A few years back, I read about this weird experiment, where a guy actually decided to spend an entire year living entirely from e-commerce items shipped to his home. He even went to the extent of changing his legal name to “dot com guyâ€. That was at a time when the Internet boom had just… Continue reading Life without technology
Category: Internet/Blog
Comment Spamming
In the last 12 hours, I have been spammed by almost 100 comments on my blog. And this attack continues. I don't know what's got the sudden attraction and my blog has been selected for this spam attack. Some of the comments get posted directly on to the blog and some go in for Moderation.… Continue reading Comment Spamming
PhotoBlog goes online
“A single picture is worth a thousand wordsâ€. Taking this thought forward, I open my new PhotoBlog, which will be a showcase of some of my photos which I would like to talk about. All this while, I have been doing a mass upload of photos at flickr. After having bumped into Decent Exposure, I… Continue reading PhotoBlog goes online
Buggy issues
About a month now since I moved my blog to the WordPress platform. A couple of issues which I have been trying to resolve but don't seem to get the correct solution. Post Time Stamp I have set it to UTC +5.30 but yet does not give me the correct India Time Zone. Is this… Continue reading Buggy issues
Welcome to Kapil’s Korner
Dear Friends, welcome to the new Kapil's Korner. For the non-geeks I just moved my blog to my own priavte domain at http://www.kapilb.com/blog And for the geeks as you can already see I have put my blog on the WordPress platform and this is going to be interesting. Technical details later, first let's just see… Continue reading Welcome to Kapil’s Korner
kapilb.com has moved
After spending more than one year at blogger.com, I have finally decided to move into my personal domain kapilb.com and set-up the blog there. As a starter I changed my hosting company and moved my domain to Jodohost. They seemed very helpful in the sign-up and it was very prompt indeed. I got a phone… Continue reading kapilb.com has moved
You can comment now
A few days back I noticed that my create new comment link was broken and gave an error page when clicked. Thanks to Gangadhar and Anumita, I reminded once again that it should be corrected immediately. Thank you to them and all those who had trouble, can now continue to comment.
del.icio.us
After reading a lot about the all so famous social bookmarking service offered at del.icio.us I finally signed up and started plugging in my favourite web pages at my del.icio.us korner. I just started, so there isn't much in there yet, but as I go along my surfing activity I am sure I will have… Continue reading del.icio.us
Bloglines – Greasemonkey script
I have been using the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox, for quite a few months now. Saturday morning I was just digging around at the userscripts website when I discovered this nifty tool for bloglines. The extension gets loaded at the bottom left corner of the screen everytime I visit a RSS enabled website and let's… Continue reading Bloglines – Greasemonkey script
Yahoo! Matrimony does a 69
What does this look like to you? A matrimonial website ad banner. Look again, look again closely at the couple - Now what do you think they are upto? To me they look more like in a position to do some reat "hot" stuff in there. Martimonial, indeed. Tags: Yahoo! Matrimony , Yahoo! , Shaadi.com… Continue reading Yahoo! Matrimony does a 69