Archive for July, 2006
cocomment and nowpublic
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There are many blogs where more stuff happens in comment space than in the posts themselves (one beautiful example will be Megha’s). And when comment thread is not available (world is dominated by blogspots) or when you really dont want to keep track of all the comments but just interested where you have commented, or you just want the replies from blog author (There is a plugin for wp, but world is not full of wps), cocomment came to the rescue. cocomment which was helping me to keep my comments on others blogs at one place (to keep “my” efforts at one place as well as to remind myself to check at the replies) has gone a step ahead, and boy! their features rock. Now we can track all the comments on a particular post (earlier only cocomment members’ comments were tracked) and this makes it so easy to see if the person replied to your comment, all from bloglines by using the feed !! Another useful feature is to track the conversation without necessarily commenting in it. I will use the filtering too. Looks like a bunch of useful features and when I complained about my plugin including others’ comments (even though that was not the intent), their response was breezy(I/plugin author is yet to modify)! Man, free stuff and such service and features !! Go register, what are you waiting for!
And if anyone is interested in private beta testing a firefox extension by nowpublic that is expected to make
bookmarking, clipping, quoting, linking, tagging and reblogging a breeze
, then leave comment and email id here. I did.
And somewhere else I am rigorously evangelising WP and mailing few Kannada coloumnists to start a blog.
Why, you ask ? I like doing it 
Blogspot blocked !
Blogging in its infant stages might have been barking in the backyard, not anymore. From MSM stealing the bloggers’ articles to now someone from Govt blocking the blogs, bloggers have created enough noise to be noticed.
More on the blocking and follow-up here, here, here and here. There are instructions how to bypass that too.(Anyways, there is no probs for web-based feed readers.)
Updated 2006-07-19
“India joins China” reads a slashdot headline and Indblogs puts India together with Pak, China, Iran etc. This day was yet to come, till now! What a shame to the largest democracy.
But what really irks me, more than the right to freedom of speech etc, is that what has been done is logically useless and crazy, technically silly and is easily futile. As bizzare, foolish (..uff I run out of words) as it can get.
At least other countries had a motive that was disclosed and they might have been successful too. But here, neither the ban is announced officially nor was there a correct implementation to justify the motive.There are so many flaws behind the act in all intellectual fronts that ………that feeling of helplessness surfaces. This world is so full of ignorants and fools.
In the MSM, in some corner, it is being talked as “Bloggers” are blocked, as if they are some jokers in some corner. Get this, you another chunk of useless fellows, that he who just reads the blogs need not be a blogger and this ban is affecting anyone - more importantly a citizen of the largest democratic country where there is present a set of “fundamental rights”. When a medium that produces quality entertainment as good as this is will get blocked, I wonder whether I should laugh or cry.
And when it is certain that they wanted to ban few of the blogs, (more here) but blocked entire domain, and they repeat the same mistake done few years ago, I am sure India’s administrative intelligence(&ISPs) becomes even more laughing stock!! I wish I am watching a senseless ironic comedy. Let me take a break.
Update 2006-07-20: Next in line : Skype.
If bloggers were talking about the bombings without either first-hand experience or new insight, that is when you should be calling them pretentious. The fallacy is in assuming that bloggers or the blogosphere have a greater purpose than navel-gazing.
Finally(from me, that is) : I would never have visited the blocked sites, but for the block ! (It is a different matter that some of them were not found, some of them in other languages, but through one of the banned sites, got few correct links.)
Generalization
Everyone generalizes.
One red paper clip
to a house. Check out this blog which started July 12-05 started out on trading it with things bigger and better than that. Aim was to get a house. And he did. Some said he was nuts. Others were jealous at his progress. Others wished him luck. And many others, like me, waited and watched!
Another example (like this) that truly innovative and new idea works, however lame it is !
links for 2006-07-10
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Was waiting for this feature ….esp for multiple forwards !!
View from Balcony
I see outside from my balcony and there is a beautiful house. In their upstairs’ balcony, an young mother in her pink night dress is looking after a girl playing. Girl is no more than 3. It is the age where kids are most beautiful and most naughty. Wished I could play with her.
But upstairs balcony is a dangerous place to play. I have a height phobia but more than than, what if I fall. What if the girl falls. Oh, after the iron railings, there is an extension. A slope for around 3 feet which is painted pink*. Mother is looking away and her mother cautions, from inside the house, to her to take care of the child.
I sip coffee** and look at the clouds. They are red (sun is setting now) but looked scary as if something bad is going to happen. Winds were hurrying as if they want to avoid the traffic jam.
Girl has tried to climb past the iron railings. She is trying and mother is looking.
There must be some construction going on either for the house or for the road. There is dust and there are stones everywhere.
Child succeeds in climbing past the railings. Mother follows and warns the child. Child assures not to play mischief.
I feel more tensed. I try to shout at the mother, but my voice does not leave me.
Girl slowly moves away from mother. But since she had assured not to be mischievous, mother takes it easy and moves slowly near her. She allows her child to play as well as remains in sufficient distance to catch her.
I am getting more nervous. I fear something wrong might happen. This thought has always been there.
In a fraction of second, girl moves away from mother. And soon, she goes to the edge of the slope. Turns her face towards the mother and her back away from home.
Her dress is cute.
She spreads her hands as if she is trying to fly and smiles at her mother. Before her mother realizes whats happening and before she tries to catch her, girl falls, ever so slowly, possibly intentionally.
Stones were everywhere and right below the slope too.
Now it is coloured.
PS:
Crazy dream. Trust me not to introduce any thoughts/comparisions/phrases during writing of this. All happened in dream.
*Don’t ask me why I saw many things in pink. It was a dream.
** Coffee..it was not there in first scene. It comes in second scene. Also I think the first scene was morning while the second is evening.
links for 2006-07-08
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Dr Stephen Hawking asking question in Yahoo ! Answers !
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Ajaxy Bangalore map..and a search engine of a different kind …
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A detailed explanation about the Path-finder failure, root cause, debugging and fixing. Priority inversion.
links for 2006-07-07
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Will you marry me ??
links for 2006-07-06
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Atom vs RSS
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Atom vs RSS complete..
links for 2006-07-05
links for 2006-07-02
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To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange.Many were shocked to see that we had a Nobel Laureate soldering circuit boards or painti
