Not knowing what to do, I had previously linked my domain name to my blog, which most often than not received random traffic from search engines due to reasons I’d rather not be too proud about, for now.
I was additionally maintaining a livejournal wherein I had initially started putting in any arbit rambling that I wanted to pen down and preserve, and this sounding board then turned out to be the one that I used with greater frequency compared to my blog, which I was afraid I was going to abandon.
In the midst of maintaining a blog and a livejournal, I chanced upon a few blogs that were hosted on their own server spaces and had exclusive URLs, and this, combined with the need to customize what I spew out in writing prompted me to purchase server space and host this website on wordpress, which is what you are seeing right now. In this regard, I have to thank Aadisht and SKimpy, for their random tech support level assistance on gtalk as well as for having guided me to Madhu Menon, who provided me with the necessary server space, and deserves to be thanked as well.
Thanks also to Monkee, the cheap guy that he is, for having been the first person to subscribe to the RSS feeds of my new website, much before I could do so myself, and for some invaluable inputs and constructive criticisms that prevented me from doing some things that I realized in retrospect were stupid.
Shrenik Sadalgi, friend, colleague and photographer extraordinaire provided me with his old camera – a Canon powershot A620, which is super enough for my face, to shoot the pics that you can see in the header. Refreshing or clicking on other links will switch the header image, thanks to a php script written by Matt Mullenweg.
The wordpress forums are stud level so far as resolving issues related to everything under the sun is concerned, and it is a result of their assistance that I’ve been able to put my site in the current shape that it is in.
Clicking on the bars on top will take you to the different categories under which I’ve posted, and I will update and add new stuff to it. Currently, if your office’s internet proxy isn’t benevolent enough, you will not be able to see any media under the music category.
The primary intent of the blog is to fan my already bloated ego, and also to serve as a means of providing me with more freelance writing opportunities, the likes of which I have engaged in for a few print as well as online publications. I have managed to import and include most of my blog and LJ entries into this site, but I haven’t been able to tag and categorize all 400 (approx) of them for now, which means that you will still see that ‘uncategorized’ label on the top bar until I’ve had enough time, patience and enthusiasm to remedy it.
Feedback is most welcome, just leave a comment, and do subscribe to the RSS feeds of my site. This new blogging journey will be awesome!
I wholeheartedly intend to Rock you like a Haricane.
hari cane it seems
kodhi is a twig and you are a cane.
pour some sugar on me
@skimpy,
well, since I don’t really have a nickname per se, maybe Haricane will do just fine.
What purpose does having only 3 posts per page really serve, apart from seriously undermining readability?
@Monkee,
three posts are ok. I was thinking of making it ten initially, but generally thought against it. Will once again be settling for lucky number six so far as number of total posts on home page are concerned.
I like you theme! And the comment reply threads… very cool…
Makes me wish I’d considered WordPress!
How much do you end up spending to keep the blog up… in terms of time and money?
@Pratik,
Well, you could always switch by migrating your posts, is what I’d say.
Time – off and on, I take breaks from office work to get it updated. The initial time for having it up and running was a bit high, but I’d taken a few days off to make it happen.
Money is slightly on the higher side after yahoo small business hiked domain name rates.
Domain name fees ($35) + server space (INR 1700). Both rates per annum.
Hope this helps!