Blogging Thoughts On Hosts Themes Widgets

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I have been receiving emails and in the form of comments, that I write on Blogging, provide some tips.

Blogging.

Blogging.

I do not presume to be a good blogger, but I shall put down some points I have learnt over the past four years, things I have learnt by making mistakes.

Points I make here may be used as a starter  and there are good bloggers and more technical savvy people are around, one can seek their help.

Let me reiterate I am a totally ignorant person of Computer and the Internet, let alone the terms like ‘Hosting’ etc.

Hosting.

I am writing on WordPress platform, that too in WordPress .com .

There are others like Bloggers of Google.

I do have blogs there.

WordPress,to me, may not look as flashy and rich as Bloggers,I find that very easy to write and the technical problems like texts disappearing, blogs not being visible ,images do not show,Links not displaying properly are very few and far in between.

And in such cases WordPress attends to them immediately with practically no lead time..

If they have a problem, they let me know and once they are set right, they inform me again.

In some cases, they inform me in advance.

Though Bloggers is very appealing and has a wide variety of formatting, to me it seems, that you have to do it by yourself, and that is too dicey for me.

But WordPress does every thing for me, I just concentrate on writing.

And too many options and I am lost as to what to choose in terms of Themes and Design.

Choosing.com,org,.net.

I am told there are some technical reasons for the difference but I am assured by WordPress is that your readership will not be affected by choosing any of them.

Going professional might help in terms of making the site design more appealing and will help one monetize better.

That is your choice.

So long as the platform on which you write does not give you headaches in terms of not displaying your posts,  your search results appear on the Internet, your problems are attended to immediately that Hosting should do.

Be it WordPress or Blogger.

I have not detailed about the other Hosts as it would beyond the scope of this post.

Themes.

This , again , is a question of personal choice.

If one wants Glitzy you have it..

But the more Links, Widgets, complicated Designs, the loading time becomes slower and that affects your Readership.

Keep the Widgets to the essentials to keep the reader engaged, from his stand point, not your own.

Apart from Meta description, Log in details,Follow,provide Widgets for Categories,Tags, Archives,Recent Posts,Top Posts and anything more is optional.

If your post is Photography oriented check with the Hosts for tips.

Too many Links in a Page or even in Home page affects the Loading time of your site.

The purpose of a Blog is to be read, primarily.

Make sure it is simple and readable, with reasonably standard fonts and size”do not use fancy stylish fonts, they may appeal to you, not necessarily the reader.

Avoid high lighting(actually this point should come under ‘Content‘)  or keep it to the minimum and Caps is strict”.No No”

I started off with DePo Masthead Theme of WordPress(three columns, I like it very much).

Then as my son told me repeatedly that my Blog looked like a scribbling pad, I switched to WordPress Sunspot Theme.

It looked very good to me.

In a week I started receiving suggestions that I change the design to some thing simple and more readable as the color combination was affecting readability.

Now I am using the Theme ‘Able’

I received feedback it is good.

Browsers.

I have used almost all of them,Google Chrome,Mozilla,Safari et al.

Google Chrome and Mozilla are very good.

Mozilla has very rich features in terms of easy sharing tools and convenience in writing .

But where Google Chrome scores over is that Google Chrome feels light to touch while Mozilla is heavy.(This is the best I can describe this point, I do not what it is.

So I am with Google Chrome for writing and with Mozilla for sharing.

More posts on Blogging follow.

 

 

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Honey Singh Obscene Lyrics Delhi Gang Rape

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A FIR was lodged against Rapper Honey Singh by an IPS Officer for his obscene Lyric content of hid songs.

 

Rapper Honey Singh has been a chart-topper this year, and he had two songs on YouTube’s list of top 10 most-popular videos of 2012 for India.

Honey Singh’s two songs are featured among top ten Popular Videos on YouTube.

An Online Petition has also been on against him for  the ‘porn and misogynistic content ‘ of his lyric.

