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Alexa ranking changes: What does it mean?
2008-05-19 00:00:00 This has beena bad habit for a long time. Check once a day what’s been going on with my Alexa rankings. Everyone knows the ranking were not of much relevance unless you were comparing sites in the same industry or market. So when I check today, surprise, the ranking of my site has gone up ... More About: Ranking
Your lovely Weekly Communal News Bulletin
2007-11-17 00:00:00 Everything is so communally charged in India these days. Genius observation, isn't it? 1. All those historical wrongs that have to be righted 2. All those religions conversions that have to be done to add to the flock 3. All that past ruling-class status to be regained 4. All those westernizing influences to be ... More About: News , Bulletin , Weekly , Lovely
Google Adsense impression reports vs Mybloglog click stats
2007-11-14 00:00:00 Hmm.. website stats programs are never accurate. They are not meant to be. After all, no one is still clear about exactly what a visitor or reader is! But sometimes you find such variations that it is quite crazy to reconcile them. On this blog, I use Mybloglog stats to figure out ... More About: Google , Adsense , Click , Google Adsense , Stats
Pseudo secular media and Nandigram: What they are saying about Buddhadeb Bh
2007-11-14 00:00:00 The 'pseudo secular' media is keeping totally quiet about Buddhadeb and Nand igram . Not a peep out of them. Some of them, in fact, are reporting that it is a 'reaction' to the 'action', initiated by violent Maoists and the CPI(M) retaliation was spontaneous, and entirely natural. Not! According to this screenshot, taken ... More About: Media , Secular
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the Modi of West Bengal
2007-11-12 00:00:00 There, I said it. The scale may be smaller in the case of Nandigram. But the basic fact is the same. There was violence by a large group against a much smaller group. There were deaths, more on the side of the smaller group. There was looting, there was rape. No ... More About: West , West Bengal , Modi , Char , Attach
Wordpress Magazine themes - I like!
2007-11-12 00:00:00 Seriously, running a site like DanceWithShadows without a proper CMS is a pain. It has been bothering me for a long time. I have been exploring how to integrate the site into a CMS for a while - and that quest still goes on! But occasionally, looking at Magazine -style ... More About: Wordpress , Themes
Has Musharraf just sealed his own coffin?
2007-11-06 00:00:00 Or purchased his own one-way ticket out of the country? I am really disappointed in this man. And also in Pakistanis. Musharraf squandered his big opportunity to finally turn Pakistan into a modern democratic nation, and Pakistanis squandered away their chance to decide the direction their country should take. Musharraf, after he ... More About: Coffin
Rahul Dravid dropped, but I don?t understand the hoo-ha
2007-10-30 00:00:00 Disclaimer: I am no cricket expert. Not even a cricket enthusiast. So kindly forgive, if you can, the crimes I commit in this post. So Rahul Dravid has been dropped from the Indian ODI team - at least for two matches as I understand it. What I don't get are the ... More About: Understand , Drop
What?s not to like about Sreesanth?
2007-10-04 00:00:00 Some people seem to have a problem with dear Sreesanth . He is psycho (in the comments), boorish, hands over the moral high ground to the Aussies... You know what, I don't care! And why is all this? Because he eyeballs the opposition batsmen, appeals excessively, is childish, bowls beamers... All ... More About: Rees
Mallu bloggers I have found, and occasionally read
2007-10-04 00:00:00 Have to say this about the Malayalees on the Net - much, much classier than the non-Netted Malayalees! I am a prime example, of course. People like Venugopal... smart and witty, yes. Cool, no. Not worthy to untie my sandals, so to speak. The best I have found so far is ... More About: Read , Bloggers , Ally , Mallu
Spammers mess up BusinessWorld?s About Us page
2007-09-28 00:00:00 Just saw this - a spammer has added his rubbish to BusinessWorld site's About Us Page . Hope someone there sees it and deletes the links to 'inappropriate' sites! This is one problem with everyone who runs a site. If you allow unmoderated commenting, sooner or later it becomes a bloody nuisance. And ... More About: Spammers , Sine , Mess
Cops turn molesters, we are not surprised
2007-09-21 00:00:00 I am not surprised by these two news items at all: Delhi cops suspended Delhi Police commissioner Y S Dadwal on Wednesday suspended the three cops who had allegedly refused to come to the aid of girl students, after they were molested by aspiring policemen at North Campus on Saturday night. A ... More About: Cops , Turn , Mole , Lester
Seventymm.com service standards slipping
2007-09-20 00:00:00 On Sunday, a friend visited. While talking, she asked me how my experience with the online DVD/ VCD rental service seventymm was. Told her it was not great. The reason was two-fold: One, I find their range of movies just not enough. When you want to order a movie online, you ... More About: Standards , Service , Lippi , Slip
Lionnel?s Kashmir Again video
2007-09-20 00:00:00 I met Lionnel at Not Just Jazz by the Bay, Mumbai last month. He was performing there that night. It was like, what, some two or three years after going to any kind of rock show? Maybe more. Watching Lionnel perform - just how do they get on stage and do ... More About: Video , Kashmir
Converting .lwp Lotus Word Pro file to .pdf
2007-09-18 00:00:00 Had to share this. Friend came on chat; said he has received a press release in some strange .lwp format. Does not open in MS Word . What next? I offered to do it. Was sure there would be some online converter for converting anything to anything. First I managed to find ... More About: File , Lotus , Vert
Seriously man, Britney is doing exactly what?
