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Well, just now I saw the score in CC lab and Indians are well settled with the opening pair giving us a solid start. Sehwag is in belligerent form, firing on all cylinders. Once again he reaches his century at a fast pace. It doesn’t matter whether sehwag doesn’t understand the difference between a Test match and an ODI or whether test match is a test of character and all the bullshit. All that matters are ‘Runs on the board’ and it is coming in good numbers now. Keep the momentum up guys!

The second test of the series is going start tomorrow and like any other indian fan, I hope that they don’t fall for the spinners like they did in the first test. (19 wickets taken by spinners!). India is known for playing well against spin. But last test match proved the statement otherwise. So lets put our hands up for the indian team and wish them the very best for a good match. This time around, lets hope that they put up a fighting total on the board or do well in the bowling department.

Stand up comedy all the way! I became a fan of Billy Connolly after his exemplary performance in Garfield 2 : Tale of two kitties. Though the movie wasn’t so impressive as its prequel, I simply loved his ‘Scottish accent’. In W-BB, I found some of his stand up comedy shows in TV Showz section. I downloaded one, ‘At an Audience with Billy Connolly’. Right from the beginning, he had me in splits.

From the word go, it was profanity, profanity and profanity. Oh and they weren’t disgusting to hear. He had the knack of using them to make you laugh until your sides ache. I mean Damn it man, he could speak on and on for about 90 minutes and make you laugh every second with his quick wit! Thats no mean achievement sir! Download the video if you have high speed internet, or watch some of his videos in youtube. I’m sure you won’t regret it. I sure did not.

For a sneak peek on how he talks, here you go.

WordPress requires a valid user name and password credentials in order to access administration Dashboard, where every settings and configurations, including posting blog post entries in the WordPress-powered blog taking place.

If you’re sole administrator for the WordPress blog, losing or forgotten the password to the WordPress Dashboard is kind of hell, as the blog can be considered lost other than continue publishing existing contents. Luckily WordPress has some built-in mechanisms that allow blogger, user or administrator reset or recover the password.

Note: Actually WordPress doesn’t allow user to recover or retrieve back the existing password. Any password recovery method will reset the password to a new password which can then be used to login to Dashboard.

The most easy method to reset and recover password for WordPress user is to use Lost your password? link at the WordPress wp-login.php login page.

Upon clicking on “Lost your password?” link, WordPress will display a “Lost Password” page which allows user to enter username or e-mail address. Enter either one, and then click on Get Net Password button, and you will receive a new password via e-mail.

The default password recovery method for WordPress works if user defines a valid and working email address in the user profile. If for some reason the e-mail account is no longer accessible, and hence user won’t be able to read the email with new password, it’s possible to reset the password for the WordPress user in the database wp-users table. Note that this trick only works on WordPress 2.0 or newer version, and requires user to manage the MySQL database which stores and saves the data for the blog which password been forgotten or lost with phpMyAdmin.

1. Login to phpMyAdmin connected to the MySQL database server.
2. Select the database the used by the WordPress blog that the password wanted to be reset.
3. Locate the wp_users table (normally the last row), and then click on the Browse icon under Action column on the same line.
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5. Locate the user_login which the password want to be recovered and reset, and then click on the Edit button in front of the line.
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7. Under the user_pass field, delete everything in the corresponding Value field on the same line.
8. Enter a new desired password (case sensitive) in the now empty Value text box, i.e. NEW PASSWORD in the illustration.
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10. Select MD5 in the Function field drop-down menu.
11. Click on Go button to save and reset the password.

After resetting the password, use the new password to log in to WordPress.