Blognitive Dissonance

“Mann trakht und Gott lakht”

Bloggernacle Hits WordPress.com Hot Posts

danithew | February 23, 2007

Sometimes for the heck of it I check out WordPress.com’s “Today’s Hot Posts” feature, just to see what’s there. On more than a few occasions the list has been completely dominated by titles that have to do with Brittney Spears or other matters related to pop culture’s obsessions. So it’s interesting to see that Feast [...]

Free Kareem Amer

danithew | February 22, 2007

It should not be a jailable offense to blog or to insult al-Azhar University or to insult the president of Egypt or to insult Islam.

The Line Game

danithew | February 22, 2007

The Line Game is really quite fun to play. Give it a shot. (hat tip to Amidst A Tangled Web)

Switching to Google Reader

danithew | February 20, 2007

I’ve been using Bloglines for a long time and I’ve suggested it to others. It works very well. However, yesterday, after chatting with a friend about rss readers, I made a switch over to Google Reader. It was easy to export my Bloglines feeds to Google Reader. It took about a minute and Google Reader [...]

Upgrading to WordPress 2.1

danithew | February 19, 2007

During the past week I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.1. It wasn’t as big of a problem/difficulty as I expected it might be. In fact, it was pretty easy. Two problems I noticed – a) posts with multiple categories were showing up twice and b) an error message appeared after a comment was published. Both problems [...]