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Monthly Archives February 2008

Micro blogging

Looks like the online world is moving too fast for me to try and catch up. Given I’m not an early adopter (unless its a Google service) of most apps/services, things get out of hand far too often.
Have you heard of ___? Have you heard of ____?
Isn’t ____ fabulous?
____ can now be [...]

Posted 25 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (6) °

Squid did not receive any data for this request

Been getting this error for a while now, trying to access my site. A few other friends of mine have complained too, seeing this error, when trying to submit comments.
A Google search later I found that the error could be caused by two reasons.
1. When the connection is too slow.
2. When the site is [...]

Posted 25 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (7) °

Google reader – published and received

A new feature of Google reader, is that it shows the time stamp of when a particular post was …umm…posted, when you mouseover the time stamp at the  top right of each post in the reader panel.
Here is a screenshot of one I took a few minutes ago of my previous post.

Fast ain’t it !
Reminder: [...]

Posted 11 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

Headhunters get net savvy

That’s all I had to say about that.

Posted 11 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (4) °

Orkut powered bid for MTV VJ’s on Vday

‘Join the official orkut community. Just in time for Valentine’s Day! ‘ is how the MTV ad is running all over.  Just came across this one.

On the MTV Community on Orkut, you can go check out the details, as to how you can bid for VJ Mia, VJ Ranvijay, VJ Akshara or  based on your [...]

Posted 11 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) °

Batch editing Wordpress posts?

Can anyone think of a way, multiple changes can be made to wordpress posts?
Essentially, I have a set of mistakes that I keep making. I need now a way to search for and correct these mistakes in all my posts.
Some details, in case they are helpful: I’m on Godaddy, using shared hosting. Blog running on [...]

Posted 10 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

nuiances or nuisances ?

- its last night, not yesterday night.
- its this morning, not today morning.
- There is no word called costed.
- Its at least. Not atleast.
- ei in any english word is always in the same order.( i.e. e comes after i ). Exception: if the previous letter is c.
eg: weird,beige, recieve,believe
- Its alphabet, that’s the whole [...]

Posted 10 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (4) °

BarCamp Hyderabad 5 on 16th Feb in Google

Google is hosting the 5th edition of BarCamp in Hyderabad.

Topic: Social Web / Entrepreneurship / Open Source and Emerging Technologies
Venue : Google Hyderabad (Map to Venue)
Date: 16th Feb ‘08
Here is your chance to meet some bright and interesting people, actively participate in tech discussions and understand a little better what is driving the [...]

Posted 04 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) °

Thats a lot of people

This one killed me. I laughed so hard, it hurts my tummy. And also reminded me its time for dinner.
http://thebitterpen.com/2008/01/29/crowded-house/

I remember reading a long time back, that FUCK was an abbreviation that stood for ‘Fornication Under the Consent of King’. Always thought it was a joke, but reading up Wikipedia hasn’t helped me much [...]

Posted 04 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

Resources for Indian webmasters

I would like to bring to light, especially for the Indian Webmasters, some resources that they could use to make their SEO efforts better/cleaner.
Google Webmaster Guidelines
www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769
These are the guidelines provided by Google to webmasters, to help find, index,and rank their websites better.
Google Webmaster Central
www.google.com/webmasters/
This is a central resources for all the tools that Google [...]

Posted 04 February 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °