Jul '08
4

Final Transit 4.8

Geek Alert: There couldn’t have been a geekier title than that. Yes yes, I am a geek and proud of it.

Presenting…
[drums][more drums]
!Tada!
A brand new look of my website. :) [yay!]
Ok I know, unless you are a first time visitor, that you have probably guessed it already. This is what I call “Version 4.8″ and I hope you like it.

Oh by the way, I also got a MacBook, you know, an Apple Laptop. I got up on Wednesday morning and while biking to work I was mulling over how nothing exciting has happened in the last 2 days. So I decided to make it exciting and what else could be more exciting than spending money on a cute little thing? Clearly, I sound quite excited, but I definitely am excited, and will be until I get the credit card bill. Apple gave away an iPod Touch free with this purchase, so I have more toys to play with. This coincides with the abrupt demise of my older laptop and confirms my final departure from the world of Windows OS. Exciting!

Anyway, back to the website. Thanks everyone who gave me elaborate feedback on how bad the previous version sucked. I’ll dedicate my next glass of Cranberry juice to you (since I gave up on beer). Cheers!

So, does something look different here? Is it better to navigate? Faster? What do you think? Notice a bug? Comments and criticism welcome (but please don’t say something obvious like - “wow the new look is nice!”, I know that already..;) (talk about smartassedness).) I will be tweaking for the next few days.

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Feb '08
22

Hibernation

… for a couple of weeks. I will be back with rest of the Israel travelogue and other stuff. Please hang on for some time :)

I am extremely reachable anyway ;)

cheers,

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Feb '08
10

Post # 200 :) YAY!

This is 200th post published on my blog!
Priyank Thatte
-24°C, dressed shabbily, sleep deprived, debt laden, searching for identity, yet delighted…

Rant:
I registered priyank.com in September 1999, barely 6 months after I first started using a computer (after 12th grade, kinda late). I remember the thrill of discovering Notepad on a black & white computer running windows 3.1 and DOS, the apprehension of using the mouse and 14-kbps shell access to text-only internet (no pictures, colors, graphics). Today, 8.5 years after losing my computer-virginity, I look back at those days with wonder and awe.

I created my first website in early 2000 and in all the time it existed, it has served no useful purpose to the world, other than to entertain myself.

A look at the Archives would reveal that the ‘blog’ part of this website was born only in June 2005, thats approx 2.7 years back. Till then, my website was a collection of static pages, seldom updated, and filled with stuff that fascinated me then :)

The last 8 years (18-26 years) were the formative years of who I am today and this is vividly reflected in my writings (wow that sounds like an elegant word). It has become my habit to read older posts and have a laugh :) Some of the things I blogged about two years ago were really immature and childish, and I’m sure that two years into the future I’d have the same opinion about today.

Apart from serving as a convenient online public journal to add on to my personal diary, I’ve made some wonderful contacts via this website all these years. Thanks for all the love showered by you, yes you reader, by means of the comment box, e-mail, chats and real world interactions. I admit, it has given me nothing but encouragement all along.

So let me invite you to join the party with me to celebrate an important milestone of this blog (and the website). Why? Because you are an essential part of it :)

cheers!

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Oct '07
10

Brake

If it was not evident already, my blog is taking a break. That’s until I fix the current issues or move to a new host.
Thanks :)

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Sep '06
1

Zooming numbers

Visitor statistics for 2006 (Jan to Aug)


Number of people visiting this website has grown so much in the recent past that I have started facing [tag]bandwidth issues[/tag]. Approximately on an average, everyday 150 [tag]unique visitors[/tag] visited during the previous month (August).

Comparing these figures with any other blog will reveal that this is barely a start. Nevertheless, these zooming numbers are pleasing indeed.

cheers

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