celestri.org

My name is Manish Jain and was born in Pune, India then moved to the US when I was 4 months old. I’ve lived all over the US – Buffalo Grove, IL; Washington, IN; Scottsdale, AZ; Foster City, CA; Washington, DC and Redondo Beach, California. Currently, I reside in Bombay.

On the work front, I have over 15 years of experience in the technology sector and started shaadi.com back in the pre dot-com era (circa 1996). Since October 2005, I’ve been in Bombay to focus on technology driven ventures click for more info [pdf, 8 pages, 1 mb].

My interests include traveling, cars, technology, finance, fitness and a certain fruit from Cupertino, Calif. ()

E-mail:
mrjain (at) gmail (dot) com

Voice:
manish.jain (skype)
+1.310.683.0341 (Google Voice)

Social:

About this site

July 3, 2010
Version 5.2 was an under the hood upgrade. Upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and switched to Disqus.

October 10, 2009
Version 5.1 was an under the hood upgrade. I went from WordPress 2.8 to WordPress MU (WPMU) 2.8.4a. I decided to go with the MU version so I could host more then one site on the celestri.org domain, technical details here.

December 28, 2008
Version 5.0 was launched with WordPress v2.7 using the Mandigo theme. Started to use a new commenting engine from IntenseDebate.

December 26, 2006
Version 4.0 was launched using WordPress v2.1.x. Click for more technical details. Archived image.

May 15, 2005
Version 3.0 was launched. Finally decided to ditch the static web pages and go for a more dynamic platform, then i noticed a free blogging software that iPowerWeb offered called b2. Around the time I was about to implement b2, I stumbled upon WordPress and started using it instead. Archived image

June 15, 2004
Version 2.0 was launched. After moving the sites between several web hosters I decided to use iPowerWeb, at this point the website was still manually created using FrontPage/Dreamweaver. Archived image

1999
Version 1.0 was launched. I originally hosted the website at shaadi.com from 1996-1999 then switched it to homepage.com, a casualty of the tech bubble. I used Microsoft’s FrontPage to create the site. Archived image

About the name?
celestri.org was chosen because I wanted something that was unique and evoked the thought of the sky, which is something I don’t get to see very often in smoggy Los Angeles Bombay.