Order and Anarchy

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
– Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Of late, I’ve seriously started thinking on the lines of migrating my blog. It’s only due to the reason that I’ve been facing some problems relating to my current host ; first of all, since I don’t have filesystem access, it’s been impossible for me to upgrade my blog software. Secondly, due to the same problem, It’s now become quite difficult for me to deal with the level of spam that my comments field are attracting and sitting and looking at each spam comment and moderating it manually has become quite tedious.

I have thought of a plan that envisages a progressive growth of this blog in the months to come. However, I think I’ll have to stick to free hosts for the time being, which, I understand isn’t a very good idea but definitely this issue has to be dealt with in due course; but again, I’ll have to rely on such hosts for some time!!

Looking for a host also created an urge to look for another platform for my blog and after testing Subtext, Nucleus, Drupal and obviously Wordpress (which has been my platform of choice till now), I’ve settled for Drupal, although there is a major issue of migrating my current posts to Drupal, as the solutions that I’ve been able to find again assume access to the site’s filesystem ....

Well, it’s still and idea and let’s see how it fares in due course.

Now, it’s the turn of Geo News to face the music, a couple of TV channels having already come under the ire of the dictatorial dispensation that has its say virtually over all affairs Pakistani. The following screen grab tells it all and stands as a stark reminder that whatever Musharraf keeps ranting about, afterall, it’s a Pakistan under siege of it’s supposed protectors, it’s a Pakistan held at gunpoint .

Govt. blocks transmission of Geo News.