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I have further shortened the URL of All Pumped Up! from the existing ” www.fiqbal.com/blog/about-author/ ” to the new more shorter and sleek > ” http://fiqbal.com/blog/about-author/  “. This would ofcourse shorten the URL and let you access the blog more quickly than ever before.

It’s nothing new by the way and I certainly am not the first one to be doing this. Lot’s of other people are already doing the same.

Anyway, as long as you are happy.

After a lot of effort, I have finally tweaked and tuned and fixed All Pumped Up!

Atleast, the ad placements and the page layout issues have been fixed. Plus the video embedding is fine now. So now, I get to show you a lot more videos, write more and worry less about pages breaking and layout not fitting in and so on.

Enjoy your stay. We hope you look around and find what you came for. Plus put in your feedback to help us serve you better.

I am immediately moving my blog from the current 2.5.1 version of WordPress to 2.6. It’s not gonna be too difficult this time since I have already moved to 2.5.1 from the previous 2.3.2

It is also mentioned on the WordPress Development blog that moving from 2.5.x to 2.6 will not affect any of the existing plugins and themes. So, I guess I can move to the latest version of WordPress with full piece of mind.

Interestingly, the friendly people at WordPress have announced that they will not be supporting the 2.5.x branch of WordPress anymore and advise the current users of 2.5.x to upgrade to 2.6 ASAP. There goes the neighborhood!

So, if you happen to be just like me, upgrade soon or the support ends which of course will include security updates.

Looks like I finally made it. All this while I was entangled in a messed up blog on one side and work on the other resulting in me not being able to post to my blog even. Well, I think the blog’s limping back to normalcy and I feel that it is time to state that my blog is on the road to recovery.

Atleast, I feel so. Now, I just have to test it later on as go back to writing to the blog as well. I hope this will be good for me and my blog too!

Expect the blog to be back to it’s glory in a week tops. I am giving it this much but I really don’t know if this is enough?

Finally, things are coming back together. So what even if they are coming in steps. It’s a great headache when you see things coming on like this with a website and blog that has grown bigger than I ever expected it to be!

I am happy that I took the decision to move to GoDaddy.com. They are giving me more options than my last host. I can atleast ensure that my blog and website do not go down again.

I hope you people will come back as the things are coming back into place. You can expect more now than ever before due to the increased things I’ve got on my mind!

I expect to give you more in the days to come.

My blog was down due to a memory allocation error that was being generated from my ISP’s meagre allocation of 8MB to all the accounts. I tried to fix it the same day that I came to know about it but was unable to do so!

Anyway, when I failed to get anything out, I went to GoDaddy.com and took up a hosting account with them. Interestingly another incident found its place in my diary of wacky happenings.

I took a Linux hosting package for an year and then went on to pay by my credit card. When I was in the process of paying them while my payment was being processed that is, my DSL went down. I thought the transaction was not completed so I went ahead and purchased the same product (of hosting) another time. This time when I clicked on ‘process payment’ for my credit card, it went through successfully and then I was taken to the products that I had with me on my account (apart from the domains I have at their place), I saw I had two hosting packages.

But wait. I purchased only one package? Or two? Actually the first transaction had gone through and I didn’t see a confirmation page as the connection was lost before I could see it.

So, I applied for a refund by cancelling the product from my account. When I got a reply from their customer care executive, I was a little surprised. I had written to them with the reason for buying by pure accident the same product two times. The executive’s reply was that he had applied for a refund on my behalf and that it was not confirmed if I would get refund or not. this was at the sole discretion if the Sales/Purchase team or whatever.
Anyway, after much hassle, they did refund me with the payment. It will take them about 5-7 business days to put the money back on my credit card.
Oh woe is me!
Well, my trouble finally seem to be over as I shift my blog (and my whole site) to GoDaddy. It was really tough since I had a big blog (by now) and shifting the mySQL thing to another server was a big headache.
Anyway, life seems to be back on track. In the coming days, the site will be back to it’s full functionality. Inshallah.
Till then Chow!

Today, when I look at it, I feel proud to say that All Pumped Up! has moved up about 300,000 (approx.) ranks to be at about Rank 676,883 on Technorati. When I started my blog and got it put up on Technorati, I was like somewhere below the 1,000,000 rank mark.

Again all thanks to you people.

Well, I did speak with you guys about the great meltdown from Google on those who had higher pageranks but for All Pumped Up! it has been another milestone towards more stability and a better tomorrow for us.

We are now up one notch to a PageRank 4 (We were PageRank 3 a week or so ago).

I am indeed happy and thank you all in helping us achieve this. Keep coming. Keep looking. Keep doing what you like and we don’t mind that at all!

I have managed to integrate Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) support onto the comments page of my blog, All Pumped Up!

This is courtesy of the code provided by Matt that can be accessed here, Gravatar Snippet.