A Hectic Sunday
Today was a hectic day for me. Had some pending work since last few days and wanted to finish them all today. Yesterday also, though it was weekend, my day was fully packed. We went to Urjit’s school to attend his students led conference. There was a long to-do list in Urjit’s plan for his mom and dad. He wanted us to see his activity book, the IB book, his best dance, he wanted to draw something for us, wanted to show us his singing talent and at the same time, he was eager to show us his skills on computer as well. And I had already a meeting scheduled at 11.45 am and the guy was waiting for us. Finally I had to convince my son that we will make it next time and then after leaving him at my sister-in-laws place we headed for the meeting to meet a logistics guy who was interested in getting an application done for Logistics.
Later in day, Ajay visited us from Delhi to discuss about his website. After dropping him at station, we headed to my mom’s place for dinner. I had planned to work on the database for this new site called Gigabo. But it was quiet late so thought of doing it today. There are more than 2 million records which needs to be properly imported in respective tables with their constraints properly in place, so this morning after a quick b’fast of one mango milkshake, I started my work. I was uisng the Import Export wizard but the task was taking ages to complete… I just kept on waiting to let it finish, but it never finished. In the meantime, I was trying to entertain my son as well… as he gets very upset if I don’t spend time with him and don’t pay attention to him. So we logged onto youtube and he wanted to see his favorite song for TZP, bam bam bole and while the song was playing, he was doing lip-sync and was busy dancing and enacting. See the cute video here.
While the query was running on the remote computer, I also finished transferring one of the blogs we worked on earlier. It was a long pending task. The client had requested me to do it in Feb and I was so busy, but he kept waiting for me. So finally I had to agree and accepted the work. Sometimes you have to accept some work just because of your relationship with the client and the trust they show to you.
I am also happy that I was able to go though all the emails for the KidsandBibs.com photo contest entries, resize the images, upload them and update the contest blog. There were more than 80 entries this month. The site and the free contest is becoming more popular day by day. How all of us love FREE stuffs 
Though I feel, close up shots are more appropriate for contest, today while resizing the images, I loved this photo of Veronica. I was thinking if I was sitting in her place. The place looked so nice and calm. See the photo.
If you love looking at cute baby photos, like me, then do check out this lovely baby photo gallery.
That’s all for now. Have a great week ahead!
My blog is blogged!
It was a sweet surprise to see that my blog is blogged on blogged.com . While checking my websiste stats, I found many visitors coming to my blog through this URL and I clicked on the link out of curiosity and it was good to know that the editor gave me 8.2 points. I found it quite fair.
It is written that, the Editor reviews are provided by professional editors who evaluate a blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style. I personally feel that I could have got more points iff ( yes if and only if), I was more punctual in posting. I have been so busy in promoting my website and my office work, that I am not getting time to do regular blog posts.
However after seeing such feedback and reviews, I plan to write daily and then some more pressing work is there, and the blog takes a back seat. These days I am also busy doing wordpress custom theme designs and I simply love it. I am a programmer by profession, but I love designing and have an eye for detail and I can spend hours working on photoshop and designing stuff and most of the time, I am busy doing that only. So guys, if you are looking for a sleek and clean looking wordpress blog, you can write to me.
Well here is the screenshot from the blogged.com website
Decorating your blogs :)
As blog/site owners, we all know how important it is to have the right widgets and right tools installed, so that you can keep an eye on the traffic, popularity and for making the blog accessible to as many people as you can.
There are many blog directories available today, but my favorite so far have been mybloglog. For me it is much more than a blog directory as it lets me know the exact web traffic, the popular keywords, how and from where people are coming to my blog, and most importantly - where they clicked on the site. It is very important as I get to know exactly which adsense units are working best on the site or the blog.
In the attched screenshot, you can clearly see the list of keyword terms through which people visit to my site, the actual search engine, where they are landing and where exactly they are clicking and thus I can keep a track of the popular adsense blocks and I can identify which format works best for the site. Also I get to see if they have clicked on any affiliate links. With 3USD per month, it is indeed a good service and I don’t mind paying that much to get all these useful information.
One major advantage of using mybloglog is that it keeps a track of other mybloglog visitors so you can build your online social circle easily by going to various blogs of your interest, leaving a message here and there and thus you create your own web community, which is really a very good PR for your website and it helps in making your site/blog popular.
So if you have still not added this widget in your blog, do it right now. I am sure, you will be happy and moreover now it is owned by Yahoo. So you will need a yahoo id to register.
