Meghan McCain Twitter Photo

Meghan McCain placed this photo on Twitter Wednesday and had no idea that it would cause such a reaction from her Twitter fans. The daughter of Senator John McCain made an official apology for the posting of the photo, but her 60,000 Twitter fans aren’t buying it.

She twittered:  “[My] ’spontaneous’ night in is my Andy Warhol biography and takeout. … I’m getting old.”

Then:  “So I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing, but apparently anything other than a pantsuit, I am a slut,” she Twittered.

Later she tweeted: “[Why] I have been considering deleting my twitter account, what once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment.”

The she apologized with this statement: “I do want to apologize to anyone that was offended by my twitpic,” McCain wrote Wednesday after 100,000 viewed the photo.

“I have clearly made a huge mistake and am sorry 2 those that are offended.”

Many of her followers are angry about the photo and have sent her really nasty tweets. McCain responded to those comments with: “[When] I am alone in my apartment, I wear tank tops and sweatpants, I had no idea this makes me a ‘slut’, I can’t even tell you how hurt I am.”

google's 11th birthday

It’s google’s 11th birthday!  This sign has occurred and has been celebrated in each time zone when it officially became September 27th.  If you hover your mouse over the google symbol today…a little pop up menu will actually flash google’s 11th birthday.  

Also, did you know that if you type in www.gewgle.com it automatically becomes www.google.com?  From time to time, google has little tricks that drive people crazy and the need to know drives them crazy.  Today google requests have been all over the internet and that is good for google.

And for those of us that use google everyday it’s a good thing…Happy Birthday Google!

Are you afflicted with acne and is it giving you sleepless nights? Well fret not, immediate help is at hand. And best of all, its a tried and tested approach. Tried and Tested by none other than Miley Cyrus.

Recently Miley Cyrus was gushing about a face wash from Sensai Cosmetics. Miley could’nt stop singing peans about this body care products.

Apparently Miley used the acne face wash and it got rid of all her acne and gave her a smooth skin. Sensai face wash has changed my life I just washed my face and SMILED! That is a miracle.

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It is a known fact that on popular social networking websites, rivalries between countries exist. Usually they are friendly rivalries. However post Mumbai attacks saw a different turn into the meaning of rivalries. Orkut is a very popular social networking site in both Pakistan and India. Recently, an Indian group known as HMG (Hindu Militant Guards) committed a gross criminal offense by hacking into the largest Pakistan community in Orkut.

The community for 41 thousands plus Pakistani members was hacked using brute force and owner’s profile was compromised very badly using sophisticated hacking methods. Their reason for hacking into a largest Pakistani community was to avenge the Mumbai attacks. Its shocking how something that had happened in real life, had to transcend into virtual life.

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Whoever came up with this statement must have been a blind person. For those people who actually believe beauty comes from within, i.e personality are lying through their teeth. They are also lying to themselves. As much as a good personality is desired but deep down people will want to be attracted to a good figure, good looking face, the well maintained look, all the way down to a good pair of clean shoes. No matter how much you happen to love your sweetheart with a heart of gold, you will always wonder if you could have had that gorgeous girl that you keep bumping into on your way to work. You know the one with bouncy jet black hair who shares eye contacts with you as you sit in front of her in the tube each morning.

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Ratan Tata has announced that Tata Motors will move the Nano plant out of Singur. This decision has been taken in the wake of strong protests from the opposition led by Trinomool Congress (TMC) leader Ms. Mamata Banerjee. Mr. Tata very categorically has named the opposition and Mamata Banerjee in particular for the decision. In Singur the farmers have expressed deep regret at this decision and called a protest blockade of the Durgapur Highway to make themselves heard. This is the situation in ground zero as of now.

Like many bloggers I have too taken a stand favoring the factory at Singur and I still believe that a Tata factory in rural Bengal will transform its topography for the good as it has been for Jamshedpur. But then I cannot refrain from criticizing the CPM government’s policies and methods of land acquisition here. See living in Bengal I know more than any outsider the kind of dirty politics the Left has played in West Bengal for the last few decades. Today we are taking a favorable stand towards them only because we are seeing the problem from one dimension.

One one hand there would have been jobs for many youths after the factory would have been set up but then wouldn’t it be better if the government would be more systematic in procuring the land? An example has been set up by the Ambani’s who sought a majority vote from farmers and land owners of an area in Maharashtra before going about acquiring land. The CPM in Bengal have undoubtedly used ruffians, as is their trademark, to take land by force. IN so many decades of rule the party had not the sense to draw up a land map of the state of Bengal. You cannot take land at your whim. The Left now is playing at popular emotions and public support for not the government but the Tata business house. Ratan Tata is highly respected by everyone and that’s why people are sympathizing with him.

The CPM cannot say that it has supported industrialization in Bengal. For that matter we cannot say any political party has thought for the betterment of Bengal. The politics of bandhs and dharnas and unionization has closed most jute mills and factories of Bengal. In more recent times I can quote the opposition of departmental and convenient stores by the Left parties in Bengal. The Forward Bloc, the biggest supporter of the CPM government in Bengal, had recently tried to prevent issuing an agricultural license to the German company Metro Cash and Carry. The company in question is another store that will stock agricultural products which they’ll buy from the farmers. Forward Bloc say they always protested issuing license to such departmental stores as it will be detrimental to the corner grocer store and the road side illegal vendor. Only after the intervention of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, after the German Ambassador threatened dire consequences and Lufthansa said they would exit,  did the Forward Bloc controlled Agriculture Board relent. So my point is that this sudden holier than thou attitude of the CPM is really a farce.

The CPM and TMC are all actually two sides of the same coin. They are fighting a political battle here before the elections and the Tata’s have been caught in the crossfire. When Bengal today thinks about the Singur problem let her remember to look at both sides of the dispute and then voice an opinion. Lets not condemn what happened but analyze and see how the government could have avoided this fiasceo from occuring. In doing so lets keep in mind the destructive politics the Left has played in West Bengal and that it upholds the same bandh centered tactics even today.

You don’t have to sacrifice bulls here to keep Google happy but it is extremely essential for you as a webmaster to ensure you share a healthy relationship with Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista etc.

However Google is a cut above the rest because almost 70 to 80 percent of the world uses Google to extract information from the web. [The percentage is not backed by any source but just to give you an idea of the importance of Google].

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I have introduced a Forum on this website where users can register and post about various topics that they are interested in.

Use the Forum link on the top right or click here to check it out.

I am using the open source Forum software called BBPress, which I believe is partnering with Wordpress, the popular blogging software also used on this site.

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Updates:

1. Information about Ads-Click has been updated as the principals looked directly into the issues raised and took prompt action.

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So you have been blogging long enough to attract a decent daily traffic, even managing to notch up a few points on the venerable Google Page rank, and now you want to revamp your website’s advertising strategy to make some exotic money on the sides? You have come to the right place.

Here is my take on this and what I have learned over the past couple of months.

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Some ideas and updates to the website that I have been experimenting with. In the interest of being more transparent and “open-source” when it comes to information, I have included two new widgets for the benefit of our regular readers.

These widgets would not only facilitate more information about TechBanyan, but can also be used as a case study if you are looking for ways and means to improve the traffic of your own site.

Scroll down below and towards the right bottom you will see two new widgets that I have added not too long ago.

The smaller one is from Amung.us which gives information about how many readers are currently browsing the website. If you click on the small black-and-red icon, you can also view the pages the readers are currently on.

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