Welcome to the Skeptic Geek!

this is the new home for An unquiet mind.

I have taken the plunge and decided to host my own blogs. My web presence will henceforth be at this new domain, where I am planning to maintain two separate blogs.

I was looking to consolidate my geek blog with my personal blog. I spent a lot of time thinking about and searching for a new domain name that would:

  • Reflect my personality
  • Be appropriate for both An Unquiet Mind’s character as well as a tech blog
  • Be available as a .com domain. This was the hardest part.

So finally, I am the proud new owner of www.skepticgeek.com.

The homepage is not yet hosted, since I am still figuring out how to optimally manage two blogs with Wordpress. The current plan is:

  1. http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com will be An Unquiet Mind
  2. http://geek.skepticgeek.com will be my geek blog
  3. www.skepticgeek.com may be either a static page or the home page of my geek blog.

I wanted to enable readers of both types to follow both blogs independently, including subscribing to a separate, specific RSS feed.

The URL redirection from Wordpress.com will be active for 1 year from today, after which I may discontinue it.

I request those of you who have me on their blogroll to update your links to point to http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com instead of http://mahendrap.wordpress.com.

Do let me know if you find any problems whatsoever with commenting, linking, navigating, etc.

How do you like my new domain name? All feedback and suggestions are most welcome, as always!

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August 25, 2009 – 8:12 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in Personal, blogging | Tagged | Comments (20)

20 Comments

  • harini calamur wrote:
    Aug 25, 2009 at 11:49 PM

    wel­come to your new home. is there going to be an online blog warm­ing party ? :)
    love the template.

  • SS wrote:
    Aug 26, 2009 at 3:05 AM

    Con­grat­u­la­tions and good luck! RSS feed changed accord­ingly…
    Hope you con­tinue writ­ing about social issues

    • Mahendra wrote:
      Aug 28, 2009 at 7:58 AM

      Snigdha,

      Thank you very much. I just have one request — can you resub­scribe to the RSS feed? I think you have sub­scribed to the raw blog feed and I updated it to the pol­ished Feed­burner feed after you sub­scribed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

      As you can see, my can­vas is very broad. I will def­i­nitely con­tinue to write about impor­tant issues as far as I can man­age. Your sup­port and encour­age­ment means a lot, and I am grateful.

  • Priyank wrote:
    Aug 26, 2009 at 4:46 AM

    Con­grats Mahen­dra! Every­thing looks very good. I will remem­ber to update my blogroll. :)

    • Mahendra wrote:
      Aug 28, 2009 at 8:03 AM

      Priyank,

      Thank you and I am very grate­ful for your assis­tance in set­ting up Word­press to run my two blogs.

  • manju wrote:
    Aug 26, 2009 at 7:11 AM

    Hi! First time I am com­ment­ing on your blog– I read some of your ear­lier posts and enjoyed them.

    The look of this new blog is great!

  • Krish Ashok wrote:
    Aug 26, 2009 at 7:19 AM

    Whatay coin­ci­dence. This is not the first time we’ve done some­thing sim­i­lar at the same time. I’ve cre­ated krishashok.com/blog to aggre­gate all the writ­ing I do out­side of Jalsa-Jilpa

    • Mahendra wrote:
      Aug 28, 2009 at 8:07 AM

      Hmm…brothers again, eh? :)

      Con­grat­u­la­tions! I have been so busy set­ting this up that I have so far resisted check­ing out your site — some­thing I will cor­rect immediately!

  • Nita wrote:
    Aug 27, 2009 at 9:50 PM

    Hey this looks great. I have already updated the link in my blogroll.
    Con­grat­u­la­tions Mahendra.

    • Mahendra wrote:
      Aug 28, 2009 at 8:08 AM

      Thanks, Nita! Con­tin­ued sup­port from old-timers like you is what makes it all pos­si­ble and worthwhile…

  • prax wrote:
    Aug 28, 2009 at 12:28 AM

    :-) Nice going … Loved the look and feel

    • Mahendra wrote:
      Aug 28, 2009 at 8:10 AM

      Thanks, Prax!

      Same thing as I’ve said in my com­ments above — loyal read­ers like you who engage in con­ver­sa­tion here make it a spe­cial experience.

  • Dev wrote:
    Aug 28, 2009 at 8:15 AM

    Oh, I was miss­ing this. Some­how my blog surfer still shows that last post from your ear­lier blog.
    This one looks good..btw won­der­ing abt your domain name skep­ticgeek? I mean arents skep­tics and geeks the same peo­ple? ;)

    Your blog change also reminds me that I have to do some changes on my blog too, some­thing which I have been post­pon­ing to do since a month now..perhaps early next week I will do so. Any­ways, good luck with your new blog site.

    • Mahendra wrote:
      Aug 28, 2009 at 8:21 AM

      Hi Dev,

      The ‘blog surfer’ will show blogs only from Wordpress.com. So I will no longer fig­ure there!

      Geeks are usu­ally skep­tics about every­thing else except tech­nol­ogy. That’s where fan­boys and evan­ge­lists over­shadow sci­en­tific skep­ti­cism. That’s why SkepticGeek.com ;-)

      Thanks Dev. I have been tied up with a lot of things lately, so I have to catch up with all your blogs!

  • amreekandesi wrote:
    Aug 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM

    Con­grats Mahen­dra! I like the look of this site…smart and crisp.

  • gauri wrote:
    Aug 31, 2009 at 11:18 AM

    A very pro­fes­sional make-over! :) All the best!

    g

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