2007-09-11 00:00:00 You know, her fall from grace and general carelessness with underwear is kind of sad. But when performance on-stage suffers, it is no good reacting by trying to go on binge-drinking. Hope poor Britney Spears does not get any worse. After all, people my age grew up with her, though ... More About: Doing
Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag or King Kong vs Godzilla?
2007-09-08 00:00:00 So I watched it - first day, second show. Because I was sure this is gonna be a super duper flop. What else could you think, after watching the ridiculous promos on TV? In the promos, there was Ajay Devgan trying to romance a play-acting Nisha Kothari in small pieces of ... More About: Ram Gopal Varma , King , King Kong , Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag , Godzilla
Reading The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
2007-09-04 00:00:00 I am halfway through The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple. So far it has struck me as a book that's written quite like a novel. And so easy to read. For someone like me who would rather spend the nights reading science fiction, ... More About: Reading
A normal day in Delhi: Eve teasing a karate coach, blueline accident and mo
2007-09-03 00:00:00 All that in the morning papers. In the case of the unfortunate eve teaser who had the bad luck to try and grope a 24-year old Karate coach in a Blueline bus, I can't help feeling thrilled. Tough babes are da sexy! The jerks tried their stuff in the bus, and ... More About: Delhi , Accident , Coach , Teas
Desipundit site down, account suspended
2007-09-01 00:00:00 It's 1.45 am, and for a second I wasn't sure what I saw. The desipundit.com site seems to be suspended by the web host. This is the message I saw: This Account Has Been Suspended ... More About: Site
Comments on media sites on Mumbai riots: Dumb and dumber
2007-08-25 00:00:00 Yes, really. The comments on news websites (even after moderation) are so ridiculous sometimes. Especially when the topic is even slightly sensitive. Rediff message boards are a perfect example of this. Take any story that has some religious angle, and you will find a great brawl. The horrible English is OK, ... More About: Media , Mumbai , Comments , Sites , Dumb
Delhi drivers attack junctions the way Alonso attacks corners!
2007-08-24 00:00:00 I was in Mumbai recently, during the hard rainy season. Met Bijoy of BSMotoring (he's a classmate from Kerala) and while we were discussing an old favourite topic, he explained that he likes Fernando Alonso , the reigning world champion. Seems the hot-headed spaniard has a way of attacking corners that ... More About: Drivers , Delhi , Corners , Attacks
I am jealous of Text Link Ads and ReviewMe users!
2007-08-23 00:00:00 Yes. I am. Heh heh. If you have been blogging for a while, you know what TLA is. Text Link Ads are those little text links that you see on some blogs and sites that link directly to another website. Essentially what does TLA do? It offers bloggers a way to monetize ... More About: Text Link Ads , Users , Jealous
The Elder Wand Mystery: All about the Deathly Hallows? Elder Wand
2007-08-23 00:00:00 The Elder Wand and all that stuff When I write my initial post about the Plot Holes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , I never expected the kind of response it generated. My plot holes were picked apart, analysed, dissected, destroyed, thrown in the garbage bin, recovered and refurbished and thrown ... More About: Mystery , The Deathly Hallows
Pligg?s tag problem
2007-08-19 00:00:00 Recently, we started a Digg-like Formula One social news bookmarking site using the popular open source script Pligg. To a large extent, it runs well.I am no PHP or database expert and can barely edit a CSS file, but have managed to successfully install it on a few domains, and this ... More About: Problem
Open letter to Taslima Nasrin tries to argue the unarguable
2007-08-19 00:00:00 At least that is what I think. Sharique has written an open letter to the firebrand atheist (and anti-Islamist) writer on indianmuslims.in I have a few problems with it, though. Before that, just how does she spell her name? In the Indianmuslims.in post, her name is mentioned as both Nasrin and Nasreen ... More About: Open , Letter , Open Letter , The U , Argue
India - US 123 nuclear agreement nonsense as Singh and US differ on testing
2007-08-17 00:00:00 First of all, I do not claim to know much about the Indo-US 123 Nuclear Co-operation agreement. So this post is not about that at all. But there has been something that Dr Manmohan Singh and proponents of the 123 agreement in India have been claiming. They say that India has ... More About: Nonsense , Testing , Agreement
How about a privilege motion against incompetent diplomacy?
2007-08-17 00:00:00 Continuing on the theme of my last post. Today I heard that Arun Shourie is going to file a privilege motion against the PM Dr Manmohan Singh for misleading parliament on the nuclear issue. More specifically for claiming in parliament that India can conduct nuclear testing if it wants, and that ... More About: Diplomacy , Motion , Tent
Drunken driving in Mumbai and New Delhi, and how they are tackled
2007-08-10 00:00:00 Been a resident of Mumbai for 12 years, and almost one year in Delhi now. All metros have a problem of drinking and driving, and accidents caused by it. You hear a lot less about it in Mumbai generally, but when you do, it is on the lines of half ... More About: Driving , New Delhi , Ving
Blank Noise Project - what next?
More articles from this author:2007-08-01 00:00:00 You say anything about Blank Noise Project , and you instantly get hit with a deluge of abuse. Not the fault of those behind it, definitely. It is an either-you-are-with- us, or you-are-with- the-terrorists mentality. Of some of their readers. Goes to show that small-mindedness is not the exclusive preserve of ... 1, 2 |
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