am not a religious person so I don’t feel sad when Islamic fundamentalists attack and kill Hindus, Christians or for that matter, people from any other religion. I don’t agree with the popular mindset that Muslims are against all other religions, and are doing everything to wipe out the rest of us. On the other hand I wonder why a majority of the troublesome countries around the world are Islamic. Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Syria, and my own India (in some states at least); the list is endless. I am sure there is something in the Quran that encourages its followers to take up arms and create unrest in their own and neighboring countries. Why?
Execution of a teenage girl
Last I watched a BBC documentary about a teenage girl from Iran, Atefah Sahaaleh, who on 15 August, 2004 was hanged in a public square in the city of Neka. But a newspaper accused her of adultery and described her as 22 years old. But she was not married – and she was just 16. Even her birth certificate which ironically had been issued by the government stated her age as 16, but this had little consequence. The 51-year old man who had raped her was let off after being given 95 lashes. This is just another example of how people, especially women are treated in Iran. I have read about many such stories and have come to the conclusion that this is what happens in most Muslim countries. Sad, very sad.
Can't think of keywords for your website? Use Google
As you type information in the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real time, similar to Google’s “Did you mean?” feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search.
For example, if you type “windows”, Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include “windows media player” or “house window”. It even works with incomplete words. Example, if you type “manu”, Google Suggest just might offer you options such as “manuscript”, “manufacture”, or “manual”. You choose one by scrolling up or down the list with the arrow keys or mouse.
Redoable 1,1 is Better than 2813
In the past few days, I have tried many different themes for my blog, Blue Zinfandel Squared Enhanced 2.0, Torn v1.0, Minimalistic1.5 1.0, and even the Garland theme customized for WordPress.org, and these are just the ones I remember by name. But none of these have managed to stick onto my blog for more than a day. So I have reverted back to my all-time favorite 2813 WordPress theme by ellfoner.com.
Surely you would be wondering that if I liked the 2813 theme so much why did I ever change it in the first place? The answer is that even the 2813 is not suited to my specific needs. For reasons unknown to me, Ell (2813 author) did not enable paged navigation in the theme. What this means is that if I want readers to view all my posts, I must display all of them on the home page itself. Unlike other WordPress themes, I cannot choose to display say 10 posts on the front page, and move the rest to other pages.
I am no coding guru but I did try and enable paged navigation. I asked around in the forums and even asked Ell to help me set it up. Ell did get back saying that she would look into it, but when that didn’t happen, I got frustrated and tried other themes.
As it turns out, trying other themes hasn’t helped end my frustration and I have decided to move back to 2813 theme. Though, I will have to modify my requirements and choose to display all my 15 odd posts on the front page.
Hopefully, Ell will fix this paged navigation thingy and allow me to control my blog the way I want to.
Thanks to Alpesh Nakar, I came across the the Redoable Theme for WordPress. As you can see, it is quite exquisite. It is very customizable. HJere’s how the theme customization page (only a small part of it) looks like.
Of course, a big thanks to Dean J Robinson, the guy who created this wonderful theme.
Chuck Those Gmail Invites
Till about an hour ago I was the proud owner of about 400 Gmail invites (I have more than one Gmail account), but as of now, they amount to nothing, not that they fetched me money when they were needed to sign-up for Gmail. account.
Unless you were picnicking on planet Mars, you would already be having at least one Gmail account. If not go over to www.gmail.com and sign-up.Then you are free to return to Mars, try the Moon, they say the weather’s pretty nice out there!