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3/30/2008: Entrecard: 4 comments

About a week ago, I found an old comment from a friend of mine. I decided to check her blog out since it had been a while. I noticed that she was getting quite a number of comments per post, and I asked her what she did she do to get so many comments. She [...]

3/25/2008: Gmail Crash: 1 comment

I was just reloading my Gmail, and as you can see, something went wrong and didn’t load properly. I just had to laugh. It shows you how much manipulating it takes to have Gmail display the way it does. At first I was like uh what in the world, then I did some playing around. [...]

3/16/2008: Facebook Partially Down: 3 comments

I just tried to sign in and check Facebook, and got the following message at sign in: Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience. I checked with a friend and they could log in fine, how weird is that? [...]

11/20/2007: Where’s G?: 3 comments

GMail is a pretty known thing these days, known for its ever-expanding account size and other features. One thing people tend to not know very widely is that if your browser’s default search engine is Google, you can just type G in your address bar, and boom you are ported to GMail. Pretty snazzy trick, [...]

11/19/2007: Zamzar: 0 comments

The other day, I caught word of a service called Zamzar. It is a free file conversion service, when I read the list of file conversions, I was really impressed. I have yet to try it out. I have asked the team if how their PDF to doc/txt conversion, and unfortunately, it is fully automatic. [...]

11/14/2007: Jakob Nielsen on Blogging: 0 comments

A former Distinguished Engineer, Jakob Nielsen gave a talk the other day at Sun. He says blogs are just a stream of consciousness and their authors just use them to pump out new content. While this is certainly true, I think that the lines certainly get blurred between me pumping out content, and as an [...]

10/31/2007: Second Life Pedophilia: 0 comments

Video on the issue of pedophilia on Second Life. Technorati Tags: second life

10/12/2007: One Year: 9 comments

One year ago I bought a domain and started blogging at this sub domain. Happy Anniversary to me.  

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