Month: April 2008

Categories
Personal Reflections

Stupid WordPress

I came across this error pretty randomly when searching up (and viewing) and old post of mine – and it was this: when I shifted from Blogger to WordPress, WordPress applied its own stupid formatting to all my posts. Consequently, none of them have line breaks (still a problem), but more importantly none of the videos I embedded were showing up. Instead, WordPress was displaying their ugly embed code. I knew this would happen for new posts I made, but never thought it’d do the same for older ones. My bad. Maybe staying on a system like Blogger which used to maintain static pages to WordPress, which generates pages on-the-fly was something I forgot. So, between a bit of online testing, I sorted out the mess. Should work now. Sad part? Quite astonishingly, in most posts Rach had made, WordPress didn’t even keep the embed code!

Categories
Technology

Y!M-ing, on the go

An advertisment for Yahoo! Messenger on the Reliance Mobile network, which has been doing the rounds recently. While certainly not something as stunning as some Airtel ads et al, it definitely caught my attention because of its fresh outlook. More specifically, because it’s something I do a lot – check email and IMs on my cellphone – and that too right from the time when I get up in the morning (like that guy in the Yahoo! Messenger ad). Plus, I like the chicks – especially the one in the last scene; and the last scene itself because of a) the nice idea b) nice beach c) (repeat) nice chick (/repeat).