A Little Lunacy! {v2}

First of all, a very happy new year to all you folks out there! Yeah, I know I’m awfully late and I haven’t updated this blog in almost a hundred years. But what can a man do when the 24 hours that he gets in a day, just don’t seem to be enough?

Okay, enough excuses. It’s been a long time since I even logged into the control panel. So it wasn’t a surprise when I found that my blog and loads of plugins had been rendered obsolete by the fine folks at Wordpress. “Ah well, might as well start the updating”, I thought. A few minutes later, it was all was up to speed.

I proceeded to check the comments section and all I could see were spam comments caught by the trusty Akismet. I wasted no time in deleting them and promptly moved on. Now all that’s left is to cook up something worthy of being published. And that shall come soon, some day in the near future.

That’s it for now, coz I’m off to bed!

I’m a little busy these days, with so many presentations and assignments piling up on my table. As such, my blog won’t be getting as much attention as it needs, although just for a few days. I’ll be back soon; probably this weekend, with my rants and raves.

Till then, you might want to browse through some of my older posts in the Archived section of the site (clicketh on the top-right button, please). Or you might want to do something useful, for a change.

Hello? Hellooo? Anybody home?

What was that, you ask? Oh, I was just trying to see if the blog is still the way it was when I last visited it. To be honest, I had almost forgotten how it looks. But that had more to do with my constant tinkering with the look of the site, rather than my weak memory.

After more than a month, I’ve finally been able to get myself a thin pipe to the Internet. I’ve shifted base recently and now I’m no longer the free bird who used to while away his time sitting in front of the computer. Yes, I’m seriously busy now and the only time I get for myself is on weekends. And sometimes even that is hard to come by.

So this weekend, I decided to wake up my blog from its slumber and post something, anything. I couldn’t some up with too much, just this little post. But yeah, I’m back alright. And now some of my old readers can waste their bandwidth over here once again.

Music->Lyrics

A bit dull around here, eh? The steady stream of thoughts that used to flow into this blog has dried up and the only things I’ve posted recently are a few news bits and a cartoon of a cartoon. To liven things up, I’ve made another category called Music->Lyrics. In this little section I will be sharing verses that I find to be exceptional, touching or having a deeper meaning. In other words, it would be like a ‘recommended listening’ thing, if only for the lyrics.

The genres would be diverse, that’s for sure.I’m hoping it would be like a series (now if only I could think of a catchy title) that would be posted every now and then (sorry, can’t guarantee a fixed schedule).

With this update, I’m off to make a list of the first few entries. Cheers!

Ah, feels so good to be back!

The past few weeks have been quite an experience. My website went down for 3 whole days. When it finally came back online, the site was looking utterly messed up, with outdated versions of installed plugins and themes. There was no sign of the theme I had tweaked to suit my needs. Instead, I was greeted with a look that I had discarded quite some time ago. I had also lost an entire month’s worth of posts, customizations and settings.

The reason for this unplanned time-travel into the past was that my hosting provider had restored the latest backup he had of my site – which was a month and few days old. And yours truly never backed up his site once, placing all his blogging eggs into one digital basket. Unfortunately my basket err… website was one of the several thousands of websites that were floored by a 0-day vulnerability discovered in HyperVM and duly exploited by malicious minds. You can read more about it here.

Anyways, the damage had been done. I felt that the loss was too much and the blog would never be the same again. So I decided to archive it and start afresh. What followed was a frantic few days deciding what to do and how to do it. After a bit of inspiration and its implementation, this is the new face of aBHi 24×7.

That’s it for now. Explore and see how the site feels like. I’ll be detailing and explaining the logic behind the changes in a subsequent post shortly.