Not my favourite thing to do when I’m busy with my exams, completing paper work for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 World Finals in France and working out stuff for the my Visa Application to France but yes, apparently this blog “killed” the dreamhost server I’m hosted on.

I checked up my statistics and it seems that my blog had 1106 hits yesterday. No brownie points for guessing that my post “AIEEE results are out” is to blame They guy at DH Support did see that I had WP-Cache on but evidently that wasn’t enough. He told me to get WP-SuperCache so I did. I replied and well, unlike what he said, site wasn’t up immediately and since I need the site accessible now for certain reasons, I had to manually remove the deny from all line they had added to my .htaccess Sorry about that but I waited almost an hour before doing that

As a test, I think I’ll add some adverts (though its against what I believe in) to that one post. That’s it. Lets see what happens. Though I’m already running out of time. Hopefully google will respond soon 1106 hits in one day is good enough for me to put ads up. May be I’ll put 3 ads on that page and just one on others and people who are regular here get no ads at all. There is a nice plugin I found to do that. Its called Friends don’t let friends see adverts. Lets see what I can pull up

I also added google analytics to get a better picture of what’s going on with visitors on my blog.  I have dh stats but I can’t actively access them. I need to switch off fancy linking in wordpress Also, google analytics is a lot more detailed and attractive =p

Back to Visa applications and SSOS

Tags: dreamhost

I’ll just run you through things as they stand. I need to complete more or less all my journals and I need to study for ever subject if I hope to pass. Not to mention the few odd projects I still need to implement. Screw that. This isn’t a time to think of all the things you have to do. Its rather a time to reflect on things you’ve already done.

First of all, we (team SKAN) has made it to the India finals in the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008. You can read about this on the AXIS Forum. I am also the proud owner of karunab.com. I’ve moved j@x over there. Have a look at the post about the new site!

So that’s basically it. There might be more but I’m really tired right now so I’m sorry. Have a good day and god speed.

Tags: Imagine Cup, random

I thought it was about time I made this site a bit better to access. We now have wordpress sitemaps being generated by a plugin and they are being submitted to the Google, Live Search and ASK search engines. The Web Management tools for the first two are pretty cool.
If there is anything else I should do for better search engine results/more traffic, do let me know. Pics of dt could help but we want to try non extreme measures

Tags: site

This is true in so many ways, I don’t know where to start. Work this sem at univ seems endless but things keep changing. A lot of things have changed of late around me but more importantly the day which decides a major part of my future is coming close. The date and time have been decided. At 1300 IST on the 8th of July 2008 I shall give GRE paper. Lets hope for the best. Should be a good birthday present for lopardo, eh?

So this sem is going to be crazy. We need to hand in 3 projects at univ, I need to finish up with j@x and Scribble Scrabble, I need to study for GRE and for this sem itself (since I hope to score good marks this sem) and there is this other project I’ve been contacted about at univ by some seniors. Its awesomely amazing and needs students from at least 4 engineering branches. I always wanted to take part in something like this and if time permits, I’d love to work on it. I’m meeting the guys today so lets see where it goes from there.

On a side note, I got a mail from Google yesterday that my site had badware on it. On investigating I found that I was on a older version of WordPress and that it had a SQL injection vulnerability. WordPress has been updated and the problem has been fixed. I’m on the WordPress notify list now so this shouldn’t happen again.

Oh, and I’ve changed the theme to BloxPress 2. The old theme had a nice christmassy feel to it but it had a few issues. I liked Indigo more but quite sadly it doesn’t work properly here for some weird reason Enjoy the AJAX.

Tags: GRE

Its been almost a year since I coded j@x. Way too long. Its been a minimalistic piece of code for long enough. Time to add a bit more functionality but not at the cost of speed. I’m starting to add more features from today and you should see the changes in the next few days.

The changes (publically viewable) include:

* More bbcode to work with.
* A non-geek theme with theme switcher.
* Better post box.
* Use of cookies for user recognisation for comments.

Internal changes that are planned include a real administrator panel and on the fly editing of posts/comments. May be even a registration system for users who want to leave comments so that they could have email updates or update their own comments (only comments added after registration would be editable :P)

It starts with me installing PHP and MySQL on IIS 7 (Vista) to work then to move it on to the server.

This should keep me busy for a few days I guess And oh, I need to study!

Tags: code, site

Yeah i changed it since the comment made my rav0. I thought i should shift to a neater cleaner look. Dark and complex is out. Neat and clean is in …

Im currently using Craving4Green 1.0 by Sadish Balasubramanian

I modded it ofcourse to my needs a bit …. its more or less untouched atm tho. And btw, the creator is an Indian too And this isnt the first theme by him that i have liked. Good Job Sadish

Wordpress 2.0 is out. Its just been 7 days since the rc 3 release and a stable version is out. Thank god i didnt upgrade in that period. I never knew being lazy actually could help me out

Anyways, there is no use in me telling you what the new features are cause if you are a user at wordpress.com then you have already seen most of the additions (most prominent of which is the admin cp which i love ;))

The wysiwyg is looking good so far. But not everyone likes it. I like it so far

I had to make a few changes and it took me some time to change some stuff as i have customised my copy and the locations of the smileys and stuff is different. Anyways, enjoy it

I just finished setting up my Desktop Screenshots Gallery a few days back. There was a small design flaw but i recoded it from scratch and it seems to have gone away. So im officially declaring my Desktop ScreenShots Gallery which can be viewed here (Update: Links updated to new desktop screenshots gallery.)

In my honest opinion it looks totally hot. The page and my new desktop. Im now using windows blinds 5 and i must say i have now changed my view about it. It isnt that much of a ram gozzler though i have found a few bugs like when i apply a wallpaper and then restart my pc, the wallpaper goes back to the default one

Anyways, back to the point. Why would anyone want to visit that page regularly ?? Well the answer is very simple. Most of my friends know that i change my desktop very very regularly So I even change the skins of the apps and my themes as well.
The point im trying to make is that you can download all these stuff directly from my site

Here i’d like to make a small legal declaration that If any of the content on that page does not belong to me then it belongs to the respective owners. Im just hosting the files cause i dont remember where i got my wallpapers and themes (friends, some random site etc). Most of my themes hence forth may be from windows blinds so if i may only attach the installer then keep in mind that the file is still un-altered so you can still see the authors name before the application of the theme

I am not l33t at css and stuff so i was wondering if someone could just help me with a footer box for a small legal note, link back to this site etc.

My new theme has now been validated. It is now valid xhtml and CSS

It took some doing and half and hour of my sleep but i did it. Now the only problem is that i have to wake up at 4 to complete my work (ie submissions) and its 1.29 am already

I guess this is enough to prove how much i love my work (in the IT industry) and my site

Since i have a new domain name, i thought i should get a new theme too. The older one looked awesome. But it made purely in xhtml and one error in the code would make it crash so i decided to update the look with my name.

I just finished the banner editing and i have uploaded it. There are a few things left but this theme looks awesome. Ill get matt to fix the problem with the double toolbar on the comments page.

Im too drowsy atm to do anything so im off to bed. Tomorow is the sem ending and i have to get 1 journal corrected. (Well we do have college tomorow as well but who’s gonna sit for the lectures :refuck:)