The vanishing act – Feed stats

Feed Stats, which was a feature available at WordPress for bloggers to look at how many people are reading their blogs with feeds and using which software, was shown the pink slip about a week ago. The official announcement is here. Personally, it was just another graphic to look at every evening, and wonder how [...]

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Of feeding Orkut and being fed by Google

Orkut has added another feature to its bouquet: that of adding your feeds to your profile. This could mean you can add your Flickr or Picasa Album feeds, or even your Blogger or WordPress feeds. Other feeds like news and jokes from popular websites can be added, if that is sensible. Google also acts [...]

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IITK Website Hacked AGAIN!

Just as I was ruminating over the done deal of IITK website hacking, an alert netizen points out that the website has been hacked again. This is straight from the website.
ɱcDonalds buys IITk for 40 80 Billion USD (Perhaps our new bid will catch your attention. Yesh, We’re loving it still!!)
I guess this is [...]

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The singularity named Google

With a very unpopular blogger like me as its author, the only hits my pitiful blog manages to generate are from the search engines. In today’s world the search engines are instant oracles. Google has become a verb of sorts and might pop up in the next Oxford dictionary (with a big copyright symbol of [...]

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IITK Website hacked

Yes its true! The official website of IIT Kanpur has been hacked by apparently a McD fan. Click on the screenshot to see a bigger image.

The IIT websites, atleast the main pages, are never put to any important use. So not much harm should be incurred, if you ignore the embarrassment of the sysads [...]

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Launch of Swiss Dossiers

As has become the de facto standard now, one ought to start a new blog dedicated to one’s internship. So let me board the train too. So here is announcing the Launch of Swiss Dossiers @ http://swissdossiers.wordpress.com. Everyone is invited.
For the sake of completeness, I have a two and half month internship at EPFL [...]

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Of Elven Forests and RTS gaming

I changed the theme on this page again. The new header image struck me distinctly and the first thoughts which flooded my mind reminded me of an Elven forest. Elves are my favorite creatures in The Lord of The Rings (LOTR). Yes the Hobits are merry making and peace loving, the Dwarves are stout and [...]

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Ubuntu 7.04 Launched

Momentous days like today deserve their share of space here. So here it is, Ubuntu 7.04, code named Feisty Fawn (very much in tune with the orangish brown of Ubuntu) is out. All those who already enjoy this wondrous distro can do a hassle-free update to this version. For others they could either download and [...]

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Sage stylesheets – Sporty and Arty

I recently stumbled across ColourLovers and since then its been amazing to see the variety of perspectives available at the site. I just picked up two pallets off the hat, and decided to make Sage stylesheets using them. So here are my attempts :

Name
Pallet
Screenshot
CSS

Sporty
Tennis Court
Link
Link

Arty
Ary Gallery Exhibit
Link
Link

The css files are only available from a free [...]

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Search box keyword in Firefox

If you use firefox (read if you are sane), here is a nice way to make all your searches all the more faster. Yes Firefox lets you add search engines to its search bar at the right top corner of the browser but there is a faster (if you prefer to use the cranky keyboard) [...]

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Buying a Laptop – A Guide

Laptops are soon losing their ‘exclusive’ tag and rapidly becoming a part of the daily baggage of many. This is a quick (wannabe) guide to buying a laptop, coming from my recent purchase of a Dell Inspiron 640m. It is structured as a set of concerns that the prospective buyer might want to decide upon [...]

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Sage Stylesheet – Quick Silver

Sage is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, that helps one read subscribed RSS and Atom feeds. It keeps track of read/unread feeds and seamlessly integrates within the browser as a RSS client. The good thing about Sage is that it has a very easy to customize CSS enabled front end. So the CSS file can [...]

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Lan Ban and the Media Van

Fortnight stale news:
After a long trial, fiercely discussed and furiously contested, the axe finally came down on the internet usage in the IITB campus, sometimes referred to as LAN Ban. The details of the judgement passed by the responsible authorities convey that all inter and intra net facilities extended to the hostel rooms of students [...]

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Clear those fonts

I am not particularly fond of Windows as it is. But am stuck to it for now, for a bunch of reasons. Anyways, this is the first part in what (I hope) will be a series on Windows tips. Nothing out of the ordinary, but just little ‘hacks’ spread over the net, collected at one [...]

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Few tides of a mighty ocean

I always look at technology as an enabler. It must let differently-abled people do different things, differently. As a person who envisages a career in this field, I envision in my mind a picture of technology that springs a smile across someone’s face rather than one that rings someone’s cash register.
Software provides great instances [...]

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