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Headlines Today is having a panel discussion on blogging today at 1:30 pm. I’m on the panel along with Sabeer Bhatia who talks about his new blogeverywhere concept, Pawan Duggal, the IT lawyer, and Arindam Chaudhari of IIPM. Watch it if you can. I’ll post a transcript next week.

Green aliens from Mars have invaded my blog

I’ve been on an enforced blog-holiday. For fortnight or so my internet connectivity has been poor and I’ve barely been able to keep up with email. Plus my work and social life has ratcheted up a few dozen notches. So the blog took a backseat.
Moreover, I’ve never been a must-blog-or-will-lose-face blogger. I enjoy blogging as […]

AnarCapLib was down for a few hours today. I’d forgotten to pay the great gods of domain renewal. Well, they’ve been appeased and the site is up again.
My email would’ve also bounced during this period, so if you’ve sent me mail and it’s bounced, please resend.

A brief note on AnarCapLib’s comment policy after the very encouraging response to my post on Poverty, footwear and cold water (105 comments and counting!)
The comments space is for you, dear reader. Attack, commend, debate and enjoy the posts. I’m also rather more forgiving with abuse (pretty often I let it stay as it […]

I’m finally back in Bombay. Had a refreshing holiday in Goa followed by a conference and some other work in Delhi (where I met the luxuriantly sideburned Jabberwok — he’s written more about the blogging blind date).
One resolution I’d made (and kept) was not to enter a cyber café or get anywhere close to […]

Article in the Indian Express on Blogging. Nice pic of “boyish looking 32 year old” posing for Rodin.
From Yazad: Badly written article. I was hoping it would be ignored but as it is not, I shall post later today on why I think it was badly written. Today’s Express has a much much better piece […]

Sometime today AnarCapLib would get it’s 30,000th visitor. Yay! I know it’s not too much of a landmark, but it a step towards greater things!
Of course, this blog takes about four hours to get 30,000 vistors.

I’m going to follow MadMan’s excellent example. My birthday may be five months away, but hey, you don’t need an excuse to gift me a book from my Amazon Wish List.

Here’s the spanking new comment policy for AnarCapLib. With a little help from the resident webguru, you’d see it whenever you are about to comment!
Comments are welcome and you are free to disagree with what’s posted.
However, please remember that you are a guest on private property. Abusive comments will be erased and your IP banned. […]

I’m such a newbie that my techie friends now help out even without me asking (they just read my mind!)
Premshree has created a Live Journal feed for AnarCapLib. You’ll find it here.
Thanks Prem!

More than a year after I’ve started using MT, I’m still a newbie and even the most minor of template changes flummox me. Just today, I wanted to change the “recent comments” on the sidebar — display the entry name instead of just “entry” and open the link in a new page. I did the […]

Yes, even the nice ones will get deleted. Please email me instead. I have multiple email IDs and do reply to email.
Update (August 22): Comments on this post closed.

Cleaned up my blogroll. Removed blogs not updated for some time and added many blogs that I’ve been visiting on a regular basis.
I have a simple rule for adding a blog to the roll — I like it enough to visit it at least a few times a week. It doesn’t matter if you […]

I’ve implemented a few cosmetic changes on the sidebar of the blog. The last fifteen posts will be displayed on the main page (regardless of date, so the page will not look barren when we’re in a collective writer’s block!)
AnarCapLib is proud to host ads from Google, both on the sidebar, as well […]

I’m flyng to Delhi on Sunday morning (July 18) and I’ll be there till Tuesday evening (July 20). As usual, bloggers who’d like to meet up, please email me on yazad_j [at] yahoo [dot] com. Sunday is largely free. Monday is completely booked and Tuesday is open, but work takes precedence. I’d most probably be […]

I’m making a quickie visit to Bangalore over the weekend. It is my second favourite city in India after all! Will be there from Saturday morning till Monday evening. Work on those two days, but Sunday looks great for meeting bloggers and friends.
yazad_j [at] yahoo [dot] com is the place to drop me a […]

Ravikiran shows off how many languages he knows. (BTW, There is some debate whether Tulu is just a dialect or a full fledged language)
Well my turn to show off. English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and French. Can read and write in all. French is very rusty now, but at one time I could tell you about […]

Every four years my Parsi birthday moves back one day as the Parsi calendar has no provision for the extra day in a leap year. It’s a good thing as I get to enjoy two birthdays. Over the years the gap between my Parsi roj birthday (which is today) and English date birthday has widened […]

Posting has been rather slack AnarCapLib lately. Not to worry — I’m not closing shop. A major content makeover is in the process. I like the current design, so that’s gonna stay.