Digg recently introduced url shortener. This is not your standard url shortener where the shortener does a 302 forward. Digg shortener displays destination site in a frame. Which means the reader still stays on the Digg.

Most of the modern web analytics software will be able to record this visit, but it will problem in finding out the actual referrer.  Also standard traffic counters like alexa don’t count this visit against your site.
So if you don’t like to that DiggBar to be displayed on your blog.  You can add this one line code to your site. Add it to your webpage’s head section.

<script type="text/javascript">
if (top !== self) top.location.href = self.location.href;
</script>

This code in fact doesn’t allow anybody to display your content in their frame. Here is the demo url http://digg.com/u1BSW to check. It should work on all browsers.
Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

I like to comment when I read a good post. More than 50% of the blogs that I read are on either wordpress.com or hosted . So I created a simple scriptlet to fill the comment form for ease of commenting.Then I thought it could be useful to others too. So I wrote this small script to create a scriptlet for you.
Fill up the name, email and url you use while commenting. You can even have some default comment if you want. Make sure not to use single or double quotes. As of now the JS code breaks. Try to manage with out quotes : )
Once you have entered the details click “Generate Scriptlet”. If everything goes OK then the link below the button becomes “Fill Comment”. Pull it to your links bar. Now that should make your commenting easy on any wordpress blog. Send in your comments.

Your Name:

Your Email:

Your URL:

Default Comment or leave blank:

Not yet

Ask Thej is my new experiment where my blog readers can ask anything and I will try to answer their question. You can ask any question from travel, technology, Java to GPS. I will try to answer them. You can leave your questions in the below box. I will pick up and answer them in a blog post tagged with Ask Thej. Of course your question and my answer are creative common licensed. Please leave your blog url so I can credit your question. Welcome to the new experiment. Happy asking :)

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I am attending FOSS.IN/2008 virtually through twitter (unfortunately I could not attend due to work pressure). Here is my contribution to the FOSS world as part of FOSS.IN/2008.

Go to jFotoNotes project page

jFotoNotes is java implementation of famous FotoNotes in php. A variation of FotoNotes is also used by flickr. Fotonotes is a standard, specification, and collection of scripts for annotating images. In jFotoNotes I have used the same JavaScript libraries but I have completely rewritten the server side components in Java.

jFotoNotes is java implementation of famous FotoNotes in php. Fotonotes is a standard, specification, and collection of scripts for annotating images. In jFotoNotes I have used the same JavaScript libraries but I have completely rewritten the server side components in Java. If you find any bugs or if you have any suggestions please write to me.

jFotoNotes has found a new home at Google Code. You can download the code or contribute to the same there.