Aashiyana of Pamela Santanu » wordpress http://blog.santm.com Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:52:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 WordPress 2.6 http://blog.santm.com/2008/07/15/wordpress-26 http://blog.santm.com/2008/07/15/wordpress-26#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:19:59 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?p=234 Just upgraded to WordPress 2.6 for both blog.santm.com and pamela.santm.com without any hitch :) Upgraded few plugins as well and so far so good.

]]> http://blog.santm.com/2008/07/15/wordpress-26/feed 2 Free Theme http://blog.santm.com/2008/02/13/free-theme http://blog.santm.com/2008/02/13/free-theme#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:32:27 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/2008/02/13/free-theme
WP remix

I just found out d-atmosphere.com is holding a competition where they are offering a free wordpress theme called WP Remix. It’s a very nice theme with loads of features.

The rule is simple – just write about the competition in your blog and post your link back in the comments on the contest page.

The winner will be announced on March 1st.

]]> http://blog.santm.com/2008/02/13/free-theme/feed 0 Skittlish Theme with Silk Icons for WordPress http://blog.santm.com/2007/05/25/skittlish-theme-with-silk-icons-for-wordpress http://blog.santm.com/2007/05/25/skittlish-theme-with-silk-icons-for-wordpress#comments Fri, 25 May 2007 10:15:27 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?p=165 Trying to jazz up skittlish theme of wordpress with silk icon sets from famfamfam.com. In recent time there is new version of skittlish supporting widgets so I thought it might be a god starting ground. Best part – for few colors (red, orange, green & blue) there are icons available for tag, user (author). But for rest there is none. As I am not a graphic person not sure how should I go forward. Any expert out there to help me ;) . Plan to release my best by next week.

]]> http://blog.santm.com/2007/05/25/skittlish-theme-with-silk-icons-for-wordpress/feed 2 WordPress Bleeding 2.2 and TAG http://blog.santm.com/2007/04/10/wordpress-bleeding-22-and-tag http://blog.santm.com/2007/04/10/wordpress-bleeding-22-and-tag#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:19:07 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?p=156 Just upgraded to the latest beta trunk of wordpress 2.2(bleeding) and found myself with unrecoverable errors. Realized wordpress incorporated tagging within the core but the old faithful Ultimate Tag Warrior does not work any more :(
Found another bug-hunt has started and hope for tag import from (UTW) till then …… have to live with out tags Sigh!

]]> http://blog.santm.com/2007/04/10/wordpress-bleeding-22-and-tag/feed 0 Mera Bharat Jawaan http://blog.santm.com/2007/04/04/mera-bharat-jaawan http://blog.santm.com/2007/04/04/mera-bharat-jaawan#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:07:38 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?p=154
Adv for new TV series

Another funny advertisement which caught my attention Budda Hoga Tera Baap. This is a soft or hard slang depending on your view – “May be your father is old” This new TV series name is “Mera Bharat Jaawan” which translates into “My India is Young”. With one fourth population under the age of 25 India definitely has young demography.

P.S – In last two months, I have changed theme for wordpress (blog) at least four times. It either resulted in broken site or broken functionality. Very happy to see some comments coming in recent time to our web site. It really boasts moral to keep posting pictures, thoughts and experiences. In coming weeks, plan to give a new face for the front-page as we are no longer staying in Paris and update Pamela’s corner as well. Cheers

]]> http://blog.santm.com/2007/04/04/mera-bharat-jaawan/feed 0 Another weekend http://blog.santm.com/2007/01/13/another-weekend http://blog.santm.com/2007/01/13/another-weekend#comments Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:25:04 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?p=143 Well another day! Some techie note ; upgraded the web site to the latest beta release of WordPress. And I found some strange behaviour. This is what I put forward to the mailing list. But with few minute of research found the root cause.

WP is adding [code]

[/code] as extra inside in my [code]

[/code]This was one example.[code]

Pet Pujo

[/code]

It was happening due to “wp-include/formatting.php”. I use plain text mode while doing copy-paste between text-editor from my PC to WordPress Editor. There are

[code]"\n\r"(newline)[/code]

Iand those newlines gets formatted as an extra [code]

[/code]

I did a quick search and replace on on wp-posts table dump and re-imported the same to fix the problem was fixed.Well like to change the header image on the top as well, set a personal one. The image is from HP Diary(2007) that I got at work. It looked perfect for an Indian Blog ;) what you say. Well another BBS – Beg Borrow Steal just kidding. but there is some problem with IE as it does not like it having some blank between the top black part and the header. Stupid IE

Recently took some pictures of my new car; a small car with diesel I only drive to the railway station to catch train. The sunset looked like a perfect time to snap.

