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Sun 10 Oct 2010

An Ode to Visual Basic 6

Posted on October 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM by shirish in College-life, General | 3 Comments

Don’t expect poetry from me. Being a Computer Science student, I’m exposed to a no. of opinions on programming languages and technologies. It’s great to be a Computer Science student in this millennium with Software surrounding every little thing that … Continue reading →

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Fri 1 Oct 2010

10 Urgent Demands of a Long-time Internet User

Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:30 PM by shirish in General | Comments Off

Faster Internet Access (What is fast? More than what you can ever get) Effective GRAMMAR-check (and Spell-check) built into web browsers Death to IE5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7.0. IE 8, 9 and future versions may exist if they promise to … Continue reading →

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Sat 18 Sep 2010

Bad Decisions

Posted on September 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM by shirish in General, Rants | 1 Comment

It’s September, and it’s still raining here in Mumbai. The monsoon this year has been largely great. No major mishaps, and the reservoirs are probably full enough to supply water for a year. Yeah, right. Every year, the monsoon puts … Continue reading →

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Fri 16 Jul 2010

[FIX] MSSQLSERVER: The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion

Posted on July 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM by shirish in General | 1 Comment

It’s been a while since I worked with MS SQL. I had disabled SQL Server and other services from starting automatically at system startup to conserve resources. So every time I need to use MS SQL, I have to open … Continue reading →

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Thu 8 Jul 2010

Evolution

Posted on July 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM by shirish in General | Leave a comment

I’ve been designing websites for a long time now — since 2003. Back then, I had an account on almost every major free webhost – GeoCities, Angelfire, Tripod.com, Tripod.co.uk. Unfortunately, most of them had the word “hellboy” or used “4all” … Continue reading →

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