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Weekend Chit Chat, blog development and Good Reads

June 9, 2013 15 Comments

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.

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.

Weekend Chit Chat, Proposed Site Redesign and Carnival Gratitude

September 9, 2012 2 Comments

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.

Weekly Chit Chat, Good Reads an Grtitude

August 19, 2012 4 Comments

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.

Weekend Chit Chat on Blogging Roundup and Carnivals

May 27, 2012 3 Comments

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

Weekly Chit Chat, Roundup and Carnival Gratitude

May 20, 2012 6 Comments

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.

Waiting for the Ultimate and Best Search Engine

April 29, 2012 9 Comments

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.

Weekly Roundup, Thoughts and Gratitude

April 14, 2012 6 Comments

Staying within my limit and not revealing company secrets, I can only share a little facts about my job. And let me do that today.

I recently got involved in a project, which has to be delivered within this calendar year, and, with the complexity of the requirements, its near-impossible to achieve that. Hence, we are in a recruitment frenzy through our vendor partners.

This is not an ordinary project, it is one that can make or break your career. As always I am up for this challenge and taking on this biggest-in-life-time project head-on. Over the last couple of years I have built a strong team. A few of the outsourced workers left but, came in stronger ones. I have faith in this team and my boss has faith too since this came our way.

Weekly Update and Gratitude

March 18, 2012 4 Comments

Another interesting week went by. At work, my boss started more work on us. The reason being he’s being bombarded with new projects and proof of concept initiatives.

The year’s worth of budget is cleared and many big projects got a go and we are falling short of heads. Until the time we hire people (through outsourcing partners) we have to manage the increased work-load. See, I am not complaining about more work or my boss here. I did try to understand the situation behind his increasing demands.

If you see the rationale behind your boss’s action, most of the time, your work may turn out to be a better experience. I know many who start thinking about retirement the moment they are asked to do additional work.

Weekly Roundup – Hectic Work

March 11, 2012 2 Comments

This week was very hectic for me, spent two nights at work out of 7. When issues come, they come in bunches for sure. But that didn’t prevent me from sneaking at twitter stream and reading some of the great articles.

This was a very hectic week at work, had no time think of some great personal finance topics to write. One good thing was the hectic schedule meant no eating out. I ended up working even on Saturday. Needless to say, SMB wasn’t very happy but then, she realized that occasional slog is part of the day job.

We had an issue with one of the backend applications that impacted our cardholders. So this had to be fixed as soon as it was possible. It was great to see the teamwork and enthusiasm that my team showed.

Weekend Chit Chat, blog development and Good Reads

Weekend Chit Chat, Proposed Site Redesign and Carnival Gratitude

Weekly Chit Chat, Good Reads an Grtitude

Weekend Chit Chat on Blogging Roundup and Carnivals

Weekly Chit Chat, Roundup and Carnival Gratitude

Waiting for the Ultimate and Best Search Engine

Weekly Roundup, Thoughts and Gratitude

Weekly Update and Gratitude

Weekly Roundup – Hectic Work

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