Archive for May, 2005


Had attended my first Charismatic mass in February during the All Bandra Prayer Meeting.
When I reached Mt. Carmel’s for the prayer meeting yesterday, I realized that there was to be a mass. I reached there quicker than usual because of a shorter route via Vashi that Deepak Pitale showed me last week.
Fr. Roland celebrated the [...]

Finally, the much awaited picnic.
The picnic was at Cerejo Farms in Vasai.
We started off later than expected because A. Anita’s flight was delayed. Reached the place around 8.30am and had a good breakfast.
After this we had our usual game session. They broke us up into teams and made on-the-spot change to put James and me [...]

Realized that it has been quite a while since I blogged about my personal life.
Been so busy with work and more that actually sitting down and writing became a bit difficult.
But, have finally gotten down to update my little blog.
To begin with I sat up till the wee hours of 21st morning to complete and [...]

WordPress just released a security update and version 1.5.1.2 as well.
Read all about it here.
Posting the security update below in case you don’t want to download and install 1.5.1.2:

Open the wp-includes/template-functions-category.php file in a text editor like Wordpad.
Go to around line 103 where it says get_the_category_by_ID.
Create a new line after that and paste [...]

Had posted a while ago about WordPress breaking Copy Paste and had also suggested using Alex’s Unformatted Plugin to disable Smart Quotes on a post wise basis.
Found yet another plugin today which does the change site-wide viz. Unfancy quote plugin for WordPress.

My personal computer problems may have been temporarily solved, but now comes another problem viz. my blog.
It’s been eating too much bandwidth and also badly slowing down the server. As a result my site had to be suspended, which has been pretty much the reason why my blog has been offline for the past two [...]

Came across Bad Behaviour which is a plugin for Wordpress which is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots. It goes far beyond User-Agent and Referer, however.
Also found out that Mark Jaquith’s blog showed some kind [...]

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What is Bob’s Banter
Bob’s Banter is a column published everyday in 30 newspapers across India! Also in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and as a weekly column in London! It has thousands of readers in the United States of America! Six Million people read Bob’s Banter everyday!
Who is the author?
Robert Clements
Why am I writing about it?
Simply [...]

WordPress 1.5.1.1 was released today and since it has a few bug fixes I immediately upgraded mine and Melody’s Blog.
Update: In our effort to optimize we made two mistakes in 1.5.1, one related to feeds and one related to trackbacks and pingbacks. We’ve updated the download with 1.5.1.1 which corrects these bugs and a few [...]

Have been using IImage Browser plugin for WordPress since a long time.
Managing my images has become a very easy job due to it.
Just wanted to tweak one thing viz. Clicking on a thumbnail should open the full image in a new browser window the size of the full image with no scrollbars, menu etc.
Read more [...]