New Release - D&R v2.0

So I have finally settled on this template, which I picked up from the blogger workshop website. The original template looked like this: I changed the background and text colors, fonts, did some formatting to decrease the line gaps, brought in the links from my original page, and there it is now, more like the way I wanted it to be. The basic layout would remain the same, I quite like it, though some minor changes might keep on coming in now and then. There's a new set of links now, in the left pane, pointing to the music I'm listening to. Have to do it manually though, doesn't get updated dynamically :-). Thanks to esnips, you can just upload/find your music there and listen to it in real-time streaming mode.

Makeover - D&R v1.1

Lately, I didn't really like the look of my blog, and started to search for a new template. Blogger offers a few, which are either too common, or somehow not suitable for holding diamonds and rust. Among them, the one I liked is being used by a friend, and I don't want to be charged with plagiarism. I, however, found some sites that offer templates for download, the top ones being this, this, this, this, this, and this. But these guys, called Wordpress, have 150 templates on their website. The look of my page is changed now, though temporarily. The color combination is good, but I don't like the picture/design on the top left. I don't understand what it is, or is trying to portray. Neither do I like the font. Once I have a template of my choice I'll change it again. Maybe I'll start up writing a template of my own. Thanks to the free tutorials out there.

Bharteeya Blog Mela

Last week's Bharteeya Blog Mela (Indian Blog Fair) is up. Thanks Patrix!!

It's time for better browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer sucks more than the three-toothed Himalayan leech. Still it is the most widely used browser on the planet, whatever the reasons might be. MS Windows users who are kind of pissed off with IE and have started to feel the need for a better browser may choose among Mozilla Firefox (which I strongly suggest), Netscape or Opera. These have some remarkable features like full-screen view (Opera), pop-up blocking (Firefox), easy installation of missing plug-ins (Firefox) or multiple tabs in a single window (Firefox, Opera). Most importantly, if you are designing a web-page, you get to see what you want to see using these browsers. And they don't give you messages like 'This program has performed an illegal operation...' and close down all the open browser windows when you just try to kill one.