While I worked from home two weekends back, I spent almost whole of last weekend in office. Thankfully, I enjoy my job, otherwise, I would have gone crazy.

I did manage to find some time to release a few updates to my plugins.

And, then I woke up last week to find out that PayPal has stopped personal payments to India.

And, the worst part is that all this is without warning. Now, I’m not really sure as to why this has been implemented. But, according to PayPal, they are waiting for some of their “business partners” to approve.

While we can still receive and send payments as “goods”, I find this entire workaround really stupid. And, once again we see PayPal’s lack of professionalism.

As for me, now I have to patiently wait it out and see what happens with PayPal. Unfortunately for them, I see a major move away from all parties, since we Indians form a really big part of the internet!

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Top 10

Track daily and total visits on your blog posts and display the count as well as popular posts.

Contextual Related Posts

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post.

Changes to Contextual Related Posts:

• Fixed: Custom output was not detecting styles properly
• Fixed: Incorrect XHTML code was being generated when using special characters in the post title
• Added German translation

Changes to Top 10:

• Added: You can now use HTML in the counter display

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BULLETIN: Your receipt for attending Mass.

CHOIR: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the Parish to lip-sync.

HOLY WATER: A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY.

HYMN: A song of praise usually sung in a key three octaves higher than that of the congregation’s range.

RECESSIONAL HYMN: The last song at Mass often sung a little more quietly, since most of the people have already left.

INCENSE: Holy Smoke!

JESUITS: An order of priests known for their ability to find colleges with good basketball teams.

JONAH: The original “Jaws” story.

JUSTICE: When kids have kids of their own.

KYRIE ELEISON: The only Greek words that most Catholics can recognize besides gyros and baklava. (it means Lord have mercy)

MAGI: The most famous trio to attend a baby shower.

MANGER: Where Mary gave birth to Jesus because Joseph wasn’t covered by an HMO. (The Bible’s way of showing us that holiday travel has always been rough.)

PEW: A medieval torture device still found in Catholic churches.

PROCESSION: The ceremonial formation at the beginning of Mass consisting of altar servers, the celebrant, and late parishioners looking for seats.

RECESSIONAL: The ceremonial procession at the conclusio n of Mass led by parishioners trying to beat the crowd to the parking lot.

RELICS: People who have been going to Mass for so long, they actually know when to sit, kneel, and stand.

TEN COMMANDMENTS: The most important Top Ten list not given by David Letterman.

USHERS: The only people in the parish who don’t know the seating capacity of a pew.

Little known facts about the Catholic Church in Las Vegas:

There are more churches in Las Vegas than casinos. During Sunday services at the offertory, some worshippers contribute casino chips as opposed to cash. Some are sharing their winnings – some are hoping to win. Since they get chips from so many different casinos, and they are worth money, the Catholic churches are required to send all the chips into the diocese for sorting. Once sorted into the respective casino chips, one junior priest takes the chips and makes the rounds to the casinos turning chips into cash. And he, of course, is known as The Chip Monk.

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.

Changes:

• New: The plugin extracts the first image in the post and displays that if the post thumbnail and the post-image meta field is missing
• New: Display excerpts in the list
• New: Credit link to the CRP page added. You can choose to turn this off, though I would appreciate if you leave it on.
• Updated: All parts of the list are now wrapped in classes for easy CSS customisation

If you are using this plugin, please do consider a donation towards its development.

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Contextual Related Posts

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.

Top 10

Count page views on posts and display a list of top posts by page views.

Where did they go from here?

This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page. This is similar to Amazon’s product pages which state “Readers who have bought this, also bought”.

The first two plugin updates include a fix for the display of thumbnails using postmeta. The plugin didn’t recognise any field other that ‘post-image’. This has been fixed now.

Regarding Where did they go from here, I noticed a minor bug that could cause a clash with any other plugin that is using a similar function call. This one didn’t warrant a major fix, however I don’t want any blogs breaking out there!

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Have you seen Amazon.com’s product pages? They all have a “Readers who have bought this, also bought. So, why not implement this on your WordPress blog?

