Record Store Day: It's time to show some love to homegrown, independent music retailersApril 17th, 2009 Record Store Day celebrates indie retailersPORTLAND, Maine — Despite the success of online retailers, explosion of Internet downloads and high-profile closings of Virgin Megastores and Tower Records stores, bricks-and-mortar record stores aren't all spinning toward oblivion. Although hundreds of independent music retailers have gone out of business in recent years, about 2,000 are still around, and many are thriving.
What Happened To My ATPP Update?June 26th, 2007 We are sending the updates as we speak. It will take us few more days to complete the process.
Del.icio.us Down - Whiff of Things to Come?December 19th, 2005 Del.icio.us website currently presents you with:
Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We've taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything.
Help: Hard Disk & MySQL Server Suddenly Read-OnlyAugust 26th, 2006 Suddenly my Hard-disk & MySQL Server had gone read-only, thereby making this blog (because it is cached) and other sites inaccessible, including ssh access. Do you have any idea why this could have happened?
A hard reboot rectified the error for now.
ICICI PaySeal, PayPal Alternative, Offline!March 18th, 2008 I have been trying for the last 6 hours to access ICICI PayPal alternative, PaySeal (203.27.235.72). Unfortunately the site is unreachable from India as well as USA.
WriteBoard from 37Signals - Brief ReviewDecember 19th, 2005 I just happened to chance upon much hyped WriteBoard from 37Signals. It is an online (ajax enabled; what isn't these days?) service to create and edit text documents with a wiki like syntax.
SEO of SubdomainsApril 20th, 2006 Joe Balestrino discusses the value of subdomains. The four key points are:
Subdomains are treated as a domain as far as developing a new site is concerned.
Waiting For 20, 000th Spam in 7 DaysJune 3rd, 2006 I have been getting a deluge of spams in the last 7 days or so, 19434 spams so far in Akismet queue of this blog alone. However something very interesting happened.
Solve Your Email Spam Problem With Fully Disposable Email AddressesNovember 7th, 2005 On the internet almost everyone asks for your email address. I used to give in good faith and in return I received tons of spam.
DDOS'ing the Spammers? Who cares?December 3rd, 2004 Lycos Europe as you probably know has created a screen-saver which allows a controlling lycos software to target the idle time of the machines which installed the screen-savers to flood the network of known spammers. Some people are getting concerned that it amounts to ddos attack.
Java Framework Struts is Dead; Long Live Struts!November 29th, 2005 With the merger of WebWork and Struts now it is crystal clear that our beloved (not to speak bad about the dead) java web framework is no more with us. It's parts will however be salvaged and added to WebWork.
Abusing RentACoder For Black Hat SEOAugust 30th, 2007 I came across an interesting project in RentACoder which is obviously taking advantage of RentACoder to do its dirty job - pushing its critic / competitor to page 2 of Google. The project specification is as belows:
THE SOLUTION:
We NEED this persons website to be "pushed down" to page 2 on google when our company name is googled.
Reverse Hyping Java - Myth and realitiesDecember 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.
How to Reset Master Password in Firefox in Case You Have Forgotten itJanuary 14th, 2009 It happened to me just the other day. Someone deliberately got into my Firefox, cracked my login information from security options and surfed to my password secured websites at glory.
Man adopted as baby finds real family on Facebook after 33 years!June 5th, 2009 LONDON - A man who was put for adoption when he was just three-days-old has found his biological family after 33 years, thanks to popular social networking website Facebook. Richard Marks had been living with his adopted parents, unaware of the fact that his real family resided just two miles away.
July 21st, 2006 at 5:03 pm
The Moose is back!
http://nuclearmoose.com/archives/2006/07/21/oops-2/
May 12th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Whoever he is, he aint back no mo.