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Blog shift: The Milkman has a new Address
Sunday, November 22, 2009

The new address for my blog is http://thejaywalk.blogspot.com/ and its called "The Jaywalk".
The obvious difference is that now it has a much simpler name and URL. The peeping pseudo-intellectualism with the complicated name, has been put to rest.

Yeah! I also have a new template -- which I intend to keep fiddling with. over next two months or  show. I have exported all my previous posts to the new blog. Relief !! ***If I were an effervescent teenager now - I would have said "that is kickass cool!"***

Those, who wanna know the simple steps to shift the blog can look in here >>
"How does she change her dad"

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Master Plan Google
Friday, March 09, 2007

This is an over hyped conspiracy theory and the clip is very sleek.

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Tickling the Blogger : Recent comments and more.
Friday, January 26, 2007

tag Proppadom eerrodipus strophillicious Commentovilli and blogcrotic.
(please, know these terms before you read the following tutorial. It is important)

Recent Comments :

I used to have Farrago recent comments hack. Google it if you want that hack. But now as the blogger itself has provided help to add this feature, I guess there is no need to take the pain. Blogger provides simple code, which can be modified easily with some common blogger template tags.

What did i do?

I modified the code to include the whole comment body by adding the following tag:

<$BlogCommentBody$>
Now, my recent comments appear perfectly in my sidebar. I could afford to add the whole comments body because my sidebar is a hover menu and hence, the comments body would appear only on hover. (Thus it doesn't clutter my sidebar even if there is a long comment .. tada biggrin). So, I can read the recent comments without trying to navigate away.

With Farrago hack, I was able to limit the no. of recent comments to appear which I am not able to do right now and it seems recent comments appear only for the posts on display on the home page. hmm........ Your friendly neighborhood is thinking.

Footnote:
 I was thinking of calling myself the Jedi knight of blog technology. Later, I thought it is too much of a fancy idea to wear those gown and look weird..... "Yoda, please hear me not. Just joking, I am."

and about those terms on the top of the post.. nvm them.. thats something I have to do cause I donno how to start a post.

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Search for Comic Relief :Rumble in the THONG
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

This is last weeks' pursuit of much needed comic relief in various dimensions:

Hog the blog:
Bloggers have been writing their way to glory on some trite and boring subjects(or may be I was reading the saddest of them all).I was getting really despo to read stuffs that can titillate me. Then, I bumped into David Maiki's excellent work of creativity and imagination through a list of 12 most humoruos people on the net. David Maiki's combination of contemporary theme with archaic surroundings is worth having a look at, than reading gossips about Angelina or talking about immaterial-racial-mud-slinging-in-a-reality show (read Big Brother). Anyways, it gave me the pip to rejuvenate my own immature attempt at wearing the thong again through my greenhorns. Making a complete strip requires a lot of effort.. pheww!!(Dude!.. have u seen a GUY struggling in a thong or trying to manage a Saree.. IT indeed is an effort..nvm if u don't get what I said.)

Rumble in the thong:
Now this may not be funny for most of you but it is for me. Like an year ego me and a friend of mine had this bet that Hillary Clinton is gonna run for the HOT SEAT or not. I have been watching her moves with anticipation of a pregnant woman and here she gave in to the itch in her thong. Some of these women have extreme discomfort in their undergarments and u can easily find it out looking at their movements.




Domestic LOL:
People have been suggesting putting in some hot pics which can finally put the ratings of your blog high. (Afterall blogging has been reduced to popularity charts and number of clicks.) I was asked to join CLICKY (web statistics) and it handed me my 1st laughter of the week.

"this dude from US clicked my blog post pornucopia while he was looking for underage literotica in google"

Sick.

So, I looked at more of masala stuff in surroundings to put in my blog and the closest I could come up was this pic :

This guy is my dorm mate and is an ex-Adobe employee. (I can reveal this coz his face has been destroyed to an unrecognizable extent... he he).Thats cake on his face.
No wonder why I run away and they can't find me in my birthdays.

Anyways, we have been doing 007 to find out to whom does the finger belong.rolleyes. Sucking up to whom.

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Smileys in Blogger
Friday, January 12, 2007

Though, I keep fiddling with the blogger template I, like the miser with a spoon, have rarely talked in detail as to what and how I do it. Recently, I saw some fellow bloggers nonnie and luna throwin a lot of tutorials, I thought lets do it for once.

So, when a friend of mine asked me how I included smileys in blogger .. I decided to put it here.

