Hi. I’m Abhishek Nandakumar and you’re reading Escaped Sequence, the weblog I maintain. I started writing when I was at high school and I used to publish posts regularly on my previous blog, now archived at xAbhishek.com. I joined Mount St. Mary’s School in first grade and graduated after spending a splendid twelve years there. MSM and the host of events it organised for its students moulded me into the person I am today. I was president of the computer club at school and the webmaster of the official website. When I was not in the Computer Lab, I used to jam with my friends in the Music Room at school.

After graduating from school, I knew I had to take up a course in Computer Science. I completed my undergraduate studies - BS in Computer Science - and am now pursuing the first two semesters of my MS in Informatics at the University of Delhi.

Why do I use the name xAbhishek online?
When I decided to shift my previous blog to a top-level domain name, what I wrote did not focus upon anything specific. The content there was as random as a variable ‘x’ attached to a function that does the job of a pseudo random number generator. That was reason enough for me to start calling my blog xAbhishek. I had to choose a domain name, and xAbhishek.com was available! I then started using this handle online because it was conveniently available on other services I signed up for. Twitter and IRC channels are two places I frequent where I use the same handle. Having used this name for so long, now I see that some of the people I meet outside the virtual world, prefer to acknowledge my existence by calling me xAbhishek.

Distinguishing between Articles and Link posts
I use two categories to highlight what I publish: Articles and Link posts. Articles are regular posts where I may either write to express my opinion about something or write to archive what I have in mind. Link posts are posts that carry a link to an external webpage or website along with a short description or my opinion about the linked content.

I let the titles of posts help visitors distinguish between content from these two sections by modifying their appearance and behaviour the following way:

Appearance: The size of a Link post title is much smaller than the size of an Article post title. Link post titles are underlined and a mouse-(h)over will result in a change in the colour of the line. Images behave as links as well. When they do, bringing the mouse over them will change the colour of the border surrounding the images. On touch sensitive displays you’ll know the difference when you tap on them(links, images).

Behaviour: The title of a Link post is linked to an external webpage or an external website that I want to point out to visitors. Therefore clicking on a LinkConnect title will redirect you to that external page. Titles of Article posts don’t behave the same way. Clicking on the title of an Article post will take you, like clicking on a permanent link of a Link post would, to the permanent page of that post.