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Archive for February, 2005

prasad a.k.a tux

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Nothing much to say about me. Did my schooling at the Sainik School, Korukonda. Graduated from IIIT Hyderabad and am now working as a software engineer here in Hyderabad. I work at a place that respects my personal interests.
Disclaimer: All the opinions on this blog are my own and are not in anyway related, derived […]

Blosxom FORTUNE plugin

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

Yet another simple plugin for blosxom.
Just wanted to add quotes to my blog… and failed to find a plugin that meets my requirements! The fortune plugin can

Give you random quotes
Based on configuration it can also give you the source of quote saperately
The database is a blosxom post that follows the unix fortune file format
Add/Remove […]

Blosxom BOOKMARKS plugin

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Wow! I can do PERL. Though not an expert I can manage using it when required.
Heres a blosxom plugin that can be used to maintain a list of your blog’s articles as bookmarks. The plugin like wikieditish comes in the form of a flavour for adding/removing a bookmark. Demo? […]

Time to say - No IE

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

“Use Firefox”, “Use Konqueror”, “Use Mozilla” and “Use Opera”. These phrases were indirect ways of asking others not to use Internet Explorer. Similar to many other people around the world I think its time to be direct… time to say “No IE”. I recently stumbled upon an interesting article titled “Stop using Internet […]

Felicity - The IIIT Annual Festival

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

I spent most of this weekend was at the IIIT’s annual cultural and technical festival. With many of my classmates coming in from outside this city of Hyderabad, this was one of the most enjoyed weekend in the recent months. Played a lot of tennis, defeated hari and venky in table tennis and […]