Tuesday, July 18, 2006

are you blocked too?

Now, I understand the raaz behind the outages.
- First it was geocities, I cursed it for a week and ported my webpage onto freewebs.
- Now, its blogger.com, naa - I am not reporting my blog - no way!!

And all this to suppress anti-social activities courtesy Mumbai blasts... Hmmm
But, geocities was down around 3 weeks back, and what was the reason for that? - Does this classify as pre-emption?

* Neha Vishwanath tracks this issue here
* Another reason for those who arent using RSS feeds to start using them

Update : Thanks to the hullabaloo generated by a few influential bloggers, Blogger.com is directly accessible again. Don't any influential people use Geocities(sic)?

Friday, July 14, 2006

unemployed......

It was my last day at work today.. Mixed feelings of joy and sadness (more of sadness though)
some pics of the last days in GS Lab here

And now I am .................

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

the finale' ...

Looking back at the WC Final -there are atleast 3 contenders for the event of the Final.

- Zidane's knocking down of Materazzi
- Materazzi's foul which led to the penalty
- The closing performance by Shakira

And I think the "Hips" easily beat Materazzi's leg and Zidanes' head.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

geocities......

After verifying that the problem persists on 4 different browsers, & 3 different machines, I can safely conclude that "yahoo geocities" is down... none of the sites hosted by geocities are visible ... though it still allows web pages to be edited!
"Page not found" --- and couldnt find any news about this shutdown.
Simply means my webpage ceases to exist (sic)

Update -- I say goodbye and thankyou to Geoshities.. Ported my page onto freewebs
Find it here

Monday, July 03, 2006

looking for your roots?

A new research - this -- V. Interesting!!
And it leads one to believe that ....
- All of the human beings today have a common ancestor who lived around 2000 years ago...
- Around 5000 years ago, every human being alive today had exactly the same set of ancestors
--- Haven't we always known it - courtesy our Religion and the Father of all human beings

Wonder how Darwin would have reacted to this?