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Blog halted…

Now that I have decided to stick with blogger, experimentation with the wordpress blog comes to a close! If anyone has a subscription this feed, edit your reader to fetch my blogger feed. Thanks!

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So, after pondering over a switch to wordpress, I have decided(firmly) to stick with blogger.

One of the major attractions of wordpress.com was the new Regulus template. To counter this, I decided to look for a nice theme for my blogger site. But, no single readily avalible theme satisfied me.
But, that blogger “rounders” theme was real [...]

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Side Bar Updated

I have updated my side bar at blogger!

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Dilemma!

People would have gone through this..
Do I ditch blogger for wordpress?? I dont mean a dedicated hosting… I would happily switch to wordpress if I had a full-fledged hosting plan. It is a shift from http://neosagredo.blogspot.com to http://aswin.wordpress.com that I am contemplating. A much cleaner interface for blogging, great looks (of this particular template), categories,trackbacks [...]

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Happy New Year

I hope U have a great 2006!
As a New Year Gift, here is a link to a wonderful short story (“Fire Stones”) that appeared in the Hindu’s magazine. It is taken from the collection published under the name “Higher Ground“. All stories are based on the devastating Tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean in Dec’04. [...]

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Fingers Crossed!

Well.. It has started raining and cyclone “Baaz” is expected to cross the coast in the next 24 hrs.
I have a train to catch on the evening of Saturday. I just hope that the rains don’t force delay/cancellation of the train.

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A Shameful Act!

[photo from news,views and analysis]
It is Delhi’s turn to fall prey to the brutal designs of Terrorists. Over 60 people killed in triple blasts on Diwali Eve. Desipundit has more links. Our hearts go out to the families of those who died. Over a hundred have been injured. See this story about an alert [...]

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Rain.. Rain and more Rain

The image is take from Rediff’s slide show (This is T.Nagar on Wed)

This image is taken from Hindu’s front page. (Anna Salai- Peters Road junction on Thursday)
The rains have just stopped, after belting down relentlessly for about 30 hrs. This must easily rank amongst the most rainy days for Chennai in recent times.(21 cm in [...]

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Server Problems

This is a clarification post.
My old location for the blog : http://aswin.tarvisbsd.org/blog/ is inaccessible(I mean.. I can’t ssh/ftp to it) at the moment. Thus, I have switched to Blogger’s hosting. The pages at the old location continue to load(ie you won’t see a 404).. but you won’t be able to see ur comments/new posts in [...]

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Apologies..

to every one who came around to my blog, only to see it empty. Many things (laziness uppermost ) contributed to this period of slumber(~2 months). Though I was still reading many of may fav blogs.. my commenting and posting came to a standstill. I am back!.. not in full force though. I still have [...]

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