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Silverpit Crater

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:54:38 -0700

Discovered under the North Sea off the coast of the UK durin...

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:54:38 -0700

Kate Chopin

S.A. Andrée Attempts to Reach the North Pole by Balloon

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:33:03 -0700

After gaining funding from the likes of King Oscar II and Al...

Derringer

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:33:03 -0700

The term "derringer" derives from a misspelling of the last ...

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:33:03 -0700

Jonathan Swift

Urartu

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:13:16 -0700

Urartu was an ancient kingdom of Armenia and the site of a s...

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:13:16 -0700

Sir Walter Scott

The Ark of the Covenant

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:19:37 -0700

According to the biblical account, the Ark of the Covenant w...

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:19:36 -0700

Mark Twain

Hartford Circus Fire

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:13:46 -0700

The Hartford Circus Fire was one of the worst fire disasters...

Atenism

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:13:46 -0700

One of the earliest monotheistic religions, Atenism was intr...

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:13:46 -0700

Leo Tolstoy

Plant Reproduction

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:01:22 -0700

Unlike animals, plants are immobile and cannot actively seek...

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:01:22 -0700

Sophocles

Waffles

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:15:57 -0700

Waffles are light batter cakes cooked between two gridded ho...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:15:56 -0700

Louisa May Alcott

The Voynich Manuscript

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:05:25 -0700

The Voynich manuscript, which likely dates to the late 15th ...

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:05:24 -0700

George Bernard Shaw

The Rack

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:41:40 -0700

An ancient torture device, the rack was used to stretch its ...

Wife Carrying

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:49:30 -0700

Initially introduced as a joke in Finland, wife carrying has...

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,The Devil always builds a chapel there:And 'twill be found, upon examination;The latter has the largest congrega

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:49:30 -0700

Daniel Defoe

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry deco

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:57:37 -0700

Sir Walter Scott

Douglas Hyde Elected First President of Ireland

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:12:58 -0700

Hyde was an Irish scholar and political leader. He was large...

Cuyahoga River Catches Fire

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:32:10 -0700

Described in a Time magazine article as a river that ...

John Bennett Fenn

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:08:50 -0700

Fenn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for hi...

Second Continental Congress Passes Flag Resolution

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:10:56 -0700

The Flag Resolution of 1777 authorized the first official de...

Pioneer 10: First Craft to Leave Solar System

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:15:34 -0700

Launched in 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft...

Roman Emperor Nero Commits Suicide

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:54:09 -0700

Often remembered as a tyrant who played the fiddle while wat...

Jean Paul Marat

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:10:55 -0700

Marat was a French Revolutionary leader, physician, and jour...

Brown v. Board of Education Decided

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:22:48 -0700

In 1951, a class action suit was filed against the Board of ...

Pope Benedict XV Canonizes Joan of Arc

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:14:20 -0700

Joan of Arc was a French military leader and heroine. Claimi...

Ecuador Gains Independence from Gran Colombia

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:07:35 -0700

Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, Ecuador was controlle...

Miyoshi Umeki

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:05:23 -0700

Miyoshi Umeki was an Academy Award-winning, Japanese-born ac...

Dialog GSM has been deceiving the public

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:28:33 -0700

Dialog GSM (biggest telecom provider in Sri Lanka) has been deceiving the public about their Family package tarrifs. Their marketing material, customer service representatives and the web site states there is a commitment of Rs. 250 (Local call charges) per supplementary connection and no commitment for the primary connection. Until February it was the case, [...]

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-21

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:29:00 -0700

Oracle has come to a definitive agreement to acquire Sun. See http://keti.ws/41284 . Wonder where MySQL will head # @hunch is impressive. Checkout http://www.hunch.com/ . But you will have to wait for an invitation. # Sign into my TwitterRemote on http://twittercounter.com/mohanjith so I know when you check my stats! #

Load balanced and High Availability cluster for your web site under USD 60 pm – Part 2

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:21:13 -0700

As I promised, here is the post that will discuss in detail how I configured my cluster of 2 nodes to host my sites. Setting up SSH tunnels You have to setup a SSH tunnel between the nodes. In order to do that you need to allow restricted root logins into your nodes. Using your favourite text [...]

