Category Archives: Rant

Rails inflections and the word ‘Equipment’

I was in two minds about this post’s title. On one hand, I think this should be called “Why googling is not the answer to every question?” and on the other hand the current title will probably interest more people. … Continue reading

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Spammers have grown up

Getting spam in your e-mail or via comments on your blog is not a new thing. I do it all the time and mine is not even a popular blog and in my case Akismet has caught 20,268 up till … Continue reading

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Response from Netvibes team

In response to my rant, Francois from Netvibes team replied and suggested to use the following url: http://www.netvibes.com/?reset_cache=1 which resets the cache. I am assuming that it be used after one has moved stuff around to reset the cache and … Continue reading

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Netvibes – painful experience

I have been using Netvibes Feed Reader for over a year now and never had any issues with it. I have enjoyed the convenience of keeping an eye on the popular blogs and feeds. But it all changed a couple … Continue reading

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Adobe Flex Builder 3 download link does not work

What a discouraging start to Adobe Flex faddism. I meticulously tried the link on this page (Download Flex Builder 3) several times but it just does not work…I will try it on a different computer and see what happens.

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At the gym

Every now and again you see the instructors filling in the new starters with the workout jargon which I am sure majority do not understand. They never give you any information on nutrition like what you should eat and what … Continue reading

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Travelling on weekends

Do not travel on weekends…it is absolutely horrible…

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Yahoo mail is…

I moved to Google mail last year and it is the best email service I have ever used. It was at the same time Yahoo rolled out its new features which takes absolutely ages to come to life something that … Continue reading

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Grind my gears

I do not understand why customer facing organisations run without any prior resource planning. For some reason all the bank employees were participating in some mass exodus at about 13:30… or they were just busy not doing anything…contemplate the following … Continue reading

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