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    • July 2009

    1. Twisted answer - "Teacher" is the best job in the world (15 comments) - We were discussing about our jobs and one of us said "teacher" is the best job in the world (in terms of job satisfaction) as they limited responsibilities and many other reasons to count. So argued about having your own business is more satisfying. And of course, there was a group supporting IT sector, high profile branded job and so on ... I .... more .......

    June 2009

    1. Sramana Mitra - Books & Some pages (12 comments) - Last Saturday I visited starmark and spent some good hours after some really long time. The only condition was "NO SPENDING AT ALL". The days of Rs 5000 per month on books are over (Thanks to the companies that allowed me the luxury that time). Now my total income per month is less than Rs 5000 :) .... Things are good at my end, its good to work on.... more .......
    2. How to fire employees? Firing employee? Firing employees? THE GUIDE (14 comments) - These days every now and then we hear about a friend/colleague getting fired or a company laying off its employees. Then the blame game phase, where the employer will blame the employees and the employees will blame the employer. Firing employees is not easy For any sane minded company (you should work with sane minded company only) firing is o.... more .......
    3. I poop therefore, I am (14 comments) - Guy's always mentions about "Eat like a bird and poop like an elephant (Birds eat upto half of their size and Elephants poop 150 pounds a day)". he also said "I poop therefore, I am". He was the Evangelist at Apple and was into sharing a lot of things. I poop therefore, I am It is so important to give away for free. Many of us are too busy in ".... more .......
    4. Rule Vs Purpose of rule - Religion Vs Jesus way (11 comments) - This speech was so much inline with the post that I could not ignore posting the video on Youtube (which is against the rules, just hoping that many will benefit from it). Religion Vs Jesus way [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGVd_9R9_us[/video] It says, "if people ask you about following Jesus and you come up with 100 do's and don't.... more .......
    5. We always want cloning, big hinderance in life (14 comments) - This has been one of my personal learning in professional life esp at recruitment level. We always expect others to behave like us, work like we do, talk like we do and everything else possibly like a clone. This is so much against the rule of our own existence and identity. We all are given different circumstances and we all have our own learning .... more .......
    6. What is more important, Personality or Character? Unprepared is the key (7 comments) - This has been a big debate for years. Personality gets the thing done, character adds the sincerity to it. (Please don't confuse it with the moral character of a person :)) Let's take two example to understand: Giving one speech: Person X can just memorize the speech, get the speech from someone else and practice it enough to look it really.... more .......
    7. Not happy? Best formula for happiness (With calculator) (18 comments) - I see our driver going really crazy when it is 9pm. He gets off most of the day, he comes at 9:30 am and goes back and only returns at 6:00 pm. He gets a lot many free hours (even sometimes just 30 mins of work in a day) but still on Sunday (or Saturday sometimes) he need to work for 12 hours (that is what he is paid for, contract says 12 hours per.... more .......
    8. Guest Authors come over (15 comments) - Want to share some thoughts about HR (anything that has to do with Personal development, personal experiences etc). Please drop us an email or comment to this blog. We will certainly get back to you really soon. If you think Blog posting is tough, think again Forget English, forget your writing skills, it is all about communicating your exper.... more .......
    9. We are back ! Now it is full time HR blog (8 comments) - A lot of my friends were asking me to restart my HR blog. Finally I had to get back to writing HR blogs. When I say HR, don't confuse it with Human Resource management at your office. Here I mean, anything to do with personal development, sharing experiences of life and everything related to human life. Few Changes to our HR blog We have cha.... more .......

    January 2009

    1. Spirituality is not boring - We generally drink the strongest (15 comments) - The blogger in me is still alive :). Just got a mail from Guy Kawasaki as a reply for an interview request and was going through his blog after some real long time. I got this link for his blog http://www.mppcfamily.org/app/w_page.php?id=49&type=section (Warning: A spiritual website, please don't visit if you think you are not spiritual :) ). I hea.... more .......

    December 2008

    1. LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER (14 comments) - (I got this through email) Dear Mr. Prime minister I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least squeak but we don't even do that. Today I heard your speech. In which you said 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. I would like to remind you that fourtee.... more .......

    November 2008

    1. When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy (14 comments) - I just finished watching this Movie called "Rudy". I liked the movie, it is amazing but the most amazing part about this movie is that it is not a movie, it is truth. It is the story about Daniel Ruettiger who was nicknamed "Rudy". I liked the punch line "When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy" After you watch the movi.... more .......
    2. There is Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Mumbai, Delhi terrors (14 comments) - I keep hearing that Terror has no religion, terror has no states, terror has no faces. Most of these sentences are by Politicians who counts on one community or the other and don't want to leave the other communities as well. According to me such statements and believes are no solution. IT IS THE RIGHT TIME that the world understands that there is .... more .......
    3. Do you believe in Zodiacs? Does it match with you. (13 comments) - This is an email that I got and it matched with me. These are written the person who knows Zodiac the best. Do let me know if it matches with you? Please do let us know your opinion about Zodiacs. Once you have opened this e-mail, there's no turning back. Below are true descriptions of zodiac signs. Read your sign, then forward it on, with you.... more .......

    September 2008

    1. neoligism: smartcut - User smartcut not shortcuts (19 comments) - Today I was writing the education email for dawebmarketing client's (It's a weekly affair) and coined this word "smartcut". I don't know if anyone has ever used it but Google define doesn't have it for sure. If shortcut is to take the shortest route then smartcut is to take the smartest route. I will always recommend using smartcuts than shortcu.... more .......
    2. ikia furniture store heavy discounts (9 comments) - I have been studying various furniture for last few months and I realized that ikia furniture store is the best furniture store. Along with other furniture stores, this store is doing great. It is great to see their chair, tables and other desks. ikia furniture store heavy discounts Get heavy discounts for ikia furniture from idealwebtools. I a.... more .......

    August 2008

    1. Prabhat - A true story of admin Linux (16 comments) - Title of the story: Only one extra ordinary quality is enough to become extra ordinary. I feel lucky as I was privileged enough to meet many ordinary people with extra ordinary qualities. Prabhat Kumar aka admin linux is one such person. I remember him when he visited Grmtech for a placement visit, where he explained his work at his Summer job. Af.... more .......
    2. If you think you are ......, you are (9 comments) - Olympics time and here is a beautiful message. Got this message today, it is really nice. Have you wondered why it is so important? We will look into some of this after you enjoy the beautiful lines. If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, then you won't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost c.... more .......
    3. Selling pubcon.in to Brett Tabke, owner of Webmasterworld.com (14 comments) - Pubcon India has been attracting more and more web enthusiasts in last few weeks. Everyone is excited about various events and the overall plan. I just took http://www.pubcon.in just by chance (May be because I knew pub con or hosting con). Brett Tabke of WebMasterWorld.com, who blogs using robots.txt file. I can better introduce him as a great .... more .......
    4. When did your boss become a boss? (13 comments) - (My apologies for not writing regularly, I am little too caught up with my new book, dawebmarketing.com and other initiatives) I was reading "So When Did Your Boss Become an Authoritarian?" at bnet and thought of writing few lines here. I heard different stories about their bosses from many of my friends. They had huge respect for their bosses. (I.... more .......

    July 2008

    1. Slum entrepreneur redefines entrepreneurship calling (18 comments) - What I liked about Sarathbabu is that he never forgot his people. I remember one of my batchmate who was the only graduate from his small village who dared to take up a post graduation. He came and joined the B-school with a lot of dreams. His village people provided him with a lot of home-made snacks. He struggled and never opened up. He was our r.... more .......
    2. Now blogging at Dawebmarketing.com (beta) (15 comments) - I am going to complete a quarter with client based web marketing work. I must say, it is a different challenge all together. I am liking this job. We are putting the best practices in place. All my technical knowledge is helping me manage the work better. I will be blogging at http://www.dawebmarketing.com/blog/ from now on. Also check the clien.... more .......
    3. Congrats Sid, its really my honor to work with you (9 comments) - I remember the SEO talks we had some years ago when he was a student at AIMK. I was working on these techniques and he was very eager to learn the web marketing methods. I could walk him through some of the industry practices and I think he was just seduced the attractive web. He went further and applied for some SEO jobs as well. There are many.... more .......

