Update Wordpress leaving your hair intact. Seriously!

I have Wordpress on majority of my sites and I have a bad headache each time I do a upgrade. I find it tiresome hair-pulling to have all the file backups and database backups and deactivate the plugins, upload new files and all that. Takes me about 30 minutes for each site. Imagine the headache for 15 sites! Then on, I started out sourcing my headaches upgrades on Digitalpoint. Worth the money spent for sure!

Last week I came across a plugin I always wished for; one which upgrades the wordpress site sans all trouble!

One of my resolutions for the New Year was to connect with more techies and webbies offline and hence have a pool of contacts I can always count on to have a drink or a watch a movie together or maybe simply ask about their adsense earnings for the week ;). Orkut was my first stop to find some people offline at my place Cochin. I found a few really interesting people and got in touch with them. It was really great to meet up with them, a bunch of techies who are warm and made me regret I had not taken this decision earlier :). No dollars ever earned gave me the feeling of happiness when people recognize your site and appreciate it. You need to feel it to actually understand what I am trying to say.

I found that Kenny, is in the process of organizing a second BarCamp in Cochin for Kerala after successfully completing the first one in Trivandrum. Whats a BarCamp? The concept of BarCamps are not really known to many including me. Hell, I first heard about the word from Kenny! From what I found online a BarCamp is

Today I went around digging my own archives again to find some of my well received posts. Those who are new to my blog might find it interesting. Tell me what deserves a kudos or a kick!

• Made for Paid Posts is the next big thing!
• My Cash Giveaway, are you in yet?
• Who is the best of PHP, ASP and JSP?
• Make money with your blog.

These are some of the posts I found to get some good traffic from searches too. Tomorrow on, I will be tell you some really helpful ways to get your blog some fast and easy linkbacks for some PR and Google love! Maybe I am turning into a SEO blogger now.

As you might know, I am trying to leverage my skills online, trying to make money off the internet. The internet is continously evolving, from a simple way to communicate between two computers, it has gone a long way. Heck, some are even trying to scrap it off!

I started off my web life with HTML, a basic and easy programming language if it can be called so. I started of making sites off it just for the fun sake of it, with some photoshop tricks to make it look nice. But I got busy with studies for some years and when I got back, the net had moved forward and become more than just Internet as I knew it pre 2000’s.

I am bringing in some of my previous posts to the front page. The traffic to this blog have reached places in the last few months, so it will be nice to have some of my interesting posts from the archive to the front page. Here we go!

• First will be the JohChow Pen, which will be the star post till it finds another home in another part of the world. Who’s claiming it next?
• The All new Yahoo! Web based chat. Looks nice and super.Have you logged in recently?

Logging into my favorite mail service, Yahoo! gave me a pleasant surprise, the yahoo mail and messenger integration. I have not used it yet, it feels strangely different to use a chat client with a browser, but I had pleasant experiences with their new web messenger, so this should be cool!

 

It definitely looks better than the gmail chat, which intrudes my privacy with all those context based ads. And hotmail live which seems to be a bit heavy even for broadband!

Yahoooooo!

Absurd? Unthinkable? WTF!?

If eveything goes well, soon we will have a new, hot and fresh Internet, or whatever it is going to be called. It promises to address all security, mobility, spam and every problem that has been coming up since the start of the Internet on the second day of September, in 1969. This is what some professors and researchers in the USA want with the support of the Big Uncle Sam Govt. Even European universities and some other private universities and organizations like govt. defence departments are believed to be following this pursuit for the new-age Internet.