ONE YEAR ON...

Yes!! It is the first anniversary of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai. In this past one year quite a lot of things have changed in our country and its all for the good.The first in the list being India is no longer resilient. There has not been a single terror strike (of course excluding the attacks by ULFA and the naxals) in this past one year, the intelligence system of our country has improved the Govt. has finally decided to meet the demands of the armed forces' demands on their pay (truly!! they are the most deserving) and a whole lot of other things have also changed and I am proud of it.

Things have changed drastically in the past one year and before 26/11 there have been numerous terror strikes that hit various parts of our country, various serial blasts killing many people across various cities including some of the most developed. Yet these attacks could not be stopped nor was there any single prior information available or if at all information was available, no action was taken based on the data received.

But today things are a whole lot different. If all this change has to be attributed to one single cause, it has to be the changing the Home Minister of our country from Mr. Shivraj Patel, who apparently lost the 2004 general elections and still made the HOME MINISTER of our country to Mr. P. Chidambharam, who has done a pretty good job (rather an excellent job) thus far, I would say "Chidambharam is a better Home Minister than a Finance Minister".

Change is here today, if this change was available a year back, such an incident would never have occurred. But, it all happened and many lost their dear ones. I would like to stand-by those who lost their dear ones and convey my solidarity to them at the first anniversary. I wish all of you people can also join me. May their souls rest in peace.

OH MY GOD!!!

In the last post that i had written, that i was back and i seemed to have disappeared yet again. It was almost a month back that i had written my previous post and nothing before today... close to 5 posts saved as draft but nothing published. But, why?

Twitter - follow me @csrianth (Don't mind the DP)
Facebook - add me as a friend here
Work - the work on the website, the blog, twitter (follow us @robotixlab) and loads of other stuff that we are doing there (including the robots that we are making).

And now that Vinay has left us to join Oracle Business Solutions, the work that we shared on the internet front would entirely come on my shoulders meaning extra work load. And, I'm like (OMG!!!), Vinay i am so mad at you for this... just kidding man... All the best with your new work.. have fun you have after all borrowed my tie for first day at work, hope that gives you luck...:)

Signing off
Yours
Srinath

GUESS I' M BACK

Work has indeed been very hectic off late and as days run out, it is only getting more and more hectic. Consequently, i wanted to take a break from blogging and thought i would get back later. But, certainly reduce the frequency of myself writing new blog posts (after all, making a commitment and not keeping up with it is never good!!!). So, i guess I'm finally back. But not sure how long this is going to last, as my company is planning to launch a new product very soon (in less than a month's time) and all of us are gearing up for that.

In the last few posts that i had written, I wrote a lot about google, SEO , Page Ranks etc. but none of these posts seem to have an impact on my page rank. It still continues to be 1 on 10. Guess i have been tricked by a write up i saw on the web that said write more about SEO and google to improve traffic and PR also.

Of course, i have changed the layout of my blog once again. Do leave your comment on the new template.

Hope to catch you all soon.

P.S. : Will update very soon on the new product launch.

GOOGLE CONTINUES TO ROCK!!!

"It was like wow!!!" when I first happened to realise my blog posts are climbing up the google search results. Now my Feedjit tells me that more and more readers are reaching my blog by searching for their desired results on google and google blog search.

Here goes the list
first - "first salary" quotes
second - "we all live in a darwinian world"
third - "manmohan"

After all this, with some hope I checked my PR,it remains at 1 [:(]

AT THE RIGHT TIME

Ever since the 50th post was published on my blog, I wanted to take a break from blogging for sometime. The reasons being four fold. First, my job getting the better of me (really hectic I must say) and my time (over the last one week, I have been returning home only post 7 in the evening). Second, not able to find enough time to allocate for my GATE prep. I thought, by reducing the time I spent on blogging, I would be able to find more time for my GATE prep. Next, the last one week or so has been a very low key affair on my blog. The comments that I have received have been very few. Zero, in many posts in fact. This was kind of demoralizing. Finally, I want to write about a few incidents and want to give my best in them. But when I do start writing, words fail me. This could have very well been noticed by the regular readers of my blog, I only wrote fillers repeatedly for a few days on my blog, nothing more.

When all this was going on my mind, I suddenly had a new reader reach out to me through gmail and the contact that I have given and I made a new friend :). Then after sometime, I had a comment on two of my blog posts (almost a week after I had published the posts) and real good ones I must say. Again by a stranger. And many more friends have told me through IMs that my blog is going really good. So, I guess I will carry on for some more time before I actually take a break.

Well, all this happened just at the right moment... so that I will carry on for now...