nd words are all I have…

Ok, the web zombies have shifted their loyalties once again - from blogging to micro-blogging. Micro-blogging is pop because - it’s easy, it’s fun, and it takes all the pain out of blogging, such as writer’s block, time investment, brainstorming for title and the associated publishing hassles.
On web, Twitter is quintessential of micro-blogging trend. People [...]

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Shifted to this new web host railsplayground.com after bitter confrontations with two web hosting service providers ( 247-host.com and godaddy.com). Each of them had their own list of imbecilities. Moreover godaddy.com tricked me into believing that they provide the RoR runtime support in the basic plan.
The reality unfolded as the last nail in [...]

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OK the migration did not work out as I expected it to. Even after paying for the hosting space, the service I got was terrible. The phone helplines were supposedly meant to be musicDJ with IVR and cPanel was pathetically slow. Online Help always showed as unavailable and after almost 10 conversations the problem was [...]

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I’ve spent over a little more than 2 years on blogger, and for exactly the same time I’ve owned a domain of my own. So moving this blog to be hosted on my own domain on a paid host.
Here’s you can follow me from now on.
Adieu blogger. !!

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From ‘10 Things I Hate About You‘
You can be underwhelmed , you can be overwhelmed , but can you only be whelmed - ? I think you can - In Europe.
The movie got me in to some serious trouble yesterday and I recalled this conversation from the flick. Not to mention - This was not [...]

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Surprisingly enough I noticed the date only after I took up my lazy step to write after such a long time. So it’s been exactly 5 months. Not a day less or more. Too perfect to be a coincidence.
Anyways complaining about not being able to extract out time or having a writer’s block is what [...]

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Search –> Discover –> ??
0.0) Since the time of its inception, web has moved leaps and bounds. It’s genesis has created nerve-wracking problems and also wonderful creative solutions. Nothing apart from human evolution could compare to this so intriguing development (both good and bad) of the web. The difficulties which cast doubt on the [...]

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Francesco: Milano è tanto meglio di Napoli. Milano è la citta la più bella di tutti… nel mondo…
Giuseppe: He say “Milan is better than Napoli”.
Instructor: Oh, he shouldn’t be saying that — we haven’t done comparatives yet.
(From Monty Python and The Holy Grail..)

Well, neither have I (and yes, I dare admit, I saw the whole [...]

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Having fiddled a lot with blogspot(domain blogger.com) , getting a taste of open source blog hosting and publishing platform Wordpress(WP) was a mix of sour and sweet for me.
As always the open source thingies are supposedly more intelligent, behave in a sane manner and embrace that air of ‘this is no crap‘ around them when [...]

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Every time I pledge to write a second in-part series of a post, I end up not writing for exceptionally long time. I’ve seen this happening twice, so from now on most probably the unit of work will be defined as a single exhaustive and comprehensive post without any “to be continued” tag lines [...]

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