Indica - new car at Station Parking lot
]]> http://blog.santm.com/2007/01/13/another-weekend/feed 0 About http://blog.santm.com/about http://blog.santm.com/about#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:28:33 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?page_id=74

This cyberspace belongs to one Indian couple who are currently moved to Bangalore after staying one and half years at Mumbai (Bombay) India. Presently, they are getting used to their very own country in respective terms as they settle in after staying abroad. It will be very hard to say who among them contribute more to keep this site up-to-date with photos or post from personal prospective. It is certain that it is a joint effort which they enjoy from time to time in their busy life.

Though they have very strong opinion on certain matters of their daily life but at the same time they love to travel, explore different cuisine, good music and movies together. They hate crowded place, noise, bad manners and rough traffic.

Both of them are foodie and love to experiment with food in different ways be it from any part or region of India or world. This encourages them certain times to experiment at home be it pasta or couscous.

Santanu and Pamela have grown up at two different parts of India which are miles apart. He never stayed in one particular place for very long in young life while Pamela’s upbringing was quite stationary. And may be the reason why in his professional life he looks forward to new geographic locations for challenges.

Together they have stayed in Bay Area of California, Paris and now Mumbai. As they explored Europe and Paris in their brief stay of more than three and half years the volume of this web site grew with photos and travel diaries.

In his bachelor life he tried lots of outdoor sports with success while he was in California. He learned to ski, ran marathons (26miles) and climbed famous granite walls of Yosemite. While there may not be any evidence to share on this web site for his adventure with bi-cycle he did paddle long miles on his sleek road-bike in California and Paris. Now those have taken a back seat as time demands more from him in corporate world. But given a chance, he would love to start once again.

Pamela has been an excellent teacher before marriage. She has a knack of creative arts and excellent with threads and needle. This resulted in creating a separate website for her hobbies. She creates wonderful dishes at times. Ironically as a child or grown-up she never went into the kitchen until before marriage and when she left India she only had few basic knowledge. Rather her friends were experts in the kitchen. Definitely, with time they became her inspiration along with her own mom. Nevertheless, she learnt many recipes from other friends and her m-i-l as well. While in Paris, they desperately missed Indian home-cooked traditional food, so started calling mom or mil asking them how to cook different dishes. Thus, began adventurous journey on this route….

She picked up very good command on French language and was sole spokesperson of Misra family in Paris. At home their language is seasoned with Bengali, Hindi and English and sometimes French (in presence of third person) which happens naturally and effortlessly. And it is she who is first to criticize and fix this web site from an editorial point of view.

Santanu being IT person love to experience and explore the cyber world. Sharing pictures and updates of his life across the world with his friends was the sole driving factor to setup this cyberspace. After trying out free sites like tripod and yahoo he decided to settle for his own web-space free of advertisement in 2001. This name ‘santm’ stuck as all other considered names were registered already. Initially, this web site became his learning play ground with php, css and mysql. But as number of photos crossed 1000 he switched to gallery. WordPress was chosen over all those home grown code for regular updates. The icon you notice on the address bar is this picture which was taken by Purbayan at London with his Camera phone in 2003.But the enthusiasm of learning new technology has not died yet which causes temporary outage from time to time.

It is your comments and mail that motivates them to keep this web-space alive and updated. Feel free to share your views; thank you for surfing!

]]> http://blog.santm.com/about/feed 0 Hello world! http://blog.santm.com/2005/10/24/hello-world http://blog.santm.com/2005/10/24/hello-world#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:28:33 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?p=73 Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

]]> http://blog.santm.com/2005/10/24/hello-world/feed 1 New look to web site http://blog.santm.com/2005/09/15/new-look-to-web-site http://blog.santm.com/2005/09/15/new-look-to-web-site#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:19:27 +0000 santm http://blog.santm.com/?p=67 Migrated to WordPress along with Gallery2, the choice for the same was not easy. As for a long time Mambo and custom home grown Photo Album was doing the job fine. In fact the template I used for the same was appreciated by friends. But as days passed and numbers of pictures are growing it was getting difficult to manage the same with custom gallery. But the idea to grab WordPress and dropping Mambo is a personal one. I will not compare the two. The fact is they two are different and just I felt like blog software will be a better choice for a personal website compared to a CMS

Well there is lots of lots work left to organize the pictures now after this migration as there was no tool or script that I could use to automate the same Hope to finish this by end of September.

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