With Blogger templates flooding the web, the users are being spoiled for choices. Just a few years ago blogger (aka blogspot) had a limited templates that could meet the need for clean and minimalist template.  With Wordpress introducing newer and better themes, Blogger was losing its popularity in the blogosphere After the Blogger templates were changed to the XML format they have become immensely popular. Now there's a wide array of fantabulous templates for blogger and a majority of them available for free.

What's more, the blog designers have redefined the essence of blog looks. The Blogger templates are no more restricted to two columns, and provides extensive layouts with added functionality. There are a number of websites that offer excellent templates for free.  Lot of are conversions from the Wordpress. Well, I decided to digg out the best websites who can give you hundreds of wonderful templates for free to choose.
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I am using Linux (Fedora Core 6) on a pretty high end hardware (at least when I bought it) - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (4M shared L2 Cache) with 2 GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia dual-head graphics card for over a year now. And yet a simple change made it at least 20-40% faster. Even my firefox (with 100+ tabs always open) feels much faster. So what is this magic change?

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PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems. One of my rising concerns was that it wasn't backed up at all. So I came up with a simple script to backup pmwiki regularly to our Subversion repository. There are two ways in which this can be done. The ideal way is to automatically add files and commit changes whenever a change is made. The second way is to use a cron job to periodically add new files and commit the changes to the subversion repository. Let's look at both of the options and explore the simpler one in details.

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Scott Adams, creator of popular comics strip Dilbert, lost his voice 18 months ago due to spasmodic dysphonia, an incurable condition, after he strained his voice during a bout with allergies. He recovered his voice after tremendous self-effort in an apparently miraculous way by rhyming.

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Overview
Socket hijacking allows you to override a server socket opened on the same port by a different process. There are several good uses of socket hijacking like developing a port blocker application (poor man's firewall) and some bad uses too.

Normally the operating system doesn't allow you to open a server socket on a port which is already opened by another (or even the same) application. However there is an exception and an exception to the exception.
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To my delight I realized WordPress 1.5 provides an extremely simple way for Podcasting (sample).

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