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Clouded Vision

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A video I took while on my way back from Bangalore after giving the NTU entrance exam. I know the resolution is a bit low, but, oh well. Which reminds me, I fucking hate Google. I ran around everywhere on the Web trying to find out whether Google Video / Youtube supported 3GP videos – I later found out, they don’t, you need to convert your video) – and all that because Google’s just gave a smug little ‘we support many formats, including ones like…’. Basically, they didn’t bother to give the actual list of formats they support, and expect people to either waste their time uploading videos by trial-and-error, or sit down and convert videos.

Why didn’t I try uploading to Yahoo! Video in the first place? Because it doesn’t accept videos without an audio track, which my original video did not. This is probably to ensure people don’t upload pr0n, but can affect genuine users at times. I finally said “Screw Google”, added a very low volume white noise audio track, and put it on Yahoo! Video.

Talking of far-away centres, I’ve heard of some people ending up with getting their AIEEE centre in Port Blair (Andaman & Nicobar Islands)!!! Whoa, that’s one CBSE mess even I can’t figure out…

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Shifted To WordPress 2.5

OK, just shifted to WordPress 2.5 (from WordPress 2.3.3) today. Everything works fine – and my fears of having the theme / too many plugins breaking fortunately didn’t come true. So yes, it’s not listed on the official WordPress 2.5 compatibility page, but I can tell you that the ‘Fluid Yellow Black’ theme is compatible with WordPress 2.5.

I like the new interface in fact, although quite a lot of people I hear are hopping mad (or somewhere close to that). Maybe it’s just the reflex webmaster action of having things clunky, but two months of using Vanilla Forums has changed my perspective of how ‘cleaner looking’ software can be much more faster.

The thing I’m most looking forward to is the newer version of the TinyMCE editor – version 3.0 is bundled now with WordPress. The earlier one sporadically used to give some problems, I hope that has been sorted out now. I can only find out after using this for some time whether it has actually improved. Until then, I reserve my judgment on its new WYSIWYG capabilities.