PHD gets lifehacked deliciously !!!

Wow, I am overwhelmed by the response the Excel Conditional Formatting Rockstar post generated. I got both lifehacked and del.icio.us home paged on the sameday and Wow, I am so happy for this.
Talk about my server, it was no where near expecting this kind of traffic. First thing today morning, I have called my [...]

PHD’s Regular Blah #11

GOOD NEWS, my wife has finally come to US yesterday. I am so happy. It was sad being away from her on our first marriage anniversary. But finally she came, her journey was safe and uneventful.
Buy walmart shares if you can, now that I have shifted to a hotel bang in front of the giant [...]

Pointy growth inside nose and other such meaningless junk

I get immense pleasure out of watching search phrase that point to my little blog. Recently some really weird search queries found their way to my blog, see for yourself,

pointy growth inside nose, really?
search breast enhancer in asian sky shop, no comments
what is special in iim mba passout well, nothing except that they write junk [...]

How I redirect traffic from blogger pages to wordpress posts

After moving the blog from the blogger to wordpress, my first challenge was to organize the posts for better discovery and search. I have done that by automatically generating tags and tagging posts using a bit of analysis and a bit of insanity.
The next challenge was to redirect the traffic from the old blogger [...]

Auto tagging your old blog posts

As you all may know I have recently moved my blog from blogger to wordpress. Since I have started blogging way back in 2004 most of my posts were untagged. I have used blogger labels ever since they were introduced, still almost 400 of my posts were untagged. I had two options,

Manually edit posts and [...]

Happy New Year

I celebrated 2007 three and half hours earlier and now I am celebrating 2008 ten and half hours later than usual. But no complaints though.
2007 has seen me through lot of personal and professional changes, I got married, moved to a house in Thiruvanmiyur, purchased a small house for my bro in Hyderabad, got [...]

Back in Hong Kong

My work has kept me both busy and moving for the last 6-8 weeks now. As part of that I had to travel again HK for another brief visit. I have come here yesterday and will be here till the end of this week. Hopefully I can get back to my normal life and blogging [...]