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So today marks the beginning of a new blog here . This will be a blog dedicated to my financial ambitions on and off the internet. The content of this blog will be completely non-technical and will look at what drives most people in my honest view ($$$). In an effort to improve my rather sad looking blog, i have gone for a looks upgrade. The following changes have been made :

1. After looking at techcruch’s 900px+ width, i have decided to increase the width of both the blogs for maximum space utilization.
2. The right content bar with two sidebars for ads, widgets , etc. has really caught my attention and i have modded my wordpress blog acordingly. I have registered on some ad networks to see if they deliver on what they state. Adsense it seems hates my blog , wont let me register.
3. Widgets will play a useful role going forward, so the space will be useful, would love to have a small social networking widget on my blog. Hopefully i can get sometime to implement something like that. I checked out a very cool forbes.com list widget on widgetbox , it looks very impressive.

Some of the ad networks i registered for are :

• Textads
• Amazon
• Yahoo Beta (yet to get an invite actually)
• Connection junction

More as i learn about the blogging world … see you on the other “blog”

Just a reminder post on what all i am tackling this week :

1. Joomla extension development , its awesome fun . Will release something real useful soon.

2. pidgin(formerly known as gaim) development. I think i will join their patch submission group soon.

3. Fixing Net::POP3 on ruby … i think its kinda buggy …. lets see if i need to dive into some hacking to get it working for me ….

more randomness to follow …..

I think i need to finish the 3rd … really stuck up some stupid errors … that is forcing me to develop on my X2 at home .. need some RAD action ….

Cool ad campaigns and games from wildfire.

This is about new movie being released :
Run Fatboy Run
“New British comedy hitting cinemas on 28 September 2007.

Overly lazy and commitment-phobic, Dennis (Simon Pegg) suffers a minor breakdown and ditches his pregnant girlfriend Libby (Thandie Newton) at the altar. Five years later, Dennis realizes just how big a mistake he made. But just as Dennis sets out with his young son to woo her back, he learns that a flashy new suitor (Hank Azaria) has claimed her heart. So, in order to win her back, Dennis decides to prove himself by training for his first marathon with over-sexed best friend (Dylan Moran) as his coach. In way over his head, Dennis’ pathetic attempt culminates in what may be the most spirited but hilarious race ever run.

www.RunFatboyRunMovie.com”

Play the game below

Here are some awesome books i have read in the last month or so…

1. Byomkesh Bakshi – 19 short stories

2. The menagerie – 4 novellas – Byomkesh Bakshi

3. Micheal Lewis – Liar’s poker

Cool book about his short stint at Salomon brother… must read for Rs.150

4. Micheal Lewis – The new new thing

Story of Jim Clarke , the founder of Netscape …

Reading : God Delusional … Richard Dawkins  (must read)

Hi all,

This is the introductory post to desinerd.com. I, Dipankar Sarkar welcome you to my portal where I keep track of all the latest tech (very web 2.0) specific news. So from today , you want news about the web come to desinerd.com …