What’s in a name?

I guess I have them trapped… I mean, all who have been desperately seeking some information about a process in telecommunication with the same name as my blog- all who typed “Idle mode connectivity” on Google and were led to this page.

Blogger stats tell me that the list of countries from where my blog has been visited is as follows:

India, US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sweden, Poland, Albania, Latvia, Germany, Israel (in no particular order)

Of course some page-views make sense including the ones from Sweden which physically is my office in India! There are others that amuse me and make me believe that there were people who might have overlooked the URL. I’m particularly amused by the name of Poland as I am under the impression that one of my trainers in telecom who hailed from Poland might as well have landed onto this page (If he really did, there couldn’t have been a better coincidence). As part of the consequence of your natural inclination to trust in Google and go for the first result, you might have hit this page. You might have made a fool of yourself- stop cursing me! Lesson learnt: Check the URL before you click; names are misleading (though I never meant to have increased hits in this way).

But who cares? I am happy to have such a wide spectrum of visitors.

It’s high time you expand your knowledge in telecommunication….so, keep visiting!

Necessity is the mother of invention

History: I had considered writing a blog long time back, thanks to Mahul Bhattacharya whom I deeply admire. But call it my lethargy or weakness, I never really felt the need to do so. I must say, I like writing….mostly crap. And that’s what led to the inception.

Nomenclature: First things first….the name of the blog !

Well, that’s what becomes of you when you are in the telecom industry long enough…(wait, long enough?) Some might be amused by the name but most people would be frowning. If you belong to the former category, you know why this is amusing. But if you try to relate the name with something you studied and find no relation at all, don’t feel insanely stupid because my idea was to keep it simple. If you belong to the other class, I am glad I don’t have to pity you because you don’t know why…. because it’s better not to know why ;-)

Logical Reasoning: Bored with my idle state at office, I thought this would be a good way to connect “to and with” you J

Geography: I wasted more time contemplating the templates, the fonts and the colors to use in my blog more than I did on the blog title. And I must admit, whatever I try spontaneously turns out to be more appealing! Every suggestion on improving the looks of the blog would be appreciated, none on improving the contents would however be ! That’s because the high-speed Internet connection at my office allows me to spend long hours on changing templates and colors but NOT my ideas.

Philosophy: You must have been bored by now and might as well be considering yourself an “April fool”. If you are feeling so, I will consider my first blog partly successful. But, most likely, you will not admit! Not that I care! Believe me, sometimes it’s good to be fooled! Because at least you smile! J