What color is terror?

I asked this question to a big group of 65, and almost all of them gave RED as the answer. Well, in one way they are right. They see the color red - the bloody aftermath of a terror attack.

All these selfish-capitalistic news channels are more than happy to publish hundreds of color photos stained with the blood of slain innocents. And this is also one of the reasons for everyone pointing to the color red. Technically, blood does not stay red for a long time when it parts with its owner. It turns brown when it starts to dry up. Correct me if ‘m wrong.

It took me just about 14 minutes to conceptualize and design this (see below) simple logo for my new blog. You need to register if you want to save and download..

Yesterday, the much awaited Wordpress 2.7, code named ‘Coltrane’, was released to the general public and avid bloggers who were waiting to pounce on the stable release. Though I know it’s a bit too early to try it out, I decided to upgrade and test it on my fairly new blog What’s Happening? - Broadcast right now!

Since it’s a new blog (not even a month old!), it didn’t have many posts, and none of the posts used custom fields nor images. So, in the event of something going wrong with the upgrade, I can just do a quick restore from the XML file that I had exported earlier. More info and screenshots after the jump..

When Yahoo acquired MyBlogLog last year, I was wondering if Google would acquire a similar company to add some cool Web 2.0-social networking gadgets to its portfolio. Finally, Google has come up with its newest socializing service called Google Friend Connect, that may enable a website to provide ’social features’, and to increase its traffic (theoretically or practically!) by attracting more visitors.

The set up is fairly simple, and as a first step, we just need to sign-in using your Google ID, and click on ’set up a new site’. The next step requires you to upload two html files to the root folder of your website, and obviously you have to use an FTP client like FileZilla or CuteFTP.

Once uploaded, the subsequent steps verify and take you to the ‘Member Gadgets’ page where you specify the dimensions, generate code and add the same to your website’s sidebar, or wherever you want that to be displayed.

Once done, the widget looks like this..

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For the past 12 years, I’ve been watching a lot of movies, but five movies are still fresh (or should I say ‘etched’?) in my mind.

Movie 1: The Shawshank Redemption

What can you expect out of a movie that falls under the drama genre? But Shawshank Redemption stands out, especially in scenes involving Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton and Morgan Freeman. I still remember certain dialogues that are fresh in my memory..

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