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Happy New Year 2024 and 2023 In Review

[…]have kept bugs away (at least during my travels). What’s in store for 2024 I don’t make any New Year’s resolutions because I know I won’t keep them. However, I do aim to achieve a few things every year. This year, my key focus is to build up Beyond Develop. This will involve building pro versions for my two most used plugins and more frequent and smaller updates for the others. I’m also hoping to land one or two small projects where I can use my WordPress expertise. This should hopefully turn a profit in the first year. I still have […]

New Year, New Look

[…]of this blog with a new look from scratch. The old template has been there for well over a year (with modifications), and a change was needed. I have still retained some portion of the sidebar look as it goes well even with the new theme. I have disabled a good number of plugins, going with my idea of keeping plugins to the minimum. All posts now include Tabber which was pointed out to me by Everton. You can now view the related posts, search this site directly, view the next and previous post as well as read more about […]

Happy New Year 2021!

And what a year has it been! I’d like to wish you a Happy New Year 2021! Continuing my very long–standing tradition, below is a snapshot of my life in 2020. Life We started 2020 in India and have ended it in the UK. We started the year with freedom of movement and ended the year in Tier 4 restrictions (a kinder word for lockdown). One thing I hoped for at the start of last year was to get my driving license, which I’m pleased to say I did. We then went out to purchase a nice car that would accompany us […]

Happy New Year 2016

[…]the point of resolutions when you don’t keep them, right? On work… 2015 started out to be a year like any other year, busy and in fact ended as busy as it started. However, that being said a good portion of the year was definitely better with me stepping up my role and desperately fighting to maintain a work-life balance. On life… 2015 was a great year on the life front. We started off the year by moving into a new larger flat in the area. It was a long pending decision and we finally took the plunge trading our […]

Happy New Year 2018!

[…]through my list of posts for the past two years, I realised that I completely missed out a Happy New Year post for 2017. Can’t miss that two years in a row now, can we? 2017 – A Year in Review Life… I began 2017 in India, more specifically being ill in Bangalore where I (as did Ashwina) spent a good portion of the holiday in bed recovering from bad allergy attacks. Apparently I can’t handle the pollen and pollution anymore! At least it got better when I got back to Mumbai where we were soon well enough to attend […]

Happy New Year 2015!

[…]and happy year bringing you and your family good health and a lot of happiness! 2014 – Year in Review A year ago, I posted my 2013 year in review. Back then I set some personal goals and I must admit that I managed to miss most of them! (Note to self: Revisit year in review posts during the year). However, I am glad that I managed to keep at least a few of them and progressed on several of them. Although we didn’t visit the US and Canada this year due to a sudden change in plans, Ashwina and I made a visit to Cornwall and […]

Happy New Year 2010 & 2009 in Review

[…]all my dedicated readers a Very Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2010! How did you bring in the new year? I spent it quietly at home. Looking back at 2009, I must say that it has been a rather successful year for me on all fronts. While I may not have achieved most of the goals I set for Techtites, it was definitely a lot better than 2008. I have refrained from setting any goals for this blog, primarily because it serves as a personal blog. At this time of the year, I normally make a very detailed post […]

Happy New Year

[…]up the readings. Next went off to pick up my sexy new trousers which were ready just in time for New Year’s mass. I got ready and went off for mass. We started the Thanksgiving service a bit late, and I did my readings, which went off rather well (IMHO). Next was mass which was said by a very fabulous, young, energitic prient named Fr. Gilbert Lima, who gave a beautiful sermon on love. Did I tell you that we were singing for mass? This went off rather well for me, inspite of not having gone for practise on Tuesday. […]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all my blog readers. How did you celebrate your New Year? I decided to take it light this year and only went for the midnight mass with my family. Had plans on morning mass, but just later changed my mind. We did have pizza last night before mass 🙂 The mass was good but long as expected. 2006 has been a long and good year for my parish with a good deal of achievements. 2007 has been declared the year for the marginalized. Unfortunately, couldn’t get any good photos because of the bad lighting etc. A […]

New Year Shopping

[…]bought myself, a new spectacles frame, with anti-glare lens. This isn’t exactly for Xmas or New Year, but the timing is good. I also plan on buying myself contact lens after I narrow down on my choice. (Sadly  🙁 I will have to pay for this, but I believe it an invest worth making) Next on the list was a trouser matching my blazer. Went off to Cambridge in Andheri West to buy one (same place I bought the blazer from). We found one, but being the tally I am, I needed to find something longer or get it stitched. […]

Happy New Year!

