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Happy Anniversary to Siddharth Rao’s Blog

Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s blog! Nothing technical in today’s post – I just wanted to let my readers know that it has been one year since I started this blog. Time indeed flies!

I started this blog in November 2008 with an objective to share some of my knowledge, provide reviews on certain products/services and to [...]


.CM Domain Name Registrations Open – Opportunity or a Waste?

Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s blog! In today’s post – I’m going to talk about a latest development in the domain name business. There have been talks of the much-anticipated Cameroon Domain name extension (.cm) becoming available for public registration – since months now. Some people even speculated this move as a purposeful effort to re-create [...]


Social Networks Leaking Users Data To Tracking Sites

Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s blog! In today’s post – I’m going to talk about how most (if not all) of the Social Networking sites out there can leak user-specific data to tracking sites; and thereby to third-party companies/people. On how many Social Networking sites do you have your profiles?

Now-a-days, almost everyone has a profile on [...]


Random Ramblings on a Few Findings

Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s blog! Another month passes by – since my last post. Summer days are surely long, but they do fly fast as well. I have so much to do and I always find myself falling short of time. Phew – the same old human mindset of never being satisfied!
Anyway, in this post [...]


I’m back from vacation…

Hello everyone! I just wanted to do a quick post to let you all know that I am back from vacation. I had been to India for a five-week vacation. It was a nice break and everything was great (except for the hot weather and soaring high temperatures). The best feature of the trip was [...]


Excellent Free Fonts Resource & Updates

Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s blog! I have two incomplete posts sitting on my laptop hard-drive that were supposed to be posted here. However, they never made it because I couldn’t complete them. One of them was about how I managed to break the front LCD screen of my iPhone 3G and then how I went [...]


Global Economy Continues to Weaken – Consider Investing in “Online” Properties

Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s blog! As we get closer to Christmas and the end of year 2008, people in the US are still fighting to keep their jobs. “Layoffs” is latest buzzword around everyone out there. The economy continues to weaken and the following year 2009 does not appear to be very promising (at least [...]


Commission Junction Website Hacked?

*Update: Turns out they had a “technical glitch” on the front end of their web site which was fixed in about five hours…
Whoooh!! It looks like something is terribly wrong with Commission Junction (CJ). I tried hitting the home page several times this morning and here’s a screen shot of what I see. Unfortunately, I [...]