tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109183342024-03-14T10:50:10.825+05:30Shabda's Homeshabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-77880927575966860412011-10-13T16:59:00.001+05:302011-10-13T17:01:12.928+05:30Agiliq: Django web developmentYou can find me now Blogging at Agiliq.com where blog about <a href="http://agiliq.com/blog/">Django Web Development</a>.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-59832057079590854622008-10-04T11:00:00.009+05:302008-10-04T12:58:42.174+05:30Peacing you with answers"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."<br /><br />--Friedrich Nietzsche<br /><br />My friend <a href="http://grv-k.blogspot.com/">Gaurav Kochar</a> ask some interesting questions, and ask to "<a href="http://grv-k.blogspot.com/2008/10/blast-me-with-answer.html">Blast me with an Answer</a>". Here is peacing with answers.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">1. Why has never a single politician or even his PA died or even get hurt in any of the blasts.</span><br /><br />A. Why has any person whose name starts with ZFS not died in the blasts. Innocent people of our country have died, how would politicians dying make this better, (or worse?). Unless of course, you are implying that the politicians are behind the blast and have prior knowledge.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">2. Muslims say that because of a few terrorists their community is suffering a bias. Why has not even a single Muslim ever tried to educate their rotten head brothers.</span><br /><br />A. "Why has not even a single Muslim ever tried to educate their rotten head brothers." <sup><small>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">Citation Needed</a>]</small></sup><br /><br />I am a Hindu, and have been trying to educate my <span style="font-style: italic;">rotten head hindu brothers</span>, most of the time it does not work.<br /><br />[PS. How is each Hindu my brother, and each Muslim, a Muslim's brother?]<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">3. How is it so easy to distribute anti-India posters in the capital of India itself. And why no action is taken against the community that does this.</span><br /><br />A. Agree, extremely strict actions should be taken against all such <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajrang_Dal#Controversies">activities</a>.<br /><br /><br />4<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">. Why did our HRD minister come in defense of the Jamia terrorists even without any proof of their innocence.</span><br /><br />A. [You mean Jamia <del>terrorists</del> University.]<br /><br />Per our constitution, and accepted legal precedents of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence">Innocent until proven guilty</a>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">5. Why does the governance body forget about martyr M C Sharma but remember about the bloody Sohrabuddin.</span><br /><br />A. Not only the Government, but we the citizens need to remember, both the sacrifices of Martyr M C Sharama, as well the state sponsored fake encounter of Sohrabuddin.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">6. Why does only Modi and Advani get life threats whereas none of the politicians from the governing party are threatened.</span><br /><br />A. Umm, what does that prove?<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">7. Why does our home minister give more importance to his attire in a state of national crisis.</span><br /><br /><br />A. Agree, Shivraj Patil has been a failure as a Home Minister and needs to be shown the door. This is a failure of an indivdual, and to an extent an error of Judgement on part of our PM. It has no further meaning in larger scheme of things.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">8. Even after 5 blast incidents in last one year there has been no stringent law in place.</span><br /><br />A. "<span class="text">Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.</span> - <span class="text">-- Benjamin Franklin</span> ".<br /><br />There are basic civil liberties granted to me, a free citizen of my country, "Innocence until proven guilty", "Right to appeal to a court of law", "No detention without charge". Laws such as POTA and TADA take away these basic liberties, and have a long tradition of being abused. I do not trust the State/Police to use them with resposibilty, without a system of check and balances, and judiciary oversight.<br /><br />What we need is better/more stringent application of existing laws, more cordination between intellenence agencies, not more laws.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">9. Even a common man knows what goes on in a Madrasa, why does the government prefers to keep mum over that.</span><br /><br />A. Agree, wheverver anti national/anti peace teaching are being taught, they need to be dealt with firmly and decisively, whther they happen in a Madrasa or a Shakha.<br /><br />[End of snarky answers]<br /><br />Islamic terrorism is a problem which our country needs to fight. The answer to it is more voices of reason, not another brand of extremism.