Ajay - On the Road called Life!

Mark introduced me to AuctionAds (aff) soon after it was launched. AuctionAds by default is not contextual, but my article guides you through establishing just that.

WordPress 2.0 introduced a lot of additional features in the Write Post screen.
One was the Post Preview sceen which now loads the entire post as if it would look on your site and this is a major bandwidth hog.
Another addition was the Inline Uploading. I still use IImage Browser along with my Open Picture Window [...]

And once again I get into the great dilema of deciding what do I use to run my photo album. The last time I was in a similar dilema was when I had to choose between Gallery2 or Coppermine.
I’ve always been toying with the idea of integrating the photo gallery within this blog itself. Everybody [...]

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://digg.com/design/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 Indian blogs (including mine) according to their Technorati [...]

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://digg.com/security/A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Protecting_Your_Blog_from_Spam’;
Spam cannot be stopped. But by following a few good steps you can protect yourself from it.
This tutorial will teach [...]

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/programming/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, your stats may not give you slightly inaccurate number of your feed subscribers.
A [...]

Was planning on getting this done by Jan 1, but was unable to do so.
Have been working slowly behind the scenes to change some things about this blog.
5 posts on index
For one, I have reduced the number of posts displayed on the index page in order to speed up initial loading time. (used the Custom [...]

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.