    June 2008

    1. Why some people never fail? (10 comments) - These days I have few new hobbies, writing the book, writing educative emails to clients, making clients earn more money and my new passion, PPC. There are many posts in drafts, will be rolling out soon. Today's post is that why many people never fail, its a feeling, its an effective feeling. I have always appreciated failure: http://www.id.... more .......
    2. Indian Firefox gang - Lets be #1 firefox fan (9 comments) - Are you still living with Internet Explorers. Try firefox fellows, lets get firefox 3, a new generation all together. I just got an invitation for firefox download day on June 17, 2008. Are you ready. Indians are far behind. Go ahead and pledge. Total pledges so far Total - 1,082,445 US - 178,972 - 16% India - 19277- 1.7% For more.... more .......
    3. here goes my 1000th post at WMW - WebMasterWorld.com (13 comments) - I have populated (sometimes polluted too) a lot forums which included highrankings (did not go well because of one post :), was part of a marketing campaign, I still cherish it), WPW (caught up on a promoting foot once, same marketing campaign, it was fun as well), many more with various names due to official obligations. I have cherished WMW forum.... more .......
    4. How do you test knowledge? A simple trick (14 comments) - I had been interviewing people for last 3 to 4 years. There are various qualities that you look for but sometimes for an experienced position you look for some good knowledge. This is a simple trick that has worked for me. This will work as this is scientific :). Say if you are interviewing a person for SEO expert position: You: Give me the top .... more .......
    5. Two good posts - Working more vs working less and meet robert scoble (15 comments) - As a leader/manager/head you always have to solve this odd equation, how much work is enough? How much profit is desired? More profits certainly means more work. More work may not mean more profits though. I was reading some of my favorite blogs and stumbled upon two interesting pages, one is a post at Harvard business publication. It is a very.... more .......
    6. How to handle undeserved high positions (6 comments) - The world is surely biased, you will see politician's sons becoming ministers, boss's brothers/sisters/relatives becoming bosses/managers, superstar's son is gets a better break and someone's friend jumping high in position. All this is a part of the game. Also in corporate world this happens that family members are joining to a very undeserving po.... more .......
    7. Digital Avenues (web dept) recruiting for some positions (10 comments) - Last one month had been a great experience. From "Test your leader" session to recent whole day meetings, I enjoyed every bit of it. I am still handling a lot of products, a mix of products and services is making it even more fun. Now a lot of things are organized and we (the web department) are ready to expand. We will go for bigger expansion afte.... more .......

    May 2008

    1. I am on SEOMoz (12 comments) - Ok, I am a little busy these days designing the whole new department work. I will get some more time next week (I am very optimistic, as always). I am an alltime WMW member, SEOMoz is doing work these days. I liked some of their articles but most of their articles are too long and less scanable, one need to scan through to the hidden knowledge from.... more .......
    2. Do this vs Do this because (13 comments) - When you become leaders/managers you tend to use "Do this" phrase and rightly so as that falls under the profile. "Do this" is a very important phrase to get the things done but there is a better effective phrase, a little costlier and time taking but with high dividends, "Do this because". I have seen that most of the managers don't take time to e.... more .......
    3. Starting with Kolkata web - Jeetbo.com - Jeetbo re (10 comments) - This is Saturday again, a day dedicated for my own work and interest. I have been thinking about creating a very strong web group in Kolkata for almost an year now. Let's give it a push now. I am an entrepreneur. Not all entrepreneur want to create big companies only, some want to create things that can be used. I think I too fall in the second cat.... more .......
    4. Why content writers have no future? (19 comments) - Oops, I did step on some toes. May be it wasn't well communicated but let me put it in better words. Hey, no biggy fights, I have too much work to worry about. I will certainly put my thoughts to clarify it. Was pending for quite sometime. Many have raised this, many objected and I stand with the responsibility to explain it. Some ground work be.... more .......
    5. What did you achieve in last 5 professional years? (25 comments) - Ok, this is a post that will humble me even further. God was so good to me that for last 5 years I was able to live a life worth looking back and thanking God. We all work, we all create quality products and services but I am happy that I with the help of many were able to help many do their work smartly and create better products. (Last 5 yea.... more .......
    6. Where were you all these 7 months? (19 comments) - I was on a look for a good employer for the last 6 to 7 months. Met and talked with many, even took an off to disturb yahoo's interview at Park Hotel for a good job. I did not like many, many did not call me, many did not value me enough and nothing worked out for several months but ...... For last one week, things have changed. After announcing.... more .......
    7. My first day at DigitalAvenues was really great (11 comments) - All happened really quick, on 25th Apr got a call from DigitalAvenues for an interview, on 29th Apr I took a leave and went for the interview. Reached there at 12:40 (instead of 12:30 because of huge traffic jam) and started interview in next 15 minutes. Partners after partners talked, we liked each other, thought of getting married and DONE. They .... more .......
    8. Did someone really moved your cheese? (19 comments) - There is a bit of learning, there is a bit of preparation and you are never too late for either of them. Enjoy the presentation, which has helped me a lot in my life. (Wait, the ppt will take some time to load .......................................................................) There are a lot of other books from the same league which .... more .......
    9. My journey with Grmtech ends here :) (37 comments) - After spending some 4 years and 9 months at Grmtech, I am leaving for my new ventures (Today was my last official day at Grmtech). (After a day break) I will be joining digitalavenues and will be working with two departments, one is a service of my own choice (Web marketing) and the other one is a product (my passion to shrink my cv is still alive).... more .......

    April 2008

    1. Why Indians fear failure? (16 comments) - "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein. We can rephrase it is as "Anyone who has never failed has never tried anything new". But then why are we afraid of failures? Being an Indian, I am not stating this as a fact, rather as an observation with a 28 year old eye. Last seven years in the Indian.... more .......
    2. How to decide your new employer? (21 comments) - After I wrote "Questions for your employer (Hiring Manager)", many people have asked me various questions like what about salary, career and so on. I will cover some more important questions that you should ask your prospective employee. NOTE: Don't ask these questions during your first rounds. Wait till you impress the company. Remember that th.... more .......

    March 2008

    1. My Magical wallet is dead (9 comments) - I want to blog more often but then I am (happily) keeping myself busy with so many other things that blogging is almost not getting its deserved time. Now I have 5 minutes to blog post :). I am going to write about my magical wallet. It is finally dead and replaced with another lower range (hopefully more organized) wallet. (My dead magical w.... more .......
    2. 5 Books for the month (16 comments) - These days I am spending a lot of time reading new books (Sitting on the floors of starmark, scanning different books, is fun). This Saturday I spent almost 2 hours scanning the business books. I am reading a lot about usability these days. Apart from sharing the ideas at almost9months.com, I am reading following books this month: Don't make .... more .......

    February 2008

    1. Oh valentine! Oh love! LOVE IsA NON-SPREADSHEETAL (17 comments) - I was going through Abhirupa's post titled "Some say love is", so thought of writing this valentine post. (btw I love the whole song collection, check this out "Love can build a bridge"). Last Sunday was quite special, it was a pre-valentine day (and next Sunday is "what after valentine") and the speaker talked about "Valentine day" (You can als.... more .......

    January 2008

    1. Sun Micro bought MySQL for $1 billion (15 comments) - I generally don't cover industry news on my blog but this is surely an exception, Sun Micro buying MySQL for $1 billion. I was reading Jonathan Schwartz (Chief Executive Officer and President, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), when I stumbled upon Helping Dolphins Fly, where he said, "we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you're an indust.... more .......
    2. MBA is not about #$@^%$ but about !#@%^$* (15 comments) - As I mentioned in my previous comments "MBA - More supply OR less demand", I am eager to answer this question, "Aji, should I go for MBA?". In last few years I had opportunity to work with various team members with and without MBA and from good B-school to average ones. I was a part of 2 year fully residential MBA from NIMC/AIMK. I have seen and wo.... more .......
    3. Why do I break rules so often? (32 comments) - Oh Aji! Why! Why do you break rules? You are not suppose to come to office late! You were suppose to join %$%% (designing compilers) not Grmtech (getting links and cheapo work) ! You are not suppose to put such a crappy title for your blog post "MBA is not about $%$%$% but about ^%^%^^"! (thats my next post) You are suppose to put the books in the .... more .......
    4. Video: Http Vs Https - Duplicate content issues (17 comments) - [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/3H5EZTt4kRY[/video] The solution using htaccess [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/Az_eEp_NO_0[/video] # Redirecting the robots.txt file for htaccess to stop https crawling to avoid duplicate content. RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443 [NC] RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt [L] There are .... more .......
    5. MBA - More supply OR less demand (8 comments) - In recent times I have seen more companies developing a bad taste for MBAs. I have personally advised few of my friends not to enroll for MBA programs (correspondence mainly) as they could go with more inline courses. MBA is (or was) a buzz degree. Here are some of the thoughts at Bnet about MBA programs: Five Hard Truths About the MBA: .... more .......
    6. A new year is a restart option (17 comments) - I call it restart option. It is such a wonderful day where you get a feel of restart. From your messy last month, last year you can give your life a restart. You can buy a new book for your finances, a new work report, a new way to start your love life, a better plan for your spiritual activities. All happens on the very first day. Happy New Y.... more .......

