Oops… A Gross error!
Posted by Uma Damle | Filed under General, Headshot, Humour
IPL matches with their unexpected outcomes and twists and turns manage to befuddle and wrong foot even some of the most seasoned commentators by the look of it. Here is a screen shot from http://www.cricinfo.com live commentary section from yesterday’s Mumbai vs. Delhi match (Didn’t bother with those fancy and lame team names).Some unfortunate typo this was 
For the nincompoops reading this, the correct word was shot.
Bluegenemaid
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12 Responses to “Oops… A Gross error!”
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Prashanth Says:
May 25th, 2008 at 10:26 amLol!
The next time you decide to post an Internet-based screenshot, please do that after cropping out parts of your browser. You see, in 2008, people consider Windows 2000 users, or those who use something else and theme it to mimic Windows 2k in the best possible way are considered pretty uncool, especially when they are techies aspiring to be designers and speak about aesthetic appeal, interfaces on the loudspeaker!
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The Tech Nut Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 5:07 amHey, nothing wrong at all with plain vanilla non-Luna-Aero interfaces. Saves resources, specially if you’re on a RAM budget.
@Uma - Congrats on your NIFT rank. It’s good your posing more, coz Prashant’s frequency had dropped drastically.
@Prashant - Ref. @Uma for diatribe directed at you. -
Uma Says:
May 27th, 2008 at 6:36 amVivek:Thanks for the wishes and the support ;-p
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Prateek Vijayavargia Says:
May 27th, 2008 at 11:02 amYes even I noticed this typo as I was following this match online on cricinfo due to some cable network problem……I suppose such slight spelling mistakes can be pardoned….Because Cricinfo do this stuff really fast….And they r the best in the business.
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Prashanth Says:
May 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm@Vivek: Well, I guess that is the biggest advantage of a joint blog, right? And speaking of interfaces, I really don’t think she suffers from RAM crysis, as she has a similar scheme even on her Core2Duo… Plus, for a very long time, she was actually advocating Windows 2000 to be better then XP until she upgraded to XP while not losing the ‘grace’ of win2k… Anyway, lain vanilla has neater looking forms too, try Ubuntu’s Human Theme or a theme called Gray for instance!
PS- Waise see the posts that I have made this month. My posts bought a whole lot of traffic to the blog this month! Google search rules! -
Shashank Says:
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 pmSpeaking of interfaces, guys I think you really need to take a second look at the loading time of your blog. I have a broadband connection which on an average gives me near 700kbps, and it takes hours to load your blog. Trust me, its only your blog that’s slow.
Your design appears to be simple CSS (lots of images though) but some widget or javascript is performing a LOT of HTTP connections repeatedly (can see that in the status-bar that’s nearly flickering with new connections every few milliseconds). In plain English: I think your scripts or widgets are acting funky. Take a look at them.
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Prashanth Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 5:59 amI know. Blame it all on Google Analytics. But then, I really haven’t seen loading times going up that high on other blogs which use it. Will try sourcing that out in some time for sure…
And the size of images really isn’t very big. The site with plain text and all the images in under 800k… And well, most of them must be Google related communications that could be shown on the status bar… -
Shashank Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 8:55 amMy blog uses Google Analytics too, and loads in about 5-10 seconds. And you’re using the same analytics code as I am, the new non-urchin type.
Take a look, maybe there’s too much content. Design looks elegant, but maybe you could reduce the clutter a bit. Just some thoughts!
Cheers
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Shashank Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 8:58 amOh and I just looked at the figure: 800k?
Even though I feel that’ll load fine for broadband users, but c’mon 800k is way too much for any site! That’s a sure-shot traffic-killer, most people won’t wait that long for your blog to load. Heh, I have resorted to reading your blog through RSS feeds now. -
Prashanth Says:
June 7th, 2008 at 5:32 amI tried using YSlow and Firebug to find out why its that slow. Looking at it’s analysis, what I could make out was that the blog wasn’t exactly suffering from bad loading times due to high size or anything, but it was just too many unnecessary PHP calls in many places, like the header, the footer, etc. Just replaced a lot of it with static HTML, and it did speed up. Deactivated quite a few unused Wordpress plugins, and uninstalled many. Now it has a YSlow score higher than many blogs I read. So, just tell me how it feels now… And then, how about subscribing to posts by email?
Anyway, thanks for the feedback, keep that flowing in. Cheers!
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Shashank Says:
June 7th, 2008 at 9:22 amDunno, but seems like the site still takes about the same time to load. I clicked the link to this page at 9:46:23 PM and it more or less finished loading at 9:48:15 PM, effectively taking about 2 minutes to load a SINGLE blog post and its comments. Then I clicked on “http://www.jasperhauser.nl/weblog/”, a blog I have NEVER seen before hence I can be sure was not cached in my browser, and it took about 8 seconds to load entirely.
That “status-bar flickering with thousands of HTTP Requests” issue is still happening. Try taking a backup of this theme, and apply another Wordpress theme just for a minute and check the loading time, and then revert it back to this theme again. Tell me what you record.
Cheers
Shashank
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Shashank Says:
June 7th, 2008 at 9:23 amCorrection: Its ONE minute, not two minutes, — the time for your blog’s loading. Sorry, small recording error.
Shashank
http://neothebrute.blogspot.com
