ARTICLES

27/05/07 - Cut-and-paste code snippets for ASP (Active Server Pages) programmers.... Read More.

17/03/07 - A simple way to capture still image pictures from videos and VCDs... Read More.

22/09/2006 - Buying branded PCs means you don't have much choice on the components. Also, upgradeability is also limited. Self-repair is out of question. Solution? Assembling on your own PC and choosing the best combination of components. Don't know how to assemble a PC? Here is an illustrated guide. ... Read More.

22/09/2006 - This is a survival guide for people living outside the United States 'cos Freedom™ kills more people than cancer! ... Read More.

02/09/2006 - PISCES (Feb. 19—March 20): You are looking for a guy who listens to you, laughs at your jokes, cares about you, ignores your faults, loves you no matter what,... Stop it! This person is your father! You need psychiatric counseling. ... Read More.

02/09/2006 - Answers questions such as "What is a VCD?," "How to play a VCD?," and "Where to buy Indian VCDs?"

13/11/2005 - Like to try Linux but don't know how to install it on your Windows PC? Want to load Linux from the Windows boot menu? Learn to do all this plus gain in depth knowledge of partitions, boot loaders and multi-booting OSs.

28/08/2005 - TheOnion.com is one of the most popular destinations on the Internet. It is a hilarious site specialising in fake news. However, in the age of phony wars, faux journalism and mass idiocy, do you need really fake "fake news"? Real news can be so outrageous that it is difficult to believe it is for real. Here is an experiment with the Onion website using real news instead of fake news.

I do (not) care about your privacy.

07/05 - Are you lonely? Do you feel ignored? How about getting some up-close and personal attention of the highest order? Well, go ahead and put these words in your e-mail messages. Boy, oh boy, are they gonna love you. They won't be able to get their hands off you, I promise!

21/06/2005 - Both believers and non-believers can be very annoying with their opinions. Here are some reasons why they should keep their views to themselves.

26/05/2005 - Saddam Hussein has decided to drop his suit against the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Sun, his lawyer said today. As part of the settlement, the former Iraqi strongman will feature in the next season of the riches-to-rags reality TV series The Simple Life on Fox Television. Like The Sun, Fox Television is part of the worldwide Murdoch media empire.

On Friday, The Sun shocked the world by publishing a front-page picture that showed Saddam, only in white briefs, folding a pair of trousers. The publication of the photos had prompted a U.S. military investigation and condemnation from the Red Cross and Amnesty International. The Sun responded to the criticism by saying that a tyrant deserved no sympathy. Although The Sun is Britain’s leading newspaper by circulation, it is still best known for its Page-3 nudes and "Man Enters Cage And Bites Monkey" stories...

24 March 2005: Americans are fond of saying, 'If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade." With Bush in the White House, the United States has become the world's leading producer of lemonade. ... more.

Originally from my old Moral Volcano blog, this article among other things prompted PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak term my writing as "anti-American!".

November 2004: "It is to Mother Teresa of Calcutta's credit that her soup kitchens feed three times as many people in New York as they do in Calcutta."

30/09/2004 - This fake news article was published in www.TheSpoof.com.

14/09/2004 -This fake news article was published in www.TheSpoof.com. This article was quoted on several anti-outsourcing websites and Internet discussion forums to criticise outsourcing. One Indian called it as "another in a series of whino posts from America." None of them were aware that yours truly is an Indian.

08/2004 - This site and the Moral Volcano Web log have been receiving a lot of visitors looking to download the speeches of Adolph Hitler. So, I am providing this video to satisfy their intellectual curiousity.

07/2004 - There is a great deal of sympathy for the millions of Jews who died in the Holocaust during the Second World War. Taking of advantage of this, Jewish and Israeli organizations have been flogging the Holocaust theme endlessly. This is ironic because Israel has been conducting a mini Holocaust of its own in Palestine.

Israel is the only openly colonial power left in the world. Few people are aware that most Israelis are Europeans who migrated to Palestine after the Second World War. The immigrants first came as refugees. They started colonising Palestine by either squatting or by buying land with money provided by rich Jews living abroad. Later, they used war and terrorism to take over lands from Arabs and Christians. They then got the newly-formed United Nations to divide Palestine into two unequal halves with Jews taking the bigger portion.

11/07/04 - Did you know that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has an "Iraqi Rewards Program" for information regarding the elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)? Yes, they do. I am not joking. In February 2004, the CIA put on its website a web page in English at http://www.cia.gov/cia/english_rewards.htm (now gone) and another one in Arabic at http://www.cia.gov/cia/arabic_rewards.htm (still present) about the Iraqi Rewards Program. Cash rewards were offered for information leading to the finding of "recently made" Iraqi WMD!

One day, while going over Moral Volcano's referrer logs, I found that a visitor had come in search for an English translation of the Iraqi Rewards Program. When I checked the CIA website, the English version was missing! A covert CIA operation, no doubt. Not only was the English version gone, all links that originally pointed to it were now reassigned to the Arabic version. Fortunately, I had a copy of the english_rewards.htm page with me and promptly made it available on the Web log. Sometime later, I moved it here.

05/2004 - Every year, Christians engaged in proselytisation spend billions of dollars worldwide to win converts to their faith. Apart from being intolerant and agressive, missionary propaganda fudges on many details related to origins of Christianity. In this writeup, I have presented information that is being denied to converts to the Christian faith.

This article was published in the Colleger magazine in July 2003.

Legal measures to combat unsolicited junk mail have failed because they target only spammers, not the ones who pay spammers to send spam. Spammers are just middlemen who collect e-mail addresses in large databases and send junk mail for their clients for a fee.

By targeting spam sponsors, you have a way of killing spam at the source. The only way to reform spam sponsors is to sign them up to recieve spam from other spammers. I like to call it Reverse Spamming.

Does Windows XP drive you mad like your spouse? Here are some things you can do to tame the beast.

Wonder why your PC is not as fast as it was when you first bought it? Is it time for an upgrade? Probably not. Like cars, PCs need to regular maintenance. Also, if you know how to tweak various settings in hardware and software from their factory-set defaults, you will be surprised to find your PC performing better than when you bought it.

Confused by PC hardware terms? Need to know what each part on a PC does? You need an illustrated guide to PC hardware components, which is what this writeup is.