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Weekend Chit Chat, blog development and Good Reads

June 9, 2013 15 Comments

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This week was eventful on the blog front, I finally moved over from earlier host HostGator to a new host, run by my good friend Andrea, from Nuts and Bolt media. The screen shot below this article is the speed comparison before and after the move. I am very happy to see my site running faster now.

Blog Chit chat

Other eventful aspect for OCAAT was the ever changing Google algorithm which resulted in some loss of search traffic. You might not be able to see the reason of my worry. Loss of views/visitors causes severe headache for a website owner. It means loss of revenue and slowdown of future growth.

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Weekend Chit Chat and Good Reads

May 12, 2013 4 Comments

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Friends, welcome to another edition of chit-chat. I wish I could have done more chit chats. I’ll try to talk more with you in the coming days. First of all, happy mothers day to all mothers out there. I wrote a tribute to my mom last year, if you want you can read it hear.

Empty Movie Theatre

Watched a movie in an empty theater

Last few weeks were almost event less. At work gearing up once again for the end of the year slog. This time I am responsible for three critical project deliverable and am already tensed because we are losing a few critical resources.

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Weekend Chit Chat and Random Talk

October 20, 2012 4 Comments

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Readers, first, apologies for going almost aloof for last few weeks. This was on the card but, not up to that extent. Every year around this time activities at work peaks. Lot of projects go in to production roll-out. If you work in IT or know someone who does, most likely you have experienced this phenomenon.

My Life

At work, last week, I was less busy, I called in sick this Friday as I was exhausted physically and mentally. By mid-November we will go in to year-end-freeze and life is expected to become normal. The internal job switch I was trying to make did materialize but they want me to move to a different city, which we are not comfortable with. I am still trying to negotiate and also applying for other internal positions.

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Weekend Chit Chat, Proposed Site Redesign and Carnival Gratitude

September 9, 2012 2 Comments

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Readers, thanks for sticking with us for another week. I appreciate your interest in this blog. It has become kind of routine for me to complain about job pressure and again admitting that I actually liked being that busy at work. Perhaps I started having my share of stress and fatigue now that SMB is asking me to look for another job.

I love the job I am doing, and, I take pride being an employee of this Fortune 50 finance company. I am not thinking about switching employer. The only alternative for me is to look for open internal positions. Which is not so tough to achieve when compared to getting a job somewhere else. So, I started applying for positions similar or higher to my current position. I will keep you updated on the progress. Right now the deadline for my current project is fast approaching and we are still lagging behind it.

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Weekly Chit Chat, Good Reads an Grtitude

August 19, 2012 4 Comments

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I again relaxed a bit last two weekends and didn’t publish a reader chit-chat. Welcome readers, I can’t thank you enough for sticking with the blog. I often write craps, I admit. But not always and intention is never to write a crap.

The project I talked about in past weekly chit-chat is now making my life miserable. It was supposed to happen that way, as we were not given much choices to decide on the delivery date our-self,  it was given to us by the  upper level leaders. We ramped up resources like anything but, still we are short of hands. And, when you hire a new resource, existing resources get stressed because of additional up-skilling tasks they need to perform.

If you are not in computer software industry, let me tell you the last-minute mad-dash is a constant feature in every project and in every company, starting from Microsoft to Google. Developers and testers spend literally their 24 hrs in office during some critical deployments. Yours truly spent quiet a few such days in office in 12 years of working life so far.

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Weekend Chit Chat and Great Articles to Read

July 7, 2012 6 Comments

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This weekend chit-chat edition is published after over a month of lull. I always love this not-only-money discussion that we have. Today, I want to share some technical breakthrough related to Google

The Google Glass

Ever heard of Google glass? If no, then you must read this. I am skeptical about its success an idea of having my glasses as computer screen is still unfathomable to me. But, Google glass is definitely one step toward my ultimate vision of computers being nothing but a bio implantation on our body, we can turn it on whenever and wherever we want. 

I want to see a future where this bio computer would work by only sending signals to our senses. We should be able to hear music, read news, read blogs and watch videos with the signals we turn on selectively. As of now the limited edition Google glass can only perform a limited tasks, for example, recognizing a place you look at with glasses on, giving you direction and weather info , etc.

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Weekend Chit Chat on Blogging Roundup and Carnivals

May 27, 2012 3 Comments

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Welcome to another chit-chat edition. Last week I doubted ability to post this article. When you area reading this I am vacationing in Orlando. Yes I had finished this up before heading out.

Thanks for being a reader at OCAAT. You are not alone, you are part of a growing follower base. Recently I was surprised with some ranking assigned to OCAAT. Earlier I used to check my ranks a lot. Now I have learnt to spend my time well focusing on reading and writing more.

My Technorati ranking is at all time high and they have somehow assigned me the Top Finance blog status, yes a rank 1. This is the their rank screen on 05/21/12

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Weekly Chit Chat, Roundup and Carnival Gratitude

May 20, 2012 6 Comments

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Readers thanks for sticking around to read another chit-chat. I have no idea how many of you really follow this weekend series. I see around 200 page views on average for my chit-chat posts. I believe that’s the number of my dedicated readers.

A sincere thank to all of you, hope you’d do some great stuff on mother’s day. I called my mom and said thanks, I didn’t tell her about dedicating a post for her. Actually she doesn’t know that I write something that others read. She’d have fainted hearing this.

I exhibited poor linguistic skills at school. I know I haven’t improved much still, I am a lot better than I was a year before when I started this blog. So I am really excited to have you as a reader who keep on coming back.

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Weekly Chit-Chat, Roundup and Gratitude

May 12, 2012 11 Comments

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I finally sold off my broken car on Craigslist.  I wasn’t expecting more than $500 for it, but, just to taste the water I put an ad in Miami Craigslist, offering the car for $1,200. I described every problem the car had, including blown head gasket, needs for new radiator and battery.

I also mentioned about two of the power windows which don’t work, a service light which needs attention along with a list of scratches and dents. I thought people would get scared off seeing the listing, so, I mentioned that this car is only useful for the mechanics, who can fix and resell for profit.

Those words spread like wild-fire. Within next few hours I received nearly 50 calls and text messages. Finally the first guy who came-by to check bought it. It helped in negotiation that while he was inspecting the car, I received two consecutive calls from other interested buyers. The car was sold for $1,200 cash then and there.

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Waiting for the Ultimate and Best Search Engine

April 29, 2012 9 Comments

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Welcome reader! Like all other weeks, today I will have another round of personal conversation with you. Strictly non personal finance. Today I wish to talk about search engines and our, bloggers, struggle to appear at the top of search results.

Readers who are not yet familiar with the concept of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEO is a technique which puts a particular site ahead of other sites in a search result. SEO technique essentially means cracking the algorithms that search engines like Google, Bing or yahoo use to rank search results.

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