    December 2007

    1. Merry Christmas - Know the Greatest Gift (19 comments) - Merry Christmas to everyone! May God bless everyone with His Riches this year! Christmas is a great season of love, sharing, caring and joy. We forget everything bad and wish everyone a Merry Christmas with all Joy. Christmas is just not about Drinking or Eating, Its not about just gifting and meeting, Its is certainly not about forgetting t.... more .......
    2. Honey! I want to shrink my CV (19 comments) - Recently I had an opportunity to talk to some of the great industry heads with great experiences and few patents. It was more fun than serious talk. Talked about web 2.0 stuffs, experiences in startup company, cluster for DBs, when technology can become bottleneck, social network technologies and many more things. It was great. While talki.... more .......
    3. Video: Knowledge is biased Ideas are not (13 comments) - Finding it really difficult to find time for blogging. Just spent two days in office to finish off the pending works. I got up a little late yesterday, around 9am as slept very late after work. This video is from the office bed (guest room). This video is my personal experience. I have seen people thinking too less of themselves just because of the.... more .......
    4. Video - How to choose a domain name (12 comments) - I am on with my video series. This video will explain about phone testing and billboard testing. [video]http://www.youtube.com/v/WiqxzVE5IEE&rel=1[/video].... more .......
    5. Lead India Ad - Really touchy (22 comments) - Anyone who know me knows my passion towards ads. Here is an ad that is really touchy (may be a completely person opinion), very well made. [video]http://www.youtube.com/v/QERuKC34smw&rel=1&border=0[/video] Here is a quote that I can very well gel with the theme of the ad, "Sometimes you need to take few steps all alone to see if there.... more .......

    October 2007

    1. I am not blogging this month (18 comments) - This is a sabbath month for my blogging .. SORRY ... I don't think I will be blogging till Oct 19, 2007. One complete month of sabbath, I wanted to take a break for More books, more stories, more chats, more orkut, more emails. More phone calls, more traveling, more driving. I haven't read a blog post from 17 sep from my blog reader ac.... more .......

    September 2007

    1. My death by IT professional, who once was a Siberian Wolf (25 comments) - (this is again a group mail for one of the company I am associated with) What happened to aji? Why is he giving such wolf stories now? Don't worry this is as inline as it can be with our professional life esp with startup companies. Have a little patience and read it, don't forget to add your opinion to it. Wolves are professionals like us .... more .......
    2. Fail more often at decision level (14 comments) - This is a copy of the mail I sent to all company members. Since I am not blogging enough and don’t have the time to draft better posts so here we go with a slightly modified version of the company group email. As a company and as a person this is a culture we/I want to develop and promote. Decision making/responsibilities should flow to the .... more .......
    3. AjiNIMC suggests Chidambaram for above 9% Growth (11 comments) - I am a big fan of PC, our FM, our FinMin. I missed his speech at NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards but managed to get a copy of it recently. (I am a fan of NDTV and Pranab's leadership but their websites really sucks, can't open 50% of the time. Plz do something about it.) I also liked Sunil Mittal's interview but PC's speech was far mor.... more .......
    4. My 7th 21st Bday was the busiest so far (20 comments) - I have all reasons to push myself for this post at 1 am though I am feeling a little sleeping (but I am feeling much better now). Keeping it short with some images: Scene #4 of Bday: Why am I feeling so successful ... I managed to undo scene 3 here. Scene #3: Meine sab ko kitne pyar se lagya tha (sorry light problem, all are mobi pics.... more .......
    5. I m Not well at all (14 comments) - 8 days and 3 sleepless nights, not good at all. Its not because of time problem, it may be because of extra thinking or unwanted tension. I need to take care of myself. Need to go for a medical checkup soon. So avoiding regular blogging for few days. I do eat a lot of fruits in the morning. Almost 30 mins - 1 hr of workout in early morning and.... more .......

    August 2007

    1. Stories that inspired me, Part -V (Do to others as --) (17 comments) - Had a day off, made a debt calculator in excel and studied NPER again. Mom is a true diet killer, she made kaju upma with desi ghee and I couldn't resist it, so had a lot of khanna and little workout. Had 12 hrs of sleep and now back with the series of stories that inspired me, I have learned a lot from these small stories and try to apply it. Than.... more .......
    2. Stories that inspired me, Part -IV (You a failure?) (29 comments) - Here I continue my series (1,2,3) of short stories. I heard this story during his Aug 15 competition. Here we go: A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the you.... more .......
    3. Diet Killer week starts - Happy Onam (18 comments) - Had a mixed day today, missed my most loved afternoon Sunday 3-5 hr sleep (due to dad's committee meetings :( and forced shopping call) and Navartna Oil massage. Shopping went really horrible as we were trying to buy something different for a new born baby (and some other relatives). As usual we were late for shopping and the shops were closing, co.... more .......
    4. 10 Unofficial commandments for official IM use (10 comments) - Do you use IM (Instant messengers) at work? I started using MSN towards the starting of my career and then shifted to YIM and AIM. I still use YIM most of the time but Gtalk is also in the list for some of our officials. Most of us learn the IM usage from a different school, the "masti ki patsala (School of fun)". When asked to use IMs for official.... more .......
    5. Company's success barometer - visionaries Vs missionaries (17 comments) - Last week I met two new entrepreneurs, one from my batch(she is doing well with the startup) and one a junior (after leaving Saatchi & Saatchi, he is starting his own venture). I will try to interview them in the coming days. I was always attracted towards entrepreneurs (I don't know why, ohhh I think I know why). After every conference I try to me.... more .......
    6. my white-green-red-black board or modern art (18 comments) - Oh! I have discover many expressions though this board, which is also known as white board across our teams. My white-green-red-black board is the most used and abused board in company, just imagine the condition of the duster (Once it was white now it is of no but all color). I caught some new expressions when a new recruit looked at my office whi.... more .......
    7. No blogging only pics (8 comments) - I am not getting time for blogging, feeling so bad. I have almost 10 blog post under draft, "I want to be kid again" (A poetic approach), Link title - Quiet but powerful weapon, Company's success barometer, Do you believe in zodiacs?, A white hat seo course for all, Make the carrot really red, Good Leaders are biased, Right approach can make wrong .... more .......
    8. Aug 15 Celebrations (17 comments) - After talking to few people about the need of another Gandhi i left for Aug 15 celebrations at Church, where we had different competitions and programs. It is a big story, keeping it short with some images. Enjoy! Update: More pics at http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/15-aug-pics/ (Click on the images to enlarge it, I am waiting for more .... more .......
    9. Do India need another Gandhi? (12 comments) - I see people more independent, more confident and ready to dream big. From being a third nation India is cruising with great self-believe. I have seen more entrepreneurs coming out of recent batches than ever before. In last 60 years we have achieved a lot and in recent few years even more. Look at the sensex for last 2 years: People a.... more .......
    10. Do ladies talk more? (40 comments) - As a marketer we were always taught that ladies talk more and should be targeted for major viral marketing campaigns. According to the stats: "A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000". Mark Liberman strongly disagrees with the stats. (It also contains the snippet of the above referred book which talks a lot about .... more .......
    11. Internet penetration - India shining kya? (12 comments) - Like me if you have interest in watching Indian Internet market and web user behavior then this post is certainly for you. I see all positive signs now, be it community building or my neighbor/student pressing more and more of Google search button for homeworks. Here are some of the stats for a world-wide comparison: (Subscribers per 100 inhab.... more .......
    12. Crowdsourcing sites with Alu Parathas (13 comments) - I am off again, 2 offs in 3 days, very unusual but a welcome change, compensating for not attending the family gathering on Saturday and for being a mere lodger for last few weeks. What am I doing? I prepared Alu parathas (which tasted more atta than paratha but everyone managed to find some appreciation alphabets) for the breakfast. An entrepreneu.... more .......
    13. How many friends do you have? (24 comments) - Happy Friendship day! Am I late for it? I guess no. Friendship cards, friendship shayerri, stolen messages, common message, smses and emails. Oops! blog posts as well. Everything is happening on the F day. Thats so great and here is my post for THE day. How many friends do you have? One, two, three, .... Do you remember one of the most .... more .......
    14. Meet 14 year inventor (7 comments) - When he was 2-week-in-days year old he pressed the unusual button. Instead of running after wind, he started collecting it and its power. The motivating factor was the need. To power his family's home, young William Kamkwamba built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap. 19-year-old William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born.... more .......
    15. Remove your shoes for tireless work (19 comments) - I was listening to MTV during morning workouts and here is a great health tip to start your tiring day. Remove your shoes whenever possible. Keeping your shoes on makes you more tired. Wow, I do it most of the time :). 3 more (unwanted) tips: Use workrave. Don't chat while working. It takes you only 3 secs to get disturbed but almost a c.... more .......
    16. How much content is enough? (23 comments) - Our new team member, a man with a lot of doubts, Mr Doubts is asking an interesting question, "How much content is enough?". He is touching a different dimension of it, let me go my own way and I will go the visitor way. My Google experiment is also somewhat related to this. I asked, how many pages are needed in SERP? Lets ask this question .... more .......