<br /><br />The aim of terrorists with these blasts is not to kill people, but to fight a psychological warfare. And if we start mistrusting people, where one of my countrymen is "guilty until proven innocent", the terrorists have won. Please do not let them win, the stakes are just too high.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-90172882008792054352007-07-09T15:22:00.001+05:302008-12-11T07:36:05.422+05:30Our product launch treat!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ka0zcs_C8q8/RpIFli0vPrI/AAAAAAAAADU/_QeLBTN2ouU/s1600-h/DSC03436.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ka0zcs_C8q8/RpIFli0vPrI/AAAAAAAAADU/_QeLBTN2ouU/s320/DSC03436.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085133071816015538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /> We built <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/financials/prop_mgr.html">Orale Property Manager</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Property_Manager">PN.M</a>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-73384567397516747732007-01-18T20:01:00.000+05:302007-01-18T20:04:20.116+05:30Our president asked?<br /><a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFtMXI2N3ZvBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMzk2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNmcm9udCBwYWdlBHNsawNGUC1Ub2RheUludA--?qid=20070112135510AAD7SB8&fr=hp">What should we do to free our planet from terrorism? </a><br />And everyone, including kiran bedi, leander paes and seri ravihakar answered. <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFtMXI2N3ZvBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMzk2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNmcm9udCBwYWdlBHNsawNGUC1Ub2RheUludA--?qid=20070112135510AAD7SB8&fr=hp">Read it here</a>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1166109496277247212006-12-14T20:42:00.000+05:302006-12-14T20:48:16.290+05:30Myer-Briggs Personality test for programmersWanna know what type of a persion you are?<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator"> Myer Briggs </a>is a standardised, and widely respected personality test. <a href="http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/mb/default.asp">Test yourself.</a>And then, as the Oracle said, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself">know thyself</a>.<br />BTW, I am an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ">Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging</a>. Oh but I knew that already.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1166107501227052652006-12-14T20:03:00.000+05:302006-12-14T20:15:01.433+05:30My favorite programming jokeProgramming Joke? Is that the joke? Well, no. We geeks can be funny too.<br />When Shakespeare asked, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be">To be, or not to be?</a>, he did not provide the answer. But programming can. Well the answer is FF.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2B |~ 2B = FF</span><br /><br />Explaination:<br />2B hex = 00101101<br />(bitwise NOT) 11010010<br /> ---------------------<br /> (bitwise OR) 11111111shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1163005675103024252006-11-08T22:29:00.000+05:302006-11-08T22:37:55.373+05:30I am participating in nanowrimoWhat is <a href="http://nanowrimo.org">nanowrimo</a>?<br />NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is a creative writing project originating in the United States in which each participant attempts to write a fifty-thousand-word novel in a single month. The project was started by Chris Baty in July 1999 with 21 participants, and has been held annually in November since 2000. Despite the name, the project is now international in scope. In 2005, 59,703 people participated and 9,765 were declared winners, each having written at least 50,000 words. The cumulative word total for all participants in 2005 was 714,227,354 words.<br />From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanowrimo">wikipedia</a><br /><br />Since in next two years I have to write two movels, (have you read my todo yet? Previuos post.) It was necessary I start. I have far too many half written novels none of which have been completed. Possibly a deadline will force me to do so.<br /><br />My Progress<br /><img src="http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/LiveParticipant/180569.png" />shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1163002207916270382006-11-08T21:21:00.000+05:302006-11-08T21:40:09.363+05:30My long term goals!<a href="http://shabda.tadalist.com/lists/public/449852">My long term goals</a><a href="http://shabda.tadalist.com/lists/public/449852"> </a><br />Apart from the second last one, every thing's pretty achievable, won't you agree?shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1160923700281602382006-10-15T20:08:00.000+05:302006-10-15T20:29:52.223+05:30Been busy latelyWorking is really a lot of work! No, really. Its not like college, where you have all the time in the world to goof off. I have been so busy that I have not been able to write in a month. Now that means something.<br />But I have been busy with more than work. Read a lot. Shopped a lot. Its amazing what a shopaholic suddenly having a lot of money can make you. When you get from getting 3K a month to 30K a month, you really get mad and buy everything in sight. Bought a bike. <span style="font-weight: bold;">A red APACHE</span>. Am I elated.