MSNBC Peddling Porn on Blogs Using BlogAds?December 12th, 2005 I was surprised (not in a pleasant way) to find MSNBC, which has rented space on my blog through BlogAds is apparently peddling porn on that space. Their ad reads "Welcome to Porn Valley" followed by "MSNBC 12.14.2005" (look on your right).
Bug in Blogads Affecting Publishers?November 17th, 2006 I have two expired blogads ads still displaying on my site. They have expired quite sometime back.
Review: BriteAds versus BlogAdsJanuary 25th, 2006 I have tried both BriteAds as well as BlogAds. Both allow advertisers to purchase ad space on your site for fixed duration.
Stumped by Jumping BlogAds MysteryOctober 19th, 2005 I have recently added BlogAds to my site on the first right navigation bar. I started getting ads.
How To Remove Search Engines (Specifically Yahoo) From Firefox / FlockOctober 23rd, 2005 After my ill-fated attempt to use latest version of Yahoo Instant Messenger (The Malware), I manually removed all traces of Yahoo Instant Messenger from my system. One thing however persisted - their search engine plugin for Firefox.
Blogs Not Safe for Work? Company bans 42 Million PagesOctober 24th, 2005 Wired News reports about a company which bans all sites containing the word "blog" in a juvenile attempt to prevent employees from accessing blogs. A Google search shows about 42 million pages containing the word blog in url.
How To Stop Yahoo Instant Messenger SpamApril 13th, 2008 Yahoo Instant Messenger is notorious for sending unsolicited commercial instant messages and from questionable sources. The yahoo instant messenger client doesn't provide an way, last I checked, to stop such spams.
Joel Spolsky Adorns My BlogApril 11th, 2006 I was surprised to see Joel Spolsky's mugshot on my blog. And then I realized...
Why Blogging Can Give You an Edge in EmploymentAugust 15th, 2007 All things being equal can blogging give you a distinct edge in employment? As an employer myself, I think the answer is a definitive yes. Let's see the reasons why.
Gripe: Java blog aggregator: javablogs.comFebruary 16th, 2004 Few Gripes on Java.blogs:
After few days with java.blogs I realized I don't want a few things. For example I am not interested in knowing anything about IDEA releases.
Biggest Internet Explorer Problem With JavascriptJuly 26th, 2007 You would be surprised to know that the biggest Internet Explorer issue I am facing while writing rather complex cross-browser javascript code is related to just a comma. In javascript array if you add a comma after the last element in the array then Internet Explorer fails with a variety of undecipherable (Microsoft style) error messages.
Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress BlogsJanuary 17th, 2007 After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my blogs and with no (read 0%) false positives.
Easily Create & Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs...June 12th, 2008 Any bloggers with multiple WordPress blogs soon realizes the pain and time it costs to maintain the almost identical code base for each blogs when he has to take backups and upgrade his blogs. I was looking at various multi-blog WordPress solutions (not WordPress Mu)...
Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 ReleasedJanuary 17th, 2007 I am very happy to announce the long-awaited release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro version 4.0. This release contains several exciting new features:
Multi-Language Support
Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 supports blogs written in 14 different languages - English, German, Russian, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Understanding Automatic Machine TranslationMay 23rd, 2007 Machine translation is widely used to provide translation of any text / html content to another language. Wide ranging techniques starting from dictionary translation to artificial intelligence and statistical analysis is used for translating.