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Tuesday is the most active day in RSS; Saturday least active.

- Our initial observations of the data point to Tuesday being the most active day for viewership, feed retrieval and click-throughs.

- Click through rate (CTR) differs by over 70 percent

1. Goldman Sacks predicts India will beat US by 2050, lagging only behind China in economy. I think it will be much sooner.

2. Moninder Singh Pandher, accused cannibal and serial killer of several dozens of children and teenagers, and his

I receive daily several thousands of spam emails on debt consolidation, mortgage and on organ enhancement advice/pills for organs I do not possess. I have been offered millions by unknown Nigerians, offered services I do not care about, images which

This technique will only work if your Apache server has PHP enabled (how to test php support in apache http server) and .htaccess enabled.

In the root directory of your html files create a file named .htaccess. The file may

We received over 1 million visitors as early as Feburary 2007 and with over 12 million page hits. We have been observing steady growth throughout the year so far.

Monthly Statistics for February 2007
Total Hits12903959
Total Files11648688
Total Pages6077448
Total Visits1046646
Total KBytes117331848
Total Unique URLs79051
Total

Simple Thoughts is an aggregation of several member blogs like The Diabetes Blog, The Java Software Blog etc.

Each of the blogs are unique in focus and content, except aggregation blogs like The Health Blog or The Technology Blog.

Today I will

Recently there has been a plethora web based aggregator sites. Some of them like diabetologica blatantly displays the full content from the feed. So now you work hard to create your content and unscrupulous aggregators like diabetologica reap the benefits

Top 10 reasons not to use coding standards:

1. Coding conventions are hard to remember. Why would you, the superstar programmer, have to remember coding conventions? As a superstar you should be allowed to code-as-you-will and leave it to the minions

For old-timers (myself included) hacking is not intrinsically unethical, unlike what is potrayed by traditional media. Hacking is a mindset of exploring and solving problems. A renowned Scotland University has decided to offer three year degree in “ethical hacking”.

The

When you are coding a C extension for Ruby, and you use mkmf to create your Ruby Makefile on a Solaris box, make install may fail.

Solution:
Add -lsocket -lnsl after -lingres.

That’s it. Hat tip: Jared

We now have a forum dedicated to the viewers of this blog. Please use it to discuss technical topics of interest to you, issues that you would like me to address or by others, questions you would like to be

Arne Brachold’s popular XML Sitemap generator plugin for WordPress may report fewer URL than that exists on your website. This in turn means less URL’s which you are submitting to search engines for indexing.

I found out that in my

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard / Leopard) specifications seen at Moscone center reveals the following requirements:
1. Intel processor
2. Internal, external or shared DVD drive
3. At least 512 MB of RAM (additional RAM recommended for development)
4. A built-in display or

This question was posed by a visitor of this site. Here is how you can change the default home page location in Firefox and everything you can do with it.

Go to Preferences (normally under Edit or Tools menu) and click

I don’t like it very much but one of my colleagues do. What do you think?

As a security measure to prevent potential viruses, Gmail doesn’t allow you to send or receive executable files (such as files ending in .exe) that could contain damaging executable code.

GMail doesn’t clearly define what kind of file extensions fall within

Finally my (unmanaged dedicated) server has been deployed (under 48 hours). Now my actual work begins. I have never done Linux administration. It is a totally new experience for me. After some failed yum’s and rpm -i’s, I started reading.

WordPress is a popular blogging software. As a design decision it stores the blog content in database and uses php to fetch and display the pages. This consumes more resources (cpu and memory) than blogging softwares generating static pages. Here

Paul Mutton of jibbler.org had a bad experience with Sys-Con. Not only they didn’t remunerate him (as per agreement) they also didn’t provide him with free copies as promised. Then they went ahead to sell his article for 5.95 USD

I am so happy! Now we have an expression language to create an expression language! Next we need an expl (my shortened form of expression language) to create an expl to create an expl … ad-infinitum.

Get a sense guys! Haven’t

I was in Drudge report when I saw an advertisement spot occupied by advertisement giant TribalFusion filled with Apache error message instead. The error message was rather interesting.

The requested URL /f.ad was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.53 (Win32) PHP/5.0.3RC2 Server

I am minimally back online. The office renovation is in full progress. I will be moving to my new office sometime next week. Tomorrow will be a hectic day. The machines will be setup on all new workspaces. Each of

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. I am sure it has happened to you too. Here’s how you solve it.

Use mailinator.com.

The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse

Dear terrorists, new firman issued, Kill 10, take a branded T-shirt and be best terrorist in the group. Jihad begins from July 18-20.
–Osama bin Laden

The above is not a message on the Al-Jajeera channel and neither it is from Osama.

