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I installed a plugin to display the top ten commenters on my blog. I was curious to see who had commented the most in the few years that had passed since I started this blog.
I added the widget to my sidebar, refreshed the page and…
Holy crap. See for yourself.

I’m thinking if I should change it [...]

I went to the nearest ICICI bank branch this evening with my father to open a new savings bank account. ICICI has good internet banking features and customer service and my dad was satisfied with them so he recommended I open an account with them.
The problem is, they have changed the quarterly minimum balance to [...]

Earlier I had talked about WP SpamFree, a new WordPress plugin that promised to drastically reduce the number of automated comment spam that plague most blogs.
I would like to report that the plugin is very very effective. The Akismet spam queue which used to have about one hundred entries a day now has just one [...]

Alright it looks like the RSS copyright message is working fine. If you find your content being scraped I recommend that you use it.
Now we move on to comment spam. I get about 4 to 8 comments a day from friends depending on the number of posts and how interesting they are. I also get [...]

When a blog gets somewhat popular and starts getting indexed by search engines, you will notice the content of the blog being scraped.
Scrapers use automated techniques to get my posts through my RSS feed and then display it on their blogs. Why? To get higher rankings with search engines. And they leave links back to [...]

Unbelievable.
Just saw this on BoingBoing.
Terry Pratchett has rare, early-onset Alzheimer’s
What’s with writers getting all these rare diseases? First they killed off the great Robert Jordan. Now they are targetting Pratchett? It’s a conspiracy!
Who’s next? George R.R. Martin? Terry Goodkind? Come out and show your filthy faces, you sneaky conspirators!

George tells me that Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to finish the Wheel of Time series. (Link to that post.) Apparently Tor (the WoT publisher) chose this guy. Why does Tor get to pick the writer? Shouldn’t have Jordan had a say in this?
As I pondered this, I went and read the article at Dragonmount [...]

I’m bored of my blog’s theme already. I’m planning to chose a different colour palette for perhaps the same theme and make some changes to the sidebar and stuff. Perhaps I’ll change to a completely new theme if I find anything interesting. I’ll also make the feed display the entire post instead of just the [...]

Looks like someone is trying to send me a subtle message or trying to be funny.

Edit: Updated image. Ha!

I was thinking about this just recently and it annoys me!