If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Things have been a tad busy around here. So much so that I missed mentioning completing five years of my nerve endings firing away (hopefully they’ve been firing much long than that). Blogging has definitely been [...]
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June 10th, 2008
Becoming a Blogging Celebrity
How to become a blogging celebrity? Earn a six-figure blogging income and then announce it to the world. No word on how to earn that kinda income first. Digital Inspiration’s quality content notwithstanding, I’m sure Amit Agarwal too owes his fame partly to the fact that being a full-time professional blogger in India is a [...]
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June 9th, 2008
Blogger Intimidation
Typical scenario in the blogosphere - blogger finds content ripped off the blog and posted on some random portal and complains to a portal citing content theft from her blog. The usual reaction from portals is ignoring the complaint and probably quietly removing the content. The best case scenario is pleading ignorance, apologizing, and removing [...]
Patrix | Weblogs | 10 Comments »
May 30th, 2008
Macaca in Denver
Congratulations to Sepia Mutiny for getting credentialed at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. Thanks to their tireless efforts, there will finally be a desi presence [from the blogosphere] at the national stage in American politics. Let’s hope they don’t have to cover a brokered convention.
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May 28th, 2008
No Country for Gay Men
A parody of the creepiest scene from No Country for Old Men where Javier Bardem is overdubbed by a very gay male voice. Hilarious! Would he have got an Oscar if he played the character gay, like Joey asks his student to do in Friends?
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May 27th, 2008
Recounting that November
This Sunday, we saw the made-for-TV movie, Recount on HBO. This docu-drama reflected on the events from the chaotic November of the 2000 Presidential Elections. Starring Kevin Spacey, Dennis Leary, Laura Dern among other individuals, this movie looked back at the mess following the election on November 7th right through the events until the U.S. [...]
Patrix | Movies, Television, United States, Weblogs | 6 Comments »
May 18th, 2008
Jackie Chan Fight Scenes
One of the best time-pass activities of all time - watching Jackie Chan in those awesomely choreographed fight sequences that last forever. You may not have watched the preceding part of the movie and may not watch the rest of the movie but those fight sequences are paisa vasool. Here are a fan’s top ten [...]
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May 13th, 2008
Customizing Viewing Ads
Since I’ve been fiddling around at the backend of this blog in midst of revamping the look, I managed to clean up my plugins directory. Although WordPress by itself is a robust blogging engine,the availability of plugins helps enhance the experience and extend its capabilities. One of the plugins that I installed is PlanetOz’s Who [...]
Patrix | Ads, Weblogs | 4 Comments »
May 10th, 2008
List of Book Reviews in the sidebar
I have listed and reviewed books I’ve read in My Library at Google Book Search. The list has a RSS feed too. Any idea how to list the five recently reviewed books in my sidebar without using WordPress widgets?
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May 10th, 2008
Change in Theme Design
After resisting for more than a year, I finally gave in and changed my theme last night. The previous one had served me well and I persisted with it primarily due to several customizations I had made. But it was getting too clunky and boring. And I wasn’t blogging regularly so why not tinker around [...]
Patrix | Design, Personal, Weblogs | 15 Comments »
May 5th, 2008
Jingle Mein Mingle
The age of advertising jingles is unfortunately past us and current advertising campaigns merely use soundtracks from established recording artistes. Sometimes advertisers may choose to use relatively unknown soundtracks like in the ads by Apple or Geico which in turn boosts the song’s popularity. But using original ad jingles have declined even to the extent [...]
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April 14th, 2008
Selling your Twitter account on eBay
Rocketboom founder, Andrew Baron is selling his twitter account with nearly 1,666 followers (at last count) on eBay. The highest bid right now is $1550 [via MR's Markets in Everything] I hope the buyer knows that those followers can depart in an instant. Chances are that most won’t and will continue to get updates from [...]
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April 9th, 2008
Vote Up Plugin
If you notice carefully, the bottom of every non-asides post (unlike this one), you’ll see a tiny bar with the word ‘Vote’ underneath. Clicking on that link lets you give a thumbs-up for that post. The feature is thanks to a plugin called Vote it Up. There is also an option to enable a vote [...]
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March 26th, 2008
Major WordPress Redesign
WordPress 2.5 which is now in RC2 stage seems to pack a lot of features and has some cool added functionality like image gallery within the core. I can’t wait for the final release.
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March 22nd, 2008
Blogger Salaries
It seems that bloggers on the flagship Gawker site get $7.50 per thousand pageviews and considering the amount of pageviews Gawker site(s) generate, contributing bloggers are making quite a bit. Nope, we don’t have a similar model on DesiPundit :)
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Movies I've Watched...
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2008-07-02 21:00
Another tribute to Rashomon. Exciting at times although the end could've been a little more than just an 'accident'.
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2008-06-28 21:20
If you love mindless violence and relentless action, this is the movie for you.
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2008-06-28 15:00
A much subtle anti-war message and focuses on the oft-neglected state of the returning soldiers.
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2008-06-27 23:00
Has its comedic moments but largely an uninspiring slapstick comedy.
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2008-06-27 21:00
The only movie I'll admit to going Awwwww. Pixar has perfected not only animation but also story-telling.
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