Well i feel an urge to write all of a sudden. i have been feeling this urge for a while now but there was a visible blocker on my way. A few months ago i got totally fed up with wordpress. A little negligence from my side and some random cracker decided to use one of wordpress' innumerable vulnerabilities to exploit my system. I swore then not to ever use wordpress and to write my own blogging engine. I ended up doing that as well, i wrote a really really simple engine that does its work pretty well. Best part was it was static and it was fool proof. only problem, the new blog uses a url schema which is super simple and completely different from my existing blogs schema. End result: i had a brilliant system but putting it will basically kill my existing perma links. What i needed now is a way to basically maintain my current schema and still serve from my new engine. I needed now a re routing engine, as a simple apache mod_rewrite / redirect solution did not sound appealing to me. so yeah i lost interest and i never got to finishing the blog. Anyway since i dont see the blogging engine coming out anytime soon i might as well start posting here. got tons to write about varying from sloppy services at restaurants to usability issues at IRCTC to music camps in ooty. Lets hope this post breaks the jinx and gets me to start typing again.