This is where I get my smileys from. A simple "click" for whenever I want. biggrin


Initially wanted to include all the yahoo smileys here, but then I thought they were a bit big for my liking. I used greasemonkey scripts to include them here. For the techies who want to know more go for the attachment below.
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attach Greasemonkey is a firefox extension which allows you to change the way your webinterface functions by modifying through Javascripts. So, first of all you need firefoc with greasemonkey. Then I found the some Java scripts for blogger in Userscripts. I installed one script for blogger smileys through it. But, I didn't like them so i wanted to have my own smileys. For this, I opened an account with userscript.Then, Uploaded the script for smileys/emoticons to my account and modified the script.

To modify the script, I opened the script in an editor (in my case notepad) and then included a few lines for the smileys I wanted to add. like here :-

Its simple. One only needs to include the image url's for their smileys/emoticons. Then save it and upload in your host (in my case Userscript). Then install the script to your browser through greasemonkey.

Thus you are done. linux_penguin

There are other ways to do it like included a whole lot of codes into ur template for urself but I think using greasemonkey for JS is a simpler way.

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Another template HARAKIRI
Thursday, December 21, 2006

I don't end fiddling with template mrgreen. I have again made changes by replacing my earlier smileys to new ones (courtesy: greasemonkey scripts), putting a list of recent comments to my sidebar and by using peek a boo comments.

I don't use too many smileys; but I thgt, hell!! no harm in having them in my template and I am satisfied with type of addition cause they are small.biggrin

I was looking for a list of recent comments to be displayed on my sidebar like I had seen in some wordpress templates. I found some neat hacks in blogfresh and followed it with a bit of customization for my hover menu bar. It was working.

However, when it was time to get a show/hide comments thing(so that one doesn't have to navigate away from the page to read the comments), I ended up spending a lot of time. Finally, i got my rescuer in the blogger help. Lolz, I didn't know it was called peek a boo comments. Its neat and the comments are displayed instantly without having to wait for another page to download.
Meanwhile, I switched from old blogger to blogger beta and I had a tough time. 1st, it took a lot of time to transfer my blogs. 2ndly, for a few minutes it seemed I had lost a few code changes I had made cry.

Thankfully, everythng is fine now. The beta one loads faster so it would tempt me to fiddle with the template further and check the previews fast lol.

Oye, I have changed the background and got dotted borders too (in case u didn't notice).

[update] 23/12/2006 : Modified the comments section. Added colored comment boxes(It's easy just define a class with ur choice of colors and and fix the comment codes within that class.)

tried lightbox. added a searchbox. have a pop-up comment box now.

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The Newbies
Monday, December 04, 2006

Some fresh new wonderful people have joined the blogspace.Anny joined a few days back. Now her counterpart and arch rival Iqra.

This is the hymn for Iqra.She is little wonder gal from Pakistan. Her energy rubs on to me whenever she talks. When I 1st saw her, I felt that she has been sent with only one motto in life " Some people were born to rule, some were born to demolish the twin towers,Tiger woods was born to put the balls into the holes .. but Iqra was born to TALK"..

Iqra is sweet and its nice to see her in blogspace now.Exactly an year ago I had met a similar gal, with such energy and vibes(the world certainly revolves). Though everything with her ends with Roger Federer,which is not exactly the cake I love .. but hell, This gal is nice.

Welcome to Blogger. In her words " u ko bhi likhna chaloo karna chahiye".

Allah hafiz tongue

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CSS... My Ass
Saturday, December 02, 2006

Hadn't changed my blog for a while now(not that I am very willing to change). As the exams got over and no sports for a while.. I had the time to fiddle with it. 1st Thing I looked at, was the complaint of those long posts, I am addicted to. So... what I did was using the "read more" thing, which we see in the newspapers. Then I saw that in Franky's blog and then Slim's. I was looking for javascript and CSS .. but I dunked the javascript (avoid it as long as possible), and got some simple solutions in blogger help. Then, I customized it to use it only for my long posts. I love it when its done with simple codes.

Then, I was looking to get that hoverbox for comments about any links on the page and I stumbled upon the idea of having hover menu box. I tried and yay!!! got it.Check my vertical hover menu box on the right; for Archive, Blogrolls and previous posts. Again I have avoided the use of javascript. But yeah javascript can be handy.

I will modify it further and need to fix it for other browsers.

lolz.. These CSS, javascript shit is easy .. I guess, they need professionals only coz u need some1 else to devote time :).