    July 2007

    1. Dramatics time (9 comments) - It is Aug knocking again. SOCH is over and I have no other additional responsibility for Aug 15 except preparing the themes and quiz. This year I am planning to take up a serious role in skit. I used to do guest appearance so far, either a malu in English skit or a weird villager confusing people (I think it was fun). I met our Assistant direct.... more .......
    2. SEO a curse for Content Writers (19 comments) - Oh God! Back to SEO topics after almost 6-12 months. I am not a big fan of SEO (anymore). SEO can really be harmful to many, esp talented (web) content writers. They end up learning the worst way of presenting good content. Is your content making tom cruise ugly? This post will help you understand why SEO can be a curse for content writers. Also th.... more .......
    3. Why a Link is called a Hyperlink? (21 comments) - I was writing a bigger post "SEO is a curse for content writers" when I remember a very interesting question. Recently while training new recruits, I was asked this question that "Why a Link is called a Hyperlink?". I did not had a proper answer when she asked me this interesting question. I had to go through some documents to give her an answer. .... more .......
    4. Make your product talk - Cow coloring - part I (7 comments) - "ideas that spread wins", "the purple cow is noticed" and the product that can talk, can market itself. Being normal is boring but trying different is risky and not allowed most of the time (unless you are at Google or Grmtech). So, what is the safest way to try risky cow coloring. What do you mean by talking product? Oh, any product that c.... more .......
    5. Changing my writing to conversational style (12 comments) - I am finding it extremely difficult to find time for blogging. These days I am working with a CA based startup Law firm, a great learning experience but very hectic schedule with no offs :). Sorry if some of your mails are unanswered (unread mail count is 500 now) or some comments are in moderation. I will be taking an off this Friday to finish off.... more .......
    6. HR managers are fashion designers (25 comments) - I like the way fashion designers shop. They will not pick the best ready-made cloths (like most of us do), they sometimes shop from streets, they sometimes have very odd selections, sometimes they will buy the costly pearls. It is the variety that is admired but it is the clear vision of a creator that makes them so special. A fashion des.... more .......
    7. Two extreme worlds (5 comments) - Had some long meetings yesterday (for Christian organization). Being a part of a professional world, where vision is taught but is well calculated with high possibility ratio, I am used to do feasibility studies before approving any plan. Yesterday was extremely different, when our team met for another small election as our treasurer was leaving fo.... more .......
    8. Stefan Engeseth launches Detective Marketing ver 4 (19 comments) - Stefan Engeseth (one of Europe's most creative business thinkers and a top-ranked speaker but I know him as a marketing blogger with some great post) launches Detective marketing fourth edition titled "The book that best-selling business writers read". This book talks about creativity, brand living and many more detective marketing concepts.... more .......

    June 2007

    1. What strategies will fail? (8 comments) - Here is a quick pre-litmus test to help us understand the success possibility for any strategical implementation. It is widely applicable from product development to HR policies, from marketing campaigns to personal life. Not to forget, exceptions do exists and this posts doesn't address the exceptional cases, rightly so. No follow up pl.... more .......
    2. Romantic fever is over left is uh ah and ouch (10 comments) - Thanks to all who responded to my post "Girl: Aji, you are hot". Finally the romantic fever is over and some uh ah ouch is still there. WOW, My romantic fever is the most commented post so far on this blog with over 25 comments. I took a complete rest on Sunday as well, no work at all :), taking medicine for body pain. Thanks to all for the .... more .......
    3. All about SVN - subversion (13 comments) - I can't imagine life without subversion. If I look back, I can still see we maintaining different "change log files" to track the changes and doing a daily local backups to preserve daily changes. Every other week we used to have (almost unpleasant) discussion, "who made this change?", "What happen to the previous copy, do you have a local copy?". .... more .......
    4. Making books participatory (15 comments) - Making books participatory?? Books once written is written for ever, rest are editions, how can you make it participatory? I know you are webby, are you asking to create a wiki out of our books? We know you are not well, this is what happens when a busy brain gets extra rest, get working on something useful Aji? I am not surprised by the abo.... more .......
    5. Girl: Aji you are hot (43 comments) - This Tuesday was just another day but wore formals (not jeans) after really long. With a light blue shirt and a black trouser I left the office, for a change without spending one hour at TT court. Even after having a class on debt, credit, insurance, mortgage and other financial topics for over 6 hrs I was feeing ok. While back home a beauti.... more .......
    6. About my Google Human Intelligence Layer (11 comments) - This is an answer to Saikat's query about my Google project. As many know that Google has tried this (adding human intelligence layer to their searches) many times with various models, some are included at http://www.google.com/coop/. Custom Search Engine had a better revenue model too but still it may not do enough (I had requested for few feature.... more .......
    7. Mobile Phone can cost you a Job (15 comments) - Recently I came to know of an incident where a candidate who, made to the final round after technical interviews and other HR rounds but, lost the opportunity as he did not bother to pay attention to the basic guidelines for mobile phones, "Switch it off before it switches someone off". The final round of the interview was with the Director .... more .......
    8. Don't like my blog? Do this then (19 comments) - I am off today. Monday and off? Yes, we had interviews and server audits for last 4 weeks so could not get an off. Taking a full time off, Watching videos (I just downloaded a 1 Giga of video today from ted.com), listening songs but sorry no eating (taking and giving rest). What do you do to the sites you don't like? Ignore? Here is another option..... more .......
    9. Orkut Banned in India (21 comments) - "Orkut Banned in India" - Will this ever become a real headline? It can happen as various political groups are preparing a move to make it happen. In India power still has power and political parties are synonyms for power but surprisingly we still are the largest democracy. Orkut has been under contriversies for various reasons. My previous post l.... more .......
    10. Common Blog API Access URLs (11 comments) - If you are a programmer and work on Blog products then this post makes a lot of sense to you. I am (and was) working on few products for blogosphere and our programmers had mixed API Type for different Blog system. I found a cool document by Google and here it is for all our new programmers. It will act as a referring doc for me. Taking an off tomo.... more .......
    11. Is kitchen sink syndrome a risk for web products? (16 comments) - This belongs to the list of commonly and frequently asked questions, Is kitchen sink syndrome a risk for web products? As we know that kitchen sink syndrome is considered a risk under project management. Oops, Btw kitchen sink syndrome is unplanned changes to a project. Mainly referred to the changes at scope level and thus sometimes it is also kno.... more .......
    12. WordPress database error: [Got error 127 from storage Engine] (16 comments) - I know I am not blogging for last few days, got busy with new recruits. After almost an year (Last time it was when we hired (mass hiring) few programmers and Marketing guys from Army Institute of Management and other B-Schools) I revamped the whole Mentoring program. I am liking this mentorship program as it has the right blend of tech and non-tec.... more .......

