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Internet outage 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Alright. I created a blog and my internet con went down for two days. It rained heavily in Hyderabad. Still wondering... After all I created just a blog. Now that's no big deal. Hmmmm. I will ponder more on that and try to associate the events. BTW currently I am in planning phase of some real hard decisions. I have identified the two paths: (1) The easy and attractive path (on which I am
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, outage
Well! Its been a while 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ho ho! It been a while since I posted some thing here. As of now I have started walking on the path that will lead me to my desired destiny and in pursuit of the same I have submitted my resignation letter at Amazon (My current workplace). I will be releaved of my duties by the end of this month.
First Post 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello there,
I heard that these online blogs allow one to record their daily or weekly thoughts and post it online. It's like a personal diary made "public". I thought that let me have one for myself. I am not sure if I will be able to update this blog on a regular basis but I will try to try my best ;-).
If you like my blog or want me to update it more frequently please drop a line. Incase of
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Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner (Book Review 004) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ISBN: 006073132X
Tagline: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.
I had completed reading Freakonomics
over a month ago and was pretty much glued to it then. However, now that I have decided to pick up The world is flat and a few Malcolm Gladwell's books, I thought that I should finish this book's review so that I do not mix things up.
About the authors
I am not an avid
Cluster maps finally 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yesterday, I was finally able to secure a clustermaps account for this blog. The registration service was blocked for a long time and I did not know any one who would invite me. However, they have reopened the registrations for now and those who wish to use this service, your time is now.
Clustermaps is a free online service that allows a website/blog to display the locations in the world from
A passage from Bible 1970-01-01 00:59:59 "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and
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Dance Bars Reopened 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It is good to know that the dance bars have been reopened. I think this was a quality and realistic decision by our judicial system which otherwise resorts to utterly failed attempts at moral policing and cultural conditioning of the masses (not to forget the role of the polity in pushing the judiciary).
Whether the dance bars are open or closed, the prostitution business will not be largely
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Evanescence: New album out in October 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Evanescence is a popular band which is mostly into alternative and gothic rock. Few rock bands have females in the group and that too as a lead singer. Evanescence's only lead singer Amy Lee is one who fits the bill very well. She's got a great voice and I like her songs and style.
Evanescence shot to fame with their album "Fallen" (at least for me) which contains hits like "Bring me to life" (
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, Evanescence
Ustad Bismillah Khan: The maestro 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Many of you (who follow the Indian news) may have heard about the demise of the legendary shehnai (Indian clarinet) maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan. I write this post to pay my heartfelt tributes to this legend.
Though I have not been an avid fan of classical music, this man along with a few others has been vividly engraved in my memory. Few pieces of music have moved me deeply and Ustad's
Biological Weapons: Issues and Threats by Chari & ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ISBN: 9812104046
This book published by the Indian Research press, has been edited by P.R. Chari and Arpit Rajain. Before I move on to the book, I would like to mention a few words about the editors as given in the book. P.R. Chari is a former member of Indian Administrative Services and has also served in the Ministry of Defense. He has worked extensively on Nuclear disarmament and
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, Weapons
, Issues
Good quotes 1970-01-01 00:59:59 1. Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgence of Society's understanding. - From the movie Batman begins
2. I have plumbed the depth of Human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right and that is to be in power. - Georges Bedault
3. Jis ke pas power hota hai, uska wrong bhi hamesha right hota hai - From the movie Sarkar (On a similar note as quote number
Wings of Fire - Arun Tiwari and APJ Abdul Kalam (B... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ISBN: 8173711461
Tagline: An autobiography of APJ AbdulKalam
with Arun Tiwari
"Wings
of fire" was perhaps the first book which I had read completely and which was not a part of my school or college syllabus :-). I had read this book in 2003 i.e. after Dr. Kalam was appointed the President of India. As I was not into the habit of reading then, I wondered if I would be able to finish this book
Some more good quotes (dogs) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I found these set of quotes on dogs. Some of them might be a little senti, but they make a lot of sense (especially to the ones who have had dogs). Thought I will post them here:
1. Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Josh Billings
2. Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain
3. The greatest
Google blog ping service in FeedBurner 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello Friends,
While browsing though A consuming Experince, I came across this post regarding Google
Blog ping service being added to FeedBurner
's PingShot utility.
You might want to add this option to your FeedBurner feeds to increase the chances of appearing prominently in Google search.
Now about phishing 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I wrote a post on spam, praised Gmail and now I get a phishing
e-mail that even Gmail couldn't block.
Whosoever wrote that mail was such a dumbo. It had a glaring spelling mistake. They "tanked" me for my patience :)). Here is a picture of the e-mail with a link pointing to a bank's website. The link appears to be legitimate and normal at first glance.
And once I hovered my mouse cursor over
Comment Feed for individual posts 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I am not sure if this is a new feature or an old one that I missed. I was moderating comments on one of my recent posts
when I came across this feed link under the post. It is a feed to the comments that appear only on that individual post (not the entire blog).
