Tag Archive 'Blogging'

New Home … settling in

Posted by gargi on 13 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Wordpress

Last Week
The last 10 days have been a fair tech disaster for me….. the site was down from the 2nd till the 9th because my previous hosting service got attacked by something while moving servers. The fact that they hadn’t informed me ( i am not sure of their other customers) about the move, and [...]

Up & Running

Posted by gargi on 28 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Wordpress

I have finally upgraded my blog -
this is now running on

WP 2.3
The theme is 1st Zaxioma 1.03 by Zaki
plugins include

FCKEditor
WP Flickr Post Bar
Subscribe Me
Comment Quicktags
Akismet

Assorted widgets include

Feedburner Widget
Flickr Badge Widgtet
Google Search Widget

If you have any other plugin’s / widgets to recommend - please go ahead

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Upgrades

Posted by gargi on 28 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., Diary, Wordpress

Have finally overcome severe inertia to upgrade the site … to a new version of word press etal
This follows hot on the heels of me upgrading my machine at home….. am still finding my way around the new system …. personalizing it etal….
if the blog disappears for ever in the process of the upgrades…… it [...]

Back

Posted by gargi on 29 May 2007 | Tagged as: Wordpress

My earlier hosting service, the excellent Weblleyou is in the process of winding down their service.
And there i was, happily settled into my home - and had to move all over again. Given that in my childhood i moved 8 homes by the time I was in the 10th - i have this great aversion [...]

Some Blogs worth a Read

Posted by gargi on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: India

In my trawling through the net for content of interest, here are a few new ones that are really interesting.

Atrocity News - a site dedicated to highlighting atrocities in India. The site is a meticulous documentation of cases that violate the fundamental rights to life, liberty, property and equality. Its’ progress report on Khairlangi is [...]

PutVote….

Posted by gargi on 23 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ...

…. an interesting new directory service- PutVote - an interesting new social bookmarking service - (thanks Debashish), that indulges in the great indian past time of wanting to vote on everything.

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On Procastination

Posted by gargi on 27 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

I was going to write an obituary for the excellent Desi Pundit, but it came back to life. Maybe, there is a moral in this somewhere …

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Moved to a New Home

Posted by gargi on 20 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Wordpress

After 18 months of using the extremely good Powweb hosting services, i moved to that offered by WebbleYou.
The move wasn’t without its’ fair share of drama. When the form asked me for my domain name for transferring, i gave them calamur.org rather than calamur.org/gargi which is the blog url. So the transfer was of a [...]

Bloggers not Trusted?

Posted by gargi on 08 May 2006 | Tagged as: Media

Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in London.? The survey, conducted by the polling company GlobeScan for the BBC-Reuters-Media Center “We Media” Forum and released Wednesday, ranked national TV as the most trusted news source overall, trusted by 82 [...]

Back

Posted by gargi on 05 May 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ...

The site has been down for a few days. Forgot to renew my domain name. How absent minded can one get?
Felt kind of un nerving. It’s asthough a part of my identity had disappeared for a few days.

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