New Policy, Updates and Thank You’s

My exams have finally finished and it is now time that I write a post about all the new things I have planned for this blog and also as promised, this post shall also contain a speech which was due after I had achieved 200,000 hits. You can get an idea of how long this post has been due. It was supposed to come the day I achieved the hits and I’ve been postponing it so much that now I’ve gotten another 10,000 hits after the 200,000. Let’s roll then!

Thank You people!
When I started this blog in March 2006, I had never imagined myself writing a post thanking people for visiting my blog and leaving comments on what I write. Now comments have become such a necessity that every time Mozilla Firefox initializes, the first page that I open is my Gmail account and what I specifically search for are e-mails from WordPress informing me about who commented on which post. This is followed by opening the blogging and replying to as many comments as possible. After all this is done, I open the Google Reader to go through all my feeds. And finally when both Gmail and Google Reader have nothing new to offer, I go around doing my other work. Blogging has been a great experience for me and that’s not only because of the hits but also because of the interesting people I’ve found and the friends I’ve made. If it weren’t for these guys religiously leaving me comments, I might have lost the interest in blogging and would not have been here making this post. I’ve shared every thing, every single feeling and all the nooks, crannies and crevices of my life here on this blog. I’ve made posts expressing my frustrations with the education system, my hate for God and religion and also of my crushes, love interests and practically every perverted or non perverted feeling. I’ve got a good amount of advice from my readers on how I can deal with the small issues in my life and all that is greatly appreciated. There have been posts I’ve written for my friends to read. There have been others which I’ve made for myself to read in the future and there have also been posts which have been purely for hits. Luckily for me, all these seem to have worked and I’d like to thank Atif Aslam and the entire Indian Television fraternity that have been responsible for over 2/3rd of the total number of hits I’ve gotten. However, it’s the remaining 1/3rd that I cherish more because these have been from those who’ve read about what I actually am.

As far as naming people goes, the list would get very long if I try writing about everybody. Therefore I’d just like everybody to know that I appreciate every person who ever bothered to read and/or comment on anything I’ve written. I’ve already told many times about how it all started and how Elena and Razvan shifted to WordPress and I followed suit. At a particular time around November-December 2006, I actually started looking for other blogs on WordPress or on all other platforms. It was then that I found most of the people that make up my blogroll today. I remember finding Ruhi from WordPress’ top posts. We had both managed to make it to the first page on WordPress.com through our Bollywood related posts. During this period, I also found Cat and became very impressed by her “Save the Vowels” movement. I’ve been reading her blog and she’s been reading mine ever since. Also during this time I found Ashish. I don’t really remember what led me to his blog but I think it must have been some technology related post. Through Ashish I found Shani and then there was no looking back. We’ve had a number of jokes amongst and on each other including “The GeekWrestler and the Bisexual Vampire Chick” which still happens to be one of Sha’s top posts. I’ve also had great friends in these two guys and I believe finding them was one of the best things that happened to me. Also during this period I had visited Sulz’s blog a couple of times. Her superb flowery template had always attracted my attention and I had thought that she was one of the WordPress administrators since she had a custom template. Eventually I figured it was a Custom CSS update. I kept reading her blog and eventually started commenting and we became friends. She’s got a very distinct style of writing and the honesty of her posts and comments is what makes her what she is. Then one day in my stumbling, I managed to reach Lemonade’s blog. As soon as I looked at it, I thought it was unreal. And I still maintain that she’s got one of the most beautiful blogs I’ve come across in my life. If I had a blog on blogger, I’d surely be using one of the template’s she’s made because she’s actually very good at that. Finally recently I found Poonam and in her I’ve seen a real activist. She believes that she can actually make a difference to the world and that’s what most of us lack. We don’t do anything thinking that it wouldn’t make a difference but if we try, other people join in and eventually a movement is formed. It was a movement that got us our Independence and it was a movement that got Jessica Lal justice. What I like about her is that she gives a normal person’s perspective on global problems and informs people about how they can actually make a change to this world and to their own lives. And I cherish her comments because she thinks good for me when she says things.

If I missed out on anybody, I’m really sorry. Make sure you manage to land here and smack me till I do a full post about you. No really, I love all of you who have visited and commented. I’m nothing without you.

Updates
There aren’t many updates. Just a couple of new things here and there in the sidebar. Also for all the people in my blogroll, almost all of you have new tag lines. So you can check ‘em out and appreciate them or curse me for what I’ve made out of you. Don’t mind though, they are just for fun. Also I have made two banners which you shall see in the future posts. One of them is personal and one is professional. Personal for the usual posts and professional for the ones made for hits. Hence now you can easily see what you want to read and what you don’t.

New Policy
Recently I’ve figured that a little bit of scheduling can do wonders in your life. Therefore I have decided that in a week, regardless of how many personal posts I make, there will be one post with links like most bloggers do and I will also try to fit in a post for hits. My aim is to manage 4 professional posts in a month. Hence I will try to follow the schedule and see if it works for me. But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean I’ll sacrifice the personal posts. They are the original motive of this blog.

That’s about it for right now. Adios guys!

Update: Though I was thinking I had managed to name everybody. I’ve got three smacks on the back of my head already! I forgot to mention Nova a.k.a Neha. She’s currently in Hong Kong, is loving Madhuri Dixit and hating Vaibhavi Merchant. What I like about her is that the posts are direct dil se. She doesn’t worry about anybody and manages to express her emotions really well, something that takes me a lot of effort. I also made a huge mistake of forgetting Adam, my co-writer and administrator at Thoughts and Opinions. Adam dude, I just remembered one thing..do you have any Eve? Third person I forgot was Jallu a.k.a. Jalal a.k.a. Mohammed Jalaludin(hope I got it correct?). He’s my co-techie and I’ll always remember that picture to picture installation instruction for the Windows Vista Transformation Pack that he had given in my forum. He was an active writer there and is an active commentator(is that what you call ‘em?). Dude, now you should really make a blog for yourself. I’m sure you’ll do a great job!

Anyone else I’ve forgotten? You can still smack me! :P

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