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January 30th, 2007 Google announced that they have devised an algorithm to defuse Google bombs like "Miserable Failure" pointing to the current President of USA - George W Bush. Currently "miserable failure" in Google points to a BBC article explaining the hoax.

August 9th, 2006 A booby-trapped game of noughts and crosses (BBProxy) has been used in Black Hat hacker conference to show how a Blackberry can be easily hijacked to steal confidential data. Created by a security researcher the game contains malicious code that turns the popular mobile e-mail device into a backdoor into corporate networks.

August 9th, 2006 Ozura Mobile, a leading publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced they are releasing Lava Kroft to mobile phones and users globally. This mobile action adventure game stars Lava Kroft who is a new age woman who has an exceptional thirst for discovering some of the most intriguing and mystical treasures in the world (tell me that doesn't sound familiar to a certain female whose name happens to rhyme with Lava's).

September 3rd, 2005 I was feeling sick and tired reading the sad reports on the death and devastation initiated by Katrina and the lawlessness, lack of timely help and administrative apathy that followed it. And then it struck me.

September 13th, 2006 I have to warn you that the song is not suitable for minors, (some) republicans and prudes. It is NSFW if you use speakerphones to listen at work.

August 13th, 2005 A decision is due to be made today whether a billboard labelling President Bush an ‘evil bastard’ is appropriate, NZ City of New Zealand reports Monday. The publication provides a few details: The Hell Pizza billboards have been erected around Auckland and Wellington.

November 18th, 2007 AlienBlaster is a refreshing open source shoot-the-aliens game with various levels and an arcade mode. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS/2 & eComStation, Mac OSX (DarwinPorts), MorphOS and AmigaOS4.

June 19th, 2006 My blog is worth $261,946.56.How much is your blog worth? This evaluation was done using Technorati data and Tristan's research on Weblogs Inc. deal. The key premise is: "Many in the blogosphere say that traffic is not a good measure of what blogs are but that conversation, as represented by links and indexes like Technorati, represent a more accurate view of the value of a blog." Would I be willing to sell this blog at this price? Sure..

November 1st, 2007 I always wondered what made people get addicted to a game. Now I know. Battle for Wesnoth is an amazing, free, cross-platform (Windows, Mac & Linux), turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme that will surely get you hooked for days, weeks or even months, even if you are a non-gamer.

December 21st, 2007 strip_tags() in PHP has several problems. It doesn't recognize that css within the style tags are not document text.

July 28th, 2005 How accurate is Google Image Search? More specifically how accurate its its capability to associate appropriate meta data with an image? Lets find out with a show-and-tell. I tried the ego example.

July 17th, 2006 An interactive Flash game from Sega where you get to throw a monkey into outer space on losing. Who wants to win anymore? There are three games to play.

April 20th, 2006 I talked about JRobots, an extremely addictive Java game where you develop robots in java to fight against other JRobots in a monthly battle royale. Today I will present you with a simple sample JRobot to encourage you to participate in this contest.

November 6th, 2008 Windows 7 is going to continue the trend of rearm process in Windows 7 as well, that they did in Windows Vista. So here is a guide how you can increase the evaluation trail period by three times or more explicitly 120 days.

July 30th, 2007 An Ext JS, a beautiful Javascript Library, ComboBox on a Toolbar fails to display when the browser window is resized or there is another div with 100% width. The problem is most likely related to resizing of the Toolbar which causes the ComboBox to stop displaying.