 2100 hrs IST I realized why Eve tasted the forbidden Apple after all! Why? How? What and all those answers coming right up! I reached back in Cochin yesterday night after visiting my School - Rani Public School in Vadakara, Calicut. I finally had to chance to collect some important ...

New Year Spoilsports
2008-01-02 09:38:00
Usually the New Year for me meant getting drunk and partying out on the roads with friends doing things that are usually illegal and totally stupid. This year I chose to do something different and try slide into the new year than try to run head on into it with a bottle of Vodka! A ...

In the spirit of Christmas!
2007-12-23 20:11:00
Its the holiday week, I expect the traffic to dip on almost all the blogs and online shopping and even offline shopping to pick as CNN reports that a chunk of US citizens are not done with the X’Mas shopping yet! And as for this blog and me, I might get back to regular blogging if ...
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The King Returns with Insane FREE hosting
2007-12-11 19:36:00
King Nomar, my good Internet friend and my first Internet money making friend went low profile after he sold his blog. I am sure he must have got some nice change since it was bought by iEntry. The very same iEntry who bought CashQuests for $15,000 (I think) recently and are in the perfect process ...
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AGLOCO Dead: May Your soul rest in pieces!
2007-12-10 21:58:00
So, its official today, AGLOCO is a dead horse project. All that hype claiming to make you money for surfing the Internet and all that hard work you guys put in for getting referrals and accumulating are hereby declared worthless! My first reaction was a smile when I got this email. I was expecting this anytime ...
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Humour: The Cruel Indian Reality!
2007-12-07 18:58:00
This is another of those mails I keep getting everyday. This one actually portrays the funny side of Indian society. Keep smiling and have a smashing weekend! Do consider sharing this post with your friends with a stumble or a digg The problem of reading things too literally and reading between the lines? ...
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College, studies and blogging.
2007-12-05 03:34:00
Title says it why I have not been blogging, not chatting with you people on Yahoo, MSN and even Orkut for that matter. I have been am really busy trying to figure out the various protocols like TCP/IP, figuring out who a System Analyst is and learning about binary trees (nope, not those normal green ...
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Scratch my back, and I Will Scratch Yours. Traffic Exchange
2007-11-27 12:32:00
I wanted to do this for a long time now, but had decided to do it only after my blog has some decent statistics worth bragging talking about. I always think linking out to others is a great way to grab their attention.Vandelay Website Design blog is one such blog who has used post level ...
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Video: Vir Das on News On The Loose
2007-11-23 23:42:00
Another set of fabulous videos from Vir Das, the acclaimed comedian who airs weekly on CNBC’s News On the Loose. You can call me a fan of these kind of TV Shows. I do not watch them regularly, but do manage to find them on repeat shows and stuff. So, here are a few videos ...
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Orkut now safe for Girls! More New Privacy Features
2007-11-22 01:29:00
Since the facelift, Google ’s Orkut has been silently adding new features to the Indian/ Brazillian MySpace (is calling them that justified?). Along with better spam management in communities, choosing what you want to show to the world and other numerous features tell us that Google is dead serious about making it big in the US ...
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MyBlogLog and Adsense Stats Comparison
2007-11-20 20:14:00
Last weekend saw one of my humour posts hit it big with StumbleUpon users. It was well received and hence a few ‘thumbs up’ brought in a lot of visits in a short time of 20 minutes. Now thats fast! But the other day I was checking the stats from all sources and MyBlogLog and Adsense ...
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Online Privacy Essential Services
2007-11-13 07:20:00
I have been using these tools for a long time now, so today I decided to give them a plug here These are the most important tools which I use at least once a day to safe guard my inbox from spam, which by the way has not been very successful at the moment. BugMeNot: ...
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Want to waste 3 hours? Watch Saawariya.
2007-11-09 17:55:00
I am never a movie buff, but I do go to about 5-7 movies a year or so. But firstI just came home after watching Saawariya , the much anticipated Diwali release. I am too stupified to even guess what I did the last 3 hours of my life. Not a single scene stays in my ...
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Take Action. Can you do it?
2007-11-07 21:07:00
If you are anything like me, you usually spend a great deal of time online, chatting, hanging out at the forums, researching new niches and ways to make money online. The amount of information that you intake each day is simply enormous. Have you ever taken any action on the information you know yet? Most of ...
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Humour: Who is this Doctor?
2007-11-03 22:59:00
Today I found myself laughing my heads off with this email I got. Its a questionnaire about common “myths” on good health. A must read for anyone concerned about their health!. Which is your favorite tip? HEALTH- QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION Q: I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true? A: Your heart is ...
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Orkut Applications, Open Social and other Weekend News
2007-11-02 17:28:00
Today the much awaited Google led Open Social went live and there is a large buzz in it since a lot of social communities are a part of it including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. Though MySpace was not on the list, ...
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Weirdest Search Terms for a Web Design/SEO blog!
2007-10-30 21:55:00
While you have nothing apart to do online, I usually engage myself in my sites stats which usually make no sense like our stock markets One set of stats I always keep an eye out for is my search engine keyword traffic. One one side, its a good SEO practice to write ...
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Get your Own Edu Blogs and Links For Free
2007-10-29 20:41:00
What if I told you that I can tell you a trick that will help you own unlimited .edu blog for free? What if I told you that .edu backlinks are most sought after links by most link builders and SEO Gurus everywhere? Guess you already knew that. I recently wrote my first ebook ...
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The End of Teen life and Google B?day Gift
2007-10-27 16:23:00
Today I, The Anand turned twenty after, well 20 years of my birth I usually don’t really celebrate my birthdays cuz its been that way for as long as I can remember. So no birthday cake cutting pictures or party pictures today. I was also happy to discover that I share my birthday with ...
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Privacy: How safe is the Alexa Toolbar
2007-10-24 16:22:00
My Alexa rankings were dropping like anything for the last few weeks without any kind of explanations or reasons. In a bid to increase my rankings, I decided to try the recently released Alexa Plugin for firefox. I was using the Search Status plugin earlier which was pretty nifty giving me a lot of informations ...
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Anand is not dead yet!
2007-10-20 19:06:00
Just to clarify my status, I just wanted to tell a few fans (mainly myself ) of my blog and other readers that Anand is not dead yet! I was putting up posting to the next day all these days mainly due to laziness and pressure at college and other not so life threating problems. So what was I upto all these days? I had the first flight travel of my life on 18th Oct. 2007 to Chennai in Indian Airlines from my home town Cochin. And good things come in a big box, I had my return in the evening in Deccan Air. I got a shock that my pet project Shymz might be delayed either indefinitely or is temporarily shelved. I bought a few more domains to make some small minisites which will see the daylight in a week or so. College is giving me the pressure with the exams on in December which I hate. Talk about studying rather than learning Alexa hates me and has been pushing my rankings out of the window in the last few weeks. Beats me, since the traffic is more than 100% up than before! I ha...
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Paypal Spam Is not dead!
2007-10-11 08:59:00
Recently Yahoo! claimed that they have managed to stop all Ebay and Paypal spam emails sometime early this month. I always thought Yahoo! had a great technology for stopping spam and they have some cool technology like DomainKeys and stuff like that. Today I got a email saying that my Paypal needs verification. Here ...
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MyBlogLog Unhide Members
2007-10-08 13:48:00
Sometime back I unknowingly hid a member of my MyBlogLog Community from appearing in my recent visitors list. Later on, I felt bad about it and was looking for a way to restore/unblock that person’s face on mybloglog faces. But thanks to the great documentation of the MyBlogLog site and wonderfully helpful blog they have, ...
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