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CUSAT Supplimentary

So CUSAT s1&s2 exams are over and its time to take the poll :p

Bloated blusterous blog

Turned out, that this blog, which was meant to be my personal blog is now a cap site for entrance exam result prediction. I regret writing all that post here, which should have been elsewhere in a tech journal.

Well, its never late to mend. So i’ll be pulling off all the crap here. If you need to see the technical side of me, better visit http://blog.theinglorio.us.

This blog can also be accessed via http://stuff.theinglorio.us

Tracking Your WordPress Blog : The Google Way

This is for the extra curious kind, the kind of bloggers like me who really cares for the stats, the most searched keywords, the relevancy of keywords, the stats, the links referring you, and of all, the site rankings…

Ever since i started blogging on wordpress, i had wanted to have full control over it. but to be honest, i have not yet

But i am relieved that we are not restricted, the .com bloggers.. (for those confused, the .org is said to the wordpress blog you have at yourname.com while the .com are the ones we do at yourname.wordpress.com, like mine)

There is a heaven for seo experts and to that heaven there is, obviously, a path. The heaven is to ranking and the path is the sitemap. It all starts with the sitemaps, and then later on it goes to the keyword latency and stuff like that. Blessed, the .com people have the feature, the sitemaps, done automatically by the wordpress.com domain. you can view it at blog/sitemap.xml .

Now as you all know, the sitemap is not the thing, you have it to let it reach the right “persons”, well it is also done brilliantly. Over to google, yahoo, bing, technorati and all you guys would or wouldn’t know about, wordpress pings the sitemap each time you post, edit, and delete a post from your blog.

Now you start asking this question : what is the purpose of this post, again ?

The answer is, you are still in the center of the field and asking for boundary. There are a tonnes of things you can do with your blog getting into the tops. This includes submitting your comments feed as a sitemap, removing the unwanted urls from the indexed urls, refining your tag selection with the keyword latency and obviously, remove duplicate links and adding you to the google news if you are a frequent blogger.

Now on with the technical stuff :

Get a google webmaster account

• The first thing you need to do is get yourself a Google webmaster account.
• To do that, go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools and then signup for an account.

Add your blog to the account

• Once you are in the global dashboard, add your blog to the domain
• Enter your blog url in the add domain box. eg: harisankarr.wordpress.com and then click add.

Verifying your blog to Google

• After adding your domain, you will be asked to verify the ownership.
• Choose the meta method of verification.
• Now copy the html code they gave and go to your blog’s admin panel.
• Click on ‘tools’ from the left sidebar.
• In the tools page, you’ll find ‘Webmaster Tools Verification’
• Below that, there is a text field next to Google webmaster tools. Paste the code you copied there and click ‘save changes’.
• Then go back to the Google webmaster panel and click verify site now.
• Voilà ! You have successfully added your blog to webmaster tools !

Adding the sitemap

• Once you have verified the blog, go to its dashboard by clicking on the link with your blog’s name.
• Then at the right bottom of the screen you can see sitemaps. Click on more/add sitemap.
• You’ll be taken to the sitemap page.
• There, click on submit a sitemap and type in sitemap.xml and click submit.
• Similarly, click on submit a sitemap again, then type feed then submit it.
• This is for submitting your rss feed as a sitemap so that the indexing works perfectly.

Well there you have it ! Almost full control of your site in webmasters. Now the rest portions include refining keywords and such, which you can find on the internet. SEO is a very very large topic and it differs from site to site type to type and content to content. But all that depends on is how the search engine bot crawls your site. Make sure you select w3 valid themes and include cross-links to other posts in your blog. Keep your content with quality stuff and do not copy paste articles unless they are quoted. Include alt labels for images, and caption them. Make the filenames similar to its inside content and always, always respect the code of blogging

Extra terrestriality, a possibility?

From the day we became aware of the fact that there existed something called the space, we portrayed creatures lived there, which came down to earth. While some took friendship, most were onto war. As technology progressed and we learned more and more about the indefinite universe and space, the stories became more and more technical and hard to not believe. Born star wars and star trek… It has always been a question whether are we the only life form? Does life exist outside? Well it has been assumed that calculating its probablity, millions of places are there in the universe where life can be formed. But its just that there is no material proof. You see, fishes or monkeys can’t build a transmitter or a reciever to return or hear our et calls… Imagine if some planet had life but no radio transmitters, our signals would make them feel nothing, just like the mobile network’s signal does nothing to us. The ufo mysteries and others are totally created and built stories. Straight to the fact that, every ufo encounter has been shot using a very low definition camera, very shaky, and only happens for a few seconds… And the ufo never used any fuel, no exhaust, nothing, it just floated like that, in the air.
Our quest for the next habitable place is quite amusing. Many many possible theories, alien encounters, proofs have been found supporting the fact. And who knows if the area 51 has a frozen alien? Lol… This a dry subject to me just came into my mind as i was drooling through my physics text, reading about the metric expansion of present universe…
Till next time…

Google Wave Invites giveaway (10 left)

Wave !

