It’s Christmas! WooHoo!

Merry Christmas to all near and dear ones…. Here are some wishes from me to you all:

• This X’mas, may Santa gift you with hours brightened by sunshine, days blessed by happy memories and life warmed by love of friends and family. Stay Blessed. Merry Christmas.
• May the spirit of Christmas bring you Peace. The Gladness of Christmas give you hope. The warmth of Christmas grant you Love. Merry Christmas
• Not only for Christmas, but for all the long year through, the joy you give others; is the joy that Comes Back to you. Love all and God will love you. Merry Christmas.

Have a blessed and a beautiful day. Merry Christmas!

(Okay, now you can send me my Christmas gifts. I am accepting cash)

It’s Christmas Eve!

Expected some great movies this season. Nothing much in Hollywood to talk about. Disappointing really.

By the way, i just watched “I’m Legend” starring Will Smith”. Ummm.. Frankly, it would have been better if they named it “I’m Crap”. It’s a very disappointing movie. A great concept and a great story, totally wasted.

The first half, nearly an hour long. It was terrific. Will Smith and his bitch (Samantha) were terrific in whatever they did, whether it be hunting, racing, playing golf or surviving the nights. I enjoyed the first half. Then i got myself some popcorns and drinks. The second half commenced. A girl shows up from nowhere, to save Will Smith. And then there is a survivors community out there on mountains. Blah Blah Blah….. And suddenly “I’m Legend” is no more alone. Tired of wanting some real action, i finished my drinks and started munching on food n popcorn. And before i could even finish my popcorns, the movie ended. It took just 30 mins for second half to end. And there it was, all of a sudden, the movie became boring, disgusting, disappointing, pointless, and really whatever you can think off. I think the guys rushed a little too much in Movie. They had the time and could have given a better ending. They could have done something to those nasty creatured which they termed “DarkSeekers”. They could have done something to that girl whom Will cured.. or rather was curing. I didn’t even understand why there was a leader among those creatures who continued to bash his head on the glass wall which separated them from Will Smith. I think i would have rather watched “Air Buddies”. I was seriously disappointed with “Whoever Is Legend”.

Moving On….. Well, Just 5 movies playing in nearby hall this Christmas.

Goal : Stars John Abrahim and Arshad Warsi. It’s just an average movie. Probably like what every sports movie ends in. Winning in last minute again.

Jab We Met : That’s one movie i have already watched twice. Full of comedy, full of entertainment. And i guess for the first time, Shahid and Kareena looked great together, on screen. Not to mention that they separated recently, off the screen.

I Am Legend: Says who? Change that name..

Welcome: Looks to be a very promising movie. The previews looks great. Expecting a lot of entetainment from this movie starring Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif among other great names. I’m coming for you baby….tonight

Taare Zameen Par: A movie starring the Mr. Perfectionist, Aamir Khan. The movie has a different and a unique concept. The story resolve around the kids. I haven’t just watched it. But people say that the movie is worth every penny spent. A friend of mine, Sumit Bahl, who is a serious movie critic, says… “Taare Zameen Par was a fantastic movie. It does not deserve anything less than Oscars. And Oscars it shall be.” It was funny how told me that while he was watching, he could regularly hear many girls, parents and children weeping most of the time. I wonder how he was able to control himself, though it was hard to control as he says. I definitely will be going for the movie this week, and would try to post more about it.

Hey, no Christmas movies this year? What’s wrong hollywood and bollywood. I was in mood for some animated movies this Christmas… Anyways, Guys….enjoy the Christmas Eve. Take care and watch movies. Sometimes they are good for you!

17th December’2007. That was the actual date, the day when “Blogging” or “Blog” celebrated it’s 10th birthday.

10 years back, of course there did exist, many online journals and message boards, but nothing like blogs were thought of, until one day, “Jorn Barger” coined the term “Weblog” which described the process of “logging the web” as he surfed. Weblog was combination of words “web” and “logs”. But us, the online community in those years, were quick to shorten the word “Weblog” into “blog”. And thus was born what i think most of the internet users, know of, early in their childhood.

It is amazing how, Jorn Barger, in December’1997, started posting comments and links, etc on his website “Robot Wisdom”, thus pioneering the weblog. Today, we all do the same thing. Most of us own a blog and we keep blogging the same way. So let’s give credits to the pioneer himself, who changed the internet world, forever. Thanks Jorn, and Happy Birthday “Blog” or “Weblog” or “Blogging”

Christmas is just around the corner. Shopping and decorations have already started. So why should webmasters stay behind. All are decorating their homes and i guess webmasters would like to decorate their websites and weblogs as well. With this thought in mind i started searching the web to find out some good wordpress themes for the festive season. Then i thought why not collect all the popular themes we have for the season. So here are some of the popular wordpress themes for Christmas.

