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This blog is now officially a CMS posing as a blog Its been upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, fitted out with a brand new theme and loaded up with the best plugins money can’t buy. Wordpress has finally come of age, its a cms now rather than just a blog platform. Its hundreds and thousands of contributors - plugin developers, theme developers and core team make it one of the finest pieces of code you can find.

Its slick, intuitive, extensible and really powerful under the hood if you want to load it up to performance levels, yet simple enough for the newcomer to start blogging almost instantly.

It allows you to add photos, videos, audio and other media at the snap of a button on its sleek visual editor. For the geeks an option to switch seamlessly to html view is inbuilt.

So now that my blog is completely up to date and cool enough, I thought i’d share info on what’s under the hood -

• CMS - Wordpress 2.5
• Plugins - Akismet, All in one SEO Pack, Share This, Subscribe Me, Viper’s Video Quicktags, WP Stats and the WP Auto Tagger.
• And presented using a smooth, cool and web 2.0 blog design from AskGraphics.

Thanks for all the hard work folks, you make this fun.

Question asked at NamePros -

I am considering purchasing a ws name. What is the resell potential for a one-word business name like money.ws? Not really money, I wish, but kindof similar. Thank you

My answer -
Resell potential = 0.

Honestly, I bought prices.ws and photographer.ws for less than $200 ea. and if you know the value of these keywords you’ll know this is a pittance.

So why buy .ws?
1. Excellent keywords can still be regged.
2. You can buy premium keywords for $20-$50.
3. Excellent development potential, luckily goog doesn’t really care about which extension the site is on but how much content s there and how often it is updated.
4. Godaddy markets .ws - little but its a big brand
5. The ‘website’ christening seems to have more and more acceptance.
6. Its easy to get traffic and thus revenue for better keywords in .ws than a ‘bad’ keyword in .com

Just my 0.06

edit - PS: .ws domains CANNOT be transferred between registrars, peculiar but there it is. So ensure that the registrar you do book at is a reputed one with many customers. Smaller companies might be cheaper but most resellers at least will be unwilling to open an account for 1 or 2 domains.

edit - 30th Mar 2008 -

Theres been a change at the Registry end and now .ws domains can be transferred. edjackiel over at Namepros broke the news.

“Can I transfer my domain to another registrar?

Yes, .WS domain transfers may take place in accordance with the “GDI Transfer Policy”. Please contact the registrar you would like to transfer to for instructions on how to proceed.”

http://website.ws/faq/index.dhtml

Don’t think so mate. Shoaib might be cool and everything but I don’t think any coach would allow behaviour like this. But then again, it is supposed to have happened the day before Shoib tested positive for steroids!!

The plot thickens.

What if this whole shenanigan was to dump the blame on Ole Wooly and try and get back out of his two year ban. Wooly of course would have to be in on it, I’m not saying he is, just that it would make for a juicy controversy, wouldn’t it?
I wouldn’t put it past any SE Asian team to er…. provide incentives to anyone willing to save their star player.

But who knows, maybe this is just a new kind of ‘Bodyline’ attack by the aussies - send out your coaches all over the world, get them to crap out some very good teams.

For example the Indian Cricket Team. Its got so bad performance wise the BCCI is thinking of making players pay incentive based - great idea that. You don’t score or get wickets you get less money!!

I have another suggestion - if your quarterly pay gets less than X amount - out of the team. The next most deserving person in line gets to try his hand for the next quarter.

Of course, ‘most deserving’ is sometimes not the best player.

But discussing that would add a whole new section to this blog!!