Making Google to verify your Wordpress Blog & submitting Sitemaps to GWebmaster Tools

After 3 hours of extensive search, I found the solution for this prob. I have found the solution no where in web except at Redchaos. I am very happy for that. Still, one hesitation is there in the solution which i want incorporate to make it complete solution.

Verifying Your Wordpress Blog:

Take the following steps:

1. Open google webmaster tools. and specify your web adress.

2.Click on verify. Google will give you 2 options. First one is "Add HTML code". Here, one html code will be given to you.  It looks like: " google7u445y3dfghat56e1075p.html" . Copy this code.

3. Now open your wordpress blog.

4. Create new page (not post).

5.Directly paste the html code, that was given to you, in title field of page

(Here wordpress will not take .html extension. Still, paste it.)

6.Now publish the page. (Content of the page doesn't matter)

By this point, ur problem is  solved. But should we keep this page on blog even it doesn't consist of any info.I donno exactly what to do for this. But i can give you tip to keep that page as private.

Submitting site maps:

1. Go to google webmaster tool site.

2. Login and then Go to dashboard. You must be done with 'verify site' by now. Otherwise, u can't proceed.

3.U many have many accounts, opposite to ur desired web address/account press "Add" button under "sitemap".

4. Give this input there in the field http://yourname.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml DONE!!!

Google will take few hours to process the request.

Cheerful Achievement - Miserable Failure - Failed State

Before knowing about Google Bombs, have to have an idea how Google gives page ranks for its search results. Page rank of a site  will be given by examining the number and popularity of sites that are linking to it. This was the way algorithms were written. For suppose, every website/blog has the word "Failed State" that is connected to Pakistan official government website then the search field "Failed State" in search engines will give 1st page rank to www.pakistan.gov.pk

Here,  "Failed State" becomes a Google bomb. There are several of its type. One most popular among them is : "Miserable Failure"  first created by George Johnston .After the 9/11 attacks on WTC towers, he has created it against George W.Bush.

Google bombs are created either to fame or defame a particular person/ nation.  GBs "Miserable Failure"  and  "Failure" are started redirecting to  Barack Obama as he is present pres of US. So, Google has manipulated its algorithm to avoid this. In fact, a google bomb "Cheerful Achievement" was created in favour of Obama.

If u r real Indian, if you truly want to condemn 26/11 attack on Mumbai,create a link to www.pakistan.gov.pk using Google bomb: "Failed State"

Non-Indians can do the same as it is true. Its not to condemn pakistan but pak's terrorist infrastructure. For the world's goodness, terror infra in pak has to be destroyed. Unless the whole world helps for that, it cann't be destroyed by pak alone as situation is out of pak civilian govt's control.

Terrorism in Srinlaka: How good is not supporting Srilanka?

There is no big  difference between the way the India looks at Pakistan and the way the Srilanka looks at India(especially TamilNadu state).  If we don't cooperate with srilanka in terminating LTTE, how can we urge pakistan to eradicate pak based terrorism. I see these two things same, so should be the solution. India must cooperate with srilanka in eradicating LTTE.

It has been said by Jailalitha that LTTE is putting tamils as a sheild in protecting themselves. India considered LTTE as a terrorist organisation and banned it. LTTE and ULFA in bangladesh and LeT in pak have their underworld cooperation in supporting each other. The question is : "  Aren't these facts enough for India to support srilanka govt in terminating LTTE? "

Whom does with, we have proper relations among our neighbouring countries. Are we diplomatic with pakistan or  with china or with Bangladesh. The answer is NO. Now with srinlanka, we aren't supporing it, atleast we shouldn't pressurize them to ceasefire.

I donno, what strategy are we following in dealing terrorism in pak based militancy. I am sure 26/11 issue will be faded from newspapers/TV channels after few days. by that time, we will do nothing to Pakistan. this is the way the things work in India. At least, we should learn how Mahinda Rajkapsa (Srinlanka president) has dared to act against terrorism. He deserves a lot of appreciation. Because, neither US nor UK nor India could capture the terrorists who attacked their homelands. They failed. Whereas, Srinlanka is securing its homeland from LTTE.

One thing India should mind is that terrorism shouldn't be coupled either with language (Tamil as in case of Tamil Nadu) or with relegion (Muslim). War against terror is not an ethnic war or crucades. In this world, now, there are two religions: one is Terrorism, another one is Counter-terrorism.  Only one religion should exist. Governaments should act to counteract the terrorism keeping all other issues like language, polotics aside.

Few things to look @ Camera before it looks @ you:

"When u r purchasing an item having cost of 15K, at least one needs to do an inquiry of one week and in dozen shops"

Recently, i did shopping with some of my frens to purchase digital camera for one fren of mine. I went as i knew dat sometime i have to buy one cam for myself. I came to know many features of a cam. The first thing i came to know abt was : "When u r purchasing an item having cost of 15K, at least one needs to do an inquiry of one week and in dozen shops". If you don't do that, u r gonna lose some benifits of other existing cams. All that you can do is to compromise with the existing one.