[…]during one and it came out very good. Went off to U. Conrad’s place after mass to bring in the New Year there. The party was good fun as it usually is. Had to restrict myself to only water and cold drinks would be very cold for me. As usual, food was delicious and I ate a good amount. Danced a great deal. Did the jive, salsa, waltz and the cha cha cha uptil four in the morning. Am learning a lot of dance; you never know when you will need it. Returned home by 4am. Sleeping has been a […]

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!

I was wondering what exactly to do to wish all my readers this year until Orli pointed out Mixmas To all my dear blog readers and everyone who has made this blog what it is today I have a small greating to wish you this season! Hint: Click on the image above to visit the greeting. Also view greetings of other users or create your own 🙂 Pass the chain […]

New Blog and New site

[…]the rest of it is online 🙂 I had to move the blog however. I have upgraded the old blog to a newer version and have successfully recovered my old posts :D. Got a lot of vivas and tests and submissions in the coming week, so this is going to be really hectic. 7th sem vivas are before the exams, which is gonna be trouble some 🙁 All the best to me […]

2013: The Year in Review

[…]forgotten hobby. There is so much more to read! Merry Christmas to all of you and have a great New Year! I hope you have a good holiday week. Thank you for reading Ajay – On the Road called […]

It’s been a year!

[…]Toubro and will now soon be confirmed to the Executive cadre 😀 Must say it has been a fantastic year. Have learnt a real lot in this last one year and have been given good responsibility. Never really expected to like designing but today I love it and will definitely stick with it for a while. And then again after I became a Management Trainee I have had a lot more to look forward to […]

First Working Day of the Year

Yesterday was the first working day of the year and I am glad that the year started of on a good note. Have been struggling with something all of last week and yesterday it worked ! Had a small office get-to-gether yesterday during office which was pretty mediocre. Didn’t expect otherwise, but was a welcome break from work. Left at 6.15pm from work yesterday as timings were increased. Surprisingly there wasn’t much traffic and I reached home well before 8pm much to the shock of my mom. Made it for choir practice. There weren’t many persons there to practice and […]

New York calling!

[…]I’ve always wanted to come down for a holiday to New York and this one has eluded me for several years. New York, I’m here! Ashwina and I took our annual holiday to India in March this year. We stayed at the ITC Maratha in Mumbai for more than a week followed by a trip to Mangalore and then Pune. We then had two weddings to attend – one in Athens and the second in Helsinki. But, I must admit that I’ve been waiting very eagerly to come to New York. We were quite late in getting much of our […]

A Week went by with some New Lookers

[…]The latest ones could also do with many feature additions. So stay tuned for a few releases 🙂 New look for Techtites I’ve also been working on a brand new look for Techtites. With the help of Moin, I’ve been able to revamp the entire site to a much better template. Have spent a good portion of the week working on the template. The first and major step was making the theme ready for WordPress 2.7 commenting system. There’s still much to be done, especially the sidebar. Better ad placements has also meant a better click thru and so a […]

New York – Views from the Top

[…]turned out to have some really good food in well-sized portions. Remains the best food I ate in New York. After the failed attempt to view New York from Top of the Rock, we decided to try again. It seems like many others also had the same idea as we only got tickets for little over an hour later. We figured out getting some other things out of the way to kill time. Primarily taking a walk down 6th avenue to find our way to Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station is yet another landmark in New York that would […]

WP Ajax Edit Comments – New Author

[…]plugin will receive a good portion of my time daily. I have currently updated the plugin with the new ownership details and svn upped the same in the WordPress Repository. Many of you would have been able to update the plugin from within your WordPress Admin. This version includes no changes other than the change in ownership and the new plugin page, readme.txt and other details. Ronald has already redirected all links on his site to the plugin page out here on my blog, so if you’re wondering why you are here suddenly, this is probably the reason. Support for […]

