Plans

Note: If you're here for limericks, scroll down. This is a post where I have outlined my plans for the blog.

I never expected it, but such is fate
My Blog got love, and not much hate
You can, at this rate
Continue to await
More surpises, good post, after post 98!

This is the 98th post (including 3 drafts) on my blog. It's been here since may 2006, and I'd never dreamt I'd continue it for this long. My earlier blogs would be abandoned after a short while. I can't believe that I'll have posted 100 posts here soon! :D

Along the way, what kept me going were the limericks. True, I haven't posted many in the past month, but I sense a return to form soon (I hope ;-) ). And, of course, the readers have too. People liked this blog (It was selected as Bestest Blog of the Day), and I hope you'll like it in the future too.

Now for some plans. I've tried writing serious poetry, but I cannot write good poems. I wanna keep writing funny ones, if that's all I can do in poetry, I'm pretty comfortable. Maybe I'll try writing serious ones again some day. Currently, though, I'm concentrating on writing short stories... I posted one on my blog a few days ago. I'm trying to write one each month. I've also planned a novel, but that'll take a looong time. Then there are my rants, about religion, pseudo-science, and whatnot. And some personal posts, to keep you updated.

There'll be the movie series, of which two posts remain. I also want to write a review of "Amores Perros", and see how that goes. Also, I have a new idea for a possibly monthly feature: conversations. That's right. Some interesting chats I plan to have with friends, talking about important and not-so-important stuff. But that's still preliminary.

Did I leave something out? Yes! Limericks! Lots of them :-)

One change I have to make to my blog to make it more user-friendly: I have to label all my posts, and then link to the labels in the sidebar, or like Hoctro has done.

Hope you like my plans. If you like my blog, do recommend it, add a link in your sidebar (I'll add one to yours too) , and of course, comment. :D I really like to receive feedback, be it praise or criticism. Thanks... Keep reading...

Update: The "Labels" have been added to the sidebar, what I've wanted to do for long. So, welcome to the new organised Limericker... if you're new here, browse by the labels. :-)

Switching to Blogger Beta

Don't let this distract you... it's just a notification. Beneath this are poems.

I switched my blog to blogger beta... mostly because I don't know HTML and beta offers customisablity without much knowledge of HTML. I like that. ;-) It's nice, with more options.

There are some problems, most of which aren't important, except this one:

Users who have not switched to Blogger in beta will not be able to login to comment on blogs that have been switched. Commenting using the "anonymous" or "other" options will still work.

I'm sorry about that. Please comment using anonymous until this problem is rectified by Blogger. :-) I like the switch, I get additional functionality without much effort. Hope you like it too.

Poll, and Counter

Well, I've added a poll and a counter on this left. They're free, and from Bravenet.

I couldn't get the right colour for the poll.. do tell me if it looks bad.

I'll be a-posting, don't worry. Just wanted your opinion on the changes. :)

Copyleft

Today, I got a Creative Commons License for my blog. (If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you'll see a link to it.) It's the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5.

It disallows the use of my work for noncommercial purposes, but allows people to modify and reuse it, under certain conditions. (I'm not good at stating this "legally", please look at the above link.)

Licenses like these are meant to expand upon copyright, so as to help "free use" of creative works. This article has much information about Copyrights and "Copylefts" (as these licenses are called.)