Suramya's Blog : Welcome to my crazy life…

A little while ago I posted that I was in the process of updating the actual content of the site along with the layout. The process is still going on and this is a quick status update on it. I am adding a lot new content to the site which is why its taking so long to complete.

Currently the following sections have been completed:

* Home
* About Me
* About India (all subsections)
* Hotlinks
* Misc Section

I am in the process of updating the Linux section and once that’s done the following sections will remain:

* Mirror
* Photogallery
* Scripts
* Tech Section

The Tech section will take the longest out of all the remaining because of all the sub-sections but the other sections shouldn’t take that long to update.

Will keep you posted on the status.

– Suramya

Its been ages since I have updated the site with new content so I have finally decided to do something about it and have started making changes to the content.

While doing this I noticed that the site layout was pretty crappy (to be honest) so decided to change the layout while I was at it. Some other changes will also be made to the site (a couple of sections will be merged, a few moved/renamed) so the site should look and work better.

You can check the work in progress at: http://www.suramya.com/beta/. Do take a look and tell me what you think about the design etc. Currently in addition to the Home page, the About Me section has been partially updated. More updates will follow shortly.

– Suramya

Posted the Rafting trip pictures in the Photogallery. Photos -> Trips -> Rafting Trip (Oct 2007)

– Suramya

Am importing a lot of old comments that were ‘lost’ when I moved from Serendipity to WordPress in 2005 back into the blog. So you might see some replies to really old posts that appear to be made by you. Don’t worry its just me.

I had forgotten about this till yesterday when I was looking at a particular post and rememberd that we had a discussion on that post in the comments but now the post had no comments. So pulled up a DB dump from 2005 and am now importing it.

Better late than never 🙂

– Suramya

Yesterday Surabhi told me that for some reason my blog was not working in IE. Most attempts to visit the site using IE resulted in a 404/Page cannot be displayed error.

The problem was caused by a buggy plugin. Specifically the StatTraq 1.0a beta plugin. As soon as I disabled the plugin the site started showing up correctly in IE.

I really liked that plugin as it gave me some good stats about the blog. I guess I will have to either find an updated version of the plugin or find another plugin that does the same. Do any of you know/use a plugin that will give me the following stats: Number of visitors, pages visited(with popularity), Referees, Search terms used to find the site? If so let me know.

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya

The beta version of the new Photogallery interface is now live. This version uses Yahoo User Interface controls to make the gallery more responsive and nicer. Check it out at: http://photos.suramya.com and let me know if you find any issues.

The old version of the gallery is still available over here.

Thanks,
Suramya

Posted photographs we took during Vinit and Surabhi’s wedding. Check them out in the Photo Gallery -> Family Photos section.

Still need to add photos from the tree planting ceremony, mehendi and the reception to the gallery. Will do that in the next couple of days.

– Suramya

Updated the About Me section so now it shows photos of most of the friends I have listed there. I didn’t have photos of some of the people over there 🙁 but will add them as when when I find them. Also updated the part telling what they are doing right now.

Next on the to do list, is to update the actual About Me section and update some of the tutorials.

– Suramya

Here’s a brief update on the various portions of suramya.com and various projects I have been working on:

• mirror.suramya.com has been temporarily shut down till I fix some issues with it
• Found a bug in photo gallery that causes it to display photos in random order when viewing individual photos. Am working on a fix for this.
• Gimpshop package for Debian had an issue and I need to recreate it on my system. Will probably do it over the weekend.
• email2IM and IM2email projects haven’t been worked on for a while but since I got a few requests asking about their status I will be updating them. Have a lot of cool ideas for stuff to add to them, lets see how much time I get to work on it.
• gWiFi is on hold till further notice. Have to rebuild it from scratch to incorporate the new stuff the updated API’s offer and thats going to take time. Don’t know when I will get to it
• Have sorted through a lot of photos over the past few days, will be uploading them to the photo gallery over the next few days.

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya