Star Trek – The Better Man

I’ve recently finished reading Star Trek – The Better Man by Howard Weinstein. I simply loved it. Its got intense mystery right from the start, you’ll really find it hard to put it down.

Its about a trip that the U.S.S. Enterprise has been assigned to a planet Nova Empyrea for diplomatic talks over removing an science station that was set up there 20 years ago. Nova Empyrea is a colony that was set up by humans who had left earth in the early days of the warp drive. The humans from Nova Empyrea or rather Empyreans used advanced genetic management techniques to help the human organism achieve a higher level of physical and intellectual quality. They had absolutely no interaction with the outside world before the federation had visited it to set up the science station 20 years ago to study the star system. Empyreans are against the treaty renewal and want the science station to be removed.

Also Mcoy learns that he has a daughter from a relationship he had during his previous visit. And his daughter Anna is not completely Empyrean and is likely to suffer grave consequences for the actions of her mother and this stranger she has never met.

As the story goes on it portrays how the federation officers Spock and Scotty work to save the science station and how Mcoy tries to save his daughter.

This book also explores the past of Mcoy and a must read for his fans. Its a very interesting book and will capture your mind with the twisting mystery right till you finish it.

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Nokia N79 Look Alike

Yesterday while travelling in the train I happened to spot one of my fellow travellers holding a phone that looked just like the Nokia N79 but it wasn’t a Nokia N79. You’re probably thinking I’m out of my mind. Trust me I’m not. Look at the below picture for yourself.

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No that picture is not photo shopped. Its a real phone. You’re stunned, aren’t you? It looks exactly like the Nokia N79. Its actually a G’Five N79. The only way you can tell its not the Nokia is by the logo on the right side. Also the phone is not in the same leage as a Nokia N79.

From what I read in a review I’ve learnt that its a dual sim phone, with inbuilt memory of 506KB , expandable upto 4GB. It does have some other features too but not Symbian OS.

On the down side warranty is just for 6 months though. Would you be interested in buying this phone, instead of Nokia N79?

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March Review

Its been a month already, and its time to review my blog and the performance over the last month. You’ll find last months review post here.

Last month I said I would increase the posting frequency and I’ve managed to keep my word. I’ve made a total of 13 posts last month.

Also I’ve been working on promoting on developing my social presence. I’ve been promoting other useful articles via twitter and recently also taken an active part on blog engage.

And last but not the least I wanted to be in the top 1M Alexa Ranking. Well unfortunately I’ve not managed to make this one yet. I’ve come very close but not there yet. I’m currently at 1,024,848.

So now on to setting the targets for this moth. Well I would want to continue with a similar pace with the posting frequency this month as well. I definately want to get the Alexa ranking up into the top 1M, well actually say under 900K by the end of this month.

Also I’m going to promote this blog and others not just on twitter but also on some other social bookmarking websites. I think its really essential to have a good amount of traffic on a blog and I’m also going to join groups that help to promote traffic.

Wish me luck.

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Act now to win 6 months of free blog hosting

Here’s a quick update about a blogging contest being organised by Rose DesRochers from World outside my Window. Well actually the contest ends today. I’m really sorry, I’ve been busy this month and I forgot all about this contest.

Anyway about this contest, you need to promote this contest on twitter, write a post on your blog (kinda like this one, but don’t copy it) and guest post on Blogger Talk Community Blog. Isn’t this simple. Also commenting on Rose’s blog will get you points.

The prize for the winner is 6 months of web or blog hosting from Vision This Hosting. This comes with 1 click install, Unlimited Hard Disk Space, 10 GB of Monthly Data Transfer, 1 Domain On 1 AccountPHP 4 & PHP 5, cPanel X with Fantastico, 5 Email Accounts, 10 SQL Databases. Its a good solution to for Wordpress Blog Hosting.

Well that does sound attractive, doesn’t it? I apologize again for not promoting this earlier. But hope you make the most of the little time that is left.

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Subscribe to comments vs Comment Reply Notification

In my opinion Comments are life blood of a blog. And its essential to keep the conversation going back and forth rather than just post a critical comment or remark and moving on. To encourage your readers to come back to check on their comment replies most blogs have the Subscribe to comments plugin. This is a nice plugin that sends the comment author a notification email everytime a new comment is posted to a blog post on which he/she has commented on.

Now this isn’t bad, is it? The plugin does what is set out to do, subscribe you to the comments of a blog post. But Imagine this, you post a comment on a blog post you’ve liked and the author has replied to your comment as well and you then want to leave it there. You now have to unsubscribe from your previous subscription. If you don’t unsubscribe you’ll continue to receive notification mail whenever someone comments on that post, even a few weeks after you’ve read and commented on it.

Thats not such a bad thing but lets consider this from the point of view of the commentator. His/her mailbox is constantly receiving emails for comment notifications that they posted weeks or even months ago. And this person who is probably also a busy blogger has to spend precious time scanning these emails, when they could be writing the next most popular article or visiting some blog or commenting on another blog or doing some research or blog maintenance. Do you think someone who has had such an experience will consider subscribing to the comments the next time he/she is commenting. I don’t think so!

Well thanks to fellow blogger Sire I’ve stumbled upon a plugin that not only solves this problem but also presents the comments in a threaded format, so you can easily follow the conversation, if your theme doesn’t do it already. Its called Wordpress Threaded Comments.

This plugin does just what I really want as a comment reply notifier. The commentator is sent a notification email only if a reply is posted to the comment posted by the commentator. Thus the commentator does not have to worry about getting too many emails and be assured that any notification email received is for a reply to a comment that he/she has posted, hence the email will draw prompt attention to itself.

I’ve installed this plugin on my blog and it works fine. I encourage you to get this plugin too and don’t let your commentators drown in the flood of notification emails.

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