List of Blog Ping Servers

Here is a list of Blog Ping Servers:

http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php?url=http://www.yourblog.com
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast

Taking Advantage of Horny Males (Wasps)!

The perpetually horny male! (And why not females?) Well, a new species of Orchids have been discovered in Southern Australia. These grow flowers that look like female Wasps! You get the idea, right?

And why target the male? Why not a flower that looks like the male wasp instead?

Will The Mammoths Walk Earth Again?

A Russian Hunter recently discovery the 40,000 years old remains of a Mammoth Baby in Arctic Russia. This is a monumental find and the scientists might be able to play God with the dead Mammoth's DNA if they can extract the sequence intact.

Will we see the Mammoths walk Earth once again? Should the scientists be allowed to play God?

What does such research and experimentation mean to Man's future?  Will we see soon DNA banks that cater to the super rich by freezing their DNA sequences for possible resurrection at a later date? Do you want to live twice? Or thrice? Or be immortal? Springing from the ashes like Dumbledore's Phoenix?

Harry Potter Fans - How Are You Doing?

Reached the Deathly Hallows yet? Some what of a let down so far. I have not read the ending but I am disappointed so far. Harry has reached the tale of the deathly hallows and has questions. What next? He will survive. That seems sure. But with the help of the hallows? Seems anti-climatic!

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - Complete Leaked Book (PDF)

And here is the complete book. This is the one that was transcribed from the photographs of the leaked book.

1. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - Complete Book (PDF)

Enjoy! And do buy the original book from the stores.

[Update] - Removed the link. The book is available on the P2P network.

GonVisor - Free Comic Viewer & CBZ/CBR Creator

Good old Google pointed me at GonVisor. A neat little tool to create CBZ & CBR files. It is also a Comic Viewer and seems to have a few additional features that CDisplay lacks.

The best part is of course the ability to create CBZ & CBR files. I haven't found anything better so far.

And it is Free!

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Leaked! Book Images Posted!

The rumors seem to be true. The torrents I mentioned in a previous post is about 60% done and I took a peek at the files. And guess what? They look real!

Potter Mania! First 10 Chapters Leaked!

The net is going crazy! Lots of leak rumors, blog posts and even news items on NBC etc. Lots of reports of leaked files on the BitTorrent network. Some say that the a group of Potter fans are transcribing a leaked (photographed pages apparently) copy into text and are posting it on the net. The first 10 chapters are supposedly available.

Well, I was curious enough to go looking for it. And I found this, supposedly the first 10 chapters of this so called leaked book. Might just be another example of Fan Fiction. I am transferring the file to my phone right after this post. Then maybe I will last till the book stores open the weekend!

Go ahead and download the file. At the very least it will keep you entertained till day after tomorrow. And if it is the real thing, then you can skip over to Chapter 11 and start from there !

1. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - First 10 Chapters (Text Format)
2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - First 10 Chapters (PDF Format)
3. The original files downloaded from BitTorrent (converted from RAR to ZIP)

[Update] - I found three other torrents that are supposed to contain the leaked book. Two of them are a bunch of images. The third contains a PDF.

[Update] - I have removed the links to the files above. Just in case this thing is for real! I don't want the publishers after my ass.

Indian Govt. Blocking Blog Sites

The Indian Govt decided to block certain blogs that spread hate for India in an attempt to fight back against terrorism. They ended up blocking all sites on Blogspot.com and other blog sites. For example, my photo blog, Mo-Chitra, is blocked. I can of course still access it from work because our gateways are in Japan & Singapore. It is only from home that I am unable to access my blog.

I ran a tracert to mo-chitra.blogspot.com and got the following output:

d:\>tracert -w 20000 mo-chitra.blogspot.com

Tracing route to blogspot.blogger.com [66.102.15.101] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 13 ms 8 ms 8 ms 172.30.69.1
2 25 ms 10 ms 12 ms 203.109.92.1
3 18 ms 26 ms 22 ms 125.16.0.73
4 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms 59.145.0.226
5 43 ms 34 ms 25 ms 202.56.223.109
6 59.145.11.73 reports: Destination host unreachable.

Trace complete.

Querying the IP Whois tool for the last two IPs shows that they belong to Bharati Tele.

inetnum: 202.56.223.0 - 202.56.223.255
netname: BTNL
descr: Bharti Telenet Ltd.
descr: Bhopal
descr: India
country: IN
inetnum: 59.144.0.0 - 59.145.255.255
netname: BHARTI-IN
descr: BHARTI INFOTEL LTD.
descr: ISP Division , Long Distance Group - Telesonic
descr: 234 , Okhala Phase III
descr: NEW DELHI
descr: INDIA
country: IN

So Bharati is blocking access to blogspot.com... Mr. Mital, I assume you are not a fool. With this assumption, I hope that you will instruct the idiots in your IT department to work a little harder and not block legitimate web sites. It takes a few seconds to block an entire domain. It takes a lot longer to block specific web sites. Somebody in your organization is cheating you of the salary you pay him.

I managed to access my blog inspite of your blocking access by the simple device of using TorPark. Only a fool tries to stop the Ganga from flowing to the sea. Are you one of them Sonia, Manmohan and Mittal?

Mamli's Star - Class 3D, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School, Jubilee Hills

Mamli is now in class 4. Last year she did rather well. She won a number of prizes and managed to beat the the person she was most afraid would do better than her!

I took these photos with my mobile phone and have been meaning to post them here for some time now. Well here goes...

Well done Mamli. No pressure but we do hope to see the same again this year!