I am sorry for such a stupid title to this thread. But since it’s first post in the year 2009, i couldn’t work up my mind to get a better title.

It’s 10 days since i last posted. So i feel sorry for my blog and myself. As Amit Bhawani says, i am creative and talented but wasting my talent. I totally agree with him. So i think, i would be posting more on this blog and other blogs of mine once i am totally fit and good enough to take daily toll of blogging on my health.

I recently talked by my ill health in probably last two blog posts. Fact is that i haven’t still fully recovered. I am still ill. But i don’t want my blog to turn into some kind of health blog, so, i am going to stop elaborating on my health issue and move onto other important things!

In entertainment, i have recently watched few movies this year. I guess that would make one movie a day. To name a few i watched Juno, Jumper, Ghajini, Mementos, Rab ne Bana di Jodi, Cloverfield, Hitman and 21. Juno was a great movie about a 16 year old girl getting pregnant and actually going ahead and giving birth to the baby. Jumper is an okay super-hero kinda movie. Ghajini is a bollywood movie starring the perfect Aamir Khan while Mementos is the actual english version of Ghajini’s story. Both are good movies. Rab ne Bana di jodi is another good movie. Cloverfield is a very realistic movie. Nice story, nice concept. Takes time to get interest in it but once you have it, the movie beomes enjoyanble. As for Hitman, well i already watched it befor but it was nice to watch it all over again. Lastly, the movie named 21, as the name would suggest all gamblers is a blackjack based movie. It’s all about card counting and beating the dealer.

Coming onto my online business. Since this post i have started posting on my blog. I have been more active on my other blog named 1 Main Street. That blog is turning out to be the first Affiliate marketing blog i ever made. I hope i can learn rapidly and make it a sucessful blog. Onto directories, well my two directories are doing alright, those being Ally Web Directory and Strongest Directory. I have one directory of directories called Top Directory List and apparently it looks like it gained PR in this recent google pagerank update. That leaves one free directory at XHII.com. The directory was receiving lot many submission recently and i had to temporarily disable all kind of submissions. I have nearly 22000 listings to review in there. It’s a tough job maintaining a good free directory that actually follows tough submission rules that i have on the that directory. Honestly, not many free directories follow it’s own submission rules and majority approve all the listings they get. So XHII is an exception but it looks like Google is unwilling to give PR back to XHII. Although i do have good rankings for keyword “free web directory”. Last i checked i was on 9th rank in Google but hufff… the fluctuation in results never let me stay i same position.

Google

As for Google, i see them getting a new logo. Which is actually better than before. I am posting the new favicon but it’s not best of quality by any means. However congratulation to Google team for finally getting a better favicon.

Anyways, moving onto some other niche. Well, let’s say friends. Nothing much happening. It’s cold. I go out at 8 in evening and come back at 10. That’s what i have been doing recently. I played snooker thrice in the first 10 days already and i guess i will be heading today again after i complete this post. It’s weekend and i like to play snooker. Yesterday i went for a party as my very close friend Amit Aggarwal celebrated his birthday. Today, i am again going to some party of my other close friend, Sumit Bahl, who will be celebrating his birthday today So that makes two borthdays in two days!

Happy Birthday To Amit Aggarwal!

Happy Birthday to Sumit Bahl!

I have to really rush now as Sumit Bahl, the birthday boy is waiting for me at Snooker bar already. And before he becomes fast and furious, i think i should be there. Besides, i think will be losing to him today in Snooker. I think it will be fair if i let him win today on his birthday.

Okay, will come back and blog more later but sooner! Goodbye

P.S. i was lying about me winning in Snooker. Usually i lose to him very often!

It’s 31st December’2008. Time to say goodbye to year 2008.

Honestly, this year hasn’t been good to me. I have not made much progress in my business compared to last three years. Specially these months of November and December. They have been miserable. Blame recession or economy or whatever. Unfortunately Google has been the devil this year. I am sure it ruined many webmaster’s dreams already in order to make itself a big company. I hate so many Google guys many of which are responsible for giving me a bad year 2008.

