If you are thinking of learning SQL it's the right time to start! You can check SQL FAQ on my website. Once you understand basic concept of database and simple commands like select, insert etc. you can easily learn any database like Oracle or MySql. PHP 5.0 Beta released on July 17, 2003 has been bundled with SQLite, a stripped-down version of mysql. It means most of the webservers in the future will have one or the other SQL 92 compliant database pre-installed. Isn't it the right time to add a topic called "SQL" in the schools?

On July 1, 03 Mark Fletcher (developer of egroups) launched Bloglines.
Bloglines is a server-based news aggregator. With it, you can subscribe to your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. It will then track changes to those sites, making it easy for you to keep up to date with the blogs you read. You can download and install software like Feed Reader or Awasu. I have stopped installing any software on my windows machine. I use multiple machines and multiple operating systems, so a server-based solution made the most sense. There are many other advantages to using a service instead of downloading a program.

Make your PrintScreen (and alt-print screen - to select dialog boxes) button work the way it ought. Save to file (bmp, png, jpg), print to printer, or copy to dumb ol' clipboard. Works in any version of windows since Win95, and it's only 95k.
This and many other useful utilities...
http://bcheck.arsware.org/#purrint

My new mantra is working Online All the Time. I have stopped using all the softwares those I need to download and install. The list includes Msoffice and my favorite feed readers like "Feed Reader" and "Awasu". I have found out the web based alternative like SNARF! http://www.tatochip.com/
If you have your own website with PHP support, you can create your own RSS Feed Aggregator page by installing a simple php script on your web server. More information is available here...
http://zvonnews.sourceforge.net/zvonfeeds.php

Google introduced several new gadgets in its popular toolbar for Web browsers on Thursday, June 26, 2003 that lets people block pop-up ads and easily update their blogs as they surf the Web.
Where will I get the google toolbar?
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php
What changes should I make to the google toolbar?
Choose Options and then select the following features..
"Options" Tab
Select Page Info menu. It will allow you to check the "Cache Snapshot", similar pages and will allow you to translate the current page into English.
"More" Tab
Under Search Options:
Use Google as my default search engine in Internet Explorer - This is a simple way to set your Internet Explorer browser to search using Google if it can't find the URL you entered.
Under Web buttons:
Up - Enables you to navigate up one level in the site you're currently visiting.
Next & Previous - These buttons take you to the next or the previous result for the current search without returning to the Google search results page.
Category - If the page you are viewing has a related category in the Google Web Directory, clicking this button takes you to that category page.
"Autofill" Tab
The AutoFill tab in Toolbar Options enables you to automatically complete forms on the web.

Updating your JournalSpace via e-mail is as simple as sending an e-mail to this address:
post@journalspace.com
The subject line of your e-mail will be the subject line of your post.
The first line of your e-mail message contains your authorization.
If your user name is shantanuo and your PBM password is india, you would type:

auth shantanuo india

That "auth" part is essential.
After you've done that, start typing your post on the next line. Whatever you type in the rest of your message after the authorization line will go into your post. For e.g.
http://shantanuo.journalspace.com/

"It's the collapse of inconvenience," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. "It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it."

Enough! Boys, stop fighting!
Final numbers are out...
Corporate Blogs: OnClave.org
Diary Blogs: diaryland.com
General Blogs: crimsonblog.com
If you are ready to pay $2.5 Per Month, you will enjoy features like...
RSS, Posting via email etc.
blog-city.com

Unsure whether your PHP web server has the required functions installed to run a particular script? If so, use the function_exists() function to check. For example, if I wanted to see if the fopen function existed with my PHP build, I would use the following code:

(?php echo function_exists("fopen"); // Outputs 1 if exists ?)

Recently I found out that LiveJournal has started asking for code number to become a member of the community. This is the only reason I have to drop this site from my favorites.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/shantanuo/
Other websites I am dropping now after testing are...
http://teenopendiary.com/
http://www.freeopendiary.com/

I have also found out that pitas is very easy to use and is one step ahead of free website hosts like geocities or tripod. It has made publishing easy. But it is not the "blog" site in its true cense. Therefore
http://shantanuo.pitas.com
is not in the top sites list either.

http://oksoft.qlogger.com
is added to the list. It has almost all features one might look for while creating his blog. OnClave was almost out of my favorites list. But I had to add it again since the e-mail to post feature seems to have started working again.

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=shantanuo
Xanga is a new entrant in the list of community blogs.