Ajay - On the Road called Life

Now this deserved a blog post a long long time back, but well here goes.
For a few who know, I started out in the field of web design with a site on Sherlock Holmes. This was way back in 2000.
Over the years, this website underwent several transformations and names.
All the time it steadily rose the [...]

Gautam pointed out this article in the Economic Times today about Google’s Social Networking Site, a.k.a. Orkut
In a nutshell, this is because of the “We Hate India” community which has been present on Orkut for a long time now. I’m stunned that Orkut has not done anything about it in so many months of hundreds, [...]

Questionable.
Have decided and will continue writing a mock exam a day until a few days prior to the CAT or till they run out
Well, gave the first mock CAT paper of TIME today. Am pleased with my overall score. Should have done better in Quant, because that cut-off still evaded me today as well.
Tomorrow [...]

After a great deal of speculation, discussions and debates, Google is finally set to acquire YouTube for $1.65m, a paltry sum indeed.
The official press release says that YouTube will continue to operate independently.
This ofcourse leaves the question of what will happen to Google Video.
Will it continue to run independently? Or will it now search within [...]

Had two completely antithetical days yesterday and today (actually, that would be day before and yesterday, given the time of this post).
Awoke early Sunday morning and went for the 8.30am mass for which we were singing. I haven’t awoken at 7.30am since a long long time and as a result I ended up feeling extremely [...]

Update: STC is now active on the blog. There has been a few improments in the code since I last used it.
Just one point I noticed is that the code for the “Subscribe without Commenting” form is not XHTML 1.1 complaint. For that you need to add <fieldset style=”border:none”> after the opening form tag and [...]

It was waiting to happen and it has.
Regular readers would have read a few rants about my internet connection.
I have a “broadband” connection with Exatt.
It works using PPPOE and am assigned a dynamic IP everytime I login.
That is fine, but of late I have been noticing that the IP Addresses are all blacklisted in Spam [...]

If you have been using Google Reader, you would have noticed that it doesn’t work with Opera as of now.
However, there is a fix available for the same which is very easy to apply.

Get hold of reader.js and save it to some location on your PC, e.g. C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\
In Opera, visit http://www.google.com/reader/ and then right [...]

Thank you Thilak for your donation of $3 towards the Alexa Button Generator Plugin.
Says he:
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