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February 17th, 2006 Yahoo released an UI library for web applications, developed using Javascript and AJAX. It provides some nifty components like dual-calendar, tree, drag-and-drop, slidedrs etc.

May 29th, 2006 I used Mamma Media Solutions as alternative ad with Google AdSense. To summarize my experience: Not worth it.

June 26th, 2007 We are sending the updates as we speak. It will take us few more days to complete the process.

April 17th, 2006 WordPress.com suffered a hardware failure yesterday bringing all the hosted Wordpress sites down including famous blogs like scobelizer. The message from Matt: Once More We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.

November 11th, 2008 WordPress 2.7 (read detailed review) beta 2 fixes some crucial and long standing bugs in WordPress, so much so that it is worth looking into adopting it without waiting for the final release. The key fixes in WordPress 2.7 Beta 2: Javascript in admin panel was broken when a blog had no comments, causing several of the UI elements to freeze.

January 2nd, 2006 I was looking at some strange advertisements which appear on my stem cell research site and realized something always in front of us and yet startling on realization. First I noticed that some totally irrelevant sites appear before totally relevant sites (like selling cloning reagents, offering stem cell treatments etc.).

January 7th, 2008 You can safely delete any messages contains with: "correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met" This appears to be an often repeated phrase of nigerian scammers these days and is worth searching for in content of your emails for direct deletion (nuke).

July 13th, 2006 They say a picture is worth thousand words. Let the picture speak for itself, in style.

September 26th, 2006 Dr. House MD is probably the best Television serial I have seen. Intellectual, witty and overall humane.

September 3rd, 2006 A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500. The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in the US.

January 5th, 2006 I haven't taken the decision lightly. After due process and due consideration of all factors I decided I am going to shun all established Java frameworks and go back to basics for my next project.

April 16th, 2005 Few worth mentioning: PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE – The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic device to get it to work again. 404 - Someone who’s clueless.

September 28th, 2007 508903 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 253 days 21 hours 54 minutes. 99.503% of the comments received during this time were spam.

November 3rd, 2008 Sure, the price for an artificial heart build with aerospace technology may give you yet another heart-attack; but don't worry if you happen to be a high net-worth individual. Carmat has come out with a concept device that could save millions suffering from heart attacks.

December 12th, 2006 Sue Cline, one of our valued client, tested the effects of Translator Plugin Pro, a plugin to automatically translate your blog to 13 (with version 4.0; currently in testing) different languages, on Jen Burke's Transcending Gender blog since October. They found over 400% increase in site visitors and over 150% increase in links crawled by Google.