vsbabu.org : site history http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/categories/site history/ Gluing passing thoughts to foregone conclusions en-us vsbabu@gmail.com Copyright 2009 2008-03-30T20:53:11+05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Stuff yet to be fixed http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2008/03/30/stuff_yet_to_be_fixed.html Site updates - cause for downtime and things yet to be fixed. 1031@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ For a while, the site was down. This was because I was using PHP code as server-side-include module to draw the header and footer and the breadcrumbs. My ISP, csoft.net moved to a CGI based PHP execution and this doesn't work with my scheme of things. Note : so far, csoft guys has been just great; I guess they'll have valid reasons for this change.

I've fixed few of those things by moving to normal HTML mode, ignoring all SSI elements. The cross-reference between other parts of my site with the blog is not yet there and the breadcrumbs navigation on my blog is also not there yet. Both these were also using PHP and that needs to be worked on. Perhaps I should also look into switching from MovableType to WordPress now.

]]> site history 2008-03-30T20:53:11+05:00 Relocation http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2004/02/05/relocation.html DC to Bangalore. Low site activity predicted for some more weeks. 980@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Another big change in life. On Tuesday, we moved from Washington DC. Decided that we should try Bangalore instead of continuing in the USA. Landed in our little God's Own Country this morning. The only random thought that comes to mind is that Air India has the best seats in the economy class, for inter-continental 747s. Terrific leg room.

Last 2-3 weeks were spent packing, donating and selling household articles. The move and the new job should take up some more of our time and energy. So, the activity here in the blog will be less for a while.

]]> living 2004-02-05T07:01:33+05:00 Train to Chicago http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/08/19/train_to_chicago.html Photos and notes from a 2 day train trip to Chicago. 868@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Last week, my wife and I went to Chicago. We took Amtrak's Capitol Limited. It took 18 hours, but very nice. We spent a day there. We absolutely loved the city. The train back was a bit annoying due to the delays caused by power outage.

chicago photos
79 photos from the trip

]]> site history 2003-08-19T20:58:49+05:00 Bushkill Falls, PA http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/07/29/bushkill_falls_pa.html Photos from our trip to a nice nature trail. 849@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Last Saturday, we went to Bushkill Falls, PA,
with our friends. Though we spent only 3 hours there, we liked it much more than Niagara Falls. Sure, the falls is smaller compared to Niagara, but the hike trails are very nice and you rarely feel the crowd.

I've 43 photos from our trip there.

]]> nature 2003-07-29T17:35:21+05:00 Googlego! http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/07/28/googlego.html If you read it as "google-go", I'm sorry. I meant, "googl-ego". I'm the #1 Babu now! 846@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Finally! Google makes me the #1 result if you search for Babu. For non-believers, and for my future ego-boosts, here's the screenshot.

]]> site history 2003-07-28T11:31:12+05:00 Back again http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/07/23/back_again.html After a 3 day outage due to domain renewal, site is back again. 841@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ My domain expired over the weekend. It took a while to get it renewed.

Apologies to everyone who couldn't have enough of this site since Jul 20th. I understand your pain. Now all I need to do is to understand the pain of people who have had enough of this site :-)

]]> site history 2003-07-23T05:58:10+05:00 Design votes! http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/05/08/design_votes.html Some nice notes about my design from readers. 787@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Jeffrey Shell likes my site's navigation. George Donnelly seconds it.

]]> site history 2003-05-08T06:51:58+05:00 Cherry Blossoms http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/04/06/cherry_blossoms.html Short note and photos from an afternoon trip to the Tidal Basin, Washington DC. 752@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ As is the habit of pretty much everyone in this region this weekend, my wife and I went to Washington DC to see the National Cherry Blossom Festival. I don't know what the current threat level color is, but the crowd around the Tidal Basin was simply huge. Too much for our taste. We just spent half an hour there and clicked some photos.

2003 National Cherry Blossom Festival

]]> site history 2003-04-06T18:57:56+05:00 Upgrade to MT2.6 http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/02/15/upgrade_to_mt26.html How do Mena and Ben pull of such easy upgrade process? 730@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ An easy and quick upgrade of Movable Type was in order after MT2.6 was released couple of days ago. I upgraded mainly for the Text Formatting plugin support. I got Textile Plugin installed and hopefully, this will make it lot more easier to type in content.

There are too many structured text rules I need to remember. Textile, reST, Structured Text, MoinMoin and Twiki.

]]> site history 2003-02-15T10:16:36+05:00 Bandwidth abuse http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/02/15/bandwidth_abuse.html I think automated downloading of pages every 2 minutes is not fair. 729@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ From February 5th, some one has been accessing a page on my site every 2 minutes. Since the frequency is so precise, this cannot be a legitimate visitor looking at my site.

I've had enough.

]]> site history 2003-02-15T09:46:08+05:00 Blog template updates http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/02/06/blog_template_updates.html XML button is present wherever I provide a feed; and fixed a bug with my templates. 718@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Did some minor changes to the blog. I've been providing XML feeds for individual category archives. Put the proper orange icons on the archive pages.

And a bug that doesn't do good to the trust.

]]> site history 2003-02-06T21:31:48+05:00 GeoURL codes http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/01/12/geourl_codes.html I'm where I'm. 685@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Following Jeremy Zawodny's lead, I have added GeoURL codes to my template.

]]> site history 2003-01-12T11:46:11+05:00 Design updates http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/12/01/design_updates.html Entire site, including the blog and main site, sports one design now. 631@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Last day of a four day weekend, and I wasted only today in front of the PC. Something I've been putting off for quite a while was to get the designs similar for both my blog and rest of the site. Finally! Got the blog to use the same design as the main site.

]]> site history 2002-12-01T18:33:19+05:00 Redesign: Winter 2002 http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/11/17/redesign_winter_2002.html A wintry rainy gloomy weekend. What else to do other than redesign the site? 618@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Ok, time for another redesign. This time, to the main site. I wanted to have a colorful scheme because winter is too depressing for me. I had converted my blog to CSS, but not my main site.

I did not get much time to work on this. Instead of waiting to make it perfect, I thought I'll upload it and fix it as problems come by.

]]> site history 2002-11-17T18:49:48+05:00 Movable Type 2.5 http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/10/12/movable_type_25.html Ben and Mena pulls of another easy upgrade. And Happy Birthday MT. 565@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Upgraded to Movable Type 2.5. As usual, painless upgrade.

I'll need to update the templates to make use of KeyWords field. I've been pretty busy last week. And I'll be busy next week too.

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