Apart from business, my health hasn’t been normal this year. I am still recovering from the viral i had in month of November. I had an ultrasound of scrotum and rectal today. There seems to be something wrong in prostat. Probably a bacterial infection. Hopefully that will be gone soon. Three days back i had my blood test taken. Heamoglobin seemed to be good at 14.20g/dl. It showuld be between 12.0 and 16.5. Every test i wen through recently has been reported as normal. But i still have problem somewhere. I will have to wait for my ultrasound reports though! Let’s see what we have there!

This year has been an year of miseries. I do not remember any year where i attended so many funerals. I have lost many near and dear ones. Including my grandfather whom i loved so much. This has been the worst year for me.

So the year 2008 ends tonight. I hope year 2009 brings a revolution for me. I need it badly. I need lot of things to change next year. The change be good. First being health of all my near and dear ones and mine as well. Second ofcourse is my business. I hope my prayers are answered next year.

Anyways, it’s new year and time for partying out. I hope you all have a great bash on this new year and would like to wish you all a very very Happy and a Prosperous new year. May all your prayers be answered in year 2009. Be in good health and take care. And don’t forget to visit my blog!

Happy New Year 2009

“Are you dead or just bored of blogging? – Aaron”

Thanks to Aaron’s e-mail here, i realised that i haven’t been missing from blogging world for quite a while. Well Aaron and everybody who is concerned, i am still alive and still blogging. However, i do agree that it has been long since i posted on this blog! So here i am…posting about not so important things at the moment!

Life has been hell this December. I have been sleeping 14 hours a day. I had cold, cough, fever, lower back pain, chest pain, chills and body aches. On 17th of December i coughed up blood. And that really made me worried. However after check up it turned to be an injury in throat due to aggressive coughing. Boy! was i relieved. Anyways, the medicines and cough syrups still keeps me dizzy and in bed for half of the day. But good news is that i have been recovering well and recovering fast. Last night, i even want partying out. So that tells you my health condition! Well, enough about my health.

Thing about a webmaster life is that even when we are ill as hell, we still can’t stop working. While taking bed rest, etc, i used my Sony Vaio notebook for blogging purpose. All this time that i was ill, i actually didn’t stop blogging. I have other blogs too and they need some regular blogging as well. So consider that as an excuse for my not blogging so much on this blog. I recently started blogging on this new site called 1 Main Street.com Just a casual blogging site but i do surely hope to make it bigger and better with time. I hope to see your comments and regular visiting to that site as well!

I really don’t have much to say right now! It’s been tough last few days. I did nothing much that i could really talk about. But i do apologize for not wishing Christmas greetings on time to you lovely friends. But better late than never. So truly, deeply and heartily, i would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. Enjoy your New Year celebrations. Take care and do well in year 2009!

BETA BlogRush.com To RIP BlogRush

I was shocked when i got this mail from John Reese.

After so much success with BlogRush, they have decided to shut down the services.

I feel sorry for them. They were doing good and there was absolutely no reason to close it down. But they had their own issues and opinions on the same.  According to them, the primary reason behind this decision were the security issues and abusive users who just can’t appreciate good things.

Now that the services are closed, only one can realize that BlogRush was here for us, people. Not for anything else. They never even sold any advertising spaces, nor did they try to monetize in any kind. They only believed in free quality traffic across quality weblogs. It’s sad that it had to end this way.

And to everyone who might be thinking if they are coming back under different ownership… The answer is no. BlogRush team has declined several offers & inquiries about acquiring BlogRush.com.

Well, i would say that BlogRush widget was best in it’s own way. Besides, it was THE best looking widget on internet. I remember i made a post when my blog was approved by them. I was so excited. And now i am making a post when BlogRush is being killled rather than being shut down!

Anyways, Good luck to the team behind it. And “Thank You”.

P.S. : Here is the blogpost i wrote when i joined BlogRush: BlogRush, I am in.

P.P.S. : If you want to write something to John Reese (BlogRush owner), Then you can visit >> Death of BlogRush.

I am sorry i haven’t been blogging, lately. As i see it, there hasn’t been a post this entire month. So i thought i would summarize the whole of September in one go. So bear with me.

Rock On!!!

