Yes ! that’s right .. this is a new Child theme built using the Hybrid Theme Framework. Oh, Child theme ? If you do not know what it is, read this post from Ian. But wait, who designed this theme, hmmm blame this guy.
Now, if you have read that post from Ian, you will understand how easy it is, to build a powerful theme using the Child theme technique. So, the guy who built this theme did nothing but few css tweaks. The guy who did all the hard work is Justin. Say thanks and congrats to him.
Still, if you want to use this theme, just subscribe to this blog, and the theme will be available for download very soon. Do you like this theme.. ? Do you have any suggestion ?
Windows XP should be the most common operating system used in India… right ? .. but we never pay for it .. great !!
When I went to the laptop store of “X” brand, they said they will get pirated XP installed on it if I buy from there. hmm pretty good offer .. So that’s how things are. Most of us use pirated operating systems. We laugh at people if they say they paid for the operating system. But, we seldom opt for free softwares or operating systems. Paying for the OS while purchasing a laptop makes us feel bad .. ( I agree, most them offer windows vista with it, and its a pain …. )
I have been using Google Chrome for a while … and I have written a few blog posts about it … the simplicity and the speed attracted me and I am a big fan of Google Chrome now .. when I started thinking about a new blog where I can try a bit of problogging, I found that Google Chrome will be a good starting point …. and finally I registered chromestory.com …
SEO ? I am a still newbie there … and I am too lazy to learn it … but when its a bunch of videos about it, its not going to be boring .. right ? Okay, if you think similar way, you can try this out, Google has launched Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel.
Google Webmaster Central is the service offered by Google for those who own a website or blog for them to manage their google presence well. There are a few tools that will help you to make your site index better on google. You can add sitemaps, set crawling rates, see your stats, and most searched keywords etc. There is a lot happening in the Webmasters community around this service… now, here is the intro video of this new Youtube channel.
Now, I am expecting a question : can I add my wordpress.com blog to webmaster tools ? Yes, you can .. need help ? let me know .. I will tell you how to add your wordpress.com blog, and then add sitemap too !! drop me comments if you need help ..
Its been a while since I used wordpress.com for blogging .. I got so used to self hosted wordpress blogs, that I think less about wordpress.com bogs these days ( hence blog less about them ) .. and I even stopped visiting wordpress.com … ( just wordpress.com .. I still read your wordpress.com hosted blogs … don’t worry !! )
somehow reached wordpress.com today and spent some time there …. and there, I have a question for my friends using wordpress.com blogs …
WordPress.com is doing a good job with features that they offer, and they are adding new features every now and then. But, do you miss something ? Do you need something more from them ? …. like … more freedom about looks of your blog … more plugins … etc ? Comments please ………
College … Political Science classes … when we get bored, we had a good way of making things interesting .. we change the topic of discussion to something else asking our prof. questions … and we will go away from Political science and end up in real politics, college politics, or light topics that won’t make you bored … I was part of that team ( ) and we tried the same during the combined Hindi classes too .. ( I was part of that team too !! ) …
I was looking for a plugin to display my flickr photos on the sidebar… and ended up creating a photoblog page. It was an easy task … and here is the result …
) and we tried the same during the combined Hindi classes too .. ( I was part of that team too !! ) … 