To view this feed link just click on your post's title (for example you can click on "Comment
Feed for individual posts" in this post)
Rake in feeds with blogger beta and OPML (updated)... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I am not sure about classic blogger, but I can definitely tell about blogger beta, that it has a number of options to choose from as far as feeds are concerned. If you have the right idea, you can use all of these feeds to offer your readers the flexibility to choose what they wish to read and how.
Full posts feed of your blog:
http://[your blog].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full (updated as per
Label feeds and peek-a-boo for sidebar (blogger be... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello all,
I had read about label feeds somewhere a while ago but ignored the idea thinking that I won't need label feeds. Little did I realize that label feeds is a very good feature for a blog like mine where I got multiple categories that are fundamentally different.
So finally I implemented label feeds after reading about it from Phydeaux3's blog. Now, readers who are not interested in the
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Do spammers use crawlers like search engines do? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello all,
I have been receiving a huge number of spam E-mails in my inbox and I was wondering how these spammers
work.
I don't know much about how spammers work and the title of this post might sound crazy. Those who have been following my blog closely might have noticed that I have changed the default e-mail address associated with this blog. The reason was incredible amount of spam in my
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, search engines
Blogger template anatomy (non-beta bloggers) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello readers,
I was browsing through instabloke and in it I came across a link which contains a very good explanation of a non beta blogger template
. If one wishes to learn blog hacking, one must know thy template well. I recommend you go through this article to learn more.
The writer(s) have actually use a picture of a sample blog and provided each section of the blog with its relevant CSS
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, bloggers
Anne Frank: The Diary of a young girl (Book Review... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ISBN: 0553296981
I had finished reading Anne Frank
: The Diary
of a young
girl a few days ago. This book is the most popular war documentary of the Second World War and perhaps of all times. It was published in 1947 and since then it has been translated into more than thirty languages and adapted for theatre film and television. In her introduction to the diary's first American edition, Eleanor
Sony and Bose = Flaunt material 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Alright! Here is some thing very different from my routine metaphysical ranting and ramblings ;-). We purchased a 40-inch LCD television Sony
KLV-V40A10 and a Bose Cinemate Digital Home Theatre Speaker System. Though I have not put every thing together as of now, the stuff looks pure flaunt material
. The speaker system is not exactly one of the best that bose has to offer but it is certainly
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Absolutism or un-absolutism? My Views 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Follow the original discussion here)
Definitely un-absolutism.
Careful study of the ancient texts (Gita is particular) shows that the ancients had the knowledge of parallel universes and time travel (I do not imply that they were able to travel in time because I frankly don't know about that). Concept of parallel universes is an excellent point and it kind of refutes my thought and the ancient
Extension to a Social Bookmarking hack 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello all,
This is an extension to Han's hack on social bookmarking links. Please view the original hack here.
Working on Hans's original hack, I have added a few more Social
bookmarking links to it and also made changes to its JavaScript code (that goes into the head section of the template).
The links and the JavaScript (js) code are in one text file that can be downloaded from here. If you
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, Bookmarking
, Social Bookmarking
Google Docs & Spreadsheets (updated) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 You might have come to know by now that Google
has released a service called Google Docs
& Spreadsheets
. In this service, one can use an online text editor (similar to Microsoft Word and others) to create posts and publish it to their blog.
With this service, you can:
- Have your documents published online (as a webpage) to share it with others (dedicated URL to each document, as in Google
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman (Book Revie... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ISBN: 0141022728
Tagline: The Globalized world in the Twenty-First century
Hanging around for almost a month with The World
is Flat, I finally completed it despite all the time constraints I was under. I have never read such a thick book back-to-back in my life until this one and this book is very special not just in that sense. I could have completed it within a short span but the sheer
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, Friedman
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell (Book Review ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ISBN 0349114463
Tagline: How little things can make a big difference
I was looking forward to reading books by Malcolm
Gladwell and finally got my hands on The Tipping Point. It is not a very big book and I managed to finish it in three days, reading only in my free time. Most of you might be aware that The Tipping Point is popular bestseller and a highly appreciated book. I am glad I was able
Listen to your blog and blog podcasting 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have recently added a "Listen
to this article" link in my post footer and a link to my podcast feed in my blog's sidebar. Using the link in my post footer, you can listen to my articles by way of streaming mp3 audio. Isn't that cool?
Yes. But how did you do that?
I was never into podcasting and had no clue about it. However, while browsing instabloke, I came across a link in its post footer
How to add some thing to the post footer (blogger ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have had a few people who wished to learn how I added the various links that I have in my post footer
. I have written this small tutorial which I derived from my previous post about adding social bookmark hotlinks to post footer. I have written this article assuming that you are aware of basic HTML formatting and codes don't scare you :-).
Before we proceed, I suggest you make a backup copy of
Auto-hide blogger navbar like Windows taskbar 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello Friends,
Avatar from Bloggeratto has put up a comprehensive post on how to get your blogger navbar to auto-hide like the Microsoft Windowstaskbar
. This means that after using the code from his post you can get the blogger navbar to hide and appear only when one hovers the mouse cursor over the navbar section.
To view what I am talking about, just view my blog in Firefox and check out the
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