Floating Sun
Why is this site called Floating Sun? Here's how the story goes …
Sometime around the summer of 2005, I decided to move my website off of UCSD machines and onto a professional hosting provider. But I had to come up with a good name for my website first. Creative juices were not flowing (as usual), and so I started off with some online tools (sorry, I can't locate them now) that let you give two or three words and then they would go off and make combinations with those words and related words and show which domain names were still available and so on.
After wasting some time on them, I thought what the hell, let me just pick something from my life. As you know, my name means “sun” in Hindi. Also, I'm not yet “anchored” in my life yet (career wise or family wise). And so I came up with Floating Sun.
As for the choice of the TLD, when I was searching for domain names, the ”.name” TLD was just beginning to show up. So I registered for “diwaker.gupta.name” – but it didn't sound cool and I had some problems with email forwarding and so on. Anyways, so .name was out; .com was obviously out; I didn't want a .org because I was not an organization. Which left .net; and I thought it might work because eventually this website might grow as a network of my family members. Heh heh.
Earlier Incarnations
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Akismet 2.1.6
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
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Clean Archives Reloaded 3.1.1
» Viper007Bond (url)
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» Dean Lee (url)
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» Arne Brachhold (url)
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Ozh' Absolute Comments 2.2.2
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» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
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Recent Comments 2.6.0.1
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Recent Posts 2.6.0.1
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
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ShareThis 2.2
» ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com) (url)
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Sub pages 0.3
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Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
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WordPress.com Stats 1.3.2
» Andy Skelton (url)
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WP-Dokuwiki 0.6
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AnswerLinks 1.1
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Fluency Admin 1.0
» Dean Robinson (url)
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Genki Announcement 1.4
» Genkisan - i18n patched by Masayan (url)
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Google Maps for WordPress 1.0.2
» Aaron D. Campbell (url)
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» Michael Woehrer (url)
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Ozh' Better Plugin Page 1.0.1
» Ozh (url)
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Popularity Contest 1.3b3
» Alex King (url)
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Recent Comments Widget 1.0
» Diwaker Gupta (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to display related posts plugin.
Recent Posts Widget 1.0
» Diwaker Gupta (url)
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Related Posts (modified) 2.02
» Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Peter Bowyer (url)
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Sideblog Wordpress Plugin 5.1
» Kates Gasis (url)
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Similar Posts Widget 1.0
» Diwaker Gupta (url)
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Simple TagsRelated Posts 1.0
» Diwaker Gupta (url)
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Textile 2 (Improved) 2.1
» Adam Gessaman (url)
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UTW-Related Posts 1.0
» Diwaker Gupta (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to display related posts plugin.
Wordpress Gravatars 2.7.1
» Rune Gulbrandsøy (url)
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Wordpress Thread Comment 1.4.7.8
» 偶爱偶家 (url)
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WPG2 3.0.7
» Ozgreg and WPG2 Team (url)
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WPG2 Random Image 1.0
» Javier Rodriguez (url)
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WPG2 Sidebar Grid Block 1.0
» Javier Rodriguez (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to display WPG2 gallery
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