‘from the web’ Archive

Identify visits from Google Real time search

Recently Google released its real time search feature. If you want to figure out from your Apache access logs which results are coming from the Google real time search, then you have to look at the referrer field. The Google search referrer url will have a param tbs=rltm in it. rltm stands for real time.

Helen Fry – Dilbert strip February 16, 2010

I didn’t really get this. Who the heck is Helen Fry? I had to read the comments in the site to realise “Go to Helen Fry” should be read as “Go to Hell and Fry”! There are other beauties in there as well – Sofa King, Helen Wait… PS : click on the image to [...]

Techcrunch site “hacked”

Some content below may not be safe for work (wink wink) So TechCrunch got broken into/”hacked”/cracked. Apparently because someone was pissed off by the ads shown. Heh heh. So here’s a screenshot before they fix things.   This is the text inserted into the TechCrunch page So Arrington, how much did all the media coverage [...]

Gingerjoos.com visitor stats on a map

My friend Arun Prabhakar recently started playing around with some visitor stats reporting for his site. He has been gracious enough to extend the service to his friends and now the public as well(by invitation only) The service is still in beta, so occassional hiccups might occur. He’s been adding more and more tools to [...]

Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator

My friend Arun created an Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator as a hobby project sometime in his college. It’s written with php and javascript. Check out http://labs.kitiyo.com/8085

The most difficult captcha there is

I was browsing through the site of a celebrity recently and came across the contact page. I was shocked to find the captcha there. Take a look yourself and be amazed : http://www.gulpanag.net/contact_gul_panag.php Why would anyone display the captcha as text ready for a bot passing by to read? (It’s even got a nice class [...]

Mobile updates on Orkut?

Orkut is introducing mobile updates?

Roger Ebert on “How I believe in God”

Roger Ebert’s post on “How I believe in God”. Wonderful read.

xkcd’s etch-a-sketch

Debian‘s version 4.0 was called Etch. It was named after the etch-a-sketch in Toy Story, following Debian traditions of naming it’s versions after Toy Story characters (the current version, 5.0, is called Lenny). This post isn’t on Debian. It’s about xkcd #551. It’s also based on etch-a-sketch. It’s one of my favourites, I guess. I [...]