A new website for my photos

[…]domain AjayDSouza.info, I decided to move the location for my photos. In fact, until August last year, AjayDSouza.info served as a secondary location for displaying my photos. It was powered by a script that fetched my albums from Flickr. However, I wasn’t too pleased by the script and so didn’t bother to promote the site. I decided to hunt for a new script today and came across Glickr. Glickr is an extremely easy to use, smal, but very powerful script for displaying photos from Flickr. AjayDSouza.info will now serve as the primary location for display of my photos. With a […]

Techtites – The Brand New Technology Blog

[…]to be of great value and I hope that Techtites will also be of the same value to you. Today with a new look, I’ve decided to tell the world about it 🙂 Do check it out, subscribe to the feed and let me know what you think about it. And if you have some hot news, you can tip me […]

A new design

[…]sidebar, pages, comments and other features that I have maintained across themes across several years. Not to forget the ads that help sustain this blog. Lastly, SexyBookmarks WordPress Plugin does deserve a major mention for it is extremely feature rich and with minimal interference allows you to share content of this blog with your friends through the most popular social networking sites. You are recommending these posts, aren’t you? I’ve also included a neat little array of buttons at the top of each post, you can quickly share our posts on Facebook and Google Plus. Until next time… do keep […]

New Christmassy Look

[…]I decided to change the look of my blog to go with the Christmas Spirit 🙂 How do you like the new look of the blog? Note: In case you still see the old look, simply press [b]CTRL + F5[/b] on your keyboard. It does a clean […]

A New Television

We have finally bought a new television. After researching and visiting a lot of stores, we narrowed down to Plugin, which is near my place. We purchased the Samsung CZ-21K5 (don’t ask me what this stands for) Features include: Pure Flat TV 200 Programs 300W PMPO 5 Band Graphic Equalizer Basically, it’s packed with many features. However, I have just DD1 and DDNews, i.e. no cable and so having 200 channels is kinda useless. Maybe in the distant future… I still have to connect my VCD Player to the TV so that finally I can watch my VCDs on the […]

A New Look for MegaThemes

Finally! After many many months, I have updated my site MegaThemes. A brand new look with a slightly different shade of blue. I scrapped many unused scripts like the newsletter and the forum. I added a tell-a-friend. A major addition has been a wallpaper on “The Passion of the Christ“. You can get it from here. I have also revamped the Freeware Archive. Changed to an easier to use but very good PaFileDB. Now the major work that remains is adding the programs to the archive, which I don’t think I will be doing for a few months at least! […]

A New Address

[…]style with the updated version of Alex King’s Style Switcher, atleast until I can work on a new look. The original ajaydsouza.com has now become […]

The New PC Arrives…

[…]16x writer (slow I know, but its HP and gives amazing performance) – innovate 16x DVD-ROM drive (new drive so it is going to stay for a while) – Mercury speakers (sooo…ooon to be replaced with 7.1) – Epson Stylus Color 460 printer (if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it) – Genius Vivid Pro 2 scanner (if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it) To be added soon: – Atleast 512Mb DDR RAM (couldn’t buy that because I had to fit the UPS into my budget) done 🙂 – Atleast 160Gb Serial ATA HDD (want to buy this so that I […]

Settling into the new House

[…]after we settled our bills at the guesthouse, we hired cabs and headed to what will become our new home. I hired a Meru cab, which is more easily available here in Bangalore than in Mumbai, where you struggle to find one. It was a nice comfortable journey. At the same time, my goods from Mumbai also arrived. Was a little irritated that the boxes weren?t plastic coated like they were supposed to be and one box had broken open. The bike handle was also bent a bit. Will have to get this fixed. First, I got to get the […]

My New Blog!

