Following a series of mishaps and compaints of my comment handling system, here is a post for everyone to test comments. Who wants to go first? If you get blocked by Akismet (or some of my errant code), please drop me a line at m ghosh at wltc dot net Thanks

I was away at my honeymoon and internet connections from Jamaica suck (at least from the Sandals resort in Whitehouse). There was some awry code coupled with persistent spammers that caused havoc. My heartfelt thanks to Carthik for trying very hard to fix things, I just could not get to the right tools in time and he did not have enough access credentials. Everything should be back to normal. Thanks for your patience and to everyone that wrote in to report problems. In other news, I hear Wordcamp was a rip-roaring success. I almost thought about it once this past week while I was zoning out on a float in the massive pool next to the swim up bar. 😉

I remember the good old days in college when I used to have to name my Powerbook 5300 just right to get on the top few of my dorm’s list of machines on the chooser (I forget the name of the chat application we used to use, had a little comic-like talk icon in the chooser). It was not uncommon for a computer to have many tildas and exclamations at the beginning of their name to get up on the top of the list. I even remember doctoring my ICQ username. I bring this up because I have come to the conclusion that blogs with names beginning with the first few letters of the alphabet, get more hits than the rest. This completely unscientific and tin-foil-hat induced theorem is based on my personal experience with reading blogs on a feedreader. When I browse through my Bloglines feeds in the default […]