I started my personal blog – Pathik Shah – exactly 2 years back. It has been a great experience so far, having my own place on the interwebs. It hasn’t quite been my ticket to the internet millionaire club as I was hoping it would be when I started out, but I have been able to easily recoup my domain and hosting costs, internet bills and be ramen profitable (not sure if it applies in this sense, but like everyone else, I would like to be called an entrepreneur, even if all I have is this shitty blog, so…).

I have also gotten better at putting my thoughts (which no one gives a shit about) into words (which no one reads), so I guess it’s all well. I am now getting close to 100,000 visitors every month which is quite decent considering my abysmally low posting frequency (about one per month). I hope to start regularly blogging again, but it is tough to put your heart to something which isn’t making you millions. But then again, I don’t have much else to do, so blog I will.

Since I don’t have much more to say, here’s a list of my top 10 blog posts so far.

• Intel Core i7 vs Intel Core 2 Duo – The Difference
• Free Airtel GPRS tricks
• How To Mod Sony PSP 3000 – ChickHEN + CFWEnabler
• Top 20 Private and Public Torrent Sites
• Use Mobile Phone As Webcam
• How To Install Android On PC / Laptop
• Install Android 2.2 Froyo on Samsung Galaxy S
• Opera Mini now on Android
• How to Install Games on your PSP
• Intel Core i5 vs Intel Core 2 Duo – The Difference

Thanks. Keep checking my blog. Twice. Every hour.

PathikShah.Com is now a PR3 blog. My Alexa Rank is currently fluctuating around 420,000 which is pretty decent. The growth, while not spectacular, has been quite steady. My next aim is to become a PR4 by 2010.

Thanks to all my readers for making this possible.

When I first started this blog, it was mainly because of 3 reasons -

1. I wanted to be the top search result when anyone googled my name
2. Everyone I knew had a blog
3. I was bored

Unlike most other bloggers, I wasn’t trying to satisfy my creative urge to write, nor did I want to make the world a better place by writing the best tech blog around. . I was just plain bored (I still am), and wanted to do something to keep me occupied (which this blog failed at).

I wasn’t hoping to earn much from it (I wasn’t even thinking about it, though I did write about it in the About Me page. ), I didn’t even publish any ads in the first 1-2 months of the blog. And anyways, technology / personal blogs never earn much because techies – your target audience – rarely click on ads, and you don’t get much traffic on the personal posts when no one is interested in reading about your rather boring life (like mine). I was even contemplating removing ads totally, but my ad placement was mostly unobtrusive so I decided to let them remain. Besides, I wanted to recover atleast the initial capital involved – the hosting and domain costs.

I started getting decent traffic on some posts (which was a bit surprising as I never tried any serious SEO, just the basic organic stuff), and clicks followed. I never was one to check my Adsense earnings every day and fret over low earnings, I am trying hard to resist that urge. My CTR and CPM are still abysmally low though. I don’t think my blog earnings are going to improve much as I hardly blog these days – its too boring. I must be the first blogger to have stumbled upon the famed writer’s block so fast. I’ll try to post as frequently as I can. Keep visiting the best blog of all times.

BTW, I accomplished my first objective way back in 2008, in case you were wondering. – Me@Google

In the words of the great Borat Sagdiyev, Great Success!!!

I gave the Sun Certified Java Programmer – SCJP 1.6 (310-065) exam today at a Prometric Center and cleared it with 88% – 64/72. Wooohooo!

While I still don’t fancy myself as a programmer, it is a nice addition to my almost blank resume. KTHXBAI!

Books used: SCJP 1.6 K&B.

If you need any help regarding the SCJP examination, leave a comment below.

Today is the first birthday of my beloved EEE PC, I bought it on 17th March 2008 – exactly an year back. I first actually saw it on display at Croma, the day it launched. It was love at first sight, and the rest as you know, is history. It has been a great year and it has served me quite well. There hasn’t been a single instance where it has let me down. I still find it just as BAAAAAAAP (read: extremely awesome) as I did on the first day.

Here’s the review I wrote a year back, when I got my EEE, just to show you how much I loved it back then. And the love has only grown (exponentially) with time.

My EEE PC Review

One of my best investments ever. Cheers to my EEE!