Well, I know about the Site theme still not being completely implemented but I’ll start work on it now that I feel better. Actually, due to flu, I have been drifting around not being able to concentrate on my work or my blog. But, with me feeling better, I can start getting back to my blog slowly.

So, you can expect the theme, that I have applied, to get customized along the way. In the meantime, help yourself to the vast archive that I have at hand on my blog.

There’s another change that I have made to the blog before writing this entry. I have changed the permalinks of the site to make it more user-friendly and month oriented. So for example if a link looked like this previously > http://www.fiqbal.com/blog/2007/11/01/some-post/ will now look like this > http://www.fiqbal.com/blog/archives/2007/11/some-post/

So, this makes it a little more, well I don’t know, professional maybe? Oh just for the change, I made it this way so that it looks good.

I have to say that when I switched over to Jelly theme, I was happy until I posted a picture on my blog and that made the blog get out of the formatted settings. Which means, it was not what it was meant to be shown to the readers.

So I have, for the time being, switched back to the Kubrick theme until the time I pick up one of other good themes at the WordPress directory of themes and customize it real nice and apply it to the blog.

So, please for the moment, bear with this theme can you? Thanks guys and gals. I knew would do that.

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.

I apologize to you all for the unexpected downtime of my blog. I hope you enjoyed your coffee while it was down for roughly 3 days.

The downtime signifies a couple of things to me: that APU! has indeed gotten bigger than I thought and that I need more bandwidth to satisfy the readers of my blog.

Well, I don’t know what to say except, thanks a lot to all of you out there who keep coming back to the blog and who are never disappointed with it.

Well, I hope I can do MORE. And I will too. See you around.

So, I was just looking around and found this post, Two Amazing WordPress Plugins, that gave me the whereabouts of a very good multilingual plugin for WordPress from the Worldwide Lexicon Project that helps users of a WordPress blog to translate the blog to different languages.

Now, this means a lot of things get solved for me. I have observed a lot of spanish users on my blog and since Google has been creating difficulties for some other widely available plugins in using Google’s Translation services via automation, I thought this will be a good alternative.

Atleast we have some hard working people over at the WWL project who are dedicated to the understandability of one language to another. I wish them good luck.

Oh yeah, and thanks for this good plugin. It will help my blog’s readers to read in their native languages whatever I write here.

Well, the reason for this is, I have installed the WASABI Related Posts plugin for WordPress today. This is to remove the headache that I was supposed to take care of, linking related articles or posts with any given post.

Before installing the plugin, I did the related links section manually which caused me a lot of problems including in the eventuality of changing domains, I would be doing hard links with the old domain and which would give the users lots of dead links.

So, I decided to search for a suitable related links plugin if there was one ( or atleast I thought that way until now), and install it to my blog.

Well, that settles the matter now and I’m happy and thankful to the guys who wrote the Related Posts Plugin. All this makes working with your (WordPress) blog a lot easier and gives you another reason to switch to WordPress today.

So, from today I won’t have to write down the related links manually and of course it will be good for you too as the time it took for me to post to the blog will be reduced considerably.

Actually that’s exactly what it was… Quite busy for me and due to that, I couldn’t write in to my blog . Not that it was the sole factor in my not posting to the blog. Actually, in the time that I did get, I was quite lazy in posting. Suddenly this thing was flowing inside me that made me not post to the blog.

Well, I thought before I go off for the weekend (for those who don’t know, I have my weekend on Thursdays and Fridays), I should drop off a couple of lines to let the people around here know that I am very much alive and kickin’.

In my efforts to bring you new things, I will post some more of my Shayari on Saturday. The second part from the collection that I have written for my fiance’, Jiya.

Well, gotta go now, I guess. See you around.