Indy Telecom & Industrial Media

As you can probably see, there have been a few changes here – for one, there are two bars on either side of the content, as opposed to just one. You can also notice the use of tags and the tag cloud on the left. I have also cleaned up the look and feel a little and added links to RSS feeds and links to various social networking sites.

I experimented with various other formats, such as Content-Bar-Bar and Bar-Bar-Content, but I think this came out best. However, this theme does tend to have a wee bit of horizontal scrolling in 800×600, but my statistics tell me that those users are very few and far between. That said, I am working on having an option of letting the user select any of these three themes, based on their preference. And these three column versions of Becca Wei’s Almost Spring theme are from Taufik Kurniawan, who saved me the time of having to hack it into what I needed.

In other news, I had considered upgrading to WordPress 2.1, however given the number of plugins that work in this website, I am not really sure at the moment. And speaking of WordPress, Happy Birthday, WordPress.

Finally, today is India’s Republic Day. So, I will leave you all with some words of wisdom from Plato’s Republic:

The good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor. They do not wish to collect pay openly for their service of rule and be styled hirelings nor to take it by stealth from their office and be called thieves, nor yet for the sake of honor, [347c] for they are not covetous of honor. So there must be imposed some compulsion and penalty to constrain them to rule if they are to consent to hold office. That is perhaps why to seek office oneself and not await compulsion is thought disgraceful. But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule. It is from fear of this, as it appears to me, that the better sort hold office when they do, and then they go to it not in the expectation of enjoyment nor as to a good thing, but as to a necessary evil and because they are unable to turn it over to better men than themselves [347d] or to their like. For we may venture to say that, if there should be a city of good men only, immunity from office-holding would be as eagerly contended for as office is now.