Load balanced and High Availability cluster for your web site under USD 60 pm

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:19:45 -0700

Until recently I used one Linode VPS for hosting all my sites. On 26th March, there was a DDoS attack on one of the Linode customers in the Fremont Datacenter (where my node was as well). This made my sites inaccessible for couple of hours. This got me thinking, what could be done to mitigate [...]

How to customize Web Invoice e-mail templates

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:06:20 -0700

In the latest release of Web Invoice – Invoicing and Billing for WordPress plugin you can customize the e-mails sent to your clients. You can customize the subject as well as the e-mail content. Please bear in mind that Web Invoice only supports plain text e-mails, but you can do wonders with plain text [...]

Web Invoice exceeds 1000 downloads

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:31:09 -0700

Web Invoice – Invoicing and billing for WordPress plugin has exceeded 1000 downloads. It has 1172 dowloads to date. First release of the plugin was made on March 15, 2009 and now in less than 1 month it has more than 1000 downloads. Web Invoice is ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone [...]

How to migrate from WP-Invoice to Web Invoice?

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:10:53 -0700

Web Invoice and WP-Invoice are two WordPress plugins that allow sending invoices and bills. Web Invoice is a fork of WP-Invoice with lot of new features that most people will want. In the current release (1.6.2) they are: Send invoice reminders to customers with a secured link back to the web invoice Moneybookers, AlertPay or PayPal available if [...]

SyntaxHighlighter2 WordPress plugin released

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:04:06 -0700

SyntaxHighlighter2 WordPress plugin was released yesterday on WordPress Extend plugin repository. SyntaxHighlighter2 allows you to easily post syntax highlighted code all without loosing it’s formatting or making an manual changes. Main addition is upgrade to SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript 2.0 by Alex Gorbatchev. Also in this release the web master/blogger is given the ability to choose from [...]

WordPress object cache with memcached backend for vanilla WordPress

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:08:09 -0700

WordPress object cache with memcached backend is mainly meant for WPMU and doesn’t work well if you happened to have many vanilla WordPress installations using the same memcached backend like it is pointed out here and here. I have created a simple patch which you can apply against object-cache.php (downloadable from WordPress plugin repository) or here [...]

FeedBurner Widget plugin released with MyBrand support

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:38:27 -0700

FeedBurner Widget 1.2 (WordPress plugin) was released last Friday with much needed MyBrand support. Thank you Alexander Dichev for the release.

Euro coin trading company

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Read only Facebook – Database write failed

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:34:54 -0800

To my despair Facebook went read only for a brief period of time (aproximately 10 minutes). I was not able to comment on my friend’s status messages, or like them, or post my own status message; I was confronted with the message bellow. However adding friends, approving requests were working fine. I believe the issue [...]

Felizsemdor - Psychology clinic (Portugese)

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

jango vs. last.fm

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:58:15 -0800

I had been using last.fm for a while and recently tried out jango. Though jango lacks the bells and whistles of last.fm like desktop client, feeds, etc it does it’s job; play music. I like jango for it’s discovery algorithm. It plays music I’d like. With time it has been improving. In contrast last.fm would get [...]

Google Analytics for WordPress plugin is incompatible with AddThis plugin

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:42:00 -0800

Google Analytics for WordPress plugin adds an onclick attribute to links when “Track outbound clicks & downloads” is enabled irrespective of whether there is already an onclick attribute. AddThis plugin adds a link with onclick attribute to the post when enabled. This combination causes WordPress to generate invalid mark up. Same would happen if the [...]

WordPress plugin Smart Throttle 1.0.0 released

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:54:19 -0800

WordPress plugin Smart Throttle 1.0.0 released. With this release Smart Throttle is hosted on WordPress plugin repository allowing users to easily install and upgrade. In this release I have added the ability to configure throttling parameters. You can download the latest release from either here, here or from your WordPress blog under Plugins -> Add New [...]

Smart Throttle WordPress plugin

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

My fight against comment spam on Wordpress blogs – Smart Throttle

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:22:12 -0800

My blog was hit with a comment spam flood which almost brought down the server under load. There were aproximately 30 bots continuously posting spam comments, geez don’t they realize that none of the comments get published. With all the writes to the database, my servers came to a crawling stop. I disabled comments for [...]

