lucis

First on google

When someone asks Donald E. Knuth about his contact information, he quickly points out that a google search for don brings up his website as the very first result (interestingly, Don Norman is third).

In less than one month since its birth, with sixteen entries, lucis.net is the first result on a google search for ankit. This is primarily due to blogchalking, and having a rather uncommon name. Nonetheless, I think this deserves some celebration! Now lets see how long it stays at the top...

changelog

Inspired by patchwork progression, I’ve decided to maintian this entry in which I list all my MT tweaks. I’ll probably add a new entry if I make a more complex change, but will try to list all the stuff I do with the blog here.

Some really good MT resources are: scriptygoddess, thegirliematters, and virtualvenus.

Okay, here is a list of various things that I’ve done with MT and the blog:

• 02/29/04: Edited stylesheet to get rid of horizontal scroll in stupid IE.
• 02/28/04: Installed the MT-blacklist plugin to take care of growing comment spam.
• 02/25/04: Changed the style sheet. Got rid of the stupid calendar. Rearranged the sidebar. I think the site looks better now.
• 01/05/04: Added a metatag to prevent refer/index.php from being indexed in search engines.
• 01/04/04: Changed RSS and atom feeds to include complete entry (use MTEntryBody).
• 01/04/04: Added the atom template. Removed references to MTIfNonEmpty since it wasnt working (even after installing the plugin)
• 12/31/03: To get thumbnail images automatically, installed netpbm and IPC::Run; also changed ImageDriver in mt.cfg to netpbm.
• 12/20/03: Installed the BookQueue plugin. I now have a Currently Reading heading on the right!
• 12/20/03: Installed the MTAmazon plugin.
• 12/20/03: Replaced the old referrer with refer. Added relevant code in all templates (the .htaccess trick didnt work on 1and1).
• 12/16/03: Edited style sheet template to add the pre style for code.
• 12/15/03: Added sitemeter.
• 12/14/03: Converted this page to use the textile formatting.
• 12/14/03: Installed MT-Textile plugin. Seems to make editing quite easy!
• 12/14/03: Installed the smartypants plugin.
• 12/08/03: Listed the site on blogwise, and chicagobloggers.
• 12/08/03: Signed up on blogsnob.
• 12/08/03: Got a blogchalking tattoo.
• 12/07/03: Added a list of recent referrals - replaced by refer.
• 12/07/03: Played with the stylesheet - changed colors etc.
• 12/07/03: Modified template to list categories of a post under it. Also added a categories menu.
• 12/07/03: Converted all pages to .php
• 12/07/03: Signed up on geourl.
• 12/03/03: Signed up on blogrolling.
• 12/03/03: Added extremetracking.
• 12/03/03: dirified the archiving options
• 12/03/03: Blog started!

categories, referrals and winamp

Make quite a few customizations to the look and feel of the blog. I now have the categories of a post listed under it. Threre is also a list of categories in the menu.

Also added this really nice script to list the recent referrals to the website. Now I would know who all are linking to my blog, and also how well it does on search engines.

I tried various winamp plugins to have a "Now Playing" section on the sidebar. Here is a list of plugins that I tried: DoSomething, AMIP and WhatsPlaying. Also, some nice blog entries that talk about how this should be done are A Whole Lotta Nothing, and VirtualVenus. However, I couldnt get any of the plugins to work properly with Winamp 5. Most importantly, none was able to send a signal when stop was pressed, or winamp was closed. I guess I'll first finish the linux install on the system, and try to get it working with xmms.

Also changed a couple of things in the stylesheet template, and the master index template. The links on the calendar should now take you to the Daily archive for that day, and not the last post for that day (MT default).

Well, thats it for the time being. Hope I'm able to generate some traffic to this site soon.

first post

MT is awesome!! Just finished setting it up, and am ready for my first post now. Also configured the archiving options, thanks to NSLog and others.
Still playing around with it. Looks like a huge time sink though ;)

Anyways, now that I have the basic thing up and running, I can work on making it look prettier as and when I find the time.

I'll probably soon post a review of 21 grams, and A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin. In a word, both were awesome!