Day in, day out…

Looks like all the issues resulting from a recent system upgrade at my web host are taken care of. Drop me a line if something looks abnormal.

My web host recently upgraded their systems to update control panel and operating system on the server my site is hosted. Well, it did not go quite as smoothly as I would have liked.

As you probably can see, some parts of the site are not functioning properly - specifically CGI and SSI.

I am working with the host to get this ironed out as soon as possible. I’ll post an update when it is done.

Bear with me!

Now, this is an interesting couple of pages.

Visited Countries Map visualizes the countries you have visited and Visited States Map visualizes the states in US you have visited!

Here’s what I got for the US states

And this is for the countries (although I included countries I have transited to make it look impressive )

Try yours!

Now, this is a match I’d have loved to see live!

Coming to think of it… I bet I would have left the game after the first innings - only to learn from the news that it was South Africa who won

Oh well, May be I’ll get a recording somewhere. Looking…

Its been on my to-do list for a while to give AJAX a shot. Finally got some time over last couple of weekends to come up with this feed reader as a learning project:

Most AJAX tutorials I read on the web were helpful only if one is planning to write a monolithic JavaScript - as against object oriented, reusable code. Most JavaScript tutorials were also pretty superficial when it came to OOP. I found this one by Mike Chambers most useful. May be because his example does almost exactly what I was planning. Thanks Mike!

All in all, AJAX seems to be a cool and easy new technology to implement interactive content on a website. I am sure things get more and more difficult as you start implementing richer feature set. May be I’ll find out if I add features to the news reader.

I haven’t tested it a whole lot on IE, I don’t use it much anyway. But it works OK on almost all other browsers I use - Firefox, Camino, Safari - to name a few!