Five Years of Blogging

I didn't realize that I have completed five good years of blogging! Started on 3 June 2007, to be precise it is five years, two months and three days. The first three years got the maximum number of blog posts - almost one post on every fourth day. But the worst years where 2010 and 2011, the time when I had to reinvent myself. I see that I have already overtaken 2011, and will be in all probability crossing 2010 as well, and so, this year, I might end up with about 60 posts. I have shared so many reports, pictures, videos and my own views using this blog. I just love it.

The blogs have been my constant companion, They gave me opportunity to tell the world what it was all about Puthumai when Facebook was hardly known and Twitter was not known. It was also a place I could give window to my feelings. It is also the place where I could spell out my plans, dreams, hopes and who mattered in my life on that particular day or moment. My visits to the USA, Germany and my relationship with Seattle University occupy a lot of space, all thanks to Julia from Germany and Sean from Seattle. 

I remember the days, when if I google my name in Google Search, the name would appear as one of the last, in the 10th or 12th page. Today, you just enter Puthumai, and the first one you would find is this blog, and there is a lot more about me in the subsequent URLs offered. That's all because of the visibility this blog built for me. No wonder, more than 22,300 hits this blog has received in the last five years according to Statcounter that I added within months after I opened my blog. Later, on 17 Dec 2009, I added Clustermaps to see from how many locations people are viewing my blog, and it shows from over 72 countries and over 3,300 locations people have hit the blog since the end of Dec 2009.  Still I have problem with this.... It keeps telling me to join Google Adsense. But it doesn't seem to much sense for me.

This blog has just journeyed with me. Thank you Blogger. Thank you Google.

Driven by Google Drive

Many of us do not use a special facility that Google has endowed us with, although we might be using Google for mailing or search purposes. Google has a facility for an online storage, called Google Drive. Google gives you 5 GB as a free gift to start with, and then, as the number of documents increase in your system, it is expected to grow to 25 GB, absolutely free! I tried this recently, and Voila ! It is amazing. I downloaded the Google Drive installer, and have them installed on 2 laptops and one desktop PC. It created a Google Drive shortcut icon on all the computers. And now, I can open any of them, and have all my files as they are! You can access all files as updated as they are without any problem. The files get synchronized whenever you any edit any of them. You can work on the files as if you are working on a normal computer, and let the files get automatically synchronized when you are online. Perfect tool for people who travel a lot, and might at times not have access to their own computers. This is also a very good tool for networking on same documents. You must try it to believe it.

Note: In case you see that the Google Drive is not activated for your account, that is because you do not have any documents saved into Google. The easiest way to get the Google Drive facility is save some of your documents under "Documents" from your Google account. It might take a few days after that for Google to activate your Google Drive.