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Forehands from Tursunov
Sunday, November 19, 2006

I have read quite a few tennis blogs. Tursunov(..well if its tennis it has to be a Russian), comes on top of all the players who have dabbled with some writing. He is known for his tongue anyways so i was expecting some sparks when i opened his blog page. He didn't disappoint me... (He was on a high after helping Russia beat USA in Davis cup semis and then clinching his 1st ATP title in Mumbai, India.)

His two cents (from his blog )...

Excerpts from Dmitry's first blog in Estoril (May, 2006)
By the way, fans don’t realize how much time tennis players spend online. Dinara [Safina] probably has every song on the planet into her laptop. Marat downloads so many movies it feels like he is planning to open Blockbuster Video in Moscow. Gael Monfils is nuts over MSN. A couple of days ago he was sitting in the lobby and, I’m not kidding, talking on six MSN Windows at the same time. The guy is like Neo in Matrix. He has no idea what he is writing anymore or who he is writing to. He just puts “lol” and moves on to the next window. The girl is probably telling him that her kittens died and he just says, “lol.” At the same time he is listening to Bow Wow and tries to sing along. The funniest stuff on Earth. A French dude is trying to rap! Impossible to watch without a condescending smile!

Wednesday, Oct.04
6.55 AM: Rise and shine! Time to…. “DISEMBARK”! Can’t wait to get to the hotel and open the bag with soaking clothes from my final’s match. By now my laundry is like a good wine. It has been aging for 24 hours in a plastic bag. I wonder what my chances are to get it washed before the match today because I only have one match shirt left. I got thirty pairs of socks though! Isn’t it exciting?! "

Thursday, Oct.05
11.30 AM: ........ Instead of running around the court and risk getting an injury I slapped some forehands at the back of the fence as hard as I could. The fans loved it! They shouted, “Godzilla returned! Godzilla returned!” Some even took photos of the fence where the ball left a mark. What is it with Japanese and their obsession with cameras and taking pictures?!?!

and this was the best:-

Monday, Oct. 02
9.50 PM: Our driver is driving like frenzied Narain Karthikeyan (Formula 1 driver)! He's making Evel Knievel look like a DMV poster-child for exemplary driving. I'm starting to wonder how much "Esurance" (a car insurance company who is sponsoring me) would quote him for, for an insurance policy if they actually saw him drive. It’s pouring and the streets are filled with cars, motorcycles, animals and people who are celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday by dancing and banging drums right on the side of the road. It’s a total chaos! You can’t describe it in words, you have to experience it. “Drop-Zone” at an amusement park is like picking your nose on a sunny Sunday afternoon comparing to this ride. Even though it’s a lot of fun, it’s a bit scary. The ultimate testament to our driver’s skill is the fact that he is able to make it to the airport in under an hour. The trip to the hotel from the airport at midnight on empty streets took us just as long. Schumacher would probably still be stuck at the first intersection with his blinker on trying to merge and drive around a herd of sheep. As hectic as it is, in the two trips to India I have never seen an accident. Residents of Boca Raton, FL should take lessons from Indian drivers!

After this i checked out his US open ..stuff and was equally good. The last good tennis blog i read was of Ljubicic when was he was in Chennai Open but Tursunov is a vast improvement.

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Toufee and clipmarks.
Monday, November 06, 2006

I had added two extensions recently to my firefox. One was performancing and the other was clipmarks. Clipmarks made me stumbled upon this nice site called toufee,where u can make flash movies, banner, etc online. Its very simple and wd come in handy for a layman. I made my 1st movie .. and here it is..











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Tennis_balla_shot_calla and blogging
Saturday, August 05, 2006

Business communication classes has been strange.We have to put a poster on the walls, where someone else would comment on it. Everyday, I am hit on with some nasty realty.

On last wed. I had a business presentation. The topic could have been any random topic.I was to be marked on my presentation skills and how can I improve my skills.

I slept till 5 am in the morning and I had like 3 hrs left to think of an idea and prepare practice dress and go to get the screw.

Lol and i ended up in the tennis room discussing .. "how croatians make the best gay"(random don't even think bout it.. bad for health). but yeah meanwhile I struck upon the idea of making a business presentation on blogging.
and i did.... i wanted to put my blog in a slide as demo... however, it was this time that it had to happen (Murphy's law: if something can go wrong it will).... DoT Tricks were at it again .. Blogger blocked.

