Archive for September, 2007

Upgrading WordPress to 2.3

Sunday, September 30th, 2007 Posted in | 9 Comments »

Phew... after about 4 hours of grueling work, I have finally managed to upgrade my WordPress installation to the latest version: 2.3. Note: I first followed all these steps on ... Read more..

Indian Government inspired by Orwell

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in | 3 Comments »

The powers that be in Mumbai must have recently been gifted copies of 1984. According to this article, the Mumbai police has made it a mandate for all cyber ... Read more..

Excluding certain categories from your blog main page

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 Posted in | 13 Comments »

This post only applies to people who are running a WordPress blog and have access to editing their template pages. A few days ago, I had a requirement where ... Read more..

The Joys of Blogging

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in | No Comments »

A lot of people have asked me why I blog. I have tried to tell them why, and most of the time the answer is, "I blog, because I like ... Read more..

Writer’s block - what is that?

Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in | 3 Comments »

Almost every blog about blogging that I have read till date talks about how to combat the Writer’s block. Well, I thought that I really need to add my ... Read more..

My feed will be free of Sponsored Posts

Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in | No Comments »

I would like everyone to know that I have finally made the changes to my RSS feed. As some of you might have realized that I take on sponsored posts ... Read more..

Using Windows LiveWriter to Publish Blog Posts

Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in | 4 Comments »

I have been using Word 2007 to blog to my WordPress blog for a long time now. However, today I finally decided to give Windows LiveWriter a try. This ... Read more..

NYTimes - Double Click a word to get its meaning

Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in | 2 Comments »

Here is something interesting that I didn't know till I discovered it by accident. I was reading an article on the New York Times website and I double clicked a ... Read more..

Leading Payment Gateway disallows strong passwords

Friday, September 14th, 2007 Posted in | No Comments »

I was recently looking to create a merchant account at CCAvenue, which is a leading Payment Portal for online payments in India. Part of this process is a requirement where ... Read more..

Hiding icons on your desktop in Windows XP

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Posted in | 1 Comment »

Sometimes things are so simple and yet you take forever to get them done. This post is probably more for helping me remember next time then to teach anyone for ... Read more..