“ ”These pornographic lyrics are unacceptable and it is because of women hating (sic) sentiments like these that men think that it’s fine to do what they did on that bus, that December night in Delhi.  Let’s put a stop to these subversive lyrics that infiltrate the minds of people who don’t know better and who then justify to themselves the rightness of a crime that harms another human being, sometimes so severely that they lose their lives.”

Honey Singh.

Honey Singh Dancing.

 

“Choot”

Aja teri choot maroon
Tere sir se chudney ka bhoot utaroon
Choodney key baad tujhe jutey maroon
Tere mooh main apna lora dey key mooth maroon (yeah)

Kar doon teri fuddi kharab
Merey jesa koi nahin meree bhudi kharab
Terey baad tere post
Bas yahi kaam kaaj mera
Kar doon ga khush tujhe
Luraa ley key naach mera……

 

Choda hoga tujh ko hazaroon ney
Mehngay mehngay kamroon mein
Lambi caroon mein
Bollywood key baray baray sitroon ney
Per merey lund jeesa dum naa bicharoon mein

Mein karoon din raat ek
Guzar merey saath ek raat …dekh
Terey jesey maine toree ek raat mein…
Aazma key dekh ley, dum kitni hai baat mein”

http://www.justsomelyrics.com/1593110/Honey-Singh-Choot-Lyrics

 

His programme on New Year’s Eve in Gurgaon. was canceled.

 

Honey Singh denied his penning these lyrics.

 

“Fearing for his life, in a startling revelation, Honey Singh claims the offensive song is not his at all.

 

“I swear on my music. I’ve neither written nor sung those offensive songs. I’d never dream of singing a song in praise of rape,” he says. “The thought is nauseating to me. I’d rather give up singing than attain popularity in such cheap and cheesy ways.”

Singh claims the song was released on the Internet by an imposter: “I’ve sent notices to YouTube and other Web sites which have uploaded the offensive number. I am shocked that such a song could even be believed to be mine.”

“I come from a family where women are respected and I’d never disrespect women by espousing rape,” he says.’(rediff.com)

 

Linking this to the incidence of the Gang rape in Delhi is sheer non sense.

 

People should not be carried away by emotions, trying to find a reason everywhere for th Delhi gang rape.

 

While it is indeed objectionable and perverse to sing these songs, the fact is this form has always been there right from the earliest societies.

We have Limericks,Sexual ballads,in Folk songs.

I am not sure how many know of this.

In fact some of the Tamil Folk songs are so vulgar sometimes you start hating Sex!

This and Strip tease, Belly dancing,cabarets ,nauch walis are here  to stay.

Do you know wrote the following lines?

 

 

“Cock

One can hardly miss the vulgarity of “Pistol’s cock is up,/And flashing fire will follow” (Henry V, II.i.52-53;also see PISTOL). Outside such double entendres, cock was also a substitute for the even more shocking word “God,” as in “By Cock” (Hamlet, IV.v.61) and “Cock’s passion” (Shrew IV.i.118)

 

Erection

“They mistook their erection,” notes Mistress Quickly, meaning to say “directions.” Falstaff responds, “So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman’s promise” (Wives, III.v.39-42)

Finger

The term “fingering” is more obviously bawdy in Cymbeline, when Cloten the clownish gallant hires musicians to help “penetrate” his resistant love object, Imogen. “Come on, tune. If you can penetrate her with your fingering, so; we’ll try with tongue too” (II.iii.14-15)

 

Plough

“Royal wench!” marvels Agrippa; “She [Cleopatra] made great ceasar lay his sword to bed;/ He ploughed her, and she cropp’d[gave birth]” (Antony, II.ii,227-29). “And if she [chaste Marina] were a thornier piece of ground than she is,” the pimp Boult proposes, “she shall be plough’d” (pericles, IV.vi.144-45).

