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March 17th, 2009
Google Mistrials
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Asides, Law, United States, Web 2.0, World Wide Web | 
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August 14th, 2008
Google India Sued over Blogger’s Identity
The phenomenon of companies threatening bloggers in India is back. This time Google India has been sued by Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects to reveal details of a blogger who wrote against the company’s mines in Mozambique [via]. After failing to obtain the necessary cooperation from Mumbai Police’s Cyber Cell, Gremach moved the High Court [...]
Patrix | India, Law, Weblogs | 2 Comments »
August 13th, 2008
Alicia Sacramone is hot?
Alicia Sacramone single-handedly doomed any chances for U.S. to win the women’s team gymnastics gold by making egregious errors in her routine. She fell off the balance beam and landed plonk on her bottom during the floor exercises. She looked visibly disconsolate and seemed to blame herself for her team’s loss. Unjustifiably so because the [...]
Patrix | Sports, United States | 4 Comments »
August 10th, 2008
Searching for Pron in India
No surprise that search volume for pron has steadily increased in India but why does Meghalaya lead the pack [via]. I didn’t even know they had reliable net access.
Patrix | Asides, India, World Wide Web | 4 Comments »
May 19th, 2008
Google – Maybe a Little Evil
Google’s ‘Do No Evil’ is fast turning out to be just a slogan rather than a mission statement. Over the weekend, Google divulged private information of Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid who had posted derogatory and vulgar comments about Sonia Gandhi on an Orkut group. What is the India law enforcement doing digging up lukhha Orkut [...]
Patrix | Asides | 1 Comment »
February 28th, 2008
Google Penalty Reversed
I guess Google loves me once again. The referrals aren’t back yet to their original levels but they are getting there. As you see, February was a bad month, traffic-wise [see the above image for fall and rise of Google referrals] I had whined earlier on the harsh penalty it imposed on my blog for [...]
Patrix | Weblogs, World Wide Web | No Comments »
February 15th, 2008
Spanked by Google
As any webmaster will attest, referrals from Google’s organic search can be a source of immense traffic to your site. Like any other site on the web, this blog also attracted droves of Google searchers in pursuit of knowledge of varying interests; ranging from Sanjaya Malakar to streaming online movies. But sometime early this month, [...]
Patrix | Weblogs, World Wide Web | 9 Comments »
February 2nd, 2008
Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
In an unsurprising move, Microsoft made a bid to buy Yahoo in order to increase its role in the World Wide Web with an astronomical offer of $44.6 billion. Traditionally, Microsoft has been relied on desktop software like its hallmark product, Windows and other ancillary softwares like Office, etc. It hasn’t made a serious dent [...]
Patrix | Business | 6 Comments »
November 12th, 2007
Digit’s Popat
Did the Indian tech magazine, Digit just get egg all over its face? Valleywag reported that Digit is running a cover story this month on Google Adsense’s click-fraud vulnerability. Now those with Adsense accounts and any experience of mischief or even plain misunderstanding know very well that Google takes utmost care in avoiding click fraud. [...]
Patrix | Media, Technology, Weblogs | No Comments »
October 29th, 2007
Google Reader Problems with unread items
Sometime yesterday my Google Reader started to act up. I haven’t added any new add-ons or made any changes to my Google account (well, I did install Flock but have uninstalled it now). The screenshot of the problem [click to enlarge]:
As you see, Atanu’s blog (or any other updated blog) clearly shows new unread items [...]
Patrix | Personal, Weblogs | 11 Comments »
Movies I've Watched...
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2009-06-21 15:30
Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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2009-06-10 19:00
Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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2009-06-05 16:45
Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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