Thursday, December 27, 2007
A lot of people have been wondering how to talk to their friends on Yahoo, MSN, AIM or ICQ networks on SamePlace. The answer is Jabber Transports. Here is a screencast that shows how you can add your friends from all these services using open Jabber transports [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXAcMOcEylM"] A list of transports that were open [...]
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Everyone has browsed across websites and forums that all too often are riddled with trolls and spammers. Lets face it, despite all the information out there on the internet, it is hard to wade through the trash to communicate with people who run important official websites , code useful specialist software or are acclaimed thinkers, [...]
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
With the recent hooplah over downloaded MP3s being illegal and such, it sounds too good to be true. It didn’t seem likely that any respectable company who didn’t want to get sued by the RIAA and their minions, would try to launch a website that did for MP3s what YouTube did for songs. Well thank [...]
Monday, December 24, 2007
I’ve spent the last hour trying to figure out a way to migrate my posts from the WordPress blog to Blogger. After a few months with WordPress, I am wondering why I ever left Blogger. WordPress is a more advanced hosting platform , no doubt – but the free service they have is dismal. I [...]
I had the most wonderful talk of my life…it makes me feel a thousand fold better. I didn’t know it – but it was eating at me, all this repressed mistrust and anger, all for the sake of being politically correct and maintaining relations. Do I care about these ? Sure. But it was being [...]
Saturday, December 1, 2007
From the Youtube archives, a beautiful (read : Not Lata Mangeshkar’s) rendition of Vande Mataram.. [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyr_574COQc"]