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Photo theft and how to prevent it

Posted in India, Opinion, blogging on Oct 5th, 2008

Sometime in the past, I stopped reading most Indian newspapers and started skimming them.   I was tired of reading the same headlines about politicians’ speeches, about accidents and murders, and irrelevant details about celebrities, complete with pictures of their semi-drunk state.
Where is the analysis?  Where is the investigative journalism?  Where is the substance?
It wasn’t always [...]

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A feed reader’s agony

Posted in blogging on Sep 10th, 2008

“Are you sure you want to mark 463 items from All Items as Read?”
“Are you sure you want to mark 796 items from All Items as Read?”
“Are you sure you want to mark 1125 items from All Items as Read?”
If my Feed Reader had a voice, it would get shriller and more insistent each day, [...]

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Awards, laundry and elephant grass

Posted in blogging on Sep 8th, 2008

I have spent the last ten days in the wilderness - mainly Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.  This blog has remained unusually silent in the meantime.
On my return, I empty my bags and discover a mountain of laundry that looks like I must have brought home a grizzly bear.  There’s more - the [...]

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Comment editing now possible

Posted in Aside, blogging on Jul 28th, 2008

There are many times when I have commented on some blog and hit “Submit”, only to discover that (a) I had another point to make; or (b) there are typos in my comment.  Usually, it’s the typos which frustrate me most.
So here is a new feature for all you commenters - if you are like [...]

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Polls closed, result declared

Posted in blogging on Jul 25th, 2008

I am closing the poll on the most favorite blog topic, and also declaring the results right away.  No hanging chads here. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone voted in elections too electronically?  No long queues at polling stations, no hunting around for parking spaces (if the polling center is far), no rigging, no waiting [...]

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Batting on a hundred

Posted in blogging on Jul 17th, 2008

The numbers in my WordPress dashboard screamed silently at me, as if they were on the wrong side of a rolled up car window.  I didn’t notice, my mind busy wondering whether I should install the latest WordPress update.  In the short time that I have been using wordpress.org,  it has managed to come up [...]

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