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I have just made the first version of my first serendipity theme/template. I call it (creatively enough) "brown paper".

The entire purpose of making a new template was to make this website my own bit of work. I am never fully comfortable with using somebody elses work. I find myself itching to customise it and make it my own.

I wanted to make my website look like a stained piece of yellowish paper. The paper had to be yellow because I think that makes it easier to read text. The stains would give it a well-used feel. I have successfully tested it in Firefox 1.5, Seamonkey 1.0, IE 6.0 and Opera 8.5. It displays too wide in IE 5.5 causing the horizontal scroll bars to appear.

EDIT: I have completed this template. I fixed a few bugs relating to comments display and admin new entry preview. A few other minor changes were also made. Its available for download here and via spartacus.This theme is a modification of the default s9y template. See the included credits file for details.

I usually connect to the Internet using dial up prepaid scratch cards. For a long time now I have been using supernet cards despite their cost. Supernet Rs. 100 cards cost around Rs. 13 per hour for most of the day. But things get really bad at night. After ten their charges drop considerably and everyone dials in creating massive congestion. An already slow dial up connection slows to a crawl.

There is some good news though, recently I discovered cybernet student cards. These cost around Rs. 4/hour for most of the day which is great. Unfortunately their charges for the congested 10pm - 1am block are around Rs. 5, significantly higher than supernet's.

One thing that I find really strange is that supernet blocks SMTP port 25. This means that I am unable to send mail using my hotpop.com account. I have to use my gmail accounts with a hotpop reply to address. I have no idea why supernet does this. Maybe it's to stop people from using other POP email providers or some sort of anti-spam initiative. Now that I have switched to cybernet things may just get a little simpler.

This free program tells you which files and folders are occupying the most hard disk space. It graphically displays blocks of files on you hard drive. It also displays a list of the folders and files along with their respective sizes, percentage of total used space occupied etc .

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In this arcade game you have to race Tux the penguin downhill within a limited amount of time while at the same time collecting as many fish as you can.

Size : ~ 7.5 MB

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This is an arcade type space shooter with a slight twist - do anything you have to (even self-destruct), but don't let the enemy ships get past your fighters. This makes for interesting and fast paced gameplay. However, be warned this is a tough game.

Size: ~ 1.6 MB

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