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Re: Programming

abhi — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:45:52 -0000

What happens if there are no cute ladies when you go to college. You could have put a conditional statement there ;).

Re: Automatically update your friend list

abhi — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:58:03 -0000

The quick and dirty way: http://carthik.net/wpplugins/updatelinkroll.phps and http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=14951... :).

Re: Ladki Kyun, Na Jaane Kyun. Ladkon Si Nahi Hoti?

abhi — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:30:46 -0000

this is funny :lol:
and i completely agree with you. there has been no reply from a girl yet but we can predict, can't we?! can it be something like this:
1. puts in comment, failed, email not entered.
2. puts in comment, failed, code not entered.
3. puts in comment, failed, code entered incorrectly.
4. puts in comment, clicks 'say it!' then realises the biggest grammartical blunder.
5. tries to click the stop button, but comment submitted already.
6. stares at the screen in dismay.

and o ya, there's like 50 make-up and manual hair-cut check in between... :)

PS: just joking, don't take it personally any of you... if you feel really angry, you can always plan to kill the producer of hum tum... :)

Re: Automatically update your friend list

abhi — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:18:36 -0000

Yes, it works. Check out this page: http://wordlog.com/archives/2004/08/29/links-by... .
I uses the wp_head hook to include a function called update_linkroll() that does all the work.
Another think that I missed last time is that, your tutorial is meant only for WP 1.5 and above. Some of the steps you have written doesn't apply to WP 1.2.2. May be you might wanna change them... :)

Re: Ladki Kyun, Na Jaane Kyun. Ladkon Si Nahi Hoti?

abhi — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:48:47 -0000

i agree with Neha. women ARE from venus, that's why they get so angry at the least of things and the proof is here for ya... ;)
great going Gaurav, u just proved another hypothesis... :)

Re: My CV has been Shortlisted

abhi — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:56:39 -0000

You can also try monster.com. I know a few people who got good jobs thru it. :)

Re: Aye, Kya Bolti Tu?

abhi — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:49:30 -0000

this is a good one... :lol:
another forward?!

Re: MSN Search - New and Improved

abhi — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:33:12 -0000

good review. however, i would like to discuss some points here:

I personally don’t think that Britney would have more than 10k pictures online (or may be offline too?)

I am confused here, why would you think so, Britney has millions of pictures on the web and Google is a living proof of it.

The links from celebritypicturesarvhive.com are mismatching. The thumbnails point to a wrong picture.

You cannot really blame a search engine for that, the images are shown from the search engine cache and if the page has not been indexed after it was changed, this is bound to happen. it happens with Google too.

Apperantly, I noticed that out of first 8 results on Google, 2 pair of images were very similar. I think they should try to avoid the repetition in the results (atleast on the same page.)

They are most probably the same image under two different names, hence indexed twice but I could be wrong. Also you may see that the file sizes are different, one is 14k and the other 15k.

Abhi claims that MSN search does not have a content filter, which is not true. MSN search engine DOES have a content filter, which actually works better than Google.

I have already talked about the mistake here.

The difference between grayscale and black and white images MIGHT confuse a layman as the grayscaled images are generally called black & white images. Yahoo and MSN are taking search for dummies approach.

That's right, thanks for the point... :)

I understand that no software can be 100% accurate in checking explicit stuff, but Google doesn’t say that on the settings page. Both Yahoo and MSN have put the disclaimers by their safe search settings and in MSN & Yahoo if you try to remove the content filtering, it asks you to “Agree” a disclaimer. This doesn’t affect the user experience a lot, but can definetly avoid lawsuits.

Yup, always avoid the green legal monster... ;)

On the other hand Google produces a link with a parameter “safe” if safe=active it means the safe search is on, but if safe=off then it means no filtering at all. It is really a cool feature as one can customize the searches and even use them dynamically. The only problem with this is that it overrides the user’s settings.

Thanks for this point too... :)

Well that's all, I guess. and thanks for pointing out the points missed and the errors... :)

Re: MSN Search - New and Improved

abhi — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:44:50 -0000

concluded that you mean, there is a safesearch for word search but not photo? Is that what you meant?

I meant Image Search. Try searching something pornographic in MSN, nothing will come up and there is no choice either.