This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page.

What’s new:

• New: Implementation for tracking hits even on blogs with non-standard WordPress installs
• New: Reset button to reset all browsing data
• New: Option to exclude pages in post list
• New: Choose if you want to blank out display or display a custom message
• New: The plugin extracts the first image in the post and displays that if the post thumbnail and the post-image meta field is missing
• Fixed: Postmeta detection for thumbnails
• Some optimisation and code cleaning for better performance

If you’re running WordPress on a non-standard install, i.e. if you have moved your wp-content or plugins folders from their standard locations, please do give this a shot. Do report any bugs if you come across any.

I’d like to thank Don Fischer for guiding me on this.

Also, do give this plugin a 5-star rating as well as vote for its compatibility on its WordPress Extend page.

Lastly, I am looking for translators. If you’ve made a translation of this plugin, do contact me.

If you’re using this plugin, do consider a donation.

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By light, I mean, I have been able to leave at a official times or maybe an hour later.

Last week was also eventful. Maria celebrated her birthday on the 8th and she invited me for dinner at Magnolia, the most convenient place in Koramangala.

I reached there a bit earlier and before Magnolia we went to the Cafe Coffee Day nearby. This one is in a rather weird location. This one is located on the first floor of a supermarket!

While I spent last Saturday at home lazily around, I spent a good portion of Sunday outside the house. Vincent and me first went to the Pizza Hut in Forum. This was under renovation the last time we went there and so we couldn’t eat there.

After pizza, we watched Sherlock Holmes at the PVR in Forum, followed by some window shopping at Landmark.

Work caught up this week, again, not as bad as last year. Won’t be heading off to work tomorrow, however, I will be working from home.

On the WordPress plugins front, I have two new plugins that I plan to work on over the next two weeks. I also have updates for three of my plugins. Should start on the updates tomorrow.

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I went in to watch the movie today knowing very well that it had nothing to do with the brilliant detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I came away from the movie with mixed feelings.

The movie begins with Sherlock Holmes and Watson catching the dreaded serial killer and sorcerer Blackwood. However, Blackwood returns from beyond the grave to strike fear in the hearts of the people of London with one aim: to take over the world.

And, of course there is only one man who can stop him: Sherlock Holmes. Ok, there are two, we can’t discount Watson.

From a detective story point of the view, the movie is excellent. A well woven plot, excellent acting on the part of Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. Mark Strong plays his role of Blackwood beautifully. His voice and style of speaking truly gives you the “creeps” at times.

However, from the point of view of Sherlock Holmes, the movie was a let down. I would still have been fine if they had not got some important facts wrong, like (spoiler ahead) Watson introducing Mary to Sherlock Holmes. The actual story is that Mary Morstan hired Sherlock Holmes and Watson in The Sign of Four. So, in effect, Mary didn’t need to be introduced to Holmes.

Also, we know Holmes to be a boxer. However, we never know him and Watson to get into fist fights when solving crimes.

Well, worth watching once or maybe more than once. However, watch it with a pinch of salt.

My rating: 7/10

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This plugin will show "Readers who viewed this page, also viewed" links on your page.

The one and major change is a one liner of code that I had missed in my earlier release. Unfortunately, the old release would not have tracked any new hits. So, please upgrade to this version immediately.

I have a new version on the cards that improves thumbnail detection and with better support for non-standard WordPress installations, i.e. where the wp-content or plugin folders have been moved from their normal locations.

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In fact, until August last year, AjayDSouza.info served as a secondary location for displaying my photos. It was powered by a script that fetched my albums from Flickr. However, I wasn’t too pleased by the script and so didn’t bother to promote the site.

I decided to hunt for a new script today and came across Glickr. Glickr is an extremely easy to use, smal, but very powerful script for displaying photos from Flickr.

AjayDSouza.info will now serve as the primary location for display of my photos. With a little .htaccess magic, I have redirected all existing links on this blog to the site. Please let me know if you notice any malfunctions / broken links.

I plan on working on the stylesheet and theme but that will be at a far later date. Until enjoy my photos.

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