My space in the world

I finally got rid of the last theme I had and installed something that, as per my conventions, looks quite professional. This is a modified version of the CreativePress wordpress theme, which offers a range of nice eyecandy effects using jQuery. Setting up the theme was quite a tedious job — removing my feeds from the planets (sounds ironic), doing the whole theme changes, and software upgrade and all that without access to db (why? well, our college university filter blocks it under category “hacking sites”….).

Anyway, of all the features, I can brag about:

1. The preview slider: I can set the slider to take up posts from a fixed category, “featured posts” in my case. Once I attach a “custom field” called ‘preview’, the slider picks up the image and scales it accordingly to use it as a thumbnail.
2. A nice homepage: It gives me a nice homepage. Hence now, I have completely removed the “blog” subdomain from my server and I am left with only one wordpress install in contrast to the two independent installs on different domains.
3. WordPress 2.8.5: Just upgraded from 2.7 to 2.8.5, and I hope that things get a bit more stable now :p Apparently 2.8.5 has some much needed security fixes, which IMHO was worth the pain incurred from upgrading.

Honestly, I did have a bunch of points in my mind, but I can’t remember what they were

Anyway, I’m just happy that this went well. If you decide to give the theme a shot, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as much as I am.

Like we see trails of comets in the sky in newspaper images, this was an attempt to do something similar. Setting the shutter speed to 6 seconds and exposure to “bright light” produces a nice trail of lights, avoiding overexposure at the same time.
I also like to do other fancy stuff like write my name in air, etc

Through the tunnel

Camera: Nikon D90 SLR
Exposure time: 6 seconds
Mode: Bright Light

They call this “strawberry ice-cream”
Whatever, doesn’t even remotely taste like ice-cream. I was rather getting a taste of raw strawberries and cream discreetly. If I’d experiment, I would add some honey in it! Or maybe blend the cream with strawberry sauce and add sugar dipped strawberries, mmmh!
Nevertheless, really nice color combination:

Strawberry and whip cream

Camera: Nikon D90 SLR
Mode: Normal

Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of acoustic songs. So much that I went around the hostel to get a whole large list of acoustic songs.

The beauty of acoustic is that you can listen to it at any time: when having a headache, when sleepy, when angry, when tired. Especially strings which sound amazing on my sound system. I love the sound of each string coming individually, sounds beautiful. Personally I never happened to truly fall in love with saxophone despite of living with a Kenny G. fanboy. Although flute, guitar and piano have always fantasized me.

Among the best I’ve heard from the top of my head, I can remember Crazy for this girl (Evan and Jaron),  Gone to the dogs (K.T. Tunstall), Iris (Goo goo dolls), Name (Goo goo dolls), Heart shaped box (Evanescence), Knocking on heaven’s door (Avril Lavigne), Your Song (Elton John), Saturate (Breaking Benjamin), Rain (Breaking Benjamin).
Evan & Jaron have a really fresh voice and a very pleasant tune.  ”The distance” was also a nice one from them.

I have played the sitar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar) during  my school days, but I never got into playing guitar. I hope I get some time once I get a job so that I can probably take out some time to learn guitar.