    May 2007

    1. Happy Bday to Grmtech (20 comments) - (I am not associated with Grmtech anymore) It was 19th May again, the time to celebrate Grmtech Bday. Got busy after that with all the server audits, better late than never. So here we go with the reports of Grmtech's 4th Anniversary. This year we had more space to arrange the party as we are shifted to our own office at AE665. I need to rush t.... more .......
    2. Mistakes are often mistaken (11 comments) - What are mistakes? Can small mistakes be ignored? Are bigger mistakes real mistakes? What is a tolerable limit for mistakes? These are questions you deal while mentoring/monitoring/evaluating people. Here are some of my experiences with (real) mistakes. Before proceeding further, lets try to define mistake. Wordweb says, "A wrong action attr.... more .......
    3. Below the Top command (11 comments) - Top command is certainly there in every system admins' frequently used command list. As the man page says, "The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel." This is simple but still not well explained. I was .... more .......
    4. Open letter to Indian Mag editors (17 comments) - This is an open request to all the Indian Tech Magazine Editors. I will like to share my experience with Web and Online business for Indian startups/bloggers/web+aspirants through a quality tech magazine. Please let me know, I will be more than happy to start next month itself. Many are insisting me to start the series on this blog itself (Sorry fe.... more .......
    5. timesjob(s).com violating Google rule (19 comments) - While doing some job portal analysis I got surprised at some job portal ignorance (can I call it web innocence). When the world is talking about higher level canonicalization, Indian portals are violating basic web(Google) guidelines. First violation - Google ads in email This is not done by timesjobs.com but another big job portal. I have po.... more .......
    6. How to handle valuable spam Comments/Posts? (12 comments) - Spam is spam, how can it be valuable? OK. Xens, munins, SATAs and a week long server audits are not hitting me hard, I really mean valuable spam comments/posts. Please take a deep breath as this post is going to be really long. I had a taken a 30 mins class on this topic recently. Spams are spams then what are valuable spam comments/posts? .... more .......
    7. How to make a folder password protected (16 comments) - This is a very simple task to do but still sometimes you need a guide for smooth sailing. Instead of mailing the same content again and again I decided to delegate the work to blog. I am covering the htaccess method for password protection. Make sure you have access to use htaccess (Check your apache config or ask your hosting company). In o.... more .......
    8. Google helps in Simple Hack to other's server - Munin (14 comments) - Wanted to learn how much CPU or memory other servers utilize? For your own server you can always do some linux command to get it. Use Top, uptime, free -m. But how to see other server details, use one command Google (this query will show you different people using munins for server monitoring). Some of the examples :- http://munin.lin.... more .......
    9. SVN error due to htaccess (7 comments) - The interview spree continues but hoping to finalize one tech analyst today. He is able to solve all fizzbizz problems atleast. For last 2 days we were facing some problems with SVN. There is no problem with SVN update or SVN checkout but while committing files it shows an error. sh-3.00$ svn commit test.php -m "Aji: adding a test file to check .... more .......
    10. Interview spree - Going OO with Qs (8 comments) - I have some 5 post in drafts as they are connected and should be released with details. Just got back after a long 12 hrs work (interviews and CV short-listings). Preparing technical papers (we call it Tech Tryouts) is a big ask esp when people pass on the papers. This time I decided not to waste a complete paper unless the person is suited for .... more .......
    11. Why not to count the web-industry awareness lead (20 comments) - As I mentioned in my previous post that industrial awareness can give you the lead (at a certain additional cost). For every industry the lead helps but for web (tech) industry to a lesser extent. Here is my view point on "Why not to count the web-industry awareness lead". Who all can gain from Industrial awareness? The early leaders doing.... more .......
    12. Does Alexa hate firefox? (10 comments) - I am not sure what I am doing wrong but as a user I am getting an error with Alexa when running on FF but not while running it using IE. I am not able to compare two sites using FF but with IE I face no problem. Here is a snapshot for alexa homepage which offers a default comparison. (Click on the image to enlarge it) Is this happening .... more .......
    13. Industry awareness campagins costs but helps (15 comments) - Indian Web companies are growing or may be Indian companies have started respecting web for its reach and power. Not only Indian companies but all Indian organizations. I just wrote a letter to one of the Christian organization head quarters on web reach. In my previous post I had mention about the alpha phase of Indian web, everyone wants to exper.... more .......
    14. More work for SEO - Even unborn babies need SEO (13 comments) - "You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well" say wsj.com. Is it talking about businesses? No, this time it is about individuals, the unborn babies. I stumbled upon http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117856222924394753.html, which says, So when Ms. Wilson, now 32, was pregnant with her first child, she ran every baby name she and her husband, .... more .......
    15. Google toolbar/Algo Vs ICANN definition (13 comments) - Recently while discussing about canonicalization at WMW a member (bcrbcr) pointed out an issue with Google Toolbar conflicting with ICANN definition for domain names. ICANN says, EXAMpLE.com EXAMPlE.com EXAMPLe.com etc. In the languages that utilize Latin characters (e.g., English, Finnish, German, Italian, etc..... more .......
    16. Canonicalization Series 2: Domain name to lower case (9 comments) - I will continue the series on canonicalization (I have a big post under draft, still adding points to it). I had started a thread at WMW about canonicalization where I saw a very interesting query today. It was about converting upper case domain name to lower case. The query says, The following is my current (simple) Mod rewrite, and I am .... more .......
    17. I am a Google Web history user (10 comments) - I was a little hesitant to the Google's new web history but after thinking carefully I got converted. Now I am not only a user but a great fan for this great tool. The biggest reason why we should use it :- Our knowledge comes from what we have learned and many a times we refer back to our old books for solutions as we know we saw it there. Same.... more .......
    18. Top 100 advertising campaign of the century (15 comments) - An ad lover like me? Then here is a post just for you. This is the top 100 adertising campaign of the century, click http://adage.com/century/campaigns.html to explore more. I had some more collections at hedir.com but now it is not visible. Let me see if I can upload all. See http://ajinimc.hedir.com/2006/03/10/the-axe-effect/ and http://ajinimc.h.... more .......
    19. What is Page Rank? (17 comments) - I had covered Page Rank (PR) topic with some really funny pictures for our Intraoffice SEO book. Page Rank is a very simple concept, A (web page) links to B (web page of same site or different site), A passes a part of its link juice (or PR) to B. Let me take a small example to show how it works. Lets consider A and B to be a pot with Green liquid..... more .......
    20. Linking to a good story - Be careful (17 comments) - I just saw a post by Aaron Wall of SEObook.com saying "People Don't Look Beyond the Page". It says, "I once saw a college professor cite a page about caffiene on a low quality site about pornography, gambling, and drugs on his official profile page. Many people never look beyond the page when linking to a story." Call it "Good Page on Bad si.... more .......
    21. Live Review for linkedzone.com (14 comments) - As mentioned earlier I reviewed linkedzone.com. I did a live recording for linkedzone.com and converted it to a video. It took me almost an hour to do it. I did this last weekend. I tried to upload it at youtube, yahoo videos and many other video sharing sites without any success (reasons of failure: 25 mins video is not allowed, some codec problem.... more .......
    22. How to send .exe files through gmail (9 comments) - I wanted to pass VNC setup file to my friend as I wanted to show him few things remotely. I was not able to send it through gmail due to gmail security issues (Gmail is very secure and very powerful, see how I handle over 100 mails a day with Google tricks). Then I zipped it and tried but the same message came back. So how can we send it then? I.... more .......
    23. Canonicalization Issues - Why yes and why no (12 comments) - One of my colleague asked me to help him with URL Canonicalization. I had mentioned about Canonicalization (both at domain level and URL level earlier), I think I did it in company Intranet. I will find it and add it to this post. He also referred me to a post where it was mentioned. I generally end up writing big comments on various blogs, so deci.... more .......

