These days I have been noticing an increasing number of bloggers playing the Blog Tagging game. And yesterday Sreejith tagged me to share 5 things that people don’t know about me. So here goes…

I like Astronomy: I was interested on Astronomy even during my childhood days. Nowadays I visit Stumble Video to watch interesting videos [...]

Currently 22 people have favorited JohnTP.com to their Technorati Favorites. I am looking forward to increase this by offering an exchange, i.e, I am willing to favorite your blog if you favorite mine.
You may also favorite the blogs of other readers here if they are interested.

Start by favoriting JohnTP.com by clicking here and then put [...]

For the past half an hour I have been getting 2-5 Spam comments every minute. This same thing had happened a few months back when Akismet was down.
I was thinking of using CAPTCHAs to fight spam but this post by Mark which gives some good points about why they might not be the best solution [...]

When designing the new theme, I had in mind a fast loading and neat looking design. After completing the theme, the site still looked cluttered to me and I figured out that the best way to make the site look neater was to switch to 2 columns
So I removed the right sidebar and [...]

After a few days of work, I managed to finish designing the new theme and made it compatible in IE 6 this time. I have optimized it for AdSense and tried to make the theme fast loading too.

I removed a few unnecessary images and also disabled Gravatars plugin as I noticed that most of the [...]

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Because my cat asked me to stop posting

After a few days of work I have decided to put up ContentWise v2 which is based on TechnoBlue’s Style for TripleK2.
In the first version of ContentWise, I had given more important to content and in increasing my pageviews. Infact it worked well and I used to run out of bandwidth easily.
So this time I [...]

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JohnTP.com had become 1 year old on October 17th. But I had started blogging in the month of November only, so I am a 1 year old blogger too
Let me share the current status of JohnTP.com with you -
There are currently 402 posts and 2,225 comments, contained within 20 categories. And Akismet has [...]