Wordpress Vs blogger

Blogging is this activity where you record your boring thoughts in incoherent journals. Other people with blogs then come and share their gyaan in the form of smart-ass comments in a desperate attempt to get you to read their blogs. For some strange reason, blogging is spreading faster than the unnecessary fear of bird flu, and choosing a blogging client can be a baffling business.



There are only two really big fighters in the Arena. On one corner is the powerful, google owned blogger.com and on the otherside is the less well known, but certainly not less impressive wordpress.com, with features blogger.com users dream of.



Posting
Blogger has a simple to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor (WYSIWYG) and has a spell check feature, something that wordpress lacks. The create post field also acts as an HTML editor, you can directly write in the code as and when you write your post.



Wordpress, has a basic WYSIWYG editor, along with an HTML editor, where you can actually play around with the code in a separate field from the normal post field. Scores above Blogger because Wordpress lets you upload ANY kind of file as a part of your blog (as well as attach it to a title and description). Note: It is possible to upload any type of file into blogspot as well, but this is a mild hack, as the service is designed for images. At wordpress, the service is designed for any kind of file, and this makes a difference, the effort is not yours in the final outcome.



Publishing: Publishing is faster on wordpress, and has lesser glitches. Blogger is known to stop suddenly, and not show that the post was published, and many times, while using opera, the posts disappear without a trace. Wordpress handles well across all browsers, and posts definitely don’t suddenly disappear.



Categories:
Categorizing your posts under different sections is a feature that Blogger.com lacks, and the most useful one at wordpress. An easy way to keep track of your past posts, wordpress lets you organize your blog better. People make the shift from bloger to wordpress, just to be able to use this feature.



Independent pages:
Another feature that blogger lacks, independent pages integrated with the blog. The blog can be only a part of a personal webpage, with a profile, a resume, a brief autobiography, a photogallery… whatever.



Sidebar:
While blogger has a highly customizable sidebar, which can carry anything as long as you know HTML, wordpress is simpler to use because of the features it allows without the need to know HTML. For example, a blogroll exists on every blog to keep track of the other blogs that the blogger reads, and while you have to code this thing in in bloger, Wordpress does this for you. It also has useful side-bar addons like the current book you are reading, categorized blogrolling etc.



Templates:
Blogger templates are easier to edit, look decent in the three columned ones, and the sheer quantity of choice is unbelievable, there are numerous sites dedicated to blogger templates. Wordpress does not have a template as customizable, but the default one looks better, and there is a decent enough choice available, but almost no competition for blogger here. The quality of the Wordpress templates, are however, superior to those of blogger.



Hacks and Plugins
Blogger has many hacks, where you can cheat blogger to throw up comments in the sidebar, or remove the navigation bar on top et cetera. In fact, you can make blogger throw up pages that don’t look like blogs at all. Where blogger has hacks, Wordpress has plugins, really cool plugins to keep away spammers, plugins for spell checking, filelists,
photo galleries, anything you dream of.



Republishing: After making template changes, it is necessary to republish your blog. Wordpress here is much much faster than Blogger, and the entire blog takes seconds to republish at Wordpress, instead of the minutes in Bloger. Wordpress does not have a preview feature though, where you can see how the new template will look before republishing your blog. Blogger let’s you do this, at wordpress you have to keep republishing your blog, but this is hardly a problem.



Upload time:
Uploading at wordpress is faster than uploading at blogger.



Outage:
Blogger has frustratingly frequent outages, where the servers are maintained, and like load-shedding, there are times when you simply cannot use blogger. This does not happen with wordpress, at least as frequently.



Community: Blogger has a larger, more interactive community, but people learn to interact with blogs of different clients. The only real problem is providing a link back to your own blog wherever its hosted… Wordpress has really interactive forums, where the noob can get his bearings corrected instantly. At blogger, you have to laboriously navigate through the help pages.



Import: Wordpress lets you import all your blogger.com blogs and posts, a feature not available the other way around. If you want to switch to wordpress, you can use this option. Although the importer is pretty quick, if not handled properly, it can leave your blogger blog in a mess, with all the template changes disappearing along with all the text formatting. No problems as long as you do not let the importer window close.



The verdict: the clear winner is wordpress, for all the extra features. Blogger is simply more popular, maybe because its for the novice blogger. If you are starting a new blog, go for wordpress, you will start craving for the features soon. If you have been using blogger.com for a while now, then you would have achieved the look and feel you want, so you may not really feel the need to move onto wordpress – maybe only for the categories. The best blogging client around, is wordpress.