    April 2007

    1. Are you fighting with yourself (14 comments) - Are you fighting with yourself? This is a sample where site is paying for a free lunch. A search at overture shows that a variation of NaturallySpeaking can cost the company a good amount of money. Can this be avoided? Is there any advantage of doing it? (Google SERP for NaturallySpeaking).... more .......
    2. Weekend Work - Reading blogs (15 comments) - Weekend is coming again! I will recommend you to read blogs, here is one which you will love to read http://www.elise.com/recipes/, rest of the week you can go through other technical blogs. (Yummy, Yummy).... more .......
    3. Updated wordpress and ... (12 comments) - I am trying different things with wordpress to make it faster, optimized and targeted. Meanwhile if you find some bugs please let me know. Thanks. Meanwhile enjoy some of the pics, this is from our previous office More pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/82641663@N00/. .... more .......
    4. PPT on PHP5 (7 comments) - I got an email from Krishna Srikanth with a link to PHP 5 PPT. This is an old PPT, "Introduction to PHP 5" presented on September 22rd 2004 at Toronto, Canada by Ilia Alshanetsky. Hope it helps. .... more .......
    5. Wow, my Blog under top Indian HR/Management blogs (21 comments) - A blog list compiled by the top Indian blogger (thanks Amit for compiling the list). I saw my blog under HR/Marketing/Finance category. I was happy to see that and also a very nostalgic moment, I just looked back for once. to recap the journey I had so far. My expertise is Technology (Web Technology mainly), I always loved to handle the toughest.... more .......
    6. Economics of abundance? (11 comments) - Economics of abundance? Then what happened to the economics of scarcity (real and virtual)? Demand Vs Supply graphs? Things are changing, even google embraced it for a longer innings when they redefined gmail marketing ("by invitation only" to "open for all"). Go through http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/10/the_economics_o.html for .... more .......
    7. Google SERP showing the link visited time (10 comments) - Now Google is showing the link visited time. This will help me understand that I have visited these pages. How will this help user? I haven't seen any announcement by google guys yet. I did some tests to understand more about Google visited link time option. Some of the queries I had, Is it cookie based (then it is not better than the visited link .... more .......
    8. Further scrutiny of wink.com (8 comments) - I am deep in work with the AGM lined up, last Sunday had meetings to approve the financial report but due to some confusion could not approve the reports. It is rescheduled for 29th of this month and AGM on 6th May (for ICPF, Kolkata Chapter). I need to send personal letters to all the shareholders before this Sunday as per rules. On 22 we have our.... more .......
    9. Letter from orkut fan (13 comments) - I got this mail from one of our youth pastors, he is a big time orkut fan (I have mailed him to get a permission to publish his name with this post, but you are free to guess :) ). Here he goes .............. Dear friends Welcome to the Orkut revolution...! I marvel how this thing called Orkut could bring me back in touch with friends .... more .......
    10. lovehappens.com, linkedzone.com - more social networking site (15 comments) - [Note: Some of my related popular posts are: 1) why mistakes are often mistaken - It talks about what are real mistakes. 2) Orkut used for crime, is orkut responsible for it anyway? ] After doing a scrutiny on wink.com I got another invitation from another social networking site. Gosh! I am sure now we need a complete directory (Hedir guys do so.... more .......
    11. Scrutiny - Wink.com, The People Search Engine (9 comments) - I spend many hours infront of my computer with online world and every site that becomes a part of my daily life needs to go through a close scrutiny. Today I decided to do a scrutiny for "The People Search Engine - Wink". My First Impression (Call it my first 30 sec impression) My First Impression based on the mail from Wink Staff and an e.... more .......
    12. Happy with Wink Staff's reply (8 comments) - I am a member of Wink for many months but I have hardly used it. Then one day I got an email for their staff and I decided to know a little more about it. Wink is a people search engine. Under the scheme "Spam the Spammers", I decided to add another level "Selling to the marketers". I got a mail form the Wink Staff Welcome to the New Wi.... more .......
    13. All simplest truth of service (10 comments) - Today our HR Manager shared a good presentation with us. Click http://www.stservicemovie.com/ to visit the presentation. Even one of our staff who takes care of our office inspires others to stay back and work more as he takes care of all other things from food to a hot water bath. Every good person is an asset to your team, respect good people to .... more .......
    14. Spamming the spammers - They replied, wow (11 comments) - I was sick of deleting all the spams from gmail which never wanted me to delete any mails. I started spamming spammers, not only the unknown once but also the known ones. People used to send me a lot of articles, common messages through orkuts and other social networks. I started spamming them back but sending them my blog url. I used to do this fo.... more .......
    15. tagged.com - Blocking tagged.com taggedmail.com - yaari spam (18 comments) - [Note: Some of my related popular posts are: 1) why mistakes are often mistaken - It talks about what are real mistakes. 2) Orkut used for crime, is orkut responsible for it anyway? ] You may be getting hundreds of mails from a domain called taggedmail.com (which is owned by tagged.com social networks). After the success of orkut, facebook and m.... more .......
    16. Blogs I read - my collections (11 comments) - During recent meetings I was asked to broadcast the list of blogs I read on a day to day basis. Sorry for the delay but here it is. Apart for this I do follow about.com various sections for the financial knowledge on mortgage, credits, debts, insurances, loans and other laws. Wikipedia is there for all the terms I have a query on. I also read http:.... more .......
    17. Erroneous Perception of web by top Indian Job seekers (12 comments) - (Note: Please add your experience and take on the Erroneous perception of web by top Indian Job Seekers) Why is that the top Indian Job seekers do not want to join web industry when in other part of the world people respect web related jobs? I do not regret my decision of rejecting the offers for "complier designing job", "backward reservation pr.... more .......
    18. H-1B visas, demand Vs supply (9 comments) - If your company is keeping a watch over the H-1B visas, here is some interesting news for this year, On Tuesday, the U.S. government announced that this year's limit on H-1B visas had already been reached after only one day, the first time in history the annual cap had been reached so quickly. Since 1990, American employers have relied on the vi.... more .......
    19. Questions for your employer (Hiring Manager) (15 comments) - I was reading Penelope Trunk's post "4 interview questions you should never ask", Most interviews reach a pause when the hiring manager says, “Do you have any questions for me?” In a world of workplace transparency the most common response to this question would be, “No. I have no questions. I am sick of job hunting. Give me .... more .......
    20. Life vs work or work-a-lifestyle (10 comments) - They've got the smarts and the confidence to get a job, but increasing numbers of the millennial generation — those in their mid-20s and younger — are deciding corporate America just doesn't fit their needs. says USAtoday. It is not much different in India, it is catching here too. My batchmates are gearing up for restaurant leaving .... more .......

    March 2007

    1. Web an opportunity today or a threat tomorrow, choice is yours (8 comments) - Do I need a website? What will I do with it, I am just a singer? Web presence for catering service! I don't think it makes sense. I deliver Pizzas, how will web presence help me, forget it its too complex for me! Thats a feeling among many businesses, very rightly so as they have not seen or have experienced the power of Internet. I liked the li.... more .......
    2. Cleared my driving exam and Tax investment (11 comments) - With all the meetings, ppts, excel salary docs, TT practice, AGM docs for non-profitable organizations (and ...), I was learning driving as well (thanks to our CEO for forcing me learn this as a company task). Today we had the exams (so had to bunk the meetings), from 12:00 noon to 4:30 pm it was a long wait and less testing. I was just asked to dr.... more .......
    3. Sorry, No Mail replies (6 comments) - Sorry, for last few days I am not able to answer all the mails that is hitting my mailbox (Buzy Buzy Buziness life, you see). Also I am not keeping well, little feverish. I will be taking a day off this week and hopefully will be answering all your mails. Thank you for your patience. Keep mailing, let it reach the 1000 unread mails count :)..... more .......
    4. Quote 3: Work for a global CEO (15 comments) - I will continue my series on quotes which inspires me and helps me improve. Today I will take a quote which is a little spiritual but I keep telling everyone, you are one and you can't be non-spiritual at work and spiritual in Church. I like our Churches as they put a lot of stress on teaching. We almost have over an hour of teaching every Sunday o.... more .......
    5. phpbb doing a major 301 redirection (12 comments) - PhpBB is the biggest community board application available. I am big fan of phpBB as I understand almost all the modules and have tweaked as per our need. From the personalized url to different templates for different post. Special quick replies, integration with other systems e.t.c. We always failed to do the proper documentation to release any mo.... more .......
    6. Another employee fired for blogging (11 comments) - Mark Jen was fired from Google for Blogging and we thought the era has changed till when we heard about Drew Townson. Drew Townson an employee of Mercenary Audio got fired for blogging. Click here for the complete story. I think its time for a corporate blogging rule, a general one and then different companies can change it accordingly. What sho.... more .......
    7. Bandth again - Whos line is it anyway? (15 comments) - Whos line is it anyway? Who is crossing it? Why? How? When? You may not have answers to all these questions but certainly you know that someone is crossing someones line somewhere with some reason using some bad strategies. My previous post "When is the next bandth?" attracted a lot of opinions, active comments and some emails. Tomorrow is another .... more .......
    8. good rain causing flood in social space (15 comments) - We all loved orkut. The most talked social networking in India, from school going kid to senior citizen everyone enjoyed it. Also some of us enjoyed other social networking like myspace, or for that matter even mybloglog. Also linkedin is a great network for social professional relationships. Overall social networking was appreciated and loved like.... more .......
    9. Want success? Change the smell of your workplace! (12 comments) - I am true believer of energies, the right energy can help you enjoy the work. People talk about Vastu and other things but I have no idea about it. I strongly believe that the people are the major energy producer, both positive and negative. In my last audio post I talked about battle of energies, that how different rooms in your company can have d.... more .......
    10. MBA curriculum - Books for Techno-Managers (12 comments) - I was reading the curriculum for "Fog Creek Software Management Training Program" where I saw the list of books for Techno-Managers. It has the best business books of all time, the best software management books of all time and every worthwhile history of a software/computer company that we can find. I have another list which I am going to forward .... more .......
    11. Hmm... 199 out of 200 programmers can't program (11 comments) - We are gearing for the next big hiring campaign, keeping the company small is a dream but in reality you need more people to handle the increasing work (not pressure). Hiring more people is not the right solution but hiring the right people is. Hiring a bad programmer is like having a talented digger on your fast sailing ship, who will keep digging.... more .......
    12. A list where orkut is used for drug/pic-scam/hate-groups (18 comments) - These days my Posts on orkut are attracting more and more traffic. Orkut was known (introduced) as platform for creating a social circle (supposedly good and healthy ones). For last 3 months (an increasing trend, some of my close acquaintances involved as well) I am hearing various scandals where orkut played an important role. From Photo scandal .... more .......
    13. W3C sets new version of HTML in motion (7 comments) - I have been working on HTML rendering with different browsers, the quirk mode, the standard mode, almost standard mode and related topics. I must accept that these topics are really interesting to dive deep in. Today I have gone through the Microsoft standards, Mozilla and Opera standards and rendering under quirk mode. Now I am checking the render.... more .......
    14. How to handle over 100 mails a day (14 comments) - The days when you get over 100 mails you need more than 2 hands to reply. I have many email accounts (official and personal) and till some time back I had problems in handling all at the same time. I hated outlook for the complexity it offered me (I am using three computers, one desktop and one Laptop in office, one desktop at home). Configuring ou.... more .......
    15. B-School Tag Game/ Blog Tree (Level 0) (9 comments) - Welcome to the B-School Tag Game/ B-School Blog Tree. The complete details are available at http://inferno.aimk.org/bschool-blogtree.html. Let me start the game. It is going to be very nostalgic and fun. I have so much to write, let me start with the first point. 5 things I miss about college The sleep (both in classroom and in hostel room)..... more .......
    16. Pay and get Diggs (12 comments) - After per per post for the blogger industry, here is another way of earning money through digg. They will pay you $.5 per digg (and they also get $.5) as the the advertiser gives $1 per digg. The service is available at http://www.usersubmitter.com/. Isn't it fair? Yes it is, when richer people can buy government seats then why not a digg :)..... more .......
    17. Why Wikipedia rules Google SERPs? (19 comments) - At many instances people have asked me this query, "Is Google giving wikipedia some priority in search?". No, I do not think so (but they can do it easily, look at the coop custom search, it has a manual priority setting too). Search for any keyword, even the commercial keywords and you will find some wikipedia results. At instances you might find .... more .......
    18. Meet the Smartest and dumbest Google Blogger (26 comments) - Finally I am back home after spending some 58 hrs in office. Slept for 10 hrs and feeling a little fresher. Google uses blogs as their major communication tool. Google has many official blogs to communicate with its users. There are many Googlers who own a personal blog as well (many of these blogs are not active, see the list below). Also there ar.... more .......
    19. Quote 2: Be good at Plan B (16 comments) - As I mentioned yesterday, I will continue with quote of the day. (Just to add few lines) I am in office for last 48 hrs and will be leaving only after 8 hours. Office has improved with new guest rooms (hot water tub, ACs, Indian Home made food and everything needed), kudos to the CEO and VCs. I am working on few new products like "Simplified Email .... more .......
    20. Quote1: Move Forward with possible strength (16 comments) - When we can run , we will run , When we can walk , we will walk, When we can crawl , we will crawl. But we will not stop moving forward and will not fear failures Great message, your availably for improvement can make you able for improvement (wow my own thought :) ) do move forward in all possible ways. Many do not move forward as they fe.... more .......
    21. new Cricket Blog launched (12 comments) - I got a mail with an introduction of a cricket blog. Looks really cool. You can visit it at http://cricket.hedir.com/. Also you can be a co-author if you can answer one question correctly, "Who is this world famous bowler?", (Yes he is holding a ball not a bomb) Once I am over with Inferno Blog hunt I will join their team. Best of luck Indi.... more .......