Today, October 1, 2003. I just installed my new blog using WordPress. This is the start of a long-awaiting personal website. I am still thinking on a a name for the site, however, I wanted to create a semi-formal site and hence believe this blog will add the informality to my normally professional sites. I am not much of a writer, so I may be writing about once a week or whenever in the mood. Will close this short entry about now, as I not have to go to bed. There’s a long day ahead tommorrow (though it is already […]

New Website

After the closing down of DistantHost, I have been forced to shift to paid hosting. So that’s exactly what I have done. Bought a $40/yr package from Dr2.net after recommendations from friends at SurfUnion Also purchased the domain AjayDSouza.com from GoDaddy for $8.75/yr Now all that remains is designing the site around it. This blog is also being shifted there as I post. I can use the space at Mg2 for some other site of mine 🙂 Will keep posting updates as the site […]

New WordPress Plugin: Top 10

Last week I gave you Contextual Related Posts and Moderation Author Notify. Have spent almost the whole of this week rewriting Mark’s original Top 10 plugin. And, that sure has been a rather interesting, frustrating and of course fulfilling journey in PHP in general and WordPress in particular and I still believe I’ve not even scratched the surface of PHP, SQL and WordPress! Anyway, I began with duplicating the original functionality of the plugin, however, ensuring that this strictly followed the latest Plugin API recommended by WordPress. So, a few things that were changed / added were: The table to […]

New WordPress Plugin: Add to Footer

Here’s one more plugin to my ever growing arsenal. Add to Footer is a simple plugin that allows you to automatically add text or HTML to you theme’s footer. The plugin provides you with a simple text box into which you can copy your the HTML into. As an additional feature, Add to Footer also comes inbuilt with support for Google Analytics, StatCounter, Reinvigorate and Apture. If you use any of these services, you can fill in the relevant details in the plugins options page and the plugin will add the necessary code for the same on your blog. These […]

New WordPress Plugin: Better Search

Though WordPress does provide users the ability to search your blog, it is highly limited in any features. Additionally, all it does is a simple search for the term and lists the post in descending order of their post dates. It may so happen that a user may not even find a relevant search result. This is where Better Search comes in. Weblog Tools Collection has an improved search system that allows users to search for posts based on their content and relevance. I’ve adapted the code by Mark into a plugin for easy installation on your WordPress blog. Better […]

ajaydsouza.com has a new look. Still need your suggestions

If you’re reading this in your feed reader, then hit this link now. I mentioned earlier that I moved this blog to Media Temple yesterday. However, on monitoring the same, I have realized that I am still not at optimum levels. I’m not really sure what the reason for the super high resource usage is, but it is usually the themes and the plugins. So, as a test, I have decided to change the theme in an attempt to find a really light one. One of my most read blogs is Weblog Tools Collection, and in a recent post, I […]
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[New WordPress Plugin] Add to All

Add to All is a powerful plugin that will allow you to add custom code or CSS to your header, footer, content or feed. Add to All comes with out of the box support for Google Analytics, Statcounter, Kontera, with other third party services in the pipeline. With this plugin installed, you do not need to edit your theme files every time you switch themes. You can also add custom CSS styles to your header as well as any HTML code to the header or footer of the theme. The plugin gives you the power to add content to your […]

2004 in Retrospect

[…]got myself ill for the third time in two months. Still have a bad cough and I am going to sing for New Year:O Went off for a shave today and my barber asked me if I look back to 2004 with happiness or sorrow. Looking back, I can see that despite the downs in my life, I have had a great year. Have done really well academically, started of work in an amazing company, have made so many new friends (though I did lose many), watched an amazing amount of movies:O and generally had a ball of a time. […]

The December 2021 Reading Update

[…]or so. Post which I’ll jump back to the Reacher series to potentially finish that before the year end which should bring my total books read to 42. Probably worth starting next year with a target of 35 books. Have you read any of these? If not, what are you […]

Add to All v1.4.0

[…]year %month% – current month. Displayed as January to December %date% – today’s date %first_year% – year of first blog post. This is useful if you’d like to display a copyright notice to show the starting year For those who need more placeholders, you can creating a function filtering ata_placeholders. The filter accepts an array in this format: Detailed list of changes in Add to All v1.4.0 Features: Deleting the plugin on WordPress Multisite will remove the settings from all blogs Use %home_url%, %year%, %month%, %date% and %first_year% to display the URL for a given site, current year, current month […]

Reading update (Jan 2023)

[…]update. I finished 2022 with about 60 books or about double the target I set at the start of the year. This year I’ve set a target of 40 books and as we close out January, I’ve finished four books and am currently reading my 5th book. As I didn’t mention the 20 books that I read since August, I thought I’d use this post as a summary to update you on what I’ve been reading for the past 5 months. If you’ve been following my last few reading updates, you’ll know that I am a big fan of series […]