The Plucky Programmer

After a year long stint with www.speedhost.in, akshatb.com is now moving to a new webhost (and domain registrar), GoDaddy.com. It will take a few days to fully come in effect, but the gears are now in motion. Though the previous host delivered what it promised and was only slightly cheaper, the plan shackled the website under a monthly and daily bandwidth cap, which when exceeded prevented the website from being  [ Read More ]

After 2.5 hours of perspiration, and a watermellon and maggi powered morning, I have managed to produce what I have been putting off since the day I opened this blog: A gallery. Inspired by Ankur’s, I knew I would need a gallery because I would be uploading many original pictures. And here it is: URL: http://gallery.akshatb.com/ I have used Gallery 2, and the theme Carbon, which I didn’t want to  [ Read More ]

As promised in my previous post, some of my blog specs: The Host: www.speedhost.in, 1 GB webhosting, 15 GB monthly bandwidth, cPanel I bought the domain name, along with a humble 1 GB of webhosting as soon as I came back from school on the 15th. I thought that it would take a day for processing, but actually I got the email confirmation and my cPanel id and password within  [ Read More ]

Had I been part of a greek mytho tale, there wouldve been an Oracle and she would’ve probably made a prediction about this earlier. The crux of the prophecy, well, would’ve been that the Plucky Programmer will shift to a new domain right after his exams end (sung out in a mysterious, ethereal tone that sounds likes trying to dislodge a fly from your mouth while gargling of course) .  [ Read More ]

Omfg. Its already 2010 and I didn’t even get time to say Happy New Year in advance to my dog! :S 2008,  like so may of those other years, had whooshed off making that noise which reminds you of daffodils and golden crops swaying gently in the breeze. In other words, I absolutely hated it. This year, though, was quite awesome indeed. Started with a bang, ended with a bang,  [ Read More ]