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October indeed is my birth month. No wonder good things are happening more often. The latest is an another award for this blog from S3 aka Sreeram. Thanks a lot for gifting me, my ‘second’ blog award.

Unlike last award, this one is more formal. It has some rules and regulations. !

The rules are:

“When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real. Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on!” Read the rest of this entry »

Yup, finally, this silly blog of mine got remembered by a new indiblogger blogger friend, Nishita, who was deceived by me so gracefully, that she ended up awarding this blog, the Nicest Blog Award!!

I know, you are thinking, how do you rate a blog as nice? I also don’t know. But anyways, awards and gifts should never be rejected. That’s my policy!! so thanks a lot Nishita, for giving me, my first blog award!!! I know its a bit tooo late to accept this award and say thank you’s, but still better late than never!! Read the rest of this entry »

This week, I transferred all the Feedburner feeds to Google Adsense. This transfer was announced by both the parties long before. But I had a good trouble with those two. Both accounts were on different Gmail IDs.

Long ago, I had tried to insert the Adsense for feeds a while ago, but they never appeared. Later I realized, maybe there are not linked yet. But then, there were so many rumors that transfer of Feedburner has several disadvantages. I thought of turning to FeedBlitz, but the interface was so complicated to me, that I never understood where to start with. I turned back to handle Feedburner and Google again. I had tried to introduce them to each other, but ended up duplicating. Now that I had ignored about it, with despair, for some time, Feedburner himself offered me yesterday to move the feeds automatically.

If you are a subscriber to this blog, either through email or RSS feeds, please let me know of any discrepancies happened recently. If no problems, then be happy, and I am happy too And those who haven’t yet subscribed, please subscribe immediately.

One more problem yet to rectify is to link Google Adsense and Google Analytics. It seems the notification will appear automatically in the Adsense admin panel. Here again, both are on different mail IDs. Why did I create so many mail IDs.

Inauguration of Advertising:
Yes. Advertising options are open for registrations formally. Please click here for details. The current theme does not support 125×125 ads and the horizontal banners. A new theme will be activated as soon as I have the slots filled for the same!

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Yes, I did it. Last week I accomplished part of one of my new year resolutions. To publish a blog post daily. As I look back, I feel some of them could have been better if I hadn’t written in haste. But I couldn’t delay it. I just need to improve myself under the pressure.

It all started when I was asked to guest post for Fashion Film Review within one day. I needed to see a film and then write review on it. Not just a simple review, but a more serious one, considering the fact, that there was never a funny post in that blog! And I was shattered to pieces by seeing the diffidence in me, and the way I struggled to write it down at a stretch. Hence I had decided that time itself to increase the frequency of the posts in this blog.

Lack of topics and words outflow from my mind  constrains the goals. Though already late, I plan to continue this mission as long as it goes. I need all of you reader’s support and hope that you bear my rants and my perfection deficiencies.

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Are you one of those who are lazy to upgrade to WordPress 2.7? You are missing a lot many features then.

After I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.7, blogging has been much easier. If one of the useful features I use is the comment reply from within the admin panell, then the other is the installation of plugins. You can search and install within the admin panel, without any ftp client. I have now been frantically trying out various plugins, activating and de-activating them. Earlier the number of plugins I used were very few, say 6 to 7. But now, the number has gone upto 16. I wonder is there any limit to using the number of plugins. There maybe few plugins which may increase the load on the server or takes huge time to load the blog page, but I am not sure which one. Everytime, I try to beautify or add new feature to the blog, there is an associated plugin available online. But I think, rather than messing up the code, its better to play with plugins and widgets as it is very easy to maintain.

Do you want to know the plugins currently being used on this blog? Here they are : Read the rest of this entry »

This was the day I yearned for months. I am so happy that I can’t express my happiness out to all and thank each one of you who made this possible.

Now I am excited to wait for the day, when my cheque arrives at my door step. I have already started dreaming about it! Read the rest of this entry »

It have been creeping inside me for a long while. Taking my attention away. Making me not able to concentrate anywhere else. It provoked me. I tried to avoid the tingling sensation it gave me every few minutes. I couldn’t ignore it. The pain was deepening. The morning was busy and hectic as usual. But it demanded me to sit down and take rest. I couldn’t. I started worrying whether my hubby would start asking what’s the problem is. How will I say to him? I am sure. He won’t understand it. Read the rest of this entry »

The blogger’s block is a common ailment which affects bloggers knowingly or unknowingly. It is also known as writer’s block, but that covers a vast scope, as all bloggers need not be writers. But for me, when you write a blog post, you are a writer. There are several reasons for the writer’s block. The few ones I can think of now are:

• Running out of Ideas
• Having too many ideas clogging the flow
• Having no time
• Feeling low or in a state unable to think
• Physical inability like illness or broken finger!

There maybe other reasons too, but need not count to writer’s block, but the end result is the same – no new posts on your blog. Of course I have excluded the “inaccessibility to the net”, which comes under publishing, because then, you do have new posts and maybe you are writing!

Now, let’s move onto the solutions. Read the rest of this entry »