Thankfully, I was talking to one of the meanest assholes in the world... John otherwise known as tennis_balla_shot_calla.
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John (02/08/2006 6:42:57 AM): you don't know how to tie a tie?
John (02/08/2006 6:43:09 AM): it's over under loop and swoop or something like that
John (02/08/2006 6:43:18 AM): surely you can look it up on the internet
Jay (02/08/2006 6:43:38 AM): well good idea
Jay (02/08/2006 6:43:44 AM): but wanna prepare my own
John (02/08/2006 6:44:19 AM): noo I think you are misinterpreting what I'm asking
John (02/08/2006 6:44:32 AM): what do you mean when you said find a guy that will tie my knot?
John (02/08/2006 6:44:46 AM): or I'm misinterpreting what you're saying
Jay (02/08/2006 6:45:08 AM): i have to go in formals today
Jay (02/08/2006 6:45:21 AM): someone i need to tie the knot of my tie
Jay (02/08/2006 6:45:38 AM): its so embarrassing i cant do one properly myself till today
John (02/08/2006 6:46:31 AM): ok so I did understand you. so why can't you look it up on the internet. There's got to be some idiot that put it out there somewhere because of helpless people like yourself
Jay (02/08/2006 6:47:33 AM):
Jay (02/08/2006 6:47:36 AM): idiot
Jay (02/08/2006 6:47:49 AM): It comes wth practice
John (02/08/2006 6:48:05 AM): I mean smart guy because there's a lot of people that don't know how too. I didn't learn till I was out of college
John (02/08/2006 6:48:19 AM): and since you're technically still in college I guess you're ok. Even though you are 56
Jay (02/08/2006 6:52:53 AM): come on
Jay (02/08/2006 6:52:58 AM): make osme slides for me
Jay (02/08/2006 6:53:02 AM): some*
Jay (02/08/2006 6:53:13 AM): ii am making a ppt on Blogs
John (02/08/2006 6:53:44 AM): http://www.tie-a-tie.net/windsor.html
Jay (02/08/2006 6:53:58 AM): oh 1st lemme prpare the ppt
John (02/08/2006 6:54:06 AM): http://www.scoutdb.org/h2tat/
John (02/08/2006 6:54:43 AM): I think the 2nd one might be better just remember if you're looking at the picture it's going to be opposite
Jay (02/08/2006 6:59:12 AM): make a few god damn slides John
John (02/08/2006 7:00:11 AM): of what? I don't know what your presentation is on or am I supposed to have a presentation on how to tie a tie. I gave you 2 perfectly good websites
Jay (02/08/2006 7:00:26 AM): bad boy
Jay (02/08/2006 7:00:33 AM): i am making a ppt on blogs
Jay (02/08/2006 7:00:41 AM): i have 45 minutes more
John (02/08/2006 7:03:47 AM): does al gore's myspace count as a blog anyways I'm sorry I don't know how to help you as I'm blog ignorant becuase I don't do that stuff
Jay (02/08/2006 7:29:56 AM): hey thats ok , i need 10 more minutes to finish this off
John (02/08/2006 8:12:16 AM): grr how do I do a screenshot again?
Jay (02/08/2006 8:12:29 AM): fuk click the print acreen
John (02/08/2006 8:13:27 AM): fuk where the hell is that?
Jay (02/08/2006 8:15:06 AM):
Jay (02/08/2006 8:15:17 AM): near the insert button
Jay (02/08/2006 8:18:21 AM): grr i am putting someone else's blog
John (02/08/2006 8:19:23 AM): I messed it up anyways I believe
John (02/08/2006 8:19:45 AM): for some reason it's showing my desktop on the side of the page
Jay (02/08/2006 8:20:17 AM):
Jay (02/08/2006 8:20:20 AM):
John (02/08/2006 8:20:31 AM): ok here let me try it real quick again
John (02/08/2006 8:21:12 AM): see if this is any better hurry up and accept this invitation though
John (02/08/2006 8:22:10 AM): hmm nope just cut off some of it fuck if I know what the deal is I only had your website showing
John (02/08/2006 8:25:19 AM): ah ha I got it if you're still there
Jay (02/08/2006 8:26:19 AM): thanx


So, i inserted the screenshot into the presentation and ran to the class.

Only later did i realize that .. what is the setting .. for such a presentation. I cooked up something like this:

Setting: I am part of the HR team in a software organization which wants to bring in corporate blogging in its cyberculture and in future is looking to horizontally integrate into e-business.

Presentation: basics, types of blogs, key factors and issues, basic structure of blog , and a business model/corporate blogging.

Various Comments: Clever idea.
One should not have his tie poking out from the coat, below.
Good answer on privacy issue.
Prolly if u stand upright it will help.

thanx tennis balla.

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