I’d sent this e-mail on 26th Oct 2009 to the Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Bangalore City (currently Commissioner Praveen Sood) – to highlight the lack of regulatory efforts to improve the traffic situation in Bangalore. There has been no response till date (11th Feb 2010)… Well kinda expected, you’d say. There’s little that we [...]
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Have you pondered over this question? While buying a car these days, a majority of us prefer to buy the diesel variant of the car of our choice (if its available), as compared to the petrol one. Even though the diesel variant comes: at a higher purchase cost than the petrol variant (atleast sets you back by [...] Q1. Have you ever bought something just because your favourite celebrity was endorsing it? If you said a “YES” for any of the questions above, you can go back to what you were doing before coming to this article; sorry [...] I started reading Five Point Someone last week and finished it yesterday (17th Jan). In-between, I saw the movie 3idiots on Wednesday 13th Jan, when I had partially read through the book. That probably makes me one of the few (rare?) persons who partially read the book, saw the movie in-between & then completed reading the rest [...] ** Dispatches – Terror in Mumbai (Video Documentary – ~350 MB) ** After reading: http://webtips.dan.info/brand-x/useragent.html, its clear that the web-browser shares are not 100% accurate… rather they cannot be 100% accurate. Also see: http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2003/02/properly-measuring-msie (a little old, however could still be relevant) So how accurate are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers and other “browser usage reports”? – Part V: Continued from Part IV: Recap: Part IV: Continued from Part III: Recap: Part III: Continued from Part II: Recap: Part II: Continued from Part I: Recap: The shocked passenger was nervously happy to be alive with some injuries, after a close brush with possible death. The auto-rickshaw she was riding in, had suddenly swerved to the right & hit the median, causing the vehicle to topple to the left. Luckily for her, within a few seconds of the accident, some people [...] This is a picture I took on my way to the office today morning. Check it out, the auto-rickshaw is a “KINGFISHER Coach“, probably owned by Mallya’s gardener. (Actual picture) And the main thing – there’s something (horribly + terribly) poetic written above it, which reads as below (copying the punctuation as well): —————————————— I know, we have quite a few (virtual) reality shows on TV with a similar name. This one is a unique pure reality show, though! Welcome to THE SHOW OF THE 3rd MILLENIUM! We’ve had contestants from the 2nd MILLENIUM as well, right from the time the vehicle horn was invented. The show wasn’t [...] When was the last time you saw the Independence day flag hoisting or Republic day parade, live, or on TV? Me: I seriously don’t even remember seeing it in the news – later in the evening – for the last few years. When was the last time you sung (or even hummed on) the national [...] All offices have numerous controls & restrictions in place, to avoid/reduce the obvious misuse of the facilities offered for work. Access restrictions to hardware device(s) (like CD/DVD Drives, USB ports), restrictions accessing the internet, blocking/limiting uploads & downloads, to only allow restricted software to be installed, and likewise; are very common. Deploying & administering such controls [...] After about 6 years in Bengaluru, I am now well conversant with the English pronounciations & “Hinglish” spellings (i.e. Indian/Hindi spellings in English!). Never understood the *logic* and never got any satisfying reason about:  Why are English spellings of Indian words (Hindi, Sanskrit, etc.) spelt differently in south-India, so much that the words lose their actual pronounciations altogether? Listing some [...] Background: The recently announced Google Chrome Operating System! Don’t pull out your wallets yet – there’s time before they launch it… and it might also be available as FOSS! In HK Sir’s recent blog, he puts forth his thoughts about why he thinks the recently announced Google Chrome OS might not give Microsoft a run for [...] An odd comparison?… “What exactly is the Microsoft .NET Framework?” (Tip: Read .NET as “dot net” – stands for Microsoft .NET Framework (Fx)) Hope you read about my accident in the previous post. If not, here’s the excerpt: I had an accident on the 03rd of Mar 2009 at around 22:00 hours, when I was driving my bike back from work. I broke a couple of ribs (minor cracks/fracture, unsure if they can be called “hairline fractures“) when I [...] 1. Dhanya, a 14 year old village girl, died on the way to the hospital. The valiant villagers who had saved her from drowning in the raging Cauvery waters, couldn’t reach the nearest hospital just 2.5 kms away in-time to save the breathless Dhanya, only due to bad roads. The Sunday ToI (Bangalore Edition) on [...] I noticed a red & white card lying next to my right shoe while waiting at the Madiwala checkpost traffic signal, on my way to the office. I bent over & picked it up. I wiped the wet dirt which had covered it. It was a card driving license (DL), and the name on the card read [...] Humourous Thought (Thanks Swami for this gem!): A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. We, the Indian salaried class, run the country with our Tax-Deducted-at-Source (TDS) + Surcharge + Cess, is well-known. Ofcourse, there are the Ambanis, Mallya, Birlas & even Shah Rukh Khan & Akshay [...] Inside the Kanteerva Stadium, Bangalore. From the Gate 11, this was where we were waiting to enter into the ground/tracks. Inside the Kanteerva Stadium, Bangalore. From the Gate 11, this was where we were waiting to enter into the ground/tracks.  After a nice 5.7 kms of Sunfeast Bangalore Majja (fun) marathon yesterday (31st May 2009), I have a few aching muscles and lots of memories of a nice time running for Bangalore! I’d say a nice kick-start for me to exercise more frequently, as well as to participate in such events henceforth. Thanks to ITC Sunfeast… [...] Being a programmer (now only at heart!), and that too a C, C++ one… everything starts with a “Hello World!” – Courtesy K & R. throw, is a programming statement used to “throw handled/unhandled exceptions”. Read more, if you want to: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/exceptions/ & http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6dekhbbc(VS.80).aspx Anyway, a wam welcome! |
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WordPress Bug: Incorrect count of comments? - Solution
Yeah, I’d been noticing it over the last few days that the count of comments for the posts was incorrect. And it was consistently missing out later posts. I was unsure if the ‘bug’ existed in WordPress or it was due to the theme that I use (if that mattered).
I first thought, it [...]