I have been using Google Reader for a long time. In fact, I have been reading more and more of blogs: be it tech blogs, foodies, designers, humorous ....  Many of them are on my google reader and a few which I subscribed via email from Feedburner. To be frank, I am reading blogs than I read a book or magazines or even news paper.

Past a month, I've subscribed to so many RSS feeds that my google reader has lost the exact count and shows 1000 +. Due to the lack of time, I have been unable to read many. But I'm sure I can read them all one fine day :) Earlier, I had a blog roll on this blog. But now, its hard to fit in all the blogs in a single blog roll. Hence, I've chosen to stick to the google reader and feedburner :)

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How do you feel when the content published on your blog is stolen by somebody without your prior permission? One of my blog post was stolen and published by this person on his blog without my permission.
Though, I commented on the blog, I haven't received any response so far nor my blog-post has been removed. Hence, I'm publishing it here.

I hold the copyright of both the textual and non-textual contents published on my blog. I even have the Creative Commons License below which clearly mentions that Non-Commercial No Derivative Works. I guess, the terms like Copyrights, Patents and IPR have no weight-age in our country and valid only in US or European countries.

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The schedule was so hectic that I did not browse for three long days. I have loads to write and read all your blogs and comment :)

And how do you like this footer at the end of the post?

I'm back with a new template from the default templates provided by blogger. Yet, I miss the old one which I admire a lot. You too must be missing that template; if you had been visiting this blog before. Currently, all the old useful links are gone.

I shall replace this one with a new template if I find time on a fine weekend :) Till then this template.

Dear readers,
The template of this blog has been altered without my knowledge :( Not able to understand if blogger isn't supporting the html format or the source isn't available.

Comments to retrieve the template are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

• It was 5:45 in the evening, I had finished typing the my thoughts in the blogger editor. Having logged on to yahoo messenger and Gtalk, I set my status on Gtalk "Updating blog" and forgot to set the same status on yahoo. As a result, one of my friend who noticed my status "Available" on Yahoo buzzed me. I pressed some other keys. A pop up appeared "Do you want to navigate away from this page? If YES click OK, else click CANCEL." By mistake I clicked OK. I was awe stuck as the editor where I typed the whole thoughts for an hour vanished in a couple of second. All was gone. I felt very pathetic that I had to redo it once again. I did type the same devoting an hour more!
  
  I felt that rather than using the blogger editor, there are various ways to post to the blogger. Each one provides some features: saving the draft on the local hardisk/desktop, retrieving the photos from flickr or photobucket et cetera, et cetera.
  
  
  
• The default one is to log on to blogger, type in the editor, upload the photos or even copy and paste html code. Finally, publish your post.
• Download blogger bot.
• Download google's Picasa. Scan all the photos in your local disk and finally upload it on your blog. This is a better choice if you are uploading photos.
• Sign up Yahoo's flickr, provide the appropriate credentials. Click on a photo, provide some writeup if you wish to and then publish. Or else click on a photo according to the required dimension, copy and paste the code into the blogger editor.
• Download the browser: Flock. You can draft the post offline and publish while you are connected.
• Download Windows Live Writer. For this, you should have signed up Windows live mail using your Hotmail account. Provide the credentials. Pen down your thoughts and publish.
• Try writely.com i.e. Google's docs and spreadsheet. Access it from anywhere. It saves all the docs periodically as we type.

I've tried all of the above. Have you?