Subversion to Git

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:02:52 -0800

My new year resolution was to ditch Subversion and move to Git. I switched to Git as my SCM for all my development work on new year day it self. I did hit some issues because my ignorance about how things are done with Git, however everything was fixed within the day. Now, 20 days [...]

Use KernelCheck to build the latest kernel for debian/ubuntu

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:58:43 -0800

I recently found this awesome project called KernelCheck that allows you to build the latest Linux Kernel for your distribution. It requires very little interaction from the user and automatically optimizes the kernel to user’s needs. Currently it only supports Debian based distributions but support for RPM and Slackware based distributions is planned. KernelCheck is [...]

v4l supports Avermedia PCI pure analog (M135A)

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:05:19 -0800

I bought a Avermedia PCI pure analog (M135A) recently (26th December) and to much to my delight it was just plug and play on my home media center running Debian testing with custom built Linux kernel 2.6.28 (Released on 24th December). TV tuner was working with no issues. All local TV channels we accessible [...]

CUPS spool in devices with limited space

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:45:38 -0800

I was trying to print a large document, and it would never print. A small print job had no issues. To add to that I was printing a stupid PDF form that will only open with Acrobat Reader. The print job was passing through many places, VMWare guest, my notebook, and finally print server. I [...]

John Kennedy Toole

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:29:49 -0800

Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, ...

Lanka Bell broadband charges for services not requested

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:57:05 -0800

Last 14th I got my self a LankaBell broadband connection, there were no addons available either. Today I got the bill and they have charged me for web space and web mail that I was not even aware of they had. I complained to their billing department and they said they will get back to [...]

Going multi uplink

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:28:20 -0800

Last Friday I got a 2nd connection for my home-office. Now I have 1Mbit/s WiMAX uplink from Dialog Broadband and 512Kbit/s (Soon will be upgraded to 1Mbit/s) WiMAX uplink from Lanka Bell. I have setup one of my old PCs as the router. I couldn’t find a single router with multi-uplink here in Sri Lanka, but [...]

Marie Antoinette

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:28:11 -0700

Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France. T...

Get Monit to repair your server!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:39:41 -0700

Monit is an open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit is capable of automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. It takes less than 15 minutes to setup and run this wonderful tool on most Unix servers. It also [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 on Lenovo 3000 N200

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:05:44 -0700

Few hours ago I upgraded my Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. Upgrade it self was a smooth one. Download took around 1.5 hours and the installation was around 45 minutes. Ubuntu 8.10 Human theme looks sexy. New wireless driver for Intel 3945ABG has support for the LED indicator as well. Only issues were: ALSA was locked while [...]

One more day for Ubuntu 8.10 release

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:46:29 -0700

Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex will be released on 30th October 2008. I’m looking forward for the release tomorrow. I’ll be upgrading my machines to Ibex. New features in 8.10 are: GNOME 2.24 X.Org 7.4 Linux kernel 2.6.27 Encrypted private directory Guest session Network Manager 0.7 Samba 3.2 PAM authentication framework Totem BBC plugin Server Virtualization There is more, you can check out http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/810rc.

Check your page rank now!

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:35:46 -0700

PageRank is Google’s measure of the importance of a web page. It is a numeric score assigned by Google and ranges from 0 to 10. Google uses the vast link structure of the web as an indicator of an individual page’s value. When one page links to another, it is effectively casting a vote for [...]

Curly Howard

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:58:43 -0700

Jerome Lester Horwitz, a man best known as "Curly Howard" or...

Cassius Marcellus Clay

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:12:14 -0700

Clay, nicknamed "The Lion of Whitehall," was an American pol...

Keti - Short URLs

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:27:16 -0700

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and sati...

Vince Guaraldi

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:14:21 -0700

American jazz musician Vince Guaraldi was hired to score the...

Poll-n-Ping!

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Ebay auction mirror site

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Flash player and shopping cart

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Javascript shopping cart

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:02:34 -0700

Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik party leader...

Vietnamese input plugin for TinyMCE

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

MOHA Chat Released

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:33:44 -0800

MOHA Chat was released tin sourceforge.net .

MOHA Chat

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:05:45 -0800

Chat server and web client usign PHP, MySQL and Javascript.

Enghala

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:19:53 -0700

Sinhala in English