Masterpieces

For some unknown reason, the image I have put on my header doesn't display. Why am I so desperate, that I keep on mentioning it over my blog (you don't know what the people around me are going through these days, they have to listen to me all day long complaining about the header, and the image it refuses to show), is because I got one of my very nice friends to make an image for my header. She visited my blog just for that and then Photoshoped three images for me. As I can't put them on the header, I guess, it's fair enough to dedicate a post on them.. so here are the images people... All created by this talented friend of mine..

Aur bhi ghum hain zamanay mein.....

For quite a while now I have been trying to upgrade my blog's theme, adding more widgets (which actually work). I can't find my way around CSS and I am bad at designing, and I mean really bad. Girls are supposed to be good at choosing colors and contrasts sort of things, but guess what, I am different!! :P
So I got this friend of mine, who is a complete cheeti in Photoshop (next thing I am calling her up to tell that she got mentioned in my blog, maybe that would get her to visit it), to design some good images for my header.
And she sent me three brilliant designs, loved all three of them, and picked up the one I thought was the best... NEWS FLASH!!!! Blogger uploads the image all fine, saves it all fine, but when it comes to displaying it on the blog... THERE IS NO IMAGE THERE TO SPEAK OF...

Then there is this other thing going on.. Blogger introduced "Reactions" to posts thing, which I think is pretty cool.. But.. it doesn't work on my blog either. Any guesses why?

The only reason I could come up with is "They HATE me".. Why? I don't have any answer to that.
Maybe they are just angry, why?? I don't know that either.

So I got another blogger to upload an image on his header.. maybe there wasn't anything wrong with my blog, maybe things were going not-so-well at blogger people's end.. but not prizes for guessing, the image uploads and displays on his blog, but refuses to do so on my blog (so maybe they really do hate me).

I decided to put my rantings on Google's help forum, thinking that I would get some answer, some solution, or just some sympathies.... ohhh I was so so wrong.. Uptill now there hasn't been any answer there.. just my lonely lonely post....

And there was the problem of my comments not getting imported on this new blog :( :( sigh, sigh.... tears, tears.....

So I again started searching for themes. And couldn't find anything good on internet. I want some thing that is simple and which doesn't take ages to load.

I am quite happy with my current theme, if it would just allow me to upload a decent image.. I only want to upload an image, for crying out loud, is that too much to ask for????

I finally found a working code for "Most popular posts". Appartently, it's working fine.. let's see for how long that remains true.

I checked "Google's help forum" yesterday, to see if someone had answered my post there, but what I found there was not an answer to any of my problems, but a lot of other problems... and thought "Yaar, aur bhi ghum hain zamanay mein.. yahan to sirf aik image hee nahi upload ho raha...."

Blog moved.. Phase II

Realization followed by complete HORROR:
They didn't export my comments.. I already had a few of them and they didn't even import that!!
Maybe they have a minimum/maximum limit or something... if you don't have these many comments you can keep on dreaming of importing them to your new blog.. Or maybe it's their way of saying "How stupid would you be to import blog from an hosting site and then export it on the same."
Whatever the reason was.. I know that the comments are imported as well. After all, Rambler did it... then why did they choose to act discriminatly (I don't think that's a word. I checked on dictionary.com and didn't find it, but you do get my point don't you)... maybe they have something against me as well.
I think I'll ask them about it... soon... but no use now. Because I have comments on this blog now.. so importing the old blog again on this one would mean loosing the new comments.

Should I go with copy pasting comments from my old blog on this one???.. I AM khwaar after all.. and don't have that many on the old one anyways...


Attention Blogger:
I might have ignored this before, but a colleague brought my wandering attention to a tennie wennie detail (read ERROR!) on my blog.

"Intricate
View my complete profile.
There was an error in this gadget"

What happened was.. there was nothing wrong with my profile. But the gadget below it refused to work on my new blog (maybe it didn't like the new address).

So have removed it.. what??? you thought I would keep it as a souvenir.


The not so cool background:
I got bored with the themes provided by blogger. So I decided to go elsewhere and searched for themes on google. A lot of good ones I found but a few didn't work.. the one that did was the one that was the theme on my blog for a long time.
UNTIL.. someone told me.. it's not as good as you think it is :P :P
No.. no one exactly put it that bluntly to me.. but there were problems of loading with this theme.. it took a long time doing that.. so decided to go again with blogger. Until I find a better theme... and for finding something you have to look for it, don't ya? And for that you need time, don't ya mattie? And I don't exactly have that,, what with all the sleeping I think I need to to do, and the novel that I must finish.. and the other stuff.. I am supposed to be preparing for a presentation but being the dedicated blogger that I am, I am spending the little time I have on it.

Top 10 Ways to make people visit your blog

The following is a list of a few tips to make people read your blog or at least visit it.

1. Make your blog address a part of your email signature. Your emails would then resemble those who like to brag about their positions or think that everyone wishes to contact them and thus insert all their landline and cell phone numbers at the end of each mail.

2. Visit other blogs and accidentally leave your blog address in the comments of the latest post of the blog being visited.

3. Make sure that you somehow bring blogs and eventually your personal blog into the conversation with each person you meet, every day, even if it happens to be the first rendezvous.

4. Like people send an email address change notification to their friends and acquaintances, you can send a ‘blog created notification’. After all, the two aren’t that different.

5. Threaten your friends to make them visit you blog every day. Say things like:
“Jab mein mash-hoor blogger ho jaon geen na to tumhein autograph nahi doon geen.”
Translation:
“Don’t expect me to bless you with an autograph when I become an acclaimed blogger.”

6. Try to indulge your friends in blogging. It’s mostly the bloggers who are the blog readers as well.

7. You can also get your friends, who themselves blog, to add you in their blogroll. (Blogroll: A blogger’s favorite blogs.)

8. Thinking of a new nick for MSN. Just put your blog address in the personal message.

9. If you also like to write for magazines, make sure that your next published article has your blog address along with your name. Or, a better option would be to write an article on blogs.

Even if you haven’t been a writer till now, writing just one article for your own benefit won’t hurt.

You can do just one little thing instead of all of the above mentioned tiresome tasks –

10. you can start writing a good blog.