Ajay - On the Road called Life!

Been a while since Melody Tagged Me.
I don’t really know why I am doing this, because I’m not much of the book buyer / reader.
Well here goes:
Total number of books I own - Not many and I haven’t counted lately
The last book I bought - “Who Moved my Cheese” by Dr. Spencer Johnson
Last book I [...]

WordPress 1.5.1.3 was released yesterday and have upgraded both mine as well as Melody’s blog to the latest version.
It fixes an important security issue.

Mesopia - the place where I host ran a contest during May.
Participants had to write one or more helpful articles and post it in their How-To Approval forum.
Didn’t bother much, but on the last day of the contest I posted these three articles.

Backing Up your mySQL Database
Uploading your website with cPanel’s File Manager
Designing your website [...]

Awoke early on Sunday morning to reach church in time. Mass was good.
After this, since the net was down, I just lazed around and did a little preparation for my formation course.
Reached well in time for the course. Today was the last day.
After the course I went over to Melody’s house in order to do [...]

Following a link from geek ramblings, I gave the online blogging survey conducted by the Media Lab at MIT.
Quite a short but comprehensive survey on blogging, im, email and sms (few questions on the latter three)
Well, I’m a statistic, so how about you?
Results of the survey >>

Returned home on Saturday hoping to get some office work done, which I had to submit by Monday.
Unfortunately, found that my internet connection was down.
Phoned, heard the usual excuse, but didn’t have much time as I had to rush for choir practice.
Practice was good. A. Shirley gave her treat on the occasion of the marriage [...]

Was using m0n5t3r’s Content Negotiation plugin which served my blog as application/xhtml+xml.
It gave me the satisfaction that my blog was perfectly coded as per XHTML standards. It would break with incorrect markup in browsers like Firefox. I didn’t mind this because it helped me rectify any errors.
Unfortunately, though I assured that my blog was [...]

Well, Murphy was at his best today. Had my code working really well yesterday, but today it decided to not work!
Struggled with it till the end of the day and finally decided to leave it for tomorrow.
We have been praying for rains and our prays sure have been answered. I’m happy about the rains but [...]

Released v1.3 of my Bad Behavior Stats plugin today.
v1.3 fixes the Cannot find database error when you are using the latest version (v1.1.2) of Bad Behavior.
The plugin now also checks if Bad Behavior is installed / activated and if not, it displays the appropriate error message.
Read about the plugin>>
Note that this IS NOT Bad Behavior [...]

Came across this which got me thinking.
I know how irritating it can be to be infected by either a virus, trojan or spyware.
I remember a time several years back when I was less computer literate than I am today and didn’t really bother much about security and privacy online.
I remember downloading software from the internet [...]