    February 2007

    1. Is MBA waste of money and time? (7 comments) - MBA, a buzz word in the job market and even a hotter one for matrimonial sites. But is it all that worth? There has been different school of thoughts on this topic. One of the most famous quotes belongs to none other than Seth Godin (author of "All marketers are liars") where he said "I get away with this heresy since I, in fact, have my own fa.... more .......
    2. My Day - A learning one (15 comments) - I wasted another day on useful things. After the audio blog post I got weird(but approved) comments through mails and IM on my voice. Thanks for that. The next crazy thing I did was to delete all the 765 spams waiting for approval (oops disapproval). I scanned few pages of these spams to make sure I am not deleting a genuine comment. After scanning.... more .......
    3. My Audio Post - Battle of Energy zones (15 comments) - Did few crazy things today like making a PPT for Inferno Blog hunt (soon it will be available of the website) and creating this audio post free of cost, thanks to Hedir. I tried few services but all are costly affairs (currently not in mood of investment). This is a slight tweaking with Hedir Music files (I have sent an email with details to Hedir .... more .......
    4. Web Business is a pure Brain business (16 comments) - Writing after some long time as was busy with designing new salary structure. Also was busy with the Inferno Blog hunt (which is going great guns with over 170 blogs). Indian Web business is heating up with the new generation becoming more Internet Savvy because of cheaper broadband (Rs 500 for a month with great speed and download limits). Read.... more .......
    5. Gurukant Desai VS Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (18 comments) - [Note: Some of my related popular posts are: 1) why mistakes are often mistaken - It talks about what are real mistakes. 2) Orkut used for crime, is orkut responsible for it anyway? ] I am back from Delhi. Delhi was fun, I could explain about Inferno 2007 to some Big Pockets. Also I had Parathas from Mulchand Parathawala (very del.icio.us). Also.... more .......

    January 2007

    1. I have 562 spams waiting for me (14 comments) - I am not blogging for quite a few days, 562 spams under akismet account just reconfirms it. I am busy with inferno and new office. Also we are buying an office in US (checked few places at starton and tracy but not happy, so boss is checking few more). I am moving to Delhi for 3 days, I got up early (2:00 am IST) and my flight is at 5:45 am so t.... more .......
    2. 3 step illegal gmail account creation (13 comments) - Here is a creative way of creating gmail accounts (first hand method), sorry if illegal (why should it be illegal, it is just a free account creation?). Creating gmail account with invitations is just a big pain and everybody needs to create and manage various accounts. I prefer gmail accounts over others for obvious reasons (as they are the best)..... more .......
    3. When is the next bandth? (12 comments) - "Hi, How are you? When is the next Bandth?". This is not a para from a fiction but a normal Bangla talk these days. We had some 5 to 6 bandths during last 30 working days and expecting few more in the days to come. For all who do not know what is a bandth, "it is a call (for a statewide strike) from a political party (or parties) against a policy o.... more .......
    4. Broadband getting cheaper and cheaper (10 comments) - I am sorry for not blogging for quite few days. I was busy with our new office and some work related to Inferno. Now the team will take it from here. My part if over for Inferno and got some time for blogging (Another thing: Today I went for root canal). Story of the day, there has been some major changes for the broadband services in kolka.... more .......
    5. Happy New Year to everyone (19 comments) - Just got back after new year prayers, it was a great blessing to all of us. May God bless all of you this year. A very very happy new year to all. Pick of the day from my inbox (by Debapriyo Ganguly) Heres wishing you a very happy and safe new year! As Oprah Winfrey said, "Cheers to the new year and another chance for us to get it right". You.... more .......