Christmas Days : It is one of the my favorites among the Christmas themes. It’s a two column wordpress theme named “Christmas Days”. It is designed and distributed free by Design Disease. It’s coded for the latest version of wordpress and thus support the “tags” feature. It’s also a widget ready theme. Another good feature of the theme is that there is space in sidebar for your Flickr photos. You will have to use Flickr plugin with this theme, but the feature add lot of grace to your blog. The color combination is great and goes well with the mood of Christmas. This is one theme that you should definitely have on your blog, at least this Christmas. Visit Author’s Page - Download Link.

Hot Screensaver’s Christmas Theme : While writing this post, i searched for more themes on net. And this new theme came up after much searching. And i am glad i found it. This theme really rings the bell this Christmas. I will put it right in the best free wordpress themes available this season for Christmas. Do checkout the theme. Full credits to the designer. Gosh, they went in so much detail, even the “Submit Comment” button is designed for Christmas. I guess this one is perfect for Christmas. It is designed by Hot-Screensaver. A three column theme with two right sidebars. Widget and tags supported. Striking features includes easy change of header image via wp-admin and pretty nice adsense or any other publisher ads integration. Yup, adsense ready theme. I have made up my mind. I’m going to use this theme for Christmas on few of my blogs. You can visit Author’s Page - Download Link.

Christmas Gift Wordpress Theme : It’s a great looking wordpress theme for Christmas. The header part is very well designed. The first look at it will tell you that’s it’s Christmas in the air. The rest of the theme is sweet and simple. It’s a three column theme with a left sidebar and a right sidebar. The Christmas Gift theme has been designed by Rahmat Blog. The heading parts for categories, blogrolls etc. has been well designed as well. Theme is compatible with latest version of wordpress. Also it is CSS and XHTML valid. It is widget ready theme. I would say that overall it is a very good theme. For more details and live demo you can visit Author’s Page.

Merry Christmas Wordpress Theme : Ahh! Finally a dark colored theme. 1 Column theme, literally.I mean there are no sidebars etc, just a footer bar as one can call it. It’s a dark colored theme. Probably one can say that the theme depicts the Christmas night. What matters more is that there is Santa Claus, there is moon and there are colors in this theme. The theme is well designed. It’s a good looking theme with different concept than the other themes that i have listed. Propbably that’s the reason i chose it in this list. I have no info if the theme is widget ready or if support tags feature of wordpress as the author didn’t mention that on his blog. You can visit Author’s page for download links and demo.

I just came across these quality themes till now. If you know about more themes that are free, for wordpress and are quality themes, then please let me know and i will add them to the list. Until then, enjoy the themes and Christmas shoppings

Recently, WidgetBucks announced that they will only be entertaining US and Canadian traffic for clicks etc as they thought they are the only customers who will likely buy a product from their advertisers. At that moment it looked an end for WidgetBucks as far as the international traffic was concerned. The only alternative that was left was to geo-target your websites. Geo-Targetting would have been lot of pain for some website owners. On my side, i stopped using WidgetBucks simply because i didn’t had any website which only targeted US and Canadian citizens. But i guess all are troubles are over with the very recent development by WidgetBucks or in more general by Mpire Corporation.

Today, WidgetBucks launched it’s new International CPM ads that would be included in our widgets itself. It’s basically a CPM ads for non US/Canada traffic. Of course this is going to help publishers in a big way, specially those who have blend of traffic from many different countries. The new CPM ads will give you revenue per impressions, for the site visitors. There system will itself Geo-target the ads for you. For example, if your site visitor comes from US or Canada, the widget will display the normal pay per click program. However if the visitors are from other countries, the widget will display ads which pays per impressions. This is going to be great. I recommend you to join WidgetBucks today. The future seems bright.

By the way, just for your information. You will need to recopy your widgets code in order to make the widget work as mentioned here. Once you have the new code on your site, WidgetBucks’ system will itself take care of rest of things. Frankly, WidgetBucks is back on many of my sites. If you still haven’t signed up with them, well i recommend you to sign up instantly and enjoy the benefits. You can visit WidgetBucks here.