Jalaj P. Jha

I got to read a good post on geekyspeaky.com titled “stopping comment spammers in their tracks”. And then occurred to me that I should share with you a secret not documented anywhere on this blog.

All comments that quote my blog to be Interesting, Nice, Cool or otherwise feel Sorry for it are held in moderation queue.
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While browsing through my subscribed blogs on Google reader, I found a post from TechCrunch titled Microsoft Launches Art Of Office - Mac Users Pissed. What surprised me was that while launch date was given as 29th August 2007, I had already visited it on August 13th! and don’t remember it be described as one from Microsoft.
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Some Copycats don’t use their brains, and some don’t have it like Ashwin Khanna. Ashwin Khanna by now is known in the Blogosphere for his fake $2500 contest created to get backlinks from contestants. Copycat is what he is not known till now.
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Ashwin Khanna, at his blog at “his name plus dot com” (I am not going to link to him), recently announced a contest with first and only prize worth $2500 that required copy/pasting a certain piece of text to a post for participation. Naturally the contest was intended to get backlinks and worked as anticipated getting him over 450 links. That was all OK except that on recent announcement of contest result, everyone was awestricken as the prize went to a blog that was open just two days ago on wordpress.com with only two posts including one that was meant for the contest.
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WordPress.com have added ability to view Stats based on Weeks and Months showing you respectively data for last 30 weeks and 30 months (which of course no blog on wordpress.com qualify for as wordpress.com just turned 24 months old this week).
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Those of you who always wanted to use transliteration for purpose other than blogging here is the good news. You now no longer need to login into Blogger (worst if it’s blocked at work) for it’s available as an independent product at Google Indic Transliteration Labs.
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Is there even a way to beat google. This article shows what google is good at and what not. This is what says the article that I dugg (link at the bottom of this post)

I have added a comment in response to a a comment (excerpt quoted below)
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