Good Monday working
Yesterday was a tiring day at work. Some module related issue needed to be sorted out. I haven’t worked on the module for over a year and being a lesser used one, no one else has either. Spent the entire…
Ajay on the Road called Life
Pages, Places, and Ponderings
Ajay on the Road called Life
Pages, Places, and Ponderings
Ajay
I'm Ajay D’Souza — a WordPress developer, blogger, and investment banker. Since 2003, this blog has been my space to share personal stories, travel experiences, and WordPress creations. It's where I document my journey, both online and off.
Setting up a computer
Melody finally decided to buy a new computer for a house. A great decision because her old computer was just too slow to get any work done! Got the computer from my computer engineer. You can see all the specs…
Hindustan Times @250/yr
Mom just subscribed to the Hindustan Times Corporate Offer @ 250. You get an annual subscription of Hindustan Times for only Rs. 250/- plus a Tupperware kit (good one, I personally checked this out 😉 ) I don’t know how…
Hutch Network gone to the dog?
Firstly my apologies to dog lovers. Am just using the phrase. Ever since Hutch took over Orange in Mumbai, the future doesn’t seem so bright anymore! Besides getting rather erratic signal, I’ve experienced loads of cross connection problems. And this…
Some Horror Stories
Received these over email and I don’t know their source. But they are good. Read ahead if horror and crime thrill you! Story 1: The airhostess, as she passed along the aisle of the plane on the transatlantic flight from…
Two Movies, a play and a lot of junk food
As I mentioned in my previous post, I had quite a bit lined up this weekend. Went over to Melody‘s place on Saturday afternoon. We went off to Imax Adlabs to watch the Mistress of Spices. Please do not watch…
Munich
In 1972, during the Olympic Games in Munich, while the world watched, eleven Israeli athletes were taken hostages and subsequently murdered by Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group. Munich is the story of Israel’s response (which came to be known…
Weekend at last!
I’ve had a nice long week at work. Rather packed and tiring and I don’t see it getting better and I am not complaining! Anyway, the weekend is here and I’ve already started making full use of it. Have quite…
Bye-bye WWW
Ever since the beginning I’ve been using the WWW with this domain. I have even used .htaccess to redirect the plain domain to its www equivalent. Inspired by no-www.org, I’ve decided to get rid of the www. I now validate…
10000+ downloads served
I have been tracking downloads on this blog from 4th of July 2005 and was really delighted to find that I have served over 10000 downloads to date. Stats as follows: Total Downloads: 17 Total clicks: 10036 Average clicks per…
And then God created Man
One day, God created the dog and said, “Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.” The…
The Battle is won; The Battlefield changed…
When I went to sleep at 1am on Monday morning, I thought I finally won the battle with my VPS for ajaydsouza.com To cut a long story short, when I checked my site yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, I faced major problems…