Petting Tigers…

As a young boy, I had the privilege of listening to a lot of stories from my grandmother. There were a couple of stories that stood out for me, for the simple reason that I listened them the most.

One was the story of Chandrahasa. The special liking to this story wasn’t coz it was my namesake but for a fact that it had all the amazing ingredients that make a great period story. I do have to give the story credit as it gave me a lot of ideas and concepts that slowly built into my persona.

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Changing Themes…

I was looking at my WordPress website and was trying to decide whether to make changes to its look. I couldn’t make up my mind if I should upgrade my current theme to a much cooler and better version or to change it entirely.

For people who didnt know, I keep my wordpress blog abreast with the same content as my LJ. The initial idea was to move to wordpress entirely but I scraped that idea after realizing the ease of reaching people thru LiveJournal. The WordPress seduction is mostly that you have everything in your control. From the basic themes, comments, webspace to plugins, galleries, podcasts ect. As a matter of fact most of the large images are uploaded to my wordpress site first and simply hotlinked to from LJ. Same goes for the podcasts I did a long time back.

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