Early September : I somehow made it possible to get second day first show ticket of the movie “Rock On“. I must admit, it’s a great concept, brilliant story, good acting and a fantastic movie. It’s a story about 4 guys who started a rock band in their college life (As we all probably did at sometime in college life). Anyways, the college life was good. They thought they had the world on their feet dancing on their music. I am sure every college going chap must have felt that one time or another. However soon they grow up. Realize what hard and cruel world has to offer. So they start their own businesses/ find jobs, etc. Only to go their separate ways forever. Until after ten years of separation, rock star Purab (known as K.D in movie) thinks of a reunion. Two of the four had some differences between them coz of the past things. But who cares. Eventually they get back, talks over their life and finally decides to start the rock band again. So they did. And it’s a movie, so you can expect success for them eventually. But i won’t take away any credits from the stars of the movie. Specially Purab, Farhan Akhthar and dashing Arjun Rampal. Arjun is a guitarist in the band and he is a hunk. I am not mentioning much about Luke Kenny or Prachi Desai, because hey, you guys had a very less role to play. So wasn’t much impressed. Anyways, the movie was great and if you haven’t watched it, i insist that you please do! You can visit their official site : Rock On!!

I had a serious laugh at Purab’s beard style in the first half. Nice going. Purab! You are the man!

8th September : WordPress comes with yet another update. Now, I am not even surprised that there is a new wordpress version. As if i am used to it. This time it’s WordPress version 2.6.2. Some bug fixes again. But hey, don’t be excited as WordPress is planning to bring out WordPress 2.7 very very soon. And that would be lot interesting as they plan to put in some kinda of Navigation column. Humm.

14th September : It was my Dad’s birthday. He is a doctor and he is the best guy i have ever met. He is my inspiration, my idol and no one can ever take his place as “The Most Important Man In My Life”. Thanks for being there for me always Dad.  I love you! A very very Happy birthday dad! God Bless you!

23rd September : It has been a month since i reported Dr Stephen Baker, MD and TopSeom as the people who robbed me of a small amount. But robbery is a robbery. i don’t care about the amount. But it’s always good to let the world know about people who don’t deserve to have good name!

So how do i punish them. Well, as my friend Amit Bhawani does it. Start ranking high for their name. So that world can know. Now eher am i for their names? Well, if only Google can stabilize their search engine ranking algorithms i could precisely tell you where i rank. Sometimes i am number two right after their official sites. And sometime i am lying somewhere in second page of the search results. In anycase, i am sure i am doing some help in someway or the other by letting people know about them. I hope Google can give good rankings to my blog in time to come.

Google PoorRank

27th September : That’s today. Well, Google PoorRank is updating again! and as you can imagine, i am very disappointed with the results. For all my hard work and ample amount of information i put all day on AllyDirectory.com, Google has been kind enough to grant me PR2 instead of the previous PR3. I wonder if there is anything i could do so that Big G can fix their PR determining algorithms and for Christ Sake, can they stop punishing the sites which actually have better things to offer than their competitors running just a simple directory? I saw a simple tag cloud site today, showing up PR7 on toolbar. Earlier it was PR6. Is that what you call informational content? It’s just a paid links and keywords on the whole site. What’s the point in that? He will now earn more by selling paid links on even better Pagerank. i, on the other hand, put so much efforts, so much content, just to make my site become more of information bookhouse rather than just a simple ordinary directory and this is what Google gives in return. Google is Bloody Demoralizers on the net, when it comes to Pagerank!

At least the Ally Directory’s sitelinks are still there, but then i never said Google is bad when it comes to anything except Pagerank.

In September : Well, i love free templates. Iam launching ten free phpLinkDirectory templates in September itself. You can check AllyDirectory’s PHPLD Templates section for those ten templates. At this point of time, three templates have been launched already. Rest all will be launched by 30th September. Hopefully

Well, i guess that was little about September. Obviously i have missed lot of things i did this month but maybe they are not good enough that i can even recall them!

P.S. : I almost forgot. No matter how much you hurt us webmasters with your Pagerank stuff, we would still like to wish you Google, a Happy Birthday. Many happy returns of the day. May God bless you with lot more success and some BRAINS in pagerank department!

Happy 10th Birthday Google