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I couldn’t get online for the past two days.
It all started with my LAN card failing and then later throwing up a BSOD. So I thought I’d use the USB mode of the modem to avoid buying another Ethernet card. However I couldn’t get the modem to connect to Airtel through the USB cable [...]

Firefox 3 is out and you can download it here. George kept telling me to download the Release Candidate versions even though he knows I’m not going to look for or report bugs.
The first thing I noticed when I downloaded the new version was that the Back and Forward buttons on my toolbar went missing. [...]

I wrote this post on August 5, 2006 but somehow it never got published and I didn’t notice it among the drafts on my blog.
You have to see this! A list of some of the most interesting articles on Wikipedia.
There’s something for everyone in those three pages.
Things I found interesting there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_curse_words - Just what the [...]

I read this article about web design screw ups Sindhu linked to which reminded me that I too had a few things to say on the topic.
When we had lab exercises for designing web pages and basic forms (in VB) in my computer science engineering course, I noticed that most of my classmates couldn’t come [...]

Some people I know directed me to this incredible new technique called port backwarding. By changing a few settings to backward your port you can improve your torrent download speeds. They said they noticed a speed increase and that they have seen this on many tutorials, so it must work right?
Sometimes when you connect [...]

Checking on the front pages stories on Digg/Technology I found this article: Back in the USSR: Soviet domain resists death
I was thinking how the .su domain name extension is perfect for our friend Borat. We should get the domain http://captain.su and make a fan site for him.

aXXo is back.
This guy is so well known for his DVD rip torrents that even noobs know about him. Now the problem is that he has become so popular that even the mainstream media gets wind of him and this makes it dangerous for him and other uploaders. This is why one of the [...]

If you consider yourself a web designer or you are planning to hire one then you should definitely read this article:
9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy
by David Walsh
I agree with all nine points, especially the first two. If you are not willing to edit your code with a text editor and go over [...]

After rumours of a fifth undersea cable getting cut surfaced (unintended pun), our resident conspiracy theorist Xavier seems to think that the U.S. government somehow engineered these disruptions to throw the Middle East into chaos as a prelude to a war with Iran.
Some other sites think that this might be a terrorist attack. How plausible. [...]

A few days ago Ragha sent me a message and telling me that Ampli5.org had run out of bandwidth and asked me to fix it. This was odd since I had set the maximum bandwidth for that account to 10 GB and it wasn’t likely that all of the people with blogs on the account [...]