Google TV is pretty cool!
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I farted in Twitter!
“I farted twice today” – that was what I twitted recently!
After all Twitter is for that – to announce to the world what you did (or did not do) in less than 140 characters!
And farting is no laughing matter ( may be it has some parallel with laughing gas!). It is quite a natural phenomenon created by flatulence in the stomach. May be the loud aural burst coupled with aromatic spread in a congregation may create a few embarrassing moments, but who can claim that the bio-gas has never escaped through their anal orifice ever!
But that was about the physical fart. What about the bureaucratic breaking wind through the mouth (this metaphor was first used by Prof. Northcote Parkinson, author of the famous “Parkinson’s Law”), which the politicians and bureaucrats indulge in all the time! Their gas consists of multiple solid waste like clichés, promises, hackneyed phrases like “Garibi Hatao (banish poverty), BPL (below poverty line), inclusive growth, under-privileged society and such stuff all the time, at the earliest opportunity. Give them a mike and out flows the fart automagically (sort of involuntary function) without any effort on their part.
The farting trend doesn’t end with oral onslaught. It extends itself to printed out “papers” (running to gazillion pages in A4 size, comb-bound), web sites, blogs, PDFs (keep pace with times, yaar!) and all other means of onslaught.
But farting, per se, is not a bad word (didn’t I say that earlier?).
You can learn about Legendary Farts here.
History records that occasional involuntary escape of wind through the cleavage on seat parts have resulted in unsavory and really discomforting situations to many.
One such episode is that of a football player who was shown a Yellow Card for “breaking wind” as a penalty was being taken. The referee deemed the act “ungentlemanly conduct” and booked the player responsible at Turn Moss in Stretford, Manchester.
There was another case of a pensioner with ‘disgusting flatulence’ who was banned from breaking wind in social club. The club ordered a pensioner to leave the building when he needs to break wind because his flatulence is “disgusting”. But the frail widower admitted that he had a problem but said he often could not make it to the door in time because his explosive flatulence takes him by surprise!
We can only pity that old man whose biological gaseous matter has a mischievous habit of escaping with giving an escape time lag – call it “latency” if you particular about semantics!
One of the first files I downloaded during my baby steps on internet several light years ago was a simple .wri file called “fartfile.wri”. It may be still available in the catacombs of web if you search for it in the big boy Google. But I am not sure the exotic sounds would be available which can be launched through Wordpad any more. But there are many PPS and HTML files available with the same content.
But I want to give a special treat to my customers with the virgin FartFile with full audio loaded!
Here comes:- Read more
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Tweaking WordPress blog title
WordPress offers endless scope for customizing, enhancing and tweaking, in addition to adding features through plugins. There is a vibrant development community out there, active all the time over the WordPress forums to offer a ready helping hand to the toddlers and tipplers. In addition,there are WordPress and PHP pundits busy writing tutorials on their web sites and blogs. There are hundreds of blogs on WordPress tweaks and tools and alone.
If you encounter a roadblock, all you have to do is to Google it out, rather copy and paste the exact error message and you will get at least 100 folks who would have posted different workable solutions all over the blogosphere, in addition to the WordPress forums.
I too try to help out noobs on the WordPress forums occasionally. But i thought why not I post in my blog all my tweaking experiences so that other folks who face similar situations can make use of solutions. That way much of legwork will be saved on their part. After all, a clever man is one who learns from others’ experience!
Her is one such teensy-weensy tweak I tried recently:
I have set up a “static home page” and the blog posts appear in a virtual “bog” page. But when I looked at the title of the web page when the blog posts are called through http://cyberbrahma.com/blog/ URL, it showed as follows:
“Blog: Blog of Cyber Brahma – Mozilla Firefox”
It looked weird. Why the term “blog” twice? The mischief was cause by this snippet found in the theme’s header.php:
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' :'; } ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>
But this code is deprecated in the > 2.5 versions of WordPress as per Codex. The explanation given by the Codex section for the “wp_title” template tag clearly explains the structure and variables to be used.
And I wanted only the blog’s name to appear on the title when the home and blog pages are shown; on all other pages, the blog name followed by the page/post title is to be shown; likewise in category and date-wise archives.
Well I used conditional tag called “if is_home” to tweak the title function call as follows:
<title><?php if (is_home()){ bloginfo('name'); } else { bloginfo('name'); wp_title('--',true,'');
} ?></title>
And it did the magic for me! (Please do not copy the code. Type it out on Notepad. Copying mouse-selected code from a web page rendering is a bad practice.)
The default “separator” between the post/page title and the blog name is right angle quote “»”, but I replaced it with an “en dash” (–) just for making a difference. Anyway it has nothing to do with the puritans quibbling over the petty semantics that the “»” character (») is really a French close-quotation mark and it is semantically dubious to use it as an arrow! But it may be in French, but in universal internet lingua franca, it is accepted to be a textual-arrow symbol, in menus and navigation bars, and in crumbtrails (breadcrumbs).
