this is the new home for An unquiet mind.
I have taken the plunge and decided to host my own blogs. My web presence will henceforth be at this new domain, where I am planning to maintain two separate blogs.
I was looking to consolidate my geek blog with my personal blog. I spent a lot of time …
Tag Archives: wordpress
Welcome to the Skeptic Geek!
An Unquiet Mind of A Social Geek
Take a look at these numbers:
This is my 267th post.
There are 2962 authentic comments on this blog.
My posts have 203 tags in 39 categories.
Total views crossed 100K quite a while back.
These numbers usually don’t mean much to me. But I always use a trick while climbing a mountain. When I am exhausted and feel like I can’t go …
Spooky Spock
This is the spookiest thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet yet. A revolutionary people-focused search engine, Spock, launched into public beta today.
About 30% of all search traffic is people related — about 20 billion search queries per month. How is it different from Google or other mainstream search engines? If you Google “boxer”, you’ll …
Meaning of freedom
Imagine not being able to:
Study Wikipedia
Read news sources like BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Economist
Reference the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
Use MySpace, YouTube, Digg, or Orkut
View pictures on Flickr
Read blogs on Wordpress, LiveJournal, or Blogspot
Access sites of Microsoft, Apple, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo
This would be your world if you were a Chinese citizen.
We all know about the Great Firewall of China. Take …
Bug with Wordpress’s Akismet Stats Reporting
On your blog stats page, you have the Spam section with a remark:
“Akismet has protected your site from XYZ spam comments.”
Now, if you check your spam comments, find an authentic comment and de-spam it, this XYZ count should reduce, right? I mean, I’m telling Wordpress/Akismet that the comment should not be counted as spam!
I just found …
I Can Has CNN
I don’t know why, but since I started blogging few months back, the most popular blog on Wordpress has been “I Can Has Cheezburger”. When I started blogging, I thought it’s just an anomaly. But, surprises of surprises, it turned out to be the No. 1 blog of all time.
I once decided to check it out. …