LOST

Saw the first real episode of lost. After "The lost world" suddenly stopped, and actually, got too boring to be followed any more, I stopped watching all serials on television until "Enterprise" came along. Loved the title song, but quit watching after I missed a few shows, the show went off air, and for the fact that I am a Star Wars fan.


Then I stopped watching television altogether, until Lost came along with its string of grammys and whatnot. Just the sheer amount of planning that went into the crash sequence impressed the shit out of me. Think I am going to be hooked...



Will have fun theorising, things I noticed were (i) Charlie hears a scream as he and Kate are searching for Jack and (ii) The old guy is really spiritual.

Do guys have to pee with their pants down?

Or so was the query from a curious individual of a totally guessable gender.



Restrooms have been covered on this blog, but not the actual act of male urination, which I thought was something no one would have any doubt ever, but I thought wrong. Or as Hitler would put it "Ich kann pinkeln oben stehend! selbst wenn ich eine kleine Penis habe!"



So what happens is that if you are a guy, and most guys have a fly (average length = 4 in.), usually with a zipper (sometimes with buttons), so you need to make ABSOLUTELY SURE (or things will go horribly wrong) that the fly is opened and then either (i) push down the elastic of the underwear or (ii) use the fly of the underwear (average length = 2 in.). The totally pussy way to pee would be to unbutton the pants, remove the belts and then proceeding, which is really not different from letting them pants drop. Usually, you wonder why you shiver after the piss (something to do with relieved thermoregulation and nerve endings in the dick), after which you stare at the wall in front thinking about something or the other, and then you are sure that you are absolutely relieved, you either (i) leave, and refill your bladder or (ii) play with the weewee for a while.



So guys don't have to drop their pants to pee, unless (i) they want to wet their pants or (ii) are two years old and not toilet trained or (iii) are of the inclination to pee sitting down, for the sake of the added convinience of being able to crap simultaneously or (iv) are not wearing any pants in the first place.



It is totally understandable that females cannot pee standing up, but there are some gifted people in this world who are hell bent on equalising the sexes (you can do that with dicks, but NOT with brains), so blare the trumpets, and drum a drumroll, and basically imagine the grand entry of an innovative product called:



TravelMate





Its basically a dick for girls, so you can pee without having to drop your pants, and doing nothing more than unzipping the fly. Wonder why girls have flys if they aren't used for peeing... but I guess that's a stupid question for my gender to ask. Anyway, the dick extension is available here.



In case you are a girl and are not of the inclination to purchase a dick extension, then this site has instructions to pee without having to sit down.



If you belong to the stupider gender, and in case anyone was wondering, yes, this post was to a delibrate attempt to piss you off.

First gig

That's the show, Metakix was the guest band, and this fact is apparently so huge that the picture for the official poster is saved as "metakixfinalsmall11zp.jpj". I wish our band gets there sometime. However, our band did show up in the competition:




This was the second gig for One Night Band, and the first with me in it. The gig was at RAIT, Nerul. We are apparently supposed to be a nu-metal band, but that may be because its only supposedly apparent that we are a brit-rock band. A Brit Rock band that plays Perl Jam, but I guess Perl Jam performed in Britain at SOME point of time. If they didn't, they were probably losers who deserve to have their nationalities confused anyway, but they weren't. Losers I mean, not Brits.

But screw that, about our band,


That's the lead singer vocalist, guitarist and freak, Chirag.





That's Shiva, the Rhythm guitarist and Keyboards guy. Also probably a vocalist, but he sang one song... so I donno where exactly he stands. Also a freak.




And that's our drummer, Vivi. Hidden behind all the drums.




That's me. The bassist. Wishing I were hidden behind the amp or the plant or something.




Nice to go up and play... we played two coldplay songs "fix you" and "yellow", "last kiss" by Perl Jam and an original. Haven't heard "fix you" and "Last Kiss" yet, bought the bass ten days ago, and screwed up big time, but no one noticed. Good for me... and the band. We recieved decent reviews, although we were tighter at home. Click here for the fora. here are two reviews anyway. Remember, this is a review for the ENTIRE gig, not just our band.