<br />Oh and parting, what Have I been doing/reading lately,<br /><a href="http://www.bloglines.com/public/Shabda8">http://www.bloglines.com/public/Shabda8</a><br /><a href="http://reddit.com/">http://reddit.com/</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shabda">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shabda</a><br /><a href="http://del.icio.us/shabda">http://del.icio.us/shabda</a>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1153236935710541852006-07-18T20:53:00.000+05:302006-07-18T21:05:35.740+05:30Clueless government=Blogs bannedOk there is no doubt about the fact that the government has been trying to shutdown blogs. I mean come one Mr. Government, did you even ask your security experts about the feasibility of this block. Do you really think that by cracking down on number of Blogging sites you can stop communication between terrorists? Oh no, those poor terrorists, they can't even afford a domain name.<br />Heard of something called proxy? Oh, forget that I asked. Do you even know that Blogger alllows posting by email. Heard of Wordpress MU. It allows anyone to set up their own blogging platforms. What are you trying to block.<br />I know the terrorists are dumb people, but are they dumb enough to post their communication to public blogs?<br />India has 1.2 million bloggers, but I guess they donot count. Right? Miniscule minority.<br />I wonder who gave a such a order. Probably some babu sitting in some nondescript office, who just heard the name of blogs and email. Tossed a coin. Heads I ban blogs, tails I ban email. I guess we should be thankful that the coin landed head.<br />But who am I kidding? Blogs have been banned. Means you can't read my blogs. How do we fight this stupid legislation.<br /><br />Finally, just the updates,<br /><a href="http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/060718indiablock/">http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/060718indiablock/</a><br /><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/BloggersCollective">http://groups.google.com/group/BloggersCollective</a>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1153230009421750872006-07-18T19:06:00.000+05:302006-07-18T19:10:09.440+05:30India restricts access to blogs.I donot know how much of this is true, but there are some disturbing signs.<br /><br /><a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/blogspot-blogs-banned-in-india-read.html">http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/blogspot-blogs-banned-in-india-read.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=11&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=3095">http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=11&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=3095</a><br />So India joins the illustrious leage of China, Pakistan and other Dracon-law countries. However I am still able to acces my blogs, My stats show that I am having a number of visitors from india, so erm not sure if anything like that has been implemented.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1152796821310842252006-07-13T18:43:00.000+05:302006-07-13T19:49:26.116+05:30Just a blog II liked.Sometimes you just come across a blog entry which you are forced to acknowledge. A post so good that you must step asiede and say "Dude, you rock". <a href="http://aphrosh.spaces.msn.com/blog/cns!406153B977C7BE5">http://aphrosh.spaces.msn.com/blog/cns!406153B977C7BE5</a><br />is an open letter to the Mumbai Blast terrorists. And man, am I touched? <br />Salute to you Mumbai. But salute to you too Bombay Brat. <br /><blockquote><br />We are not Hindus and Muslims or Gujaratis or ....<br />WE ARE MUMBAIKERS (Bombay-ites, if you like).....<br />The city has simply dusted itself off and moved one - perhaps with greater vigour.<br /></blockquote><br />Amen.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1151751252380823292006-07-01T16:23:00.000+05:302006-07-01T16:24:12.433+05:30Waiting for the next big idea<p class="MsoNormal">It has been two weeks since I have been in Hyderabad. What do I need in my professional life for success? I mean, I am intelligent, hardworking and blah, blah, blah. But then I guess that is not enough.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I blog I read yesterday commented on the futility of waiting for the next big idea. I had always believed that an idea can change your life. An idea – and lo you are an billionaire. An idea- Google - and lo- you are Larry Page. And idea- databases- and lo you are Larry Ellison. But then, idea is important, but even more important how you execute it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In unleashing the ideavirus, Godin mentions how important ideas are. But ideas are cheap. There are just too many good ideas out there waiting to be implemented. Codd gave the idea of databases. But Ellison’s implementation of it made him famous and rich. The idea of visual interfaces existed for a long time with Xerox-Parc, but M$ implementation of it made Gates the person he is today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Waiting there saying that you do not have the correct idea is just another way of saying that you are lazy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now I have all the qualities for huge, huge success. Idea is not a prerequisite. I am unwilling to accept that luck is a factor.