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The Blog Revisited – 7
Databases allow datatypes that can store unicode data, then why was it that while MS-Access successfully stored Unicode data whereas MS-SQL server failed when I first tried. See how to handle Unicode data in Storing Unicode Data in Databases.
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Get into Technorati Top 100 in 24 Hours
[digg=http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Get_into_Technorati_Top_100_in_24_Hours/blog] Technorati Ranks are given to a blog based on how many blogs linked to you in the last 6 months. This number which was recently termed as ‘Authority’ determines your rank. One link is counted from a Single blog irrespective of how many times it linked to you.
To get a rank of 100 on Technorati you need to have about 4820 blogs linking to you. Blogs already on Top 100 have taken years to reach this position, then how could you do it in 24 hours! Well that’s I am coming to…
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Latex on WordPress : A Primer
Yesterday I came across a post Math for the Masses on Wordpress.com, announcing the avaibility of Latex on Wordpress.com . I should learn it, I thought, and started searching for good tutorials to get me started. I got good ones, particularly Short Math Guide for Latex by Michael Downes, that helped me to start. However all sources were not relevant for Latex as implemented on Wordpress.com, (i.e. most of codes on beginning pages did not work on Wordpress.com). I searched hard to find a tutorial that could start from start, and couldn’t. Now that I have started learning successfully, I though if I could fill this gap.
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