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October 8th, 2008 Simple Thoughts now has a working Subscribe-by-email facility. Unlike many other blogs which provide this facility, we do not use FeedBurner.

June 23rd, 2005 The CareerNews Newsletter today has a very interesting article on Unadvertised Jobs. To quote: If you're currently in the job market, here's the little known secret to tapping into the most lucrative, yet hidden jobs available.

September 16th, 2008 For several years Simple Thoughts has been authored solely by me. This ensured that we maintained the quality I am proud of.

February 4th, 2007 I have added a job board to this blog. You can browse for jobs or post a job.

October 7th, 2008 Online feed readers are the latest evolutions in the world of information and news sources. It is developing by leaps and bounds and that day isn't far off when online feed readers will be as essential as your newspaper or careergraphs.

August 27th, 2008 Many like to twitter using IM (Instant Messenger) because it is very simple and fast to tweet and simple to get continuous updates on your topics of interest. In the good old days Twitter used to provide IM support.

June 2nd, 2005 Update: I am delighted to announce the much awaited release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress 2.x blogs. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen major world languages - German, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

February 2nd, 2004 One of the reasons I moved out from blogspot, to my own server, was because I couldn't create a RSS Feed of the blog easily. Today I found that blogstreet provides a simple way to do so.

June 12th, 2005 Most Blog software provides an option to use a sanitized version of the post title as part of permalink url. Thingamablog, a Java based offline blogging software, doesn't do it.

August 3rd, 2008 Have you noticed the somewhat obscure in this blog? It is in the menu. It is designed to take you to a random article on this blog.

February 28th, 2007 You can access any blog / site under heavy load / attach / DNS resolution error by following one of the following four methods. For example here are four url's by which you can easily access this blog at any time: http://blog.taragana.com.nyud.net:8080/ - Coral Proxy will display the original page without any changes.

August 27th, 2007 Here is the list of blog ping servers I use. Ping servers are services which are automatically notified after a blog post is published.

March 22nd, 2008 WordPress provides an easy way to display archives of any year. For example here are the archives of this blog for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008.

May 23rd, 2005 Self-proclaimed "blogologist" Alex Halavais on how to career-blog without it coming back to haunt you.

Having a blog is almost like building a brand for yourself, so it's largely meant for that tacit process of having people scout you. If you have a medium readership of 1,000 or so people who read your blog daily, those are 1,000 more people who might think of you when a job opens up.

September 19th, 2008 Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to.