Facebook Badge does not Work?

Facebook badge is what I wanted to put in place of static "About Me" provided by Blogger. The problem is, Facebook badge does not work! I hit the wall. Experimenting with the embed code provided by Facebook, I realized that badge.facebook.com does not work. It returns 302 (Moved Permanently), 301 (Moved Temporarely) or 400 (Bad request). Changing the CNAME from "badge" to "www" worked.

Here is what I did.
Changed this

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/nishant.neeraj" target="_TOP" title="Nishant Neeraj">
<img alt="Nishant Neeraj" style="border: 0px none ;" src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/677811901.1700.326749801.png" />
</a>

to this

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/nishant.neeraj" target="_TOP" title="Nishant Neeraj">
<img alt="Nishant Neeraj" style="border: 0px none ;" src="http://www.facebook.com/badge/677811901.1700.326749801.png" />
</a>

- Nishant

Re-Vamped !

Dec 2008, I thought that I would upgrade my blog to look more genuine and not to look like one of the Blogger's standard template. Plus, I almost hated the top bar that includes search and next-blog button. But, it never happened -- in-fact, the idea to change the looks was too intense that I stopped blogging until I change it - a pseudo pressure. The reason was, I was too afraid to touch CSS and HTML tags were nightmares to me.

Suddenly, in July 2009, one day I was caught in Catch-22. I had to design a web-page from scratch for our Muton site, and I realized probably the next good thing is vamping up my blog. Played with CSS, HTML tags on N2O and pasted the CSS on this blog. Done! Phew!

I changes the colors and looks from docile and goody-good to more declarative and rebellious. Hope you'd like it.

See old blog's image here
See the new blog's here

Also, this is a pre-Google acquisition blog. So, does not have some of the hottest widgets and sharing capability. I am planning have all those badges, libraries, Tweet and share on Facebook very soon.

And Let's have a regular weekly post from now on. :)

Enjoy.
Naishe.

Quick Quote: SOAP

I started looking into SOAP. I loved that developers need not to be all nerdy. Here is an interesting quote here that I found during research. I loved it. (Since I've seen the movie umpteen times)

Here it is

In the movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton play alter egos -- opposite ends of the psychological spectrum -- two guys trying to communicate with one another and having a tough time making it work. Interestingly enough -- and without giving away the punch line -- much of the action in the film revolves around the production of soap, an activity that seems to bind the characters in unique and unexpected ways.
By: Tom Clements