I have changed my hosting provider and within few days blogging should be back to normal.

For some reason Movable Type on my host (powweb.com) has started flip-flopping in its behavior. So now I cannot post an entry directly. If I publish an entry it does not appear on the main page. I have to an explicit rebuild which looks ridiculous.
The category archiving has failed completely. Comments do not work. The worlds are colliding.
My hosting provider graciously declined to help which means I am on my own to debug.
So I have to explore other options like
(a) Fix the problem
(b) Move to another hosting service
Till one of them happens there will not be any more posts. If you have suggestions for a good MT Hosting Service please mail me at tiptronicus [at] gmail dot com.

This week’s blog mela is up at Ashish’s Niti. This time there are couple of entries from non-Indians as well. The next one is up at Opti-Mystic
While on the topic of Indian bloggers, Rojo is a new online service for managing your RSS/Atom Feeds, similar to bloglines. When you login to Rojo you get an initial list of blogs in various categories to subscribe to. Now they have new Indian Bloggers bundle for subscribers which includes feeds from AnarCapLib, EMERGIC, Jivha (Who does not blog anymore), The Examined Life etc.
Even though it was me who sent the mail to Chris Alden, this blog is not in the list 🙁

This week’s blog mela is up at Yazad’s place. I tried reading some of the Hindi blogs and could not proceed beyond a few lines. For me reading Hindi on paper seems to be easier. As usual I picked some good blogs to add to my bloglines list.
The next one will be hosted by Ashish Hanwadikar. Please send him your nominations.

This week’s blog mela is hosted by Aadisht Khanna. Some interesting entries, some not so interesting.
Next week’s blog mela is hosted by Yazad

Madhu Menon is hosting this week’s blog mela. You will find many Indian blogs worth adding to your blogroll. The complete schedule of the blog mela is available at Shanti’s place
While on the topic of Blog Mela, Yazad has some musings on the issue of awarding $10 to the winner and the role of the host of the mela.

The Blog Mela is up again, this time outsourced to Mumbai. There is a prize of $10 for the winning entry and rigging the polls are welcome. As the winner of the first rigged blog mela, I should say, it is worth it.

One of the best Indian blogs, The Acorn is one year old. With his insightful commentary and analysis, Nitin has definitely enhanced my knowledge. While bloggers tends to write about everything under the planet, Nitin has stayed with just a few Categories (7), and hence there is more depth to his writing.
Congrats!

When you blog about something, that entry stays on your main page for a few days and then it sinks down into your personal blog blackhole almost never to surface again. I found two plugins to bring some of those entries back to the surface again.

• OnThisDay brings up old entries blogged on the same day in previous years. (Example on the sidebar)
• RelatedEntries is a tag on the Individual Archive Page and displays 3 (configurable) entries in the same category.

I still don’t like the look and feel of this blog, so I will be actively stealing your CSS files.
Also speaking of MT, there is an excellent blog called Movalog by Aravind on customizing MT. (He is only 15 years old)

At some point mt-blacklist stopped working for me and spammers took over. So I pulled the old blog down and upgraded to MT 3.0. The look and feel is the default one and I will slowly bring back my old templates.
Now that my Wireless network is working and the new Dell laptop is in my hands, the regular postings will start.