For those who haven’t got the Google wave yet, simply comment here with your valid e-mail (any provider) with the request.

There is absolutely no rules for me, but the first to post will get the invite first.

From time to time I’ll get more invites, and will update the post regularly, so keep in touch.

as always, here is the developer preview of the Google wave !!!

download url : here  (flv 640x360)

My experiments with gprs

Phew! Yet another boring day.
As stated yesterday, bsnl stands the best provider for me. So if something is best, the next what we do is to loot the maximum out of it. Lol yes, im talking about the hacks.
Bsnl has been known to have the most complex billing systems and activation systems. Well according to me, they aren’t. Mine is a plan exclusive to students, with advantages of 2000 free sms per month, reduced call rate etc… But i guess i am a little extra special. I don’t know how, but i can send free sms to uk and a few sms services like google, gupshup, mytoday etc… My gprs was activated when i had only 1rs balance, my cellone sim services are all free and of all the wonders, my gprs usage including download, upload and browsing is completely totally free !!!
I think the other bsnl users having above 200rs balance can use the cellone portal settings and browse for free. This obviously doesn’t work with access points… So those having dreams of connecting via pc or using opera mini can bow their heads down. But newer phones of nokia come with opera as the built in browser, like my 2600c . It can do pretty good speed and sad that streaming needs access point, else, it would have been fun with youtube also free ……
Now you might get the reason why i really like bsnl…. Lol

signing off the chapter,
-hsr

My experience with gprs

As for a keralite, like me, the best service provider would be bsnl. Yes, its true. Now people will start to brag about how bad their customer service is, how hard is to get a connection and so on… But let me ask you something, does any other service provider give you free internet? 49ps per call feature without any packs? 2000 free sms without any pack? Almost double the coverage than the nearest provider? Hassle free duplication? Highly advanced sim services configurator? Complete tariff listing? Entire plan shift with a single sms? Free missed call alerts? Lowest redirect charges? Lowest mms charges? ……
No would be the correct answer. Yes, its true that bsnl don’t give their connections for rs10(worst case, some give for free), they don’t have flashy ads, they don’t have heavy advertising, they don’t have 5rs recharges ….
its lame for those people to say bsnl is bad. If you take into case, it stands at top. Also see in the case of internet. All other data provides have wireless modems for >3000rs with plans for unlimited connections with rent >1000rs but see the bsnl way…. 2500 for modem, 550rs per month for unlimited 2.4mbps internet. And the reason why its boring is that bsnl doesn’t have designer modems, doesn’t have big budget advertisements and catchy slogans…
Anyways. This much for the first post. More in next.

-Hsr

Trying out the quick press from mobile.

Obviously this must be the content area if successful.

Installed Ubuntu 9.04 via wubi, feels good

My leisure with windows 7 has been going on for about three months as i write this. Apart from a few tweaks and speeding up, i don’t see much change in the new version from vista, from an end-user view. But a lot has been changed inside, optimized many and best of all, removed many bugs.

The compatibility issues with vista has been a hell. Well, with the virtual windows xp and compatibility modes in win7, those are no worries any more. There exist a few problems with installing old drivers, and i hope this will be sorted out soon. Waiting for the release of the real hero behind.

Now a little about my ubuntu experience. It was nice neat and clean installation for me. But being a windows junkie, i found it really hard to do with navigation and file management in ubuntu. but as i progressed, it became a bit more techy, as you know.

Working with power shell in windows and terminal in ubuntu is thrilling. I don’t know why, still in the world of gddr2’s, ddr3’s, physyx engines and all i love to work with consoles. hehe

Well, I’m planning to write about my completely nooby experiences with ubuntu. as of day 1, installing updates and applications that are essential for me to be alive

Till then, adios

screwed up my modem, got it back

funny, i know.

i screwed up my modem and got it back from the bsnl office.

 

i know this is not twitter, but ought to write it, ;D