"All i remember was the first few bad were bad although the one night band were pretty good to listen to and was fun to f**k around with the "one DAY band""

-motorguitarist




"yeah me too had fun with the ONE DAY BAND emoticon thingy!"

-hexar




We didn't win, but we are definately in the scene now. Oh yeah - personal reviews for me include "damn good!", "that was cool" and probably my favorite "you are like John Lennon" - although to be fair, that was more for my looks than my abilities. Ah well.


The funniest part is that I am currently listening to and thoroughly enjoying Enya.



Who can say where the road goes

Where the days grow

Only Time....

Num8ers - God's footprints

Some 1.7^21 seconds ago, something both insanely spectacular and terrible happened. The universe was born, and a lot of stuff was created. The initial explosion can still be heard in the form of background radiation - the static on the radio and television is nothing less than the birth of our cosmos.


Ok, kills the effect, but 2% of the static anyway.


Now it is not plausible to even contemplate the factors that created this explosion, but they were immaculately biased to later give rise to elements, life, and most interestingly, numbers... imaginary ones at that. If these factors were tipped even minutely, in any old way, then the elements wouldn't be stable, there would be no understandable laws in physics, and in all probability, no one to understand them at all.

Every single number is an imaginary concept. Although we can quantify items - like "I have four warts" or "I have four frogs" or "I can count only upto four", it's really not any different from saying "frogs are good" - we are just giving items a label.
Now the way numbers interact with each other is amazing... and cool ratios like pi and phi arise out of this - making their way into popular culture through the media of books, movies, songs and games.

Phi will be an instantly recognizable, recent example. Thoroughly disected in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, Phi is said to be the most beautiful number in the world because the ratio shows un in everything in nature, knowledge of which is apparently used by builders, scultorers, artists, and songwriters to come up with the most outstanding art.

Pi, is another famous number. Simpsons makes fun of it when they claim pi=3. pi=3, is actually a pretty popular theory, Jimmy neutron, as well as a Clarke book where the universe falls apart because pi=3. Basically these books are out to say that if pi were not EXACTLY = whatever it is exactly equal to, then the universe would be a hellish place to live in. Working the other way round, people believe that pi is there fore a bigger reason. The basic ratio, universal to all circles, is custom made for a purpose - the purpose is to let any intelligent life know of the creator - let's just call it God - of God's presence. In the book contact by Carl Segan, a pretty amazing read, have blogged about it, millions of digits into calculating the accurate value of pi, the computer comes across a signature, a series of ones and zeroes which forms a circle,
at the base eleven and shows that there is a greater hidden truth down the line.
Basically, the code throws up this:



00000000000

00000100000

00100000100

01000000010

00100000100

00000100000

00000000000





Fiction apart, one fellow, has gone as far as to claim that he has already discovered God's message to mankind hidden within pi. The original article can be found here.



To quote the page;



Many people question why God would create the universe for us and then leave no proof of his existence. Well. I have found proof of God's existence in the number pi. If you calculate pi out to enough decimal places, you will find the following sequence of numbers:



pi = 3.1415 … 851212152089199197154191651119147851859113931851205420852
114922518195…



Yes, this may appear to be a random assortment of numbers, but if you examine these numbers carefully enough, God's word becomes clear. If we take each number to correspond to its placement in the alphabet, then the message becomes:



heababaeb0hiaiiaigaedaiafeaaaiadgheaheiaacicaheab0edb0heba
adibbeahaie



This makes no sense, so it can't be right. Plus, there are zeros that have no letter in the alphabet. So instead of doing that, we must take a zero to mean either 10 or 20. You'll notice that either a 1 or a 2 precede all zeroes.

a b c d e f g h i  j  k  l  m  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 

 n  o  p  q  r  s  t  u  v  w  x  y  z
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Also, we will take 12 to be "l", not "ab" and so on. Decrypting the message this way reveals God's words:



Hello this is God speaking here I am I created the universe



This is absolutely incredible. If you still doubt, then verify it for yourself. A formula for calculating pi is:



pi = 4 * (1 - 1/3 + 1/5 – 1/7 +…)



(Alternately, you could very precisely measure the circumfrence of the universe and simply divide by the diameter.)



Examining the mathematical structure of nature has revealed God's unambiguous message. The only question now is what exactly does the message mean? It is clear that God exists, but since there is no way to use punctuation in the sentence, he was slightly impaired in his communication ability. For example, does the message mean:



Hello. This is God speaking. Here I am. I created the universe.



