Feeling: accomplished Listening to: Pearl Jam – Brain of JMoved my domain from Dreamhost to Hawkhost. Will be some downtime while the DNS propagation goes through. Dreamhost had been giving me problems with email, most commonly with Webmail. Also the site faced a fair amount of downtime. Hence the switch. Let’s see how’s Hawkhost
Entries Tagged as 'Internet'
It’s been a while
February 1st, 2009 6 Comments
Feeling: AnticipativeSo… I’ve been off the blog for quite a while now. Travel, work and other stuff have kept me away along with a general sense of lethargy related to blogging. However, I’m trying to get rid of it, re-prioritize my activities and try and do stuff which I enjoy. Anyway, a belated happy new year. [...]
Tags: blog · camera · Canon EOS 40D · dslr · Life · new year
Book Review: Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
November 9th, 2008 2 Comments
Feeling: sleepyThe phrase “JavaScriptmaster” and Douglas Crockford are considered synonymous in the web development world. When I heard that Crockford was writing a book on JavaScript, especially a guide to the better features of one of the most maligned (and perhaps abused) but popular languages in the current web development industry, I was sure I wanted [...]
Tags: book reviews · Books · Computer programming · Douglas Crockford · javascript · JavaScript: The Good Parts · JSON · Programming · Programming language · Review · web development
Lame April Fools!
April 1st, 2008 Comments Off
Feeling: annoyed Listening to: Led Zeppelin – Moby DickToday is April Fools day (like you didn’t already know!). In the recent years this day of the year is usually when a lot of lame April Fools pranks are played out across the Internet and blogs. This is getting so old and lame that its irritating, let alone humorous. [...]
Tags: April Fools · April Fools' Day · funny · humor · lame · Pranks · techmeme
Duncan Riley – You should take a break
March 16th, 2008 4 Comments
and maybe grow a thicker skin at that.. It all started over the weekend – a bitching match going on at Techmeme started apparently by Louis Gray who replied to Duncan Riley’s post on Techcrunch. The comment by Louis Gray TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley checked in with a quasi-analytic comment this morning prompted a response from [...]
Tags: blogosphere · duncan riley · flame · louis gray · techcrunch · techmeme
Twitter and its role
February 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
Feeling: frustrated Listening to: Metallica – The Frayed Ends of SanityI’ve started to use Twitter increasingly and find it to be a great tool. I joined Twitter when it was quite young, a couple of months after it launched but never used it much (my tweetstats graph) but have started using it more often in the past couple [...]
Tags: conversations · followers · forms_of_communication · frustration · recipient · reply · timeline · tweet · twitter · web_interface
The Lifecycle of Blog post
February 3rd, 2008 2 Comments
Feeling: thoughtfulA very interesting web/flowchart of the data flow and gathering when you publish a blog post. Though the depiction is mainly for hosted blogs (wordpress.com, blogspot etc) it remains true for self-hosted blogs too. The entire flow chart is from the social interaction perspective of readers, marketers, spam scrapers etc reading your content and the [...]
Tags: blog · Blogging · data_flow · flowchart · lifecycle · social-interaction · wired