I’m saying this way too late – by more than 2 months, but better now than never: For all those who had wished me on Orkut on my birthday, I’m very sorry for not responding on time.  My laptop died around my birthday and I didn’t even have a way to update my wishlist with on time for the b’day.  So for everyone who had wished me:

Thank you very much!

Hello after yet another nice long gap.  Enough time for me to forget I even had a blog.  Eight months of bad maintainace has left it in a very bad shape.  Around 27000 spam comments in all posts together.  I’m not going to delete them, I don’t have the patience to dig into the db structure of wordpress.  Akismet says it has also blocked around 90000 comments.

I’m amused to see Google reader telling me that even now, there are around 5 people subscribing to my rss feeds.  I’ll bet none of them use Google reader anymore, and if they still do, they must be extremely lazy people or must like me very very much!

There has been more activity in my life in this gap – I joined Citicorp around 2 months back, and got my first fully Linux job, which makes me a happy man.  After working for a startup company for an year,  it feels very different to be for a large organization where there are seperate departments for everything.  It might make you think life is  very comfortable for me.  Yes it is.  Problem is the pace at which things progress.

Next sad thing is that internet is highly restricted.  Web mail sites are blocked and our in-boxes are monitored   Community sites, streaming media sites are all blocked.  But life is still good (i.e., I still don’t get the time to think if its good.) and I’m learning more and more and more new things here including a lot of productivity tools (which I had denied myself so foolishly until recently)

I’ve read 3 Salman Rushdie novels and almost done with the fourth,  but as this post makes evident,  it has not had any effect on my vocabulary [yet].

I’ll try my best to write random things just to keep the blog alive.  I realise I’ve missed around 1 year worth of  posts just for me to look back at, if for nothing else.