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| Lone Crowbot Goes Multi-user! The word Lone Blogger is used for someone who uses his or her own blogging tools (courtesy: Blogicon).
I've been a Lone Blogger, using my own tools, and
as Yourish says,
"Being a Lone Blogger isn't bad at all".
My mother started a blog recently, and I
evaluated Blogger and Radio Userland to make her blog.
We needed the
advantages of both the tools which seem to be
mutually exclusive It was a painful undertaking, because at every decision making process, I had to distinguish between my blog and her's, my shortcuts and her shortcuts, my templates and her templates. The BLOGSearch had to be modified also. But I am getting there. See a test blog. The obvious next question now is, how can I make this tool available to public?
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-- edit from anywhere as well as content managed blogs. After struggling for a week
to join our | Historians See More | | ||
| Historians See More I was writing captions for some of the pictures and came across this sculpture in which the two women seem to be arguing. 
I asked my mother, a historian, as to which period the sculpture belonged. "Probably 16th century A.D." she replied, and pointed to the following details in the picture, that I'd missed.
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New for May 2002
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| Review of French Open Website | | ||
| The French Open Website First, link to the Roland Garros Website. Second, Story on Technology Behind the Website Then, a Review of the Website. Summary: Very good in usability, content, and navigation. Web designers must study the layout of this site to build high traffic portals. The font is very readable, with distinct sizes emphaizing the importance. What I Liked My Suggestions for Improvement
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New Contents
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| Blog Vacation | | ||
| nice +19 blogs I will be extremely busy till July 15th making a living, and regret the sparsity of blog updates. My surflog for this morning:
If you are wondering what the title of this blog means: nice is the UNIX command
to lower the priority of a task. BTW, if you are Microsoft Windows user, changing priority is something you cannot do.
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| How to Handle Request Stampede | | ||
| How to Handle More Customers than You Can I have been swamped with projects. Each demanding top priority and great diligence. There's no way I can handle 'em all. So, I'm performing what is known as the Tirupati Haircut. Tirupati is a place of Hindu pilgrimage in Southern India, where the devotees tonsure their heads in sacrifice to the deity. On certain days there's so much rush and stampede at the barbers' that the barbers just cannot handle the demand. Each devotee loudly demands that their head be shaven immediately, lest they go to a different barber. So the barber has a trick. He shaves off only a part of the head and moves on to the next customer. Every customer thinks that his turn has come, but has to wait a long time before the shaving is complete. At the same time, the barber has effectively garnered the business because you won't go to another barber with half your head shaven!
That's exactly what you should do when you have ten top priority tasks. Begin one, don't finish it, but move on to next. That way you have engaged the customer (rather than losing him), while denying the opportunity to the competition.
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| The Business of Aggregation | | ||
| Weekend Wisdom I did a lot of magazine reading this weekend, and hereby I share what I've learnt :-
BTW, I know of two entrepreneurs who built a large empire based on what I just did (read magazines and summarize them for friends). The Story of Jerry Seaman and Tim Collins Gerald Seaman and Tim Collins of Topsfield Massachusetts were both magazine enthusiasts and used to read a lot of magazines. They shared the list of most interesting articles with friends and family and discovered that this compilation was very much appreciated. So in 1984 they started Popular Magazine Review (PMR) that published summaries of articles from periodicals such as Time, and National Geographic, which was an immediate hit. With PMR you no longer needed to weed through lots of stories -- the best stories were compiled and summarized for you by Seaman and Collins! Seaman and Collins expanded the idea to include popular magazines, hobby magazines, and then to cover journals and scholarly publications. Their company, eventually merged with EBSCO, is the largest aggregator of content today and is the lifeline of reference content for libraries in the Western hemisphere. Here's a hat tip to Jerry, Tim and EBSCO for the vision to see the need for intelligent aggregation.
