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Archive for March, 2008

How to have a “Nag-Free” WordPress

  March 30th, 2008 | In Ramblings and Rantings | No Comments »

WordPress 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 etc flavor definitely has lot of new features…
One of them being a new Update-Nagging-System !!.

WordPress naggin me :(

It will nag you with lots of place holders asking you to update your version, the worst part is you need to…

No credit better than False credit

  March 25th, 2008 | In Internet | 5 Comments »

Whats more pathetic and disgusting than to see some one else taking credit for your own hard work…Giving no credit is thousand times better than taking false credit..,

In the recent days i have come across people/groups who delibrately copy web…

I google myself

  March 24th, 2008 | In General Chatter, Internet | 1 Comment »

Yea, i do google myself pretty often, and the habit is getting out of hand, after each passing day.

Since the time i started out online, i have always wanted to see myself on the front page of google, just like other…

NanoCMS v0.31 released

  March 22nd, 2008 | In NanoCMS | 1 Comment »

The much awaited stable version of Nanocms has been released as “NanoCMS v0.31″, and is available in NanoCMS Downloads section.
This version is majorly a bugfix version ,with a lot of bugs fixed. Things are seeming to be stable, if you…

Fonts : when and where to use

  March 14th, 2008 | In Tutorials | No Comments »

It is important that we give attention towards the font-styles of the text we use while presenting text to the user. The combination of fonts should strike a balance, so that things look neat for the end user.
For example, using…

Fetching Random record(s) in MySQL DB

  March 11th, 2008 | In Programming | No Comments »

Its pretty common to fetch rows in a mysql result by using the ORDER BY command, but sometimes need arises when we have to fetch rows randomly.

There are many ways to fetch rows in a mysql database randomly..

1) Use php…

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Orkut turning into a boring place…

  March 11th, 2008 | In General Chatter, Internet | No Comments »

Orkut ain’t any more a fun place to hangout, and catchup with old friends, thats what it seems for me… though i do admit it was a much prettier place once…

But after the advent of “scrap all” shit, it turned…