Here’s an idea I’m trying out. Here’s some text:

cat Idea.opml | tr ‘a-z’ ‘A-Z’ | md5sum
4dbb82a1048ff3e59ce5c7ccc58314ac – md5sum Idea.opml
a17de3abcf5e225d51e6eab412f25781 Idea.opml

This is some text I have written, but prefer not to publish. However, I can prove that I wrote this text before writing this blog post; since the text in this blog will be public to all, especially the search engines who will crawl it and immortalize it.

Later, I can simply say that the odds of me being able to crack the MD5 hash to custom-write a piece of text that is one out of many millions; double hashing it makes it even more difficult. This way, I can prove I wrote a piece of text at a certain time without disclosing it.

Do you think there are any flaws to this? Email me!

I'm looking for PHP whizkids who're in their first or second year of college, in India for a challenging non commercial project. Please contact me if you're interested, and do spread the word around.

Arnab's cure for persitently reoccuring nose bleeds: Move to Mumbai. I mean it, seriously. In Delhi, they used to happen to me almost every day; but ever since I landed in Mumbai, they've completely gone away. 15 days so far and no problems at all. I believe it has something to do with the humid weather and climate. Perhaps I should contact the Mumbai Tourism Agencies with this as a possible attraction... "Mumbai - The Nose Friendly City"!

People have been asking why you can't comment on this blog. The principle reason is that it's my space, and I do the talking here. If you want to say something, you can contact me using the contact page, or post stuff on your blog, or at timepastown.

The other reason is, that I can't get the comments working in Movable Type for some weird reason.

Google churns out the most amazing things! I was looking for comments/ articles about Blogsnob, and saw that we'd been featured in the Hindu Business Line!! We did do an interview with Mr. Nair a long time ago, but since he did'nt contact us after that, we didn't know if we got featured or not.
Go check out the article here. It was published on July 29th - and we didn't even know! Also note the number of time he writes "says Nandi".