The Beautiful Shooting Star Might Be Just Plain Shit

November 14th, 2008 Who wants to be an astronaut again? NASA devices an unique way to help astronauts bond with each other (and to preserve water I presume) by drinking communal piss, ewww. Why didn't estranged couples think of this earlier? The best or the worst part is that NASA engineers are loving it, so much so that NASA's Bob Bagdigian has kept few bottles in his freeze.

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 15th, 2006 Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm).

January 6th, 2009 Yes you heard me right. You can now play Snake (one of the most popular games in the history of video and mobile gaming), vertical space and watch Star Wars (ASCII) nowhere but in Notepad.

July 12th, 2006 Whew! Finally I have transferred my site to a sparkling new dedicated server. It was a very eventful journey.

January 12th, 2009 Is it too tiresome to read through the PDF files every time? Hadn't it been so much better if there was someone like our granny to who will read a story for us? Well don't worry. there is one service who can just be beneficial for you.

July 20th, 2007 I was musing on how we could incorporate Harry Potter spells in corporate world. It looks feasible to me.

August 30th, 2007 He Ling from China has the best solution. Jiang Ming of Chengdu city promised his dear wife, He Ling, that he would not go on the Internet anymore and would spend more time at home to take care of their newborn son.

October 21st, 2005 This tip comes from Pete Freitag: Always, always set autocomplete="off" in the input tag. For example: <input type="text" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /&rt; Otherwise, if people have the form completion feature turned on their credit card number will be stored in plain text somewhere on the computer (in the registry, or elsewhere).

January 21st, 2008 Google had a well known proxy facility. You could use an url like http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=http://blog.taragana.com to access http://blog.taragana.com using Google as proxy.

July 8th, 2006 The perfect setup of fedora core 4 fails you on multiple fronts. First you cannot install apt as the package it mentioned has become obsolete and latest packages do not install with rpm.

December 20th, 2008 There is a very annoying feature at orkut now. You can not download any image file from Orkut directly from someone's album.

July 6th, 2007 Java provides a super simple, yet hidden from plain view, way to do basic authentication of HttpURLConnection / URLConnection. Before making a connection add the following lines of code: final String login ="..."; final String password ="..."; Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() { protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() { return new PasswordAuthentication (login, password.toCharArray()); } }); This sets your default Authenticator which is called whenever authentication is required for any URLConnection.

September 18th, 2005 Wp-Cache2 is a WordPress Plugin to cache WordPress generated pages. However it doesn't work with in-built gzip compression.

August 5th, 2009 While discussing the top 10 tips to improve your twittering, I had indicated that don't make yourself look like a spammer. In real world, with shooting popularity Twitter has also invited the spammers to have a party.