Or



Hello. This is God speaking here. I am. I created the universe.



Either way it is clear what God is trying to say.



Sorry to spoil the fun, but most of the above is BULLSHIT. It is clear what God is trying to say my ass. The best alleged God's-grand-message-to-mankind in all of fiction is probably Douglas Adam's "Sorry for the inconvinience."




A line that you might have missed in all of the above is "A formula for calculating pi is: pi = 4 * (1 - 1/3 + 1/5 – 1/7 +…)", the idiot gave the most impractical formula for calculating pi... how long can you really go on calculating till you get the string which he claimed? The other method suggested by him is "Alternately, you could very precisely measure the circumfrence of the universe and simply divide by the diameter" ... pretty impossible to do, unless he was God, so he suggests he found the numbers after calculation, to be precise: "If you calculate pi out to enough decimal places, you will find the following sequence of numbers". Sorry to say, but the number of numbers in the number pi is innumerable - you cannot stop counting once you start. Ahmes went up to a grand total of three digits after the decimal point, Aryabhatta got all famous for going a grand total of four, and a really dedicated fellow called William shanks spent twenty years of his life counting, and only went far as 707, and died without knowing that he had got it all wrong after the 528th digit.




Then supercomputers came along, and made the work easier and less tedious, and have counted into billions of digits, and are still dedicatedly at it. Now the string of text above does NOT appear in the known digits, which go into the billions, and it is unlikely that the webmaster will have calculated more into pi than the academecia around the world. But at some point of time, that message, and any message you want, is a part of pi. Don't get excited, infinity is a large, all encompassing number, just realise that. Therefore, you can invent almost any string of text you want, and it is bound to show up in pi at some point of time, especially if you have many bases for counting (base 2: binary, base 10: decimal etc). In fact, the probability that any string of text will NOT appear in pi is zilch... nada, nothing, zero, and as a class teachers would put it, one big circle.




Hell yes, Pi has my name in it, the 2930287933th digit onward, at the second base, appears 11000000000010010001001101001100100001000001011110
10100111101100 which translates to ,f_y,ijzl-g,,tbxn_aditya_wugvhlgzmmkiw. At the 1205751105th place appears "madgod". Any alphanumeric combination less than six chars in length is almost certainly embedded within pi (probability of 97 percent), and seven chars comes down to eleven percent, and anything above that is just highly improbable within the known digits... So all you need to do is write any message you want from God, translate it into numbers in any suitable base, and claim that God says this through pi, and no one in the world can prove you wrong.



Of course, to prove yourself right, you need to compute pi till the requisite digits, which is no mean task.



Or, you can search for words like :kinky" embedded within the basic fabric of the universe here and here. Both are pi search engines, which allow you to search for any string of numbers that YOU want within pi.



I guess life is cool as it is, without the necessity of God having to give a meaning to it all. Guess if there was a destiny for us, then our lives would be pretty purposeless...

Hyperlinks - (DON'T click here)

This is a piece of art. Porbably the cleverest piece I have ever written.
The point is that, everything is linked to something or the other. Obviously, you wouldn't have the patience to go through all the links, but if you do, it will more or less, totally be not worth the effort.
It all started with something that was smelling funny. The hyperlinks failed to work. Not that when they do work, they send me to some place useful, but when they didn't, I wasn't going anywhere, and stuck with one hell of a crappy page.
I was wondering why this was happening, but being a technofreak, no one will know better than me that computers have a mind of their own, are hell bent on taking over the world,
and more often than not,
do things without any rationale behind them.


Computers, I can safely then say, are pretty much like humans.
Especially, bhenchods
like these.
That was too good a point to be wasted in this post,
and anyway, if you are indeed clicking every single one of these hyperlinks,
then you will not be following what I am trying to say,
and therefore, I might as well not say anything that makes sense,
not that I have been doing that

so far.
Will not hide any secrets from you.
My blog is blatant and meandering,
like every other blog out there. I blog for no reason, about nothing, and with no intention.
Blogs,
being the ultimate union of the irrational acts of both man and technology,
are bound to have the fallacies of both,
and this terrible union is fated to end up in disaster.
I thought this would be funny,
and hope that it will,
but am almost sure that...
fuck it.
To hell with this,
am stopping right now.
Maybe there is a second installment on the way.

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