Second Life Enables Vibrant Virtual Economy With Linden Dollars

October 3rd, 2008 What do you mean by a virtual world? A place where you can come and work and chat and play and leave. What if I tell you about a whole new world where you can live, breathe, play, sing, dance, do every damn thing you can do in this (sorry?) life of yours? And what if "I make you an offer that you can't refuse?" No I am no Godfather.

September 11th, 2008 You all know now that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the story as today's news.

October 9th, 2008 There are several ways to implement virtualization. Two leading approaches are full virtualization and para-virtualization.

September 7th, 2005 A simple ten minute survey to determine your life expectancy. It says about me: In an extremely high risk overweight category, meaning you are at extremely high risk for obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and cancer.

August 13th, 2008 The Angsuman Chakraborty Blog (personal weblog) has been re-designed. Check it out.

July 10th, 2008 Nginx tutorials and examples doesn't tell you how you can configure nginx with virtual hosting when different sites are in different pre-defined directories. Often you are moving over your site from a different web server like Apache HTTPD to Nginx.

November 30th, 2007 In MySpace on average (based on sample size of 2071208 images) 15 photos are uploaded per user. Considering only users who have at least one or more photos uploaded, they have on average uploaded a staggering 32 photos.

July 9th, 2008 Nginx displays a peculiar but logical behavior when handling directories specified without the ending slash. For example you have a directory like http://www.example2.com/dir/.

October 27th, 2005 Nigerian 419 scammers anthem is titled - "I Go Chop Your Dollars". It aired few months ago as a CD penned by Osofia and is hugely popular in Lagos: "419 is just a game, you are the losers, we are the winners.

January 7th, 2008 In response to Google AdSense teams resolutions for us here are 5 AdSense resolutions I have taken for 2008 wrt. AdSense: 1.

July 17th, 2005 The RSPCA is urging pet owners to be aware of diseases that pets can have that are normally not associated with animals like diabetes. Amid National Diabetes Week, the RSPCA says even though it is a rare disease in animals, it can still happen.

June 25th, 2006 The Vagabond Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river - There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

February 16th, 2008 JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. It runs anywhere you have a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile phone, set-top box, possibly even your refrigerator! All this on top of security and stability of Java technology and cross-platform capability.

July 10th, 2008 We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were: We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.

April 24th, 2009 Charities see potential, risk with social networksTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Meredith Bowen was getting tired of requests from Facebook friends to exchange make-believe pansies, daffodils and tiny cartoon characters for her "(Lil) Green Patch," a virtual garden that sprouted on her social-networking page about a year ago.