Notice the shiny new title. Not it’s not for Search Engine Optimization, but just for kicks, and I like to parade around my cool name, where my last name is also a first name ^_^.
Archive for May, 2007
For me, the hardest part of doing any task seemingly is to start doing it. I hate beginning a big and daunting task. Especially so when so many people are so far ahead you feel you’ll never catch up. I’m starting to feel that way with pingpulse, a project in it’s infancy thrown right into the arena with all the bigshots. I’m drawing motivation from my own weblog, remembering the time I was trying to start posting and fixing so many xmlrpc issues. I still remember hunting endlessly for the theme that felt just right.
Sniff… So many memories, so many phases each reflecting my own life. The wannabe humor page, the teen-angst phase (I’m almost 20. yay!), the wannabe-tech phase, and all boiling down to the personal insight phase at which it rests right now. I hope it stays here as I kinda like it where it’s at. I’ve stopped chasing visitors and trying to make friends via the internet.
I owe a lot to this weblog. I learnt php and CSS through this, and learnt a lot about building and deploying websites, as I hope to start doing soon. I can also publicly announce things like “I’m gonna start using rss as I need to keep in touch with the news now” (I should, come to think of it).
This is one of the few projects I’ve stuck to and updated as regular as I do things. Sure they’ve been dry spells but there’s enough stuff to read up in the archives if you’re interested. I think I’ll do just that. It’s fun to know what kind of stuff you wrote some months back, and that’ll be the best part. If three years down the line I could read what I used to write (Of course I’d go “What the fu*k was I thinking back then?”) the way I always do when I glance upon something written by myself in the past.
The main reason this happens is because I don’t decide what to write, I just think it and the fingers do the typing and I’m gifted with a very high typing speed and can touchtype effortlessly now. And there’s also the fact that I deviate from the topic severely as I’ve been doing so right now, and this will be among the hardest challenges I’ll have to face, writing focused, and hard hitting articles.
I haven’t decided yet wether I’ll write serious, hard hitting articles, or just weblog about the latest news, or should I stick to doing some kind of satire or sarcasm related stuff which I Specialize in? Anyways, only time will tell.
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[tags]me, blog, pingpulse, recollection, archives[/tags]
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Setting up this site(anirudhsanjeev.org) was a breeze, even for a beginner like me. It came together effortlessly (assuming I’d painstakingly learnt how to install wordpress from knowing nothing at all in a few days). But I knew what was required: hosting and a domain name. So setting up another site after doing so many shouldn’t be hard right. That’s what I thought when I decided to set up a new site and do it right this time.
First I purchased the domain name, and got a 110mb.com account. I entered the namespaces and everything was going fine until when I had to enter the domain name. Something went wrong and the domain hosting was allocated, but the system failed before control was handed over to me.
So after requesting the 110mb admins for a while, on their crowded forums, I gave up and impatiently moved to old frihost.com hosting. They were good, and had a nice set of features but were slow. And for rendering a mammoth like k2, it would take around 25 seconds, so I had to install wp-cache. But again, deleting and restoring the cache whenever I make a change to the sidebar or to any aspect of the frontpage is annoying. I should find a suitable solution for that soon.
I have concluded this: The hardest, hardest hardest part of setting up a wordpress weblog is finding out what theme you want on it. There are just too too many to choose from and you cannot decide exactly what you’re looking for. You really can’t. I have seen almost every wp theme out there, and you just can’t find it.
I thought of making a theme myself, which eventually went down the drain and soon, switched over to try modding themes, and which followed suit mainly because I don’t like spending time in front of a computer and I am losing the patience to do stuff.
I have infinite patience, for those who aren’t aware of it. I can do nothing and sit with a blank expression on my face and keep my brain on idle mode for hours at an end. I can sit at an airport going six hours before my flight but can’t sit through an hour’s worth of a movie. And I’m deviating from the topic again. more on my funny patience level later.
Anyways, I decided to let pingpulse go on with simply a 3 column k2 theme and some clever marketing. Hey, I may not be a great web designer but I am clever, cunning and manipulative (maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned it on the internet, never know who’s reading this. Hi mom and dad!) but getting back to the point, pingpulse will be an interesting marketing experience.
One thing I realized is a nice catchy about text and an about page is quite nessacary which I will be working on right now, and I will be adding more to the about me section of my own website sometime soon.
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Yes! It’s over. The two supposedly hardest years of my academic career are at an end. Let the partying commence. I’m sitting right now a few minutes before leaving for the train to get to the flight that’ll take me back home. My bags are packed and I’ll be shutting down and pulling out my hard drives to take back with me. A little jittery, but not shaken, I can’t help but remember the days past. The chaos, fear, and agony, all seem so far away, and the music is loud, and beautiful. Testament’s “Return to serenity” surprisingly does just that for me.
I ask myself, why am I going on about what’s playing and how cranky my last week was. Why I’m recounting every thing that’s passed in the past few days, knowing thousands more have been through the same, if not worse. But the point is that it’s over. The second, confusing, hectic, and seemingly impossible year at the the institute chugs to a slow and memorable halt while all I can do at this time, is look back and remember, at what might be an achievement in itself.
I honestly don’t know what to write about these days, somethings are either too personal or too trivial, or I just am out of time to post the things I want to post about. I’d wanted to take a few photographs of my dorm room before I would move out but the ruddy camera was out of batteries. And trying to acquire new ones was just not worth the effort of posting photos of a small dusty room to the world.
I need some time by myself right now 
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