Archive for the 'Blogosphere' Category

After a long gap !

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Lots of things happening here. Completed my masters. Joined a Bangalore based company. Got busy with work. But wait. Do you care all this? I suppose not. But lets just put it here.

Chaitu has started blogging recently, here. Last night he raised a doubt. Whose blog is having more posts. Guess what. Just like the India Pakistan match in T20, it was a tie. Both were having 15 posts each. But not any more. Here I am, with my 16th post.

By the way, he gave me some inspiration to get back to blogging. The message I got from his blog is: Dont think too much about the readers. Keep blogging what ever it is.

Some posts note worthy from his blog:

  • http://think-free.net/blog/2007/07/24/why-do-you-need-pgp/
  • http://think-free.net/blog/2007/06/17/democracy-woes/
  • http://think-free.net/blog/2007/06/13/browsing-info-manuals/ (I never thought info is such a serious tool)
  • http://think-free.net/blog/2007/06/10/sending-mail-using-emacs/
  • http://think-free.net/blog/2007/06/07/emacs-tips/
  • Suggestions and feedback:

  • Get rid of that pink type color. No self respecting geek would use that color in his blog
  • In most of the posts, code portions cross the grey boundary. Fix it.
  • Comments page should show the post as well. Not just the comment form
  • Move the RSS button above the blogroll
  • The RSS button’s color does not match with the theme of the blog: pleasent to the eyes. Size is OK, but color is too much distracting
  • Add more info in About me. May be a photo also. Just name is not sufficient.
  • URLs are shown as plain text. May be you need http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/07/08/plugin-auto-hyperlink-urls/. Now you know why you need that plugin
  • Now its your turn to review my blog.

    What happens to Mario when …

    Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

    when he dies. Have a look:

    Mario Graveyard

    Source : Internet Forward

    Update : Just found that this is the actual source http://spacepope4u.blogspot.com/2007/03/where-does-mario-go-when-he-dies.html

    JohnChow.com : A review

    Saturday, March 24th, 2007

    About JohnChow.com in one line : If you are a regular digger, you might have visited JohnChow.com at least once in the past three months.

    JohnChow.com is the blog of John Chow (sorry, no points for guessing), the man behind the hardware review site The Tech Zone. As the site says, it is about “The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Moghul”. (This is where I picked the phrase “Dot Com Moghul” from) John Chow blogs about his tech zone website, results of his experiments with different advertising media, his dinner experiences, investment experiences, miscellaneous stuff from around the internet and lately he has started promoting AGLOCO.

    My first visit to the blog was via the celebrated Google whores story. Then, I have scanned a few of his articles and the next thing I did was to add JohnChow.com to my links toolbar of firefox. I have been a regular visitor of JohnChow.com for the past four months and he disappointed only 5 or 6 times, with no interesting stories.

    When I have seen his post about purchasing PayPerPost reviews, I was disappointed because my blog does not meet the requirements for becoming a PayPerPost member. But then shortly later, he has made an open offer to all bloggers, that writing a review will pay back by a back link to reviewer’s blog, which resulted in this post.

    As said in one other review, John Chow is honest to the core in his posts. I am rewriting the same because a review to his blog is incomplete with out mentioning about his honesty. And one other lesson I have learned from his blog, is “link like hell”. I have visited many of his old posts because they were linked in newer posts. Also, giving links to other interesting sites could fetch your blog returning visitors.

    Bottom line, if you are fascinated about wonders internet can make, and want to make it big some day, visit his blog ever day, like me. Else visit it once a week or so, and you will not be disappointed by the updates.

    Technorati, Im in !!

    Friday, March 23rd, 2007

    Here is my Technorati Profile

    Who am I

    Thursday, March 15th, 2007

    I am Deepak (No points for guessing). I am living in Bangalore, India. I am a software engineer by profession, currently pursuing my masters degree.

    I will blog about India and Economics, Computers and Internet, Technology, Dinners and Eateries, Travel Experiences, Computer Games etc.

    The rest will be revealed as and when I blog.