There is a funny (and true) quote about software engineering!

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning

This is somewhat correct when it comes to Spamming! Spammers are coming with new ideas of spamming everyday. Last month I read a post in Digit forum in which users were complaining about a new way of spamming.

Spam bots register in forums and ask questions which look genuine and after few minutes they register with another user name and answer this question with a link to their site.

Today I had a new experience. I had the following comment for one of my posts.

Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I don’t know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

It looked genuine to me at first. Even my favourite Akismet plugin,which had protected me from 3379 spam comments so far, failed in this case.  I did a quick google search for this comment and as I suspected our great James has comments 1000s of blogs with the same comment. Good try James

Sorry I am late in announcing the winners. I had some issues with crankup.net yesterday. So here are the two winners

1. Fiz
2. Bob

I will be contacting them via email. Thanks to everyone who commented. I am planning to give away freebies periodiacally. All you have to do is subscribe via RSS/email and stay updated.

Are you a frequent twitter user? Do you find it annoying to login to twitter everytime and post? Wouldn’t it be nice if you can post your tweets from your google talk?

post2twitter IM bot helps you do this. Just add post2twitter@bot.im as a friend in your google talk and once the bot comes online you can post your tweets using the following format as a message. If you need aany help, just send help as a message.

username$password$message

eg : adam$passwrd$This is a tst message

post2Twitter

As you can see your message gets posted immediately.

Note: This is a very simple IM bot created using PHP and www.imified.com. I will post the soucecode soon in my other blog www.codegeeks.net. Any questions, please post it as a comment.

What does your computer do when you keep it idle for some time (of course when switched on)? My laptop communicates with other computers on the internet and creates stunning animations and displays them as screensaver.

If you are interested in watching your computer do this, all you have to do is download electric sheep screensaver and install it in your machine. So What’s special about electric sheep?

Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver on the individual node computers of the distributed network. Sounds too technical? Never mind! The process is transparent to the casual user, who can simply install the software as a screensaver.

I must warn you it make take some time for the first time user to download the first sheep. If you want install sheep manually, follow the steps shown here.

I must admit that I am not quick in writing posts about new technology, so here is one about the new browser released by Google. There are lot of talks going around about Chrome. Some say its very good and some say its not. Here are some of useful links which you can check out.

1. Google Chrome - The power users guide
2. How to block ads in Google chrome
3. Google chrome receives heavy criticism in germany
4. 5 tweaks for early Google Chrome adopters
5. Google chrome tips
6. Install Google chrome in Linux
7. Google chrome tips and pointers
8. Increase Google Chrome’s Omnibox Popup Suggestion Count With an Undocumented Switch
9. Portable chrome puts chrome on your thumb drive
10. 7 really awesome things about google chrome
11. See chrome’s inner working - an easter egg
12. The reason google named its browser chrome

Did I miss anything?