Windows Genuine Advantage (how to remove WGA) has been alleged as Spyware, creates innumerable problems for genuine users and yet it is very simple to fool with 15 minutes or less of effort.

Ed Bott spent about 15 minutes to

MySpace has been infected by Flash based (swf) worm which spreading rapidly through MySpace. It is embedding JavaScript code into users’ profiles that redirects visitors to a site claiming the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Symantec warned

Open up conf/settings.php and add this line:

$Configuration['URL_BUILDING_METHOD'] = 'mod_rewrite';

Believe me, that’s all you need to do. Ain’t that easy?
Note: I am assuming that you are using Apache HTTPD Web Server with mod_rewrite enabled.
Note 2: I have tested it on windows

Microsoft sales team has too much free time on their hands to make a terribly inept music video about Vista. For some reason it really made me sick in my stomach.

If it is a sales pitch, it sucked. If it

I accidentally discovered a super-cool re-direction feature embedded in WordPress 2.3.x. Any blog may have multiple url pointing to the same blog. For example blog.taragana.com may also be accessed as www.blog.taragana.com. The proper practice, keeping SEO in mind, is to

HYDERABAD: Kolavennu Venkatesh, the young chess player who fought a bitter legal battle to end his life before a debilitating muscular degeneration killed him, ended his struggle quietly at dawn on Friday. The death came two days after the

The most common use of this is to display the current year in the copyright message dynamically. Anyone who really knows PHP should be able to do it easily. However not everyone who has to use PHP knows PHP, like,

After the recent yum update, named failed to load. I tried searching Google without much help. The permissions were all correct and yet named failed to load. And then I found the simple solution.

I manually modified /etc/init.d/named script. I changed

Recently the question (How to add add custom functions to a theme) was posed in WordPress Support Forum. Personally I faced the same question when re-designing this site. The following is a discussion of the option with the pros and

US is standing on the cusp of the single most important event since the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage. In the coming Presidential election democrats are generally being considered as having a greater chance to win. Two of the

iPhone Elite hackers have finally posted ways to un-brick your iPhone (make it usable again) after it has been rendered useless by Apple’s iPhone firmwire upgrade 1.1.1. Any iPhone which was modified (software) to unlock the SIM card to use

K-NFB - a portable scanning device, invented by Raymond Kurzweil, that reads text to visually impaired people will go on sale in the UK next month.

The K-NFB, which combines a PDA and a digital camera, means that people will be

Study conducted by researchers at the University of Scranton suggests that tea might prevent diabetes and its associated complications, including diabetic cataracts.

Researchers led by Joe Vinson fed green and black tea to diabetic rats for three months and then monitored

I have been using GMail for some years. There are 5 things which I like most about GMail which makes it apart from competitors.

1. Ability to search using Google search engine. Google search engine is known for its uncanny ability

I am working to transition my server to dedicated web hosting. My Westhost VPS account is crumbling under traffic and no amount of optimization is being able to handle anymore the heavy traffic I am getting. Having said that I

As I mentioned previously my Apache server was inexplicably hanging every morning (PST). And in panic I had to restart my VPS, whenever I could find it. It is clearly not an acceptable situation. And then I found the solution

Alicia Keys MySpace page was hacked by inserting a seemingly innocent link with interesting width and height. Let’s review the concept.

The link specified a very large width and height which effectively ensured that any click outside of html control will

Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China, and Intradigm in Maryland, have reported the first successful use of Interfering RNA (siRNA) against the viral respiratory disease SARS, in primates (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038/nm1280).

Two siRNA sequences that matched bits of

Mike @ TechCrunch wondered whether TailRank belonged to the technology deadpool.
And today the top story on TailRank is a viagra spam post. The second headline story is a porn spam post. Below that are real stories but they’re months

Jan Dembowski uses Translator Plugin Pro for his WordPress blog, which provided him with a good traffic boost: “My web traffic went from 5,000 hits (900 visits) last week to 21,000 hits yesterday”. He made a cool & informative sidebar

I have a Samsung GSM mobile phone SG R220. It has been working fine for last 6 years. Last 3-4 days I was unable to get any signal on the phone. I checked that the SIM card is working by

These are the countries I visited or currently stay:

Within USA these are the states I visited or stayed or worked:

Behaviour promotes itself as “the missing link for your AJAX apps”. It allows you to use CSS selectors (like id or class) to apply Javascript behaviors to your HTML elements.

No more embedding Javascript tags in your HTML. What Behaviour

Selenium is a high quality open source test automation tool for web application testing. Selenium runs in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, Safari on the Mac, with plans to support Safari on iPhone soon. Selenium