Ajay - On the Road called Life!

While checking the Whois of my domains, a whois for this blog revealed a link from AboutUs.org.
I have mixed feelings about this one.
Here is why:

digg_url = ‘http://ajaydsouza.com/archives/2006/08/12/popularity-how-do-you-measure-it/’;digg_title = ‘Popularity - How do You measure it?’;
reddit_url = ‘http://ajaydsouza.com/archives/2006/08/12/popularity-how-do-you-measure-it/’;
I haven’t been very active in the Indian Blogosphere and so missed the entire discussion over Kiruba being the No. 1 blogger in India (according to Blogstreet).
Patrix has expressed his opinion on Popularity in the Indian Blogosphere. He goes on to list several [...]

Blog spam is something that every blogger fears. Spam appears in different forms. It can vary from trackback or pingback spam, comment spam, deliberate harsh comments to email harvesting and spam resulting from it.
digg_url = ‘http://ajaydsouza.com/archives/2006/08/05/a-comprehensive-guide-to-protecting-your-blog-from-spam/’;digg_title = ‘A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Blog from Spam’;
Spam cannot be stopped. But by following a few good [...]

digg_url = ‘http://ajaydsouza.com/archives/2006/08/04/how-to-use-htaccess-to-redirect-your-blog-feed-to-your-feedburner-feed/’;digg_title = ‘How-To: Use .htaccess to redirect your Blog Feed to your Feedburner Feed’;

FeedBurner provides an excellent feed service that lets you track how many users are subscribed to your feed and more.
Users can still bypass your FeedBurner feed and continue to subscribe to your original blog feed.
While this is not a problem, [...]

Good news for those who use Falbum for displaying your Flickr Photos on your WordPress Blog and who use Connections Reloaded to power it.
Download falbum-wp.zip and upload falbum-wp.php included in it to the folder you have Connections Reloaded installed, usually /wp-content/olduploads/themes/connections-reloaded/
I don’t run FAlbum myself for now.
But I have plans for a demo blog which [...]

Came across this nice article on avoiding registration on free websites, thereby reducing SPAM.
You can do this using BugMeNot.
Read the full article.

Have been getting a lot comment and trackback spam both on this blog as well as the blog of my friend Melody.
My blog is powered by WordPress, but I have b2evolution running for her.
Have added a lot of spam words to her block list of b2evo and it seems to have currently stopped. I guess [...]