Ajay - On the Road called Life!

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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.
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Spam cannot be stopped. But by following a few good steps you can protect yourself from it.
This tutorial will teach [...]

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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 [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.1
Updates since the last release.

Link to Bad Behavior homepage fixed
Title attributes added to the BBStats and Bad Behavior Links
New variable %totalcount% added for displaying total number of access attempts if verbose logging is enabled.
Now, admin functions and wp-dash functions are only declared if on the admin [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.0
Updates since the last release.

Plugin now works with Bad Behavior 1.x and 2.x
Only counts the number of blocked attempts.
Number of blocked attempts can now be viewed under Options >> BB Stats as well.
Few miscellaneous fixes

Read more and download the plugin>>

This blog crossed 100000 unique visitors yesterday (as tracked by my statcounter).
Something I never ever expected to happen.
Thanks folks for making it possible.

Saakshi Juneja and Amit Varma have decided to get together for another blog meet on 20th May, 2006 at Thank God Its Friday (TGIF), Andheri West from 3.00 pm onwards.
Blog newbies, non-Mumbai bloggers and (only) blog readers - all are welcomed.
Here is the full address:
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY (TGIF)
INFINITY MALL,
2ND FLOOR,
OSHIWARA NEW LINK ROAD,
ANDHERI WEST, [...]

A search on Google for this resulted in 152,000 results, which leads me to conclude that this is a question that a lot of bloggers are asking one another.
Lorelle had also asked this a long back after reading Greg’s Post.
And, I came across the same question on an Orkut Community.
This post attempts to answer that [...]

Being considering this a long time and finally decided to take the plunge.
Signed up for Desicritcs and will occasionally post few of my posts there both from this blog and Humble Reviews.
I started off by posting A Nightmare in Public Transport on Desicritics.
For those who are not aware, Desicritics.org is part of the Blogcritics.org family [...]

I’m a little charged up by my Manholes post.
Born, brought up and having lived in Mumbai all my life, I’ve found a lot of things to complain about in this city, be it the roads, the traffic, the corporation or the people at times. And then again there are a lot of things that [...]