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2013 Blog Stats and a Shoutout to Regular Readers

I have been a little tardy with my blog lately. I received the WordPress annual blog report almost two weeks back, and it’s only now that I am able to talk about it here. As per WordPress, my top five posts in 2013 were some oldies but goodies: Gulliver’s Travels – A Book Review A…

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Plug-in and Theme Experimentation

Now that I have moved to self-hosted, I am having a bucket load of fun trying out a whole bunch of plug-ins and themes. Here’s a little bit about my experience, probably useful for someone considering a move or has just moved to a self-hosted WordPress blog. First up themes I am a wee bit…

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Krispy Kreme Yummyness and Some Ballet and Theme Updates

Last Sunday was spent ferrying the snubnose to extra ballet rehearsals. She is due to perform in a ballet performance of Cinderella mid-December and the dance practice is really heating up. Snubnose actually has a very minor role in the ballet. She plays the role of the mouse in Cinderella’s house 🙂 . She is…

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I’ve been a busy little bee this weekend. Apart from organizing a small pooja (religious ceremony) for the family, and getting the kids all set for the start of school (overseeing homework, primarily), I’ve also finally done something that I’ve been wanting to do for ages. After a lot of waffling and worrying, I finally…

Wish you a very happy 2013

Blogging – Year in Review

So, it’s that time of the year when WordPress sends you a little report about how your blog fared. Here’s what they sent… The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed…

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2012

My 2011 Blogging Report and Happy New Year to All

WordPress.com has very kindly sent a blog report summary this year to all users of its platform. I found it interesting enough to post the report here and acknowledge the great readers of this blog for the support and kind words that inspire me to keep going even during some hectic personal times. I have…

Pleasant Bloggy Surprise

I was pleasantly surprised by my blog statistics yesterday. For some time, my blog has been comfortably static – regular bibliophile visitors turned blog buddies, along with real life family and friends. So, today when I logged in and saw my site visits have almost doubled in a single day, I knew I had to…

Awesome Just Write Feature from WordPress.com

Four years ago, I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress and have never looked back. My reasons for the move were: Ability to use tags and categories to label my posts, instead of just using labels. The Misty look theme, which I loved, and still have a soft corner for. Akismet spam blocker I…

So, I Changed my Theme Again…

If the series of theme changes makes it look that I am totally fickle, then I have to plead not guilty. I was quite happy with my old Vigilance and Pressrow themes for the longest time. All this confusion started early this year when I got tempted by the series of themes being issued by…