WordPress has the nasty habit, thanks to numerous filters, of converting two consecutive - to different ascii characters. This causes big problem for code fragments where people often tend to cut and paste the displayed code from browsers.

Google GMail increased the attachment limit of individual emails to 20MB. On the other hand the total space inches closer to 3 GB; it is currently at 2857 MB of which I am using only 3%.

Cartoon Network, stupidly as before, plans to stop DragonBall Z before Goku goes Super-Saiyan! As a commenter (Karthik) on my blog pointed out DragonBall Z isn't on display on June 30th (Saturday). In short this is plain stupid and ridiculous. There goes my hope of viewing DragonBall GT, in a wisp of smoke (or is that a Ka-me-ha-meha) :(

Most of us know that exercise is good for us. It boosts circulation and tones the cardiovascular system. It builds strength, burns calories and reduces depression. It improves insulin sensitivity in people with diabetes. It may even help delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. But can you even imagine that it can partially reverse aging at the cellular level.

RPM based systems like RedHat, Fedora or CentOS often have the system configured for automatic updates. This ensures that your software is always upto date. However sometimes there are software you don't want to update via yum update like for example RSSOwl. RSSOwl, for example, currently has a broken rpm distribution in extras repository. Standard yum update will update the correct version directly downloaded from site and break it. So you would want to prevent it from being updated. For such scenarios there is a simple procedure for you to follows: