Facing a P0ker Flood

July 26th, 2007 You would be surprised to know that the biggest Internet Explorer issue I am facing while writing rather complex cross-browser javascript code is related to just a comma. In javascript array if you add a comma after the last element in the array then Internet Explorer fails with a variety of undecipherable (Microsoft style) error messages.

December 3rd, 2004 Lycos Europe as you probably know has created a screen-saver which allows a controlling lycos software to target the idle time of the machines which installed the screen-savers to flood the network of known spammers. Some people are getting concerned that it amounts to ddos attack.

March 22nd, 2008 Users, including forum admins, sometimes gets message while editing a post, sometimes for quick edits and sometimes for longer edits - "The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again." This is not really an error but one of the two protection mechanisms in place in phpBB to protect your forum from spams.

July 2nd, 2007 Twitter is down again. Initially I was getting down for maintenance messages.

July 7th, 2005 Benjamin Smith III from St. Petersburg faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network a third-degree felony.

April 30th, 2008 Months after Microsoft announced its intention to buy Yahoo, it appears they are finally coming together. Microsoft appears to be willing to raise the price to 32-33$ per share while Yahoo board would be satisfied with $35.

June 22nd, 2009 T-Mobile to launch second Google phone in AugustNEW YORK — T-Mobile USA's follow-up to the first "Google phone" will go on sale in early August, the carrier said Monday. The "T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google" will be a touch-screen phone and will lack the physical keyboard of the T-Mobile G1, the first phone that used Google Inc.'s Android software.

February 6th, 2009 While scrolling through Will hadcroft's Anne Droyd  I was thinking when would Google's ebooks make it to the mobile phones. For a welcome surprise, with Amazon flooding the mobile ebook markets, Google couldn't wait to toe the line.

February 9th, 2009 Internet ads are every where. They jump in-front of your face, they smile sheepishly at the corner, they guard the main page as drunk night guards and etc.

May 19th, 2009 Come summer, the movies blockbusters and music tours would peak the entertainment carts. The video game industry might loose its charm in summer.  At least this is what Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter apprehends.

June 18th, 2006 This is a simple guide to making friends (as many million as you like) on MySpace automatically (otherwise where is the fun?). Ensure you have perl available on your system.

May 2nd, 2005 Kuro5hin author rianjs wrote an article on information overload in our daily life. The article itself is a burning example of verbosity and useless information overload.

January 24th, 2007 Some of my customers have complained that they were unable to access my site. They complained that the site was accessible by IP address (72.36.134.131) but not by domain name - http://blog.taragana.com/.

December 30th, 2005 I have been hearing horror stories across the board with WordPress 2.0 release. The wordpress forum is filled with wide ranging issues.

December 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.