Staying Alive

2011 in review

shanmg — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:12:57 +0000

Below is the report for 2011 and sad that I penned just 5 topics in 2011 and still some traffic coming to my blog in search of lyrics of my favorite songs and materials on Telecom and SCDL assignments. This year too it was the same reason I guess, like Facebook and this year G+ added to the list of spoilers.

Spoilers apart, I definitely hope that this year gonna be a much better one for my blog, and am going to pen about common issues and my views on it. Be it in politics/technology/global economy.

Not to forgot, this page is gonna carry the pictures I click and feel good about it which is the effect of being Nikoned. The first article is gonna be on BSNL.. which will be posted shortly.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 52,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 19 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Staying Alive..

BBye 2011 !! Welcome 2012 !!

shanmg — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:41:23 +0000

It has really been a fantastic year except for the “Thane” impact in Pondicherry.

Though we are safe here in Chennai, it was a big hardship for my parents there in my native. I heard my father saying that he hadn’t seen such a devastating storm in Pondicherry in his life time that is like in last 4 decades. After some 48 hrs of difficulty, the power is now restored and normalcy is slowly coming back.

Hope 2012 brings in much more happiness and more success to everyone and letz hope that this kind of disaster never repeats.

Wishing You all a Very happy 2012 !!

Stay Alive..

My Photostream

shanmg — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:39:24 +0000

There it is to your right in my page in the sidebar. The link to my Flickr PhotoStream. Result of being Nikoned and the stream will have pictures I feel worth sharing..

Staying Alive…

Nikoned… the new D3100 !!!

shanmg — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:51:01 +0000

Bought a Nikon D3100 to gift my wife on her b’day. It was a perfect gift as she is also a big photography enthu. It was a really long deliberation between Canon 1100D and Nikon D3100. But it was a split second decision in the Camera Store where I got Nikoned.

First few pics shot with auto/preset modes itself shows the difference between the Point & Shoot and DSLRs. Will continue to experiment with it and may put some experimental shots in this page later..

Staying Alive…

We are the champions!!!

shanmg — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:44:42 +0000

It was really a fantastic feeling watching the team from your country lifting the trophy. I would rather say it as on top of 14 nations and not as, say, top of the world.

Click to view slideshow.

Stay Alive!!!

Time to get your finger inked!!

shanmg — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:54:45 +0000

The people who can’t participate in protests(fast-unto-death) like the one happening now headed by Anna Hazare against corruption, will get their due chance in the form of elections.

Voting is also like a silent protest which happens once is few years. Do vote and use your vote wise. Voting wise means, not wasting your valuable vote.

Staying Alive!!!

2010 in review

shanmg — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:20:39 +0000

Below is the summary I got from WordPress regarding my blog health.

Twitter and Facebook have overridden my blog and updates have been directed towards them which left this blog dry without updates for quite a long time. But I do have a lot to share which will follow soon in this page..

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 51,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 5 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 216 posts. There were 3 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 371kb.

The busiest day of the year was December 21st with 224 views. The most popular post that day was SCDL – PGDBA.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were google.co.in, edusurfer.com, facebook.com, search.conduit.com, and search.clinck.in.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for new york nagaram lyrics, mudhal mazhai lyrics, umts architecture, umts, and zen estilo.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

SCDL – PGDBA October 2006
964 comments

New York Nagaram – Sillunu Oru Kadhal September 2006
55 comments

Bheema – Mudhal Mazhai Lyrics October 2007
28 comments

3G/UMTS August 2006
6 comments

Maruti Suzuki Zen Estilo – style December 2006
9 comments

Stay Alive…

My Wedding Invitation

shanmg — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:29:20 +0000

Inviting all!!!

My BSNL 3G connection..

shanmg — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:40:36 +0000

I bought a prepaid BSNL 3G USIM few weeks back in Chennai and used it with my new mobile Sony Ericsson J-105.After reading couple of blogs, got the correct settings for the mobile and as expected there is gud 3G coverage in chennai. But first I had a hands on in browsing in my lappy connected via Bluetooth to mobile. It was in Bangalore and was possible to touch download speed of around 144 KBps.

Also I tried using it again in Chennai Airport Domestic terminal. Have consumed almost all the download capacity of 25MB which came with the starter pack.

However the recharge server is pretty poor I believe, coz I wasted almost an hr in BSNL KK nagar Customer care service centre. Couple of recharge attempts was not successful on the day I visited. Easy recharge option is only available at this moment and also only few branch’s section manager has the instruction to do that, as I understand later.

Poor BSNL has a long way to go and I feel once the private players starts 3G service by this year end, almost all new connections will be shared by the private players. May be most first time users got the BSNL connection only to experience 3G in India like me

Am yet to recharge my account…

Staying Alive…

The 3G story of India -Part2

shanmg — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:22:17 +0000

The story continues and it is so far so good… 9 final bidders have applied for 3G Spectrum and around 6 of them have submitted bid for pan india license. Auction has already started on April 9th and on the the second day, it is very evident that the players are showing a greater interest.Current highest bid is around 17% more than the base price of Rs. 3500 crore.

Who will not vie for a pie which will bring them better revenue compared to the revenue from the voice and SMS services? Almost every youth in the country is having a mobile and showing interest in data services. I feel that we no more fall into the “Missed Call” generation.

Out of the 9 players, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular, Aircel, STel, Tata Teleservices, Videocon, Etisalat DB and Vodafone Essar.. I hope Bharti and Vodafone will emerge winners for the pan india license and other players might win in few of the existing circles..

3G is expected to add value to the current Indian telecom sector and help it to fall in line with the other developing /developed countries in terms of high speed data availablity.

To be continued…

Staying Alive…