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Hmm… So what is missing?</p>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1151162156805139392006-06-24T18:40:00.000+05:302006-06-24T20:45:56.853+05:30How to get me to like you in 15 seconds?I guess a public blog is, well, public. You write it coz you want it to be read. Right? Might be, but I really get bugged when some one wants to see what I am writing untill I have completed writing. But then, every one does.<br />But I am even more private with my (public) blogs. I never, never tell anyone about the fact that I blog. If you get to know it, it wont be from me. So whenever someone tells me that they have read my blog, I take an instant linking to them. Like in 15 seconds you own me. It has happened before and it happned recently, and I guess it has beeen a while since I blogged so you are stuck with this boring blog,......, for now.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1149760413463944192006-06-08T15:22:00.000+05:302006-06-08T15:23:33.466+05:30Hardwork and intelligence.<strong>What can you be more proud of? Being very hardworking? Or being very intelligent?</strong><br />Notice the question is not which is more important for success.(Intelligence most would agree).<br />What can you take more pride in? The fact that you put in 120% of your effort into whatever you do. Or the fact that you have a IQ rating of 150. I guess most would agree its hardwork. After all intelligence was what God gave you. Hardwork is what you bring to the party. In fact, I would go a step further and claim that hardwork is only thing for which you can be proud. You look better than Tom Cruise or are smarter than Einstein. I guess that is God’s handicraft.<br />So, I always wonder, what is with people always trying to prove that they did not have to work hard for what they had achieved.<br /><br /><em>Me: Hey congrats on your success in examination.<br />Other Guy: Oh! That is nothing. That is nothing. I really did not work hard for that.</em><br />(Implied: Oh I am better than Einstein. Its just that I do not have the time or could have Unified Field Theory tomorrow.)<br />Well I never claim that I am any different. It’s just that I always wonder.<br /><br />Another loosely related question which I always grapple with is how do you define intelligence? And how do you define hardwork?<br />Hopefully most people would consider me reasonably intelligent. I am OK at studies. Can read complex tomes, understand huge mathematical formulae and even solve an occasional Sudoku. But go back a thousand years. The skills which make me intelligent today wouldn’t be of any help. Intelligence then would have been the ability to make tools, maybe to find the paths deer take and to predict if it would rain tomorrow. I guess I would be classified as pretty dumb then.<br />Hardwork, on the other hand, would be defined the same way now or a thousand years back. It is now, as it was then, the ability to put in your best. Every time.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1149760310268621002006-06-07T15:19:00.000+05:302006-06-08T15:21:50.283+05:30(No) Reservations against reservations<span>Before you stop reading further and decide that I am opinionated, confused and ask my caste affiliations, let me tell you what this post tells.<br />I am not against reservations, per se, even caste based.<br />I am against this reservation policy (27% for OBC).<br /><br />Why reservations, per se, even caste based are not wrong?<br />The most scathing and persistent attack against reservations has always been that it is against meritocracy. Respect to meritocracy is a worthy goal, which all of us should subscribe to. Yet there is one higher principle which I subscribe to Greatest good for the greatest numbers. Caste is a reality in India. Whether you believe it or refuse to see it backward castes are disadvantaged. Someone recently described India’s economy as an enclave economy, with 200 million marching towards globalization while 800 million get left behind. It is the responsibility of our government to see that it does not happen.<br />“Reservations do not work. They have failed to create an equitable society in last 50 years”, I hear you say. Reservations have not worked as nicely as we would have liked them to. Yet what other options do we have? Should we just sit back and and hope that social inequality goes away.<br /><br />Why this reservation policy is a bad idea?<br />If you are reading this blog I am sure you would have read a million reasons why thy are wrong. Blogosphere is out and out against reservations. So I will not ramble much on that. Still.<br />22.5% for SC/ST + 27% for OBC+Other quotas. Means less than 50% for every one else. But more importantly, the government, and for that matter any one has no idea what is the percentage of OBCs in our country. And what is there demographic. I guess before this bill is put before public the it is the government’s responsibility to get the required data.<br /><br /> </span>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1145202243647069832006-04-16T20:52:00.000+05:302006-04-16T21:14:03.663+05:30My papa and branding building.