So almost unbelievably, I’m posting again, after a gap of (checks the site) 6 weeks :O. What happened? Ok, in chronological sequence: 1. Oblivion – TES IV sucked almost 3 weeks of my life. Mostly in figuring out how to get it to play on my laptop (Many thanks to asp …
I’ve often found myself discomfited browsing the Net at a public computer or even with a friend’s PC – where’s my favourite browser? where are all my bookmarks? What is my mail password and so on. Portable Apps are a good solution for this. I had some time yesterday to …
I have a weird problem when using BlogJet to write articles in that any post I publish using BlogJet actually queues up to be posted 8 hours later! It’s a bug in BlogJet, because 8 hours is the offset I have entered in my WordPress settings so that all my …
From my feedburner stats, I can see that there 3–4 people who have bookmarked my site feed in Firefox/Bloglines/Google Desktop. I would like to say a sincere “Thank You” to all of you. Of the millions of blogs out there (and many of which are better written and more frequently …
I have been reading the book Getting Things Done by David Allen the last few days. I haven’t actually started implementing GTD yet in my life though in the course of reading the book I have tried to start putting atleast the 2 minute rule into effect. What I just …
Let’s start with a bunch of links shall we? Flickr’s MySQL Database Second Life’s MySQL Database A small Data Warhouse running on MySQL; A big DataWarehouse on MySQL Obviously, any open-source database that can (given the right hardware) reliably and quickly handle a 3TB database deserves some serious respect. Though …
I’m really cranking them out today aren’t I ;)? Something that struck me whenever I get into a fundamentally new type of utility / technology (Blogging, Dashboards or a new OS) is the fact that I am always interested in finding stuff for that utility or technology that will give …
I’ve recently started using Cocomment to keep track of any comments I make (with a plan to add my recent comments to a sidebar in my about page – see my Blog To-Do list). For this, I had started using CoComment’s firefox extension. While it works well with sites it …
So now that I finally have managed to restore my PC to more or less where it was before the crash, it’s time to reflect on the error of my ways. Lesson #1: The Windows XP default look is fine..really. Stop messing with it, when you know you are going …
It looks like del.icio.us has gone through a small redesign – the top header is now a gray background and the fonts for the entire site have changed (looks like a common serif font, but I can’t place it). I personally think the new look is easier on the eyes. …