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New look for parablog.com

April 4th, 2008

Upgraded to the latest WordPress version 2.5 using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Upgraded the template to a simpler design based on a popular Hemingway theme. This is an older design and doesn’t use WordPress widgets. One problem I see immediately is increased spam. If it gets out of control, I’ll just switch back to the old design. Meanwhile, please provide some feedback about this design.

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10 years of online shopping

December 26th, 2007

Ten years ago, I placed my first ever online order at Amazon.com in Dec 1997. In the last 10 years, online shopping has become our main source of stuff. The only things we buy in store these days, are groceries. I am contemplating use of peapod.com for that as well. Haven’t done it yet, but maybe soon, we’ll switch to online groceries, too.

My first ever online order was for two books:

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Yahoo! Mail

May 30th, 2007

Yahoo! Mail now provides unlimited storage for no cost.

I only hope they continue to support the classic view and not upgrade everyone to the new version that looks like Outlook and Hotmail. I like Yahoo! Mail classic for its simplicity and don’t want all the other fancy crap and ads.

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Happy April Fool’s day

April 1st, 2007

March of Google

August 24th, 2005

The march of Google to conquer your computers continues. Now, they have a messenger application called Google Talk. Just like other Google apps, this has a clean and simple interface.

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Desktop widgets

July 27th, 2005

While seeing ads for Apple’s new OS X, I was very impressed with the desktop widgets that came as a part of the OS. The company that made these widgets, Konfabulator, was recently bought by Yahoo. Now, they have a windows version for the widget program and it is free.
Download your own Konfabulator and experience the widgets.

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Personalised Google

July 26th, 2005

Check out personalised Google home page. Pretty soon, it will look like “My Yahoo” portal. Still doesn’t have all the content of Yahoo, but editing is done by supercool javascript. Looks good. Eagerly awaiting GoogleOS for PCs, which is not too far away in the future, I suppose.

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Cool animation

July 23rd, 2005

MIT weblog survey

June 27th, 2005

Quiz…

May 27th, 2005

Can you tell a serial killer from a computer programmer? Take this quiz. I guessed only 5 out of 10 correctly.

malevole – Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

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