    December 2006

    1. Farewell party to Mr 2006 (7 comments) - I just came back from the Morning session and now going back for the farewell party for Mr 2006, followed with a fresher party for Mr 2007. I will write more about the fresher party once I come back (may be morning 5 am). This is the time to thank many people who have helped me make 2006 a better a year. I will like to thank God for everythin.... more .......
    2. Multi Gmail Account manager not that safe (7 comments) - As I wrote earlier that multi email accounts can be managed using one gmail account. Is it protecting my identity (my primary email account details)? On the surface it is hiding your primary email but not at a technical level. We use some ids which are anonymous and the person should not come to know the sender (this is used for some interna.... more .......
    3. Inferno 2006-2007 (10 comments) - My involvement with Inferno (B-School Fest by AIMK) holds a record. I am the only alumni (or student) who have attended almost all the Infernos (Did I miss any at all?). From being a member of reception crew to a participant to a Judge, it was a journey full of experience (Good or Bad experience? If I can use the experience then Good else as useles.... more .......
    4. Gmail Account Manager - Simplified multi-mail personality (14 comments) - Before I rush back to Church for the special Christmas prayers I thought of penning down an important blog posting for the Inferno's Technical team. This is about managing multi email accounts using big G's Gmail (It may be not safe, know why). It is much simpler than what many thought. Here I go with more images and less words (oops if one image =.... more .......
    5. Happy Chrrrristmassssssss to everyone - God bless (21 comments) - Time to celebrate but please do not forget Christ during Chirstmas :). I believe in God not because I am extra religious or I am different from others but because I feel much better after every prayer. I have seen things working miraculously with prayers. During this Christmas our Church is going different. Our Church is having a 21 days fasting ti.... more .......
    6. Social networking - Flies attract Flies not honey (14 comments) - Web 2.0 is more about platform than applications. Does honey (application or platform) attract flies (users) in social networking? My opinion is no (almost 90% of the time). I was never attracted to a social networking platform because of its taste (quality or USPs) but was pulled by my friends. In social networking sites, flies attract flies and h.... more .......
    7. Google - Websites downloading speed and sales (21 comments) - We all know that downloading speed is important but we have always underestimated it's importance else all our sites would have been Google. All Google products render faster compare to its competitor. Google head really understands the value. According to Marissa Mayer (VP, Google) at Web 2.0 Conference "Part of Google's secret sauce is tha.... more .......
    8. Using subdomain's folder using htaccess (10 comments) - I was using http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/ as my blog url for various reasons. Yesterday I added a subdomain blog.aimk.org (aimk.org is added as an addon domain with dns hosted with idealwebtools.com but the site hosted with a different hosting company. I have done it to host inferno.aimk.org with idealwebtools.com), which takes the same folder.... more .......
    9. Simple Keyboard tricks for Website Browsing (10 comments) - One of the key to success is time optimization. Creating more than 24 hours in a day is not a possibility except on Oct 28, where you get 25 hours a day. But improving the effectiveness of the 24 hours can help you create more hours within the given 24 hours. I was doing this small keyboard trick when I came to know that some of my colleagues did n.... more .......
    10. Finally got my adsense PIN - Adsense tips (12 comments) - My account had some $120 and wanted to encash it during Christmas. I requested for my pin but my wait ended up with another wait. Then I contacted the adsense team with some one way emailing. I decided to take all the adsense off from the blog. Now after some wait and re-request I finally have got the PIN. So I put the adsense back to my blog. Star.... more .......
    11. Simplest Tax and Budgeting tool (9 comments) - Note: Budgeting tool can be used in any country but the Tax tool is only for India. I always end up more tax than others as I am not good at planning my finances. My financial consultant keep advising me for a stronger saving mentality. Somewhere I am still not able to manage it. My friends know me ki "mein aisa hi hoon". Our HR manager is tryin.... more .......
    12. recommendation ==> Sales (10 comments) - In an article about startup Aggregate Knowledge, Matt Marshall writes, "Amazon says 35 percent of product sales result from recommendations." Why I count on recommendations? Recommendation is the best way to check quality. "Do you recommend my Blog to your friends?" is the best quality check for my blog. I do not think there is anything bet.... more .......
    13. Few posts in draft status (13 comments) - We are busy with appraisal forms and policy changes, so not getting enough time for blog postings. These are some of my posts with a draft tag, Lage Raho Aji Bhai (another HR post, one done for India Inc). Will cover my much awaited "personality vs character post". Website downloading speed and sales (stats, surveys and Progressive HTML Rende.... more .......
    14. How technorati tags work? - A complete guide (8 comments) - I have finally composed a guide on technorati tags. I see that many of the good blogs are not using technorati tags for support. Click here for "One guide on technorati - Tags and blog promotion" (four page article)..... more .......
    15. Ask me to blog - Send me the topic (17 comments) - I do not get enough time for blogging (What do people do in such cases?) so please let me know if you want me to blog about a specific topic. Please do not ask me to blog about viagra (I hate spammers). I will try to blog as per the ask..... more .......
    16. Introduce yourself (11 comments) - If you have not introduced yourself to me and other blog visitors, please do. Put as much details as possible. It will be highly appreciated. (add it as a comment to this post) Thanks, Aji Issac.... more .......
    17. Who are Grmtech Leaders? (14 comments) - (I am no more associated with Grmtech) Before writing about website download speed and sales comparison let me clarify some of the queries thrown at my mailboxes. Today I took a four hour class on "leadership" (the ppt will be made available through this blog). After the presentation even my colleagues wanted me to define my role as "Grmtech Leade.... more .......
    18. Pay per post is a sweet poison for bloggers (14 comments) - There is a new market coming up for bloggers (a web 2.0 generated Job). Not exactly a new market but still a young one. Yes, I am talking about "earning through blog posts". We all are aware of Payperpost.com (what a good domain to have!) and www.blogsvertise.com. Reviewme is the new born baby in this market but certainly with a web 2.0 growth rate.... more .......
    19. new look to Google SERP - is it Good? (14 comments) - Google believes in experimenting and here is another example. I do not know why it is not happening on other computers (or why is it happening only on my computer for .co.in). When something is happening only to you then you are suppose to share it with others. So here is the snapshot of the new SERP look (click on the image to enlarge it). .... more .......
    20. Say aaaaa! and go through the links (5 comments) - My earlier post on dental checkup did create a fear cloud for few and this post is an attempt to clear it. Today I had my second appointment with the dentist for scaling. Scaling ?????????? As a maths graduate I had my own definition for this word. Scaling is done to clean up things which are not good for oral health. I advice you to go for a denta.... more .......
    21. upgraded wordpress to 2.0.5 (5 comments) - There was a security upgrade available (security fixes) for wordpress. I have upgraded it and given it a check. It is working great for me. Do let me know if you encounter any bug..... more .......
    22. Great - 24 new feedburner subscribers in a day (11 comments) - As I mentioned at various forums (1,2,3) that phase 2 of blogging is about integration with established services for promotion. In web 2.0, distribution of content is a must and phase 2 of blogging is all about distribution and promotion. This tuesday I devoted some time to understand technorati (I will be writing about how technorati tags work) an.... more .......
    23. Are advertisers tricking Google with hinglish? (8 comments) - This is a guest post done by my friend. He sent me this screenshot of his gmail account with google ads. I thought Google is very strict with adult websites but here we see an example of bad description for google ads which uses hinglish words to trick Google. Search for the word in google and you will get to know the meaning. May be some ad.... more .......
    24. India win fifth successive kabaddi gold (33 comments) - I could watch the second half of the final match where India defeated Pakistan 35-23 to retain the gold medal at the 15th Asian Games. It was a good match, even entertaining. When Indian cricket is struggling with its performance there are many to criticize them but when we are doing wonderfully at another field there is hardly anyone to appreciate.... more .......
    25. Why can't MSN and Yahoo beat Google (11 comments) - Microsoft might have launched MsDewey.com powered Live.com. Can the search hostess MS Dewey bring lady luck for MSN search. I have serious doubts. But there are no doubts that Google is ruling the Internet search industry and with the coop attempt (which also includes an adsense revenue sharing mode for CSE) Google is growing stronger and stronger..... more .......
    26. Should people actually leave companies for better money? (9 comments) - I am continuing with my post on "why people leave companies?". One of the factor (as pointed by few) can be greener fields (in terms of monetary gains). Let's put a thought on who all leave for greener fields? The first placement: This is applicable to all people but mainly for B-school placement days. People make the decision on the basis of.... more .......
    27. Why is Aji not blogging frequently? (12 comments) - I get these mails quite often and I am really sorry for not blogging frequently. There are many things which are keeping me busy (some leaving heavy tensions as well) :- Office work: We need to go for a heavy recruitment drive as our new office is almost ready. Before going for the recruitment we want to clean up the house to give it a fresh st.... more .......

    November 2006

    1. My lessons in life - Azim Premji (6 comments) - Click on the above link to read the scanned document. Hope you find it interesting. Thanks to our HR manager for forwarding it..... more .......
    2. My Dentist said how, why and hmm (18 comments) - As I said in my previous post (Do give it a look, it is about "Why people leave company?" by Azim Premji and Dr.Gopalkrishnan,Chairman TataSons). I went to meet a dentist. As many other I hate to visit dentist and you can call it a phobia. Finally after some pressure from my parent I decided to visit "The Gentle Dental Center" run by Dr Rajesh Venk.... more .......
    3. Making template tableless (7 comments) - You must have noticed some changes with the template. I have removed few tables as to make it load faster. I had three tables in my previous template, Top header table Rest content table containing main content and leftmenu Main content table Now the problem was with IE where the head table used to load faster and rest of the content w.... more .......
    4. Why people leave companies? (24 comments) - Expect this post to be long and very long. People are the most important part of your organization. An entrepreneur can test the company's success by measuring the cumulative experience and creative talent available in the company. First year (for fresher it can be 2 to 3 years) with the company is learning phase where you add industrial knowledge .... more .......
    5. Some server handling with yum (6 comments) - I am not an expert in server handling but I am learning and every small thing adds more dimensions to brainosphere. I found yum really cool as it makes life very simpler. If "Yum" sounded like a chocolate brand or a chicken brand to you then I better do some documentation. Yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is one automatic updater and package .... more .......
    6. Upgraded to firefox 2 (14 comments) - Meanwhile I have upgraded to firefox 2 both at home and office. The most attractive feature is an in-built spell checker. I needed it much as I keep writing blog posts (official and unofficial ones) without using a spell check. It helps me with forum posts. I think on an average I write more than 25 forum posts and firefox is helping me with spell .... more .......
    7. Back to blogging after some break (13 comments) - Yes, I finally got a break tonight to update the blog. It's been some really long and I missed it the most. I have so much to write. The things that kept me busy for last few weeks :- New HR manager has joined so had to help her understand the complete incentive structure (two months back I tried to revamp the whole incentive structure). Also l.... more .......
    8. Finally I got the sourceforge project approved (14 comments) - https://sourceforge.net/projects/wordpress-mu. I had worked with hedir to make the multi user wordpress work. There are many more things left like, A proper user management. Themes edit (which is a big challenge) I am sure this is much better than http://mu.wordpress.org. If you a