<span style="font-weight: bold;">What is a brand?</span><br />From wikipedia, <a href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand</a><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">In marketing, a brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a company, product or service. A brand typically includes a name, logo, and other visual elements such as images, fonts, color schemes, or symbols. It also encompasses the set of expectations associated with a product or service which typically arise in the minds of people</span>."<br /><br />What is the symbolic embodiment of Shabda Raaj? Shabda Raaj is me. Shabda raaj is the blogger who blogs at shabda123.blogspot.com. Shabda Raaj is the webmaster of www.grinhost.com. But consider who is Ashwini Kumar. Lets ask google. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Ashwini+Kumar">http://www.google.com/search?q=Ashwini+Kumar</a>. Hmm there are just too many of them.<br />You want a name which is easily brandable. Notice it is Google and not TheBestSeachEngine.com. Notice it is Linux or Windows and not GreatOS? What was the last unbranded site you visted, unbranded thing you used. Heck, it is lux, nirma, wrangler, lee, not theSoap, Uncrushable jeans or anything like that.<br />If your name is something generic, Rahul, Raj, Tina, Geeta, anything generic, it is just too difficult to brand it. There are just too many of them. Ask google who is Rahul. It tell you 1 million results found. But ask it who is Shabda Raaj. Yes buddy I am first result on that. I am the only result on that.<br />You want your name to Symbolise you. You want your name to be brandable. You want your name to be Google, Orkut, Shabda.<br />My papa was a damn intelligent man. <span style="font-weight: bold;">My papa and branding building.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br />Ps: What is the point of all this? Nothing. Just that I am branded. You are not. Live with it.<br />Pps. If your name is Ashwini, Chill. Rohit, awadhesh, Kishore, nothing is branded. Just Shabda is.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1142152910793198122006-03-12T14:10:00.000+05:302006-03-12T14:11:50.836+05:30Blogging 101.With a year of blogging experience and the supposedly the wisdom that comes with it, let me give share my experience with you.<br /><br />Why do you want to blog?<br />You might be a budding writer wishing to let the world know how your imagination can soar, or you may have a hidden journalist hidden within you fighting to come out. Probably you know more that everyone about the dietary habits of people of shire, or might be you just want to tell every one how your last vacation was.<br /><br />Who is gonna read your blogs?<br />If you take the pains to write, what fun it would be if no one read your blogs. Before you start writing, think! Is there an audience for what you will write? Is the niche already too overcrowded with writers? There might be a huge audience for blogs about iPods, but with millions of people writing about it, what chances your blog has of getting popular? Will writing about the latest gossip in your locality be a better idea?<br /><br />Where are you gonna blog?<br />To start blogging you will need to choose your blog provider and platform. www.blogger.com is the foremost blogging platform today and it is free. You may want to host your blog yourself; wordpress from www.wordpress.org is most suited for it. www.wordpress.com offers free wordpress based host. There are some other options but these are most popular.<br /><br />Who are your visitors?<br />You need to track your visitors, see where they come from, what browsers they use and how they find you. Tracking your visitors is important as it tells you what your visitors like to read about, and help you in optimizing your blog. www.statcounter.com provides free invisible tracking, with very extensive results.<br /><br />Brand yourself.<br />No matter what blogging tool you use, it will come with a set of default templates. Your visitors will be sick of seeing the same template over and over. Change it to something more original. When they are reading your blog they must be aware of it. Get a good logo for your blog.<br /><br />Ping, link, comment.<br />When you update your blog, ping to blog tracking services so they may index your upadated blog and visitors find you. Link to other realated blogs and they will link to you. Visit other related blogs and leave a comment. Generally people will come to visit your blog and if you have great content a large percentage will be hooked.<br /><br />Most importantly, have patience. A popular blog takes time and effort to build. So many people leave midway. If you follow these advice, and put in some effort, your blog will surely get popular.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1140207639857267632006-02-18T01:31:00.000+05:302006-03-08T14:18:39.826+05:30I turned enterpreneur!Well almost. I and Shishir have started a web hosting business. If you can call it business. We are providing web space for free at <a href="http://www.grinhost.com/">www.grinhost.com</a>.