Saga of Giant Fighting Chicken & Family Man Peter Griffin

June 20th, 2007 Cartoon Network is really sick. It will start showing the initial episodes again with "Arrival of Raditz" from 2nd July (link)! I think CN doesn't have rights to the SSJ (Goku goes Super Saiyan) and post SSJ episodes of DBZ.

June 20th, 2007 It would be interesting to read the final episode in the Harry Potter saga, if not for anything but the morbid curiosity of young Harry's fate. In many ways I am happy that it ends here.

June 29th, 2007 Today, 29th June, CN aired the last episode of DragonBall Z. It will start looping again from the beginning from 2nd July.

August 24th, 2007 I realized that it is very easy to be a master wand fighter in Harry Potter's wizarding world, unless off-course you are protected by love-charm in which case you can continue doing whatever you are doing and you will still be protected. Others' please read the 4 minute guide with 5 tips (+1 bonus) to become a master wand fighter.

September 2nd, 2007 Cartoon Network is a sick little puppy which forces really poor serials like Pokemon (someone dubbed it as Poke-shit) on its ever dwindling number of hapless viewers. I dare Cartoon Network to show me one, just one, non-brain-dead viewer (obviously excluding Cartoon Network execs) who enjoys Pokemon.

May 27th, 2009 How about a free tour  to Disneyland Resort with your family this summer?  Well, I assure you it's none of those sweepstake that needs to juggle with numbers. What about a peter pan kinda tour with an on-top view of the fantabulous Disneyland? Well, when Google Search can dig out almost anything on earth, Google Earth can  offer you a virtual 3D tour of the beautiful Disneyland Resort in Paris.

July 20th, 2007 I have to say Mrs. J. K. Rowling loves her Harry Potter fanbase too much and listens not only to their requests but their humors too.

September 13th, 2005 A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen. Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and was told that his father was inside, "robbing" the house.

September 5th, 2007 Today I was reading a very interesting blog by Scott who has detailed analysis of all Dr. House episodes which are very engrossing to read.

November 28th, 2005 Lumunon Media is providing unlimited image hosting (without account creation requirement) which you can use for posting images on message boards, blogs, online auctions, classifieds and even sharing pictures with your family etc. There are two catches.

October 1st, 2005 Doctors in New Orleans are bracing themselves for what they call a "second disaster" as New Orleans-area residents return to their devastated city. While environmentalists warn of the long-term danger to health from possibly polluted floodwaters, and rumors of disease swirl, front-line emergency doctors say the actual health danger will come from accidents.

August 17th, 2006 Finally a clean-room implementation of Google's Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) { // start off with a random low PR int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3); if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) { pageRank++; } else if ( isHostedOn('microsoft.com', url) ) { pageRank--; } // Support valid pages if (isValidPage(url) ) { pageRank += 1; } tag_value['b'] = 1; tag_value['h2'] = 2; tag_value['h1'] = 3; tag_value['strong'] = -1; // W3C sux! pageRank = calculateTagsPR(tag_value, pagerank); // Sergey said good news sites have // lots of nested tables tablesOnPage = getTagCount('table'); if (tablesOnPage >= 50) { pageRank += 2; } if (pageRank >= 5) { pageRank = 4; // helps selling AdWords } if (linksFrom('mattcutts.com', url) >= 4) { // I link to "clean" sites only // ? Matt, Feb 2006 pagerank += 2; } pagerank += countBacklinks(url) / 10000; blacklist1 = getList('c:\chinese-government-censored.txt'); blacklist2 = getList('c:\larry-page-hatelist.txt'); if ( inArray(blacklist1, url) || inArray(blacklist2, url) ) { pageRank = 0; } d = dashesInUrl(url); pageRank = (d >= 3) ? pageRank -1 : pageRank + 1; if (inString(url, "how to build a bomb")) { // added on request.

June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.

February 7th, 2008 Top 10 credos of a Klingon programmer covering (Klingon) Software Development Life Cycle: Specifications are for the weak and timid! You cannot really appreciate ‘User Friendly’ until you’ve read it in the original Klingon. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code! Behold, the keyboard of Kalis! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived! Indentation? - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull! Debugging? Klingons do not debug.

November 25th, 2008 The economic crisis may be doing what pastors, family therapists and matrimonial counselors have long struggled to accomplish and yet mostly failed: keeping troubled marriages together. Marriage counselors and divorce lawyers nationwide say more distressed couples are putting off divorce because the cost of splitting up is prohibitive in a time of stagnant salaries, plummeting home values and rising unemployment.