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| The Meaning of Largest | | ||
| The Meaning of Largest Apropos: Earlier today we were amused by a press release that claimed that AllTheWeb.com had overtaken Google in the size of their document index. Soon after the release came out, the AllTheWeb.com site was down, perhaps too busy to handle the sudden burst of traffic and load. In the afternoon, I had an opportunity to poke around. Remember the
FastSearch.com that provides the search for many of the blogs? It's the same
engine, and the 2.1
Billion web pages they claim to have indexed are really the 2.1 billion permalinks
(the name anchor) the bloggers so enthusiastically and automatically insert in
their blogs. So one page of Winer's Scripting News (who btw is hospitalized, I hear -- "Get well soon Dave") is consided as 100 documents by AllTheWeb While I welcome a new search engine, I am not blown away by AllTheWeb.
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| The Wonder of Ghotuls | | ||
| The Wonder of Ghotuls
Where in the world can a brother and a sister sleep in the same room with their respective lovers? Read about the fascinating educational institution of Muria tribals in Schools of the Jungle. Now enhanced with newly added pictures.
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| Wolrd Cup Soccer | | ||
| Korea Runs Out of Red Cloth! Spoke to my wife's family in Korea and shared some of the excitement of Korea's shocking victory over Italy. They said the entire nation has gone soccer crazy. Yesterday, 3.5 million people poured into the streets to celebrate the historical victory and the country ran out of red clothes (the jersey color of the Korean team). And cry baby Italians have fired Ahn Jung-Hwan and are blaming referees and FIFA.
Starbucks Coffee Getting Bitter? The company the popularized drinking coffee in a coffee-shop is now under criticism from two different circles. First for trying to profit from the WTC look-alike twin-coffee-mug campaign, and then for showing insensitivity to the Palestinians. I'd like to see someone boycott Starbucks for the right reason -- overpricing of coffee.
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| Immature Indian Press | | ||
| Immature Indian Press? I am concerned by the number of stories carried by Indian press criticizing an article in Time Magazine showing the prime-minister of India in not-so-good light. C'on people. Until we start criticizing and rediculing the leaders, India won't become a mature democracy. The parivar (coterie) seems to be upset that Time Magazine disclosed Vajapayee's drinking
habits (drinking is frowned upon in India). I say it is not as embarrassing as the drinking habits of one of his predecessors FYI: Morarji Desai, a former prime-minister of India, and a distinguished parliamentarian, practiced urine therapy. Perhaps the problem is not with the press, but with the people. What's the role of press in a nation with low literacy and where even smaller percentage that actually buys newspapers?
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| Technology and Racism | | ||
| Technology Will Cure Racism This morning Wired News has a story of how a DNA study shows close relationship of Appalachian people with an ancient tribe in India. Earlier this year I also read a research paper (citation is shown below) that found elements of the same tribe in the genes of southern brahmins. So, down with the superior race and superior caste theories. We are all really same! Citation:
Vi Users Never Die VI (pronounced /V-I/ never /siks/) is the first visual editor I knew and my fingers learnt how to use it. When I developed the Programmer's Disease I tried to go back to vi, hoping to reduce my usage of the mouse. Like bicycling and swimming, you can really never unlearn what the body learns, and vi skills came back to me naturally. This week, I was very pleasently surprised to discover that Google keyboard shortcuts actually supported vi keys for navigation. Very Cool. Vi users never die, they keep yanking (vi's mechanism for copy & paste) back.
Also, I didn't know Bill Joy (the creator of NFS and Java) was the
author of Vi.
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| Updates to Kamat's Potpourri The June Newsletter is out. Sign up for Friends of Kamat to receive it every month. AsiaFirst has a very flattering review (scroll to fourth paragraph) of Kamat's Potpourri. Amma's Column is now full-text indexed. You can use either the search box to the left or the BLOGSearch to search through the archives of Amma's Column.
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aperture settings etc.,) in Kamat PICTURESearch I am working on a AutoBlog to be released soon. Sneak Preview of Kamat Community Typewriter. Wait a minute. Perhaps I should stop developing and install Movable Type instead.
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