ScribeFire

Yep, I am lazy !!! Sometimes it seems quite some task to open a tab, point to my blog, sign in, and then post something.

But ScribeFire is a Firefox extension that makes life really easy for me. Simply install ScribeFire onto your Firefox browser, tell ScribeFire about your blog, and use ScribeFire's editor to post to your blog. The editor is really similar to what your blog provides. The best part is you can manage multiple blogs (of different blogging services) very easily.

And yes, I've put in this post using ScribeFire. :)


PS : I am posting this note from Blogger, after publishing the post using ScribeFire. The post looks good. One minor point though. By default, ScribeFire adds a "Powered by ScribeFire" line at the end of the post. However, it can be disabled in the Settings tab of ScribeFire panel.

Oriya music

I was born and brought up in Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Orissa. Orissa is a beautiful state along the eastern coast of India facing the Bay of Bengal, and has a rich culture and heritage, replete with stories of devotion and sacrifice, grandeur and resplendence.

Orissa has had a film industry for more than half a century now, and songs have been a major part of the movies always. Oriya movies of the 1960-90s boasted of brilliant songs, soothing to the ears and really refreshing for the mind. Of course, the Oriya movies of late have been, IMHO, a shade pathetic when it comes to music.

Anyway, it is always an experience to be audience to the "old" Oriya songs. Recently I found some online music repositories that provide access to listen to these really beautiful classics online.

www.oriyamusic.com
www.musicindiaonline.com/music/oriya
www.purionline.com/entertainment

So tune in and escape into the serene world of the yesteryears.