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- When it comes to blowing one's own trumpet, no channel comes near Times Now,no newspaper like ToI 4 days ago
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- Trying hard to stick to 1 of my new yr resolutions - read less twitter & more blogs. Not quite successful yet. This is quite some addiction 2 weeks ago
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Getting Twitter and Google hosted domains to talk over Gtalk
I was quite irritated to find out recently that if you have a Google hosted domain and use that to login to Gtalk, you cannot communicate with Twitter without jumping through a few hoops, and even then, only under certain … Continue reading
pagii – Yet Another Social Network (YASN)
Just now got an invite to Pagii, from some stranger, sent directly to my office email. Bad, bad. This turns me off such ventures completely. Getting invites from known folks who are trying out different YASNs, is irritating but not … Continue reading
Updates: My own planet system and twitter
Resurrection of lug-delhi planet. I intend to put in different planets based on my interests. I am calling it a planetary system Hopefully others would find it successful. In other news, I have been trying out Twitter for the past … Continue reading
Cameras don’t take pictures, people take pictures
Flickr’s camera stats is an enormously humbling resource for me. It would be the most powerful message for newbie photography enthusiasts – creativity rules technology any day, so stop thinking too much about your camera. The kind of amazing photos … Continue reading
My GPG Key has changed
Very embarrassingly, after a spate of reinstalls, crashes, backup of wrong copies and my policy of destroying old backups in the house, I discovered that I have lost the secret keys of my GPG keypair(I had not used them for … Continue reading
An Interesting Excel Bug
Joel has an interesting post about a current Excel 2007 bug. Here is the short explanation given by Joel. What is 3 x 1/3, if I ask you? You would rattle off “1, of course”. What if I tell you … Continue reading
Yeah, and a J to you too!
I finally figured out why I kept seeing a mysterious “J” frequently in mails. I use Thunderbird, and it never struck me that what was common between all these mails is that they are all from Outlook users. It seems … Continue reading
Ubuntu Edgy out in October end
Haven’t written in ages. So thought I would write down something that I am really looking forward to right now. My distro of choice Kubuntu/Ubuntu is releasing their latest on October 26. From this blog, the RC will be out … Continue reading
Check out Blinklist for your social bookmarks
Ever since the host of problems at del.icio.us this past week, which left me stranded without my bookmarks, I have been looking out for other social bookmarking services. I checked out both Simpy and Blinklist. Simpy has a clean, delicious … Continue reading
Gmail’s crazy dot-in-your-email-address policy
According to this Gmail FAQ, Gmail doesn’t recognize dots (.) as characters within a username. This way, you can add and remove dots to your username for desired address variations. … If you created your account with a dot in … Continue reading
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