More tweaks in coming days. Please stay tuned!
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How much of your life is Google’d!
“It starts out as a convenience, becomes a habit, then a necessity, and finally an addiction.”
That is how Robert X.Cringley succinctly sums up the Google phenomenon!
Here is a partial list of the Google’s on line services – or staple offerings in addition to the Numero Uno status on web search (you don’t search any more, you merely Google it!):
- The ubiquitous Gmail (still Beta!)
- Online productivity suite – Docs, spreadsheets, presentations..
- Picasa web albums for storing and sharing images – may be a shade less popular than the professional looking Flickr of Yahoo!
- Blogger – that ushered in a “push-button” publishing revolution
- YouTube – the video service that has made itself a generic term for anything video; (and you are living in a “Youtube era”!)
- Orkut, the social networking app – though lagging behind Facebook and Myspace in popularity
- Google apps and labs – the production suite of geeks – Android, Gear, Ajax API’s, App engines, OpenSocial – the list is endless
- Google maps, Google Earth – mind-boggling stuff!
- Google Talk – mark my words, it will beat Skype soon!
- Adsense, the intelligent ad-inserting service that has turned blogging profitable – “pro-bloggers”, anyone!
- And Feedburner, Notebook, Calender, Reader, iGoogle, …
And when Google servers experienced a brief outage last week the sky almost fell on many addicts.
Here is Bob’s take on the perils of getting too dependent on Google, or, anyone particular service.
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Strange ad for house share
Here is what I found in a Manchester ad site:
hiya my names nishita im a indian female 22.i have a beautiful house. 1omins away from the city centre. with 42 lcd tv internet access really comfortable living eviroment with a modern look. i have two rooms available for rent in my house.
i have a foot fetish website, the reason why am telling you this is becouse i make vidoes for my website at home. and you will know.
you can be part of this or not its your choice.i like my feet pamperd and kissed by another female, so i thought it would be great if i could find a female tenant with a foot fetish.
you have several choices
if you have a foot fetish, and want to make videos with me and pamper my feet then the rent will be 30 a week mabe less depending on person.
OR
you can pay full rent 50 a week and have nothing to do with my feet mabe help taking pics etc with me. but not nessary
looking forward to hearing from you
I am not providing a link to that web page lest it would become an unintended advertisement.
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Anonymity fosters crime?
An ingenious bank robber dressed as a road maintenance worker pulled a heist which was made possible partly thanks to the internet and its inherent anonymity.
The robber pepper-sprayed a guard outside the Bank of America in Monroe, Washington, grabbed a bag of cash from a Brinks truck, and jumped into a nearby creek, where his “get-away inner tube” awaited. He then floated down to the Skykomish River where presumably he had a boat or a car or possibly a zeppelin stashed.
But that wasn’t the genius part. Security guards couldn’t pursue the robber because there were a dozen other people at the bank dressed exactly like him — dust mask, safety goggles, work gloves, blue work shirt — thanks to an ad the robber had placed on Craigslist. They’d all been instructed to show up at the bank at 11 am dressed for a job that promised $28.50 an hour.
Is it time to reconsider the value of anonymity on the Net? Asks Bob Cringely in his story.
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Internet telephony to open up in India
Yes. It is a dream come true for Indians!
IP Telephony or internet telephony has long been expected to materialize in India in full flow so that cheap telephone calls to and from India become a reality. So far,there has been a restriction on calls through internet terminating in a local telephone service. Now that restriction has been removed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the statutory governing body. In other words, it was PC to PC or Phone to PC in India; now it can be anything to plain old phone in India! So services like Vonage will become a reality in India too. And it will turn out to be a boon to the Non-resident Indians (NRIs) who are spending through their noses currently to keep in touch with their kin residing in India.
Here is the news as it appeared in IndiaTimes:
In a significant step that will have bearing on Indian telecom services and push the rates down further, Telecom regulator on Monday recommended complete opening up of Internet telephony.
The Internet service providers (ISPs) have been permitted to provide unrestricted Internet telephony which means they can terminate Internet telephony calls on PSTN (public switched telecom network) and vice-versa.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has even allowed the national long distance (NLD) operators to connect to ISPs through public Internet (Internet cloud) for unrestricted Internet telephony. But for that to take place, ISPs and NLDs will have to thrash out mutual agreements for unrestricted Internet telephony, said TRAI.
The move will further boost competition in the domestic long distance segment and result in lower STD tariffs. The move will permit calls from personal computers to fixed line and mobile phones. Currently, a voice call can travel between two computers but not from a mobile or a fixed phone. This is expected to open huge channels of revenues for ISPs.
NLD shall make suitable commercial and technical arrangements with access providers i.e PSTN/PLMN (public land mobile network lines) for unrestricted Internet telephony said the regulator in a statement.
You can read the rest of the story here.
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