<br />If we are providing free web hosting, how am I going to pay for it? And I am not showing ads on the website of people who host with me. But basically what the terms of my hosting are that you have to be regular on our forums, where we discuss about web hosting, god anything. How exactly we make money is a bit of secret, but we show ads on our forum. So if you ever wanted to have a website, come on over, we dont just give you web space, well also teach you how to design a website and everything related. Even if you donot want to host, just come over to wish us luck in our endeveour.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1138733330397231362006-02-01T00:00:00.000+05:302006-02-01T00:18:50.413+05:30#define SUCCESS_to_MEWhat is success to me? Is it making a million dollars? Or is it getting a secure 9 to five job? Or is it marrying a girl of my choice and live of farming and fishing?<br /><br />I want to be rich, Very, very rich. It is a pretty materialistic view of success but then that’s me. I want to be pretty powerful. Power doesn’t have that charm for me. But still I must be able to do some things foe the people I like, and to destroy (for lack of a better word) the people I dislike. And then I want to fall in love. Yeah, yeah I know that happens once a week, but then the girl too should reciprocate. That’s success.<br />But then don’t I want to do anything for my country, the society, my family and friends? Is that not part of being successful? Yeah. That is what I want to be rich for. My country, family, friends. So that I may return the love bestowed on me. I don’t want riches; just to enjoy them. I want them also so that I may use them to create wealth for my country.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1138732207956659202006-01-31T23:25:00.000+05:302006-02-01T00:00:07.976+05:30recipe for sucess?What is the personality trait that separates the men from the boys, the winners from the also rans? Its not hard work, for then a truck driver would be pretty successful. Its not even intelligence. Enough unsuccessful people have it. Its not luck, for luck evens out in a lifetime.<br />My papa says its perseverance, and I would agree, but perseverance to what? Perseverance in spite of failures. To not be afraid of loosing and failures. To keep on pushing in spite of them.<br />Its the desire and ability to rush in where angels fear to tread. The ability to risk failures, fail and rise again. Loosing the battle but not ones heart. To rise from ashes, phoenix like.<br />In a lifetime, heck even in day, you cannot always win. You win some, you lose some. So if you are afraid of loosing, you are not going to try and you have lost already.shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1138370040651429772006-01-27T19:21:00.000+05:302006-01-27T19:24:00.663+05:30Shasanka's blog:<a href="http://beanengineer.blogspot.com/">http://beanengineer.blogspot.com/</a>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1138098712477664542006-01-24T16:01:00.000+05:302006-01-24T16:01:52.700+05:30Testing BlogJet<p>I have installed an interesting application - <a href="http://blogjet.com/">BlogJet</a>. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: <a href="http://blogjet.com/">http://blogjet.com</a></p><p><em>"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein</em></p>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1137525962172328072006-01-17T18:38:00.000+05:302006-01-18T00:56:02.206+05:30Going to KGPTomorrow I and the whole gang is going to IIT KGP. For Spring fest, the best fest in these parts of countary. Euphoria and many other bands. Full time music. Cool girls.<br />About half of the people from our class are going. So its gonna be real fun. More of a picnic than a party. And I am getting last minute thoughts about going. <span style="font-weight: bold;">To go or not to go that is the question.</span>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10918334.post-1137008041282960692006-01-12T00:42:00.000+05:302006-03-13T13:52:56.466+05:30Make money selling text links on your website.<span style="font-weight: bold;">Before I go any further, I must warn that this is a shameless plug, containing affiliate links.</span><br />[shamelessplug]<br />Do you own a website? A blog? Will you sell some advertising space on it? Have quality content and visitors? Yes! Then you may be missing a chance to make some money.<br />Sites exist which will get advertisers to advertise on your site. You obviously have to split money with the site which gets you the advertisers, but it is a fair deal for the work they do.<br />The site I use to get ads is<a href="http://www.linkworth.com/?a=2224"> linkworth</a>. To sign up visit the partners tab, and you will get advertisers to show ads on your site. You will get 50% of the advertising revenue. And you can make some more money by getting other webmasters to sign up.<br />How does this help the advertisers?<br />There are two major benefits. The advertisers receive pagerank improvement and free customers.<br />UPDATE<br />Another one I am using is<br /><a href="http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=13316"><img src="http://www.text-link-ads.com/images/text_link_ads_C_468x60.gif" border="0" alt="Text Link Ads"></a>shabdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07961528262493927188noreply@blogger.com0