Category: Internet

Congratulations to my sister and Michelle’s one and only aunt, Munira, for posting the 3000th comment on this weblog.

I started this weblog 2 years ago with a test post on Blogger. However, I didn’t update regularly until November 2002 starting with a photograph of Allatoona Lake. Things have changed quite a lot in the last two years. From an average of 20-30 visits per day, hits have increased to about 450 visits. I… Continue reading 2nd Blogiversary

I am thinking whether putting text-based ads on the weblog would be a bad idea. So here’s a poll for all of you to vote on it. UPDATE: I have put Google Ads up temporarily. We’ll see how it goes in terms of popularity or otherwise among readers and revenue. The poll is currently 10-9… Continue reading Advertisements

My Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Cable/DSL Router is installed and working. Working on my laptop instead of Amber’s extremely slow ancient PC is a lot more fun. After all, my laptop is more than 6 times faster and has 4 times the RAM compared to Amber’s machine. These are the only two machines connected to our… Continue reading Wireless Network

I don’t understand how much interested/desperate some of my commenters are for marriage that they are not only looking for a spouse online, they are asking about it on a page about forced marriage. Here are some samples. SANT5OSH: WANT MARRY WITH YOU That’s the most direct marriage proposal I have ever heard of. Especially… Continue reading Commenters Looking for Marriage

Some time around 1:45pm today, this weblog received its 100,000th visitor since I moved to my own domain and Movable Type last May. It took 11 months to achieve what Instapundit and Daily Kos manage in a day. I am, however, grateful to all my visitors and hope that you’ll keep reading this weblog and… Continue reading Six Figures

While I haven’t been blogging daily, I do put up interesting links that I find on the sidebar on the right under the title “Browsing.” It’s just below my book list. You can also get the complete list of all the stuff I have put up there. Usually, I put links to articles, photographs and… Continue reading My Browsing Sideblog

This weblog, along with other websites hosted by Dreamhost, went down for most of the day today. According to Dreamhost, this was the result of a distributed denial of service attack. Our apologies for the repeated outages today. It turned out our router problems were caused by a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack aimed… Continue reading Site Outage