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To the Hack and Back

On june 25th, my blog was hacked by one Mr. Rat and the Black Hacker. Genuinely and very humbly they...

Narutard: Alive by Raiko

I am addicted to Naruto since the last Fortnight. One of my favorite songs from the soundtrack is here....

Still Alive

Still alive and breathing. Highly disorganised though. Need to post a lot of stuff since April. Peace. AKPC_IDS...

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To the Hack and Back

On june 25th, my blog was hacked by one Mr. Rat and the Black Hacker. Genuinely and very humbly they thanked 'the administrator for vulnerable scripts'. Bleh! I learned some lessons then. My Plugins and Themes folders within wp-content were set to +777 which is not a very advisable setting. Now, I am wise. What followed was a series of precautions. I, now, use varied passwords for my profiles now. Simply put, I use a system of a base password + a unique site identifier - useful enough to make a unique password for all sites. And no more +777s. ...

twInfluence – measuring your twitter influence

twInfluence is a Twitter tool to measure your twitter influence ratio. The application measures the combined influence of twitterers and their followers To add to that it also calculates three social network statistics for the twitterer - Velocity, Social Capital and Centralization. All you need to use twInfluence is a Twitter Account. [caption id="attachment_1179" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="twinfluence - home"][/caption] twInfluence can be very useful for budding social media experts due to the statistics it reports. First is the absolute rank, which is the twitterers rank on the basis of his activity compared to all the twitterers analysed on twInfluence. Next is a ...

The Sims 3 Review – Next Generation Doll House

The Sims 3 brings back a lot of fun from the phenomenal series. What is encouraging is that EA has now taken the whole Sims experience to a new level altogether. While we still manage the lives of our Sims household, with Sims 3, now that life is not limited to the home alone, but extends to the whole neighbourhood. [caption id="attachment_1152" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Sims 3 - the Whole Neighbourhood"][/caption] The basics of the game are still the same: you begin with a Sims, manage his life, nurture him into a competent being who aspires and achieves his dreams, falls in love, ...

Weboword.com – Vocabulary Visually

Weboword is an online dictionary with a cool twist. Instead of simply providing with the meaning, pronunciation, usage and related grammatical information, Weboword also provides a catchy sketch explaining the whole word in a glance, thus, providing a very easy and simple way to learn new words. It is a completely free service. All work on Weboword is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, which really makes it re-usabel on other websites. This also enables Weboword to seek User Contribution - you submitting words in the dictionary. They accept doodles straight away for publishing on the site, but if ...

Social Sandbox and Beyond at OSScamp Delhi March 2009

OSScamp Delhi March 2009 is finally over. All doubts and concerns about the various experiments have now been resolved. How have my experiments fared? Not good. Not bad, either. So what happened at this OSScamp ? Participation has fallen to almost 50% of OSScamp Delhi September 2008. I do not understand this completely. The registrations were decent enough - 287, but the turnout was only 76. There must be a reason to it. One reason I can think of is that the number of registered sessions on the website was only 8. That could have been one deterrent to people coming ...