AI Bots from Lanzhou and Ashburn are my fans
I was feeling rather pleased this week when Google Analytics showed a 64% traffic jump on my blog, venkatarangan.com. For a few moments, I thought my posts had finally become…
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What Founders Can Learn from Automattic’s Exceptional Customer Care
In the digital age, we often hear about poor customer service experiences, especially on social media. However, I recently had an exceptional experience with Automattic, the company led by the…
Why I deleted the Azure VM running my WordPress blog after 10 Years?
✂️ Pressing the delete button in Microsoft Azure for my blog was like saying goodbye to an old friend! After running it on Azure with WordPress on Windows Server for…
A concept note I wrote in 1999 for a witty website
In the late 1990s, a few years after I ventured into the software products business, my friends and I came up with an idea for a website called 640kb.com. Those…
This blog is over 19 years young!
On this day in 2004, nineteen years ago, I started writing my blog at venkatarangan dot com. When I wrote the first post that you see below, I never imagined…
Influencers and Disclosure
Influencers to post disclaimers in their product endorsements says the Government of India’s Consumer Affairs Department. Broadly, I welcome this move and hope the ‘guideline’ is not draconian, and Orwellian…
A talk on why do I write my blog?
I started this blog 18-years ago, have written 3300+ posts which have been viewed over a million times. In the initial years, it was a public diary (like most other…
Broken images in new WordPress blog posts in Windows
Been years since I fiddled a lot with IIS & Windows Server. But when you had to do it, you do get a thrill by dirtying your hands when debugging…