Privates, Secret Parts

Genitalia. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Hamlet they are neither sad nor over-happy — “on Fortune’s cap,” says Guildenstern, “we are not the very button.” “Nor the soles of her shoe?” asks Hamlet; “Neither, my lord,” Rosencrantz replies. “Then,” the prince continues, “you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favors?” “Faith,” jests Guildenstern, “her privates we.” Hamelet: “In the sweet parts of Fortune? O, most true, she is a strumpet [whore]” (HAmlet, II.ii228-36).”

http://transmedialshakespeare.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/naughty-shakespeare-lewd-lexicon/

 

William Shakespeare!

 

 

It human n nature to express this way.

I know how women talk of sex when they think Men are not around,men go nowhere near them in vulgarity.

The issue becomes problematic when it becomes public and viral.

This is the price one has to pay for Technology and mass communication at fingertips.

Best is to ignore them and they will operate in their own circles.

Unfortunately, we enjoy them in private and adopt a Moralistic posture in Public!

If people are so concerned how come the songs have become so popular as to become a block buster in YouTube?

Many of them who enjoyed them, would have been women!

 

 

 

 

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‘Google Generation’ Become Brain Dead

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Yes , people lose creativity by referring to Google at the drop of a hat , never trying to use their brains or creativity.

People do not know the Multiplication Tables , Fractions even.

In fact I calculate additions and subtraction, Multiplication and Division faster than by using the Calculator(basic, limited to two digits)

Reason .

We studied Tables, rather learnt them by heart.

 

Trevor Baylis

Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind up radio, has warned the internet is leaving children ‘brain-dead’

‘One of Britain’s leading inventors has warned that  a ‘Google generation‘ who rely on the internet for  everything are in danger of becoming ‘brain-dead’.

Trevor Baylis, who invented the wind-up radio, said children are losing creativity and practical skills because they spend too much time in front of screens.

The 75-year-old said he fears that the next generation of inventors is being lost, with young people often unable to make anything with their hands.

‘They are dependent on Google searches. A lot of kids will become fairly brain-dead if they become so dependent on the internet, because they will not be able to do things the old-fashioned way.’

Recalling how his career had its roots in the very different world in which he grew up, he said he was  about five or six years old when he began to invent devices. ‘During the war, when I was not at school I used to go out and collect the rubbish,’ said Mr Baylis.

‘One day I was out and went to this house around the corner  from where I grew up in Southall, Middlesex, and this lady said, “I’ve got a box of stuff for you Trev, you’d better get a wheelbarrow.” So I picked up this thing and on the way back I was intrigued and I looked inside and it turned out to be a huge Meccano set.

‘If I wanted to make a five-wheeled motor car then I could, or a forklift truck. And that’s really what it is about, because that stays with you all of your life.’

The inventor, who was awarded the OBE in 1997, believes that  simple challenges in schools  using tools such as Meccano  model kits would give children invaluable skills.

He said: ‘With Meccano you could do your own reproduction of, say, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

‘If you brought Meccano back into primary or secondary schools then you’d have class one against class two – you’ve got four hours  to make the Sydney Harbour Bridge and we’ll see which one is the strongest.’

Many of Mr Baylis’s inventions have been gadgets to help the disabled.

He recalled how much of his motivation came from an accident when he was working as a circus stunt man.

He said: ‘I did an underwater escape act in a Berlin circus in 1970. When I was in the circus I had a very passionate affair with an aerial ballet star, a lovely girl from Vienna.

‘One night, she bounced off the net and hit the side and died halfway through the show and it broke my heart.

‘I suddenly realised disability is only a banana skin away.’

Mr Baylis still has a workshop  where he works on his inventions at his home in Twickenham, south-west London. He is currently lobbying the Government to do more to protect the intellectual property of inventors.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2253170/The-internet-leaving-children-brain-dead-Inventor-warns-Google-generation-spend-life-screens-losing-creativity-skills.html

 

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