Monday, July 17, 2006

उफ़!

No, really! This is definitely the limit! For, let me see, four days now, I have been unable to visit any blogspot.com blog! This has, you know, been highly irritating, 'cause I can't see my own blog and neither can I go to others - and even the feeds don't work. Till today, I didn't know why this was happening - I thought that maybe it was some problem with the blogspot servers or something...

But the real reason (or what seems to be the real reason) is dumb - just plain dumb. It seems that the Ministry of Communication of the Government of India has banned all these blogs, for some unknown reason. So, because of said unknown reason, all of us innocent people have to be denied the pleasure of visiting blogs!

Hmph!

It's absurd! People tell me that it's been done because of other people posting about the Reservation thingy! What about the Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression and all that? And anyway, just because some people have been posting about it doesn't mean that each and every blog should be banned just like that!
I hope they'll get over it soon.

Anyway, while blogs have been inaccessible, I've been doing...well, nothing, actually . Though I did find some interesting sites recently, some time ago and I Stumbled Upon a few, too (this makes it sound as though I've found tons - but really, there are only around 5-6).

  1. TuneSleeve: This is a nice program for iTunes. What it does is, it searches Amazon.com for Album Art that is missing from your library and lets you choose among some nice images.
  2. The Song Tapper: I read about this one on a blog. Basically, you tap a song using your keyboard and it searches its database and tells you which song you've tapped. I was pretty sceptical about it at first, but it actually works!
  3. byokal: This is a 'toy' made by this guy. Drag 'n' drop these images on to this image and you get to see a kaleidoscopic thing on the bigger image . (Just try it out, I know I'm not making much sense)
  4. Snipurl: Trouble remembering URLs that are too long? Snip them! I saw this one in a magazine.


Oh, and I downloaded the release candidate of Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 - though I haven't tried it out yet.

And today was the first stayback for DPS MUN - and after a lot of debating, I didn't stay back. I spent the whole of the last period thinking about it - that's 40 minutes of pondering over two words (Yes and No).Now I'm wondering if I should have stayed back after all. And a blighter in my German class broke my glasses, so till seven o'clock I had to do without them.

N.B. I completely forgot to mention - blogs can be visited by going to pkblogs.com. I'm also trying out a program called 'Tor' to accomplish the same thing, though I haven't quite got the hang of it yet.
Oh, and the shoutbox seems to have gone on strike. I'm thinking of applying for a new one, what say you?

13 comments:

[\\Kartikeya//]

hehe! ya dude man srsly...4 days without blog was like..UNBEARABLE for a blog addict like me...ya and the stupid government..stupid stupid...curses...it shud be buried in its own sins!
anyways ya k ill check out the sites...
and i don think i will download the beat version right now...for the simple reason that i am LAZY! or to say a blooodddyy PROCRASTINATOR!
and man u shud have stayed back for DPS MUN..its rely interesting though i made an ass of myself there..hehee...anyways pls come! better late than never! and ya that stupid fat-ass guy broke ur glasses...if u have any problem dude...send him to me...he will get it...btw i have alredy warned him...ask udai for more info...**feels high in pride :P:D**
and wats up with this 'tor' thingy??

[\\Kartikeya//]

and yes go to the site www.cbox.ws for the shoutbox..this one malfunctions a lot...

blog.sahil.me

i dunno about "tor"....i havent managed to work it yet :)
i dunno.....i somehow don't really like the shoutboxes on cbox.ws......ill see what i can do..
how'd u make an ass of urself in dps mun ? ( :D )

[\\Kartikeya//]

umm better not talk abt that!

Anwita Khaitan

oye shayeri and I got selected in MUN as delegates.... bliss!! :D

yeh it was a real bummer that we couldn't visit the blogs.. but now it's all OK...
oh and the little knick-knacks u suggested... COOOOLLL!!! but i dloaded tunesleeve... and there seems to be some problem.... grr... i even dloaded that .NET Framework 2.0.............. uff why me??

DigVJ

time:6:01 pm
and de blogs seems to be working very fine....and i like karky am a too lazy ass to go to de sites....but i tink the itune thingy wud be nice

Shayeri

hey!! they're back, that's all bloody matters.

Amen.

Applause

blog.sahil.me

Yippeeeee!
the blogs are baaaaaacck!!
and congrats to anwita+shayeri for being selected as delegates and going to mumbai and all :D

Shayeri

merci beaucoup sahil =]

[\\Kartikeya//]

hey! ya congrats! anyways yeppe blog are back!

Karan

Cool blog. I didn't know it existed... Anyway, you are now linked! Keep writing.

Also, nice theme.

blog.sahil.me

thank you very much
glad you liked the theme - took me some time to make it :D

blog.sahil.me

Welcs :)

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