The following are the basic features to look at for better looks to be produced from cam:

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Need:

-Know what for u r using cam. for business(Professional), Photography as hobby, Normal purpose.

Resolution:

-Expressed in Megapixel

-If you r proffessional go for higher resolution. If its for normal usage, 7 megapixel cam is better. Even 5 megapixel is sufficient.

-Disadvantage in taking higher megapixel cams is that every snap takes more memory thus causing less no of pics will fit in a given memory card.

- If you are normal cam user, my strong suggestion is don't go for higher resolution. 7 or 5 megapixel cam is enough.

Optical Zoom:

what i observed was optical zoom increases proportionally with the cost. Unless u r proffessional, its worth having just 4x optical zoom.No need to go beyond that.

- Dont confuse with digital zoom. It works just on inbuilt software.

HD (High definition):

High definition is a standard for resolutions of cameras. If you are snapping pics with HD cam, u can see those HD effects in comps/TVs provided those tvs/comps are having HD feature. If not, u no need to go for HD cams. But ingeneral, all cams available in market are of HD.

Screen size:

The bigger is the size of the screen, the better look it will get. Having screen with size of 3" is enough for normal user.

Memory stick:

In gernral, with the given batteries, u can take 200-250 phots at time. So, ur memory card size should be a product of resolution(megapixels) of cam and number of photos that can be snapped at a time with the given battery. Having a memory of morethan that is unnecessary.

Battery nature:

Always prefer Lithium based batteries than normal alkaline batteries. Lithium based battaries will add nice appearance than alkaline batteries.

Company & Brand:

This is completely subjective. One needs to do some inquiry about this. Either from frens or from sites like "amazon.com". You can find some personel openions of each and every product.

-Try to see the comparitive costs in nets before u come to conclusion about the costs and company.

Some other features: (make sure the following are there in ur cam)


- Red eye removal

-Carlziess lens

-Anti-blur solutions

-Image stabilisation

-Face detection

-Wide angle

As of now, for normal usage, if i have to buy, i would buy a cam of following configuration: 7Megapixel, 5x zoom,10x digital zoom, Li ion batteries, 3" inch screen size, 2 GB memory stick, red eye removal, image stabilisation, face detection, wide angle with anti blur solution. Brand is subjective to ones decision.

Happy New Year : Resolutions Reloaded

.........2008.

Somebody said "It was the year of terrorism",

Some other said "It was the year full of bears",

Few said "It was the year for stars that shone down ",

No matter, whoever says whatever,

I say "not only, It was the year that taught me to stand right up to the problem ",

I can say "It was the year that honed my skills to complete my personality",

No matter, anyone perceives it in anyway,

2008 said "It was the year of challenges to put best work out of you"

2008, also, reminded us "Be ready, a long way to go & wishing the best to all of our efforts in that long way, so called, ....2009".

There were many more best as well as worst moments in my life happened in 2008. But, all of my best moments of my life belongs to 2008. 2008 gave me chances to prove my self, sometimes i succeeded. But, many times i failed. Those 'sometimes' gave me ultimate satisfaction. I would like to share some of them:

- There were unforgettable 15 days between 28th march '08 to 14th march '08. 28th is the day of filing the nomination for M.Tech councilor post and 14th was winning day celebrations. These days, I worked a lot as i hadn't done earlier. Especially,  my speech on 4th March to rule out my rival in internal elections of mechanical engineering gave me a lot of confidence.

-14th of December, this is the day, when my dreams as mechanical engineer were materialized. I got job in General Motors. It is a core job related to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

Not that i don't have sour & sorrow moments. like:

- On my way of IIT Life, I hardly concentrate on Technical matters. In this regard, I ashamed of myself not being strong at technical subjects which was my primary objective at the time of my joining.

-Few times, I handled multiple tasks at a time. some times i couldn't manage to do. In those situations, it was happened to neglected my project. This brought hell like of scoldings from my guide(professor).

-My job as a placement coordinator, I performed it better than many others. but not to the best. It may be because of so many constraints.

These were some of the golden moments of my life in 2008. Of course, I owe so much to my college IIT-Madras which gave me all these chances to improve myself.

Professionally, the year 2009 could be dangerous to me. The problem lies with existence with GM. I don't want to be a permanent employee of a temporary company.

My ultimate goal in the life is to set-up company of my own. I'll be happy if i ended up with a kirana shop rather than settled in lakhs paying job :)  :) :) .Whatever resolutions i make, will go around this Dream

Wanted to be proficient at CFD by April, Getting "A" grade in M.Tech project, Investing 10,000 by April ending and 50,000 by November ending, Getting a score of 600 in GMAT in Dec'09 are my Strong Resolutions of this year.

Lets hope year-2009 brings prosperity and happiness into our lives. Once again, Wish you a happy new year.

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Infy proved Infosys can save $25 millions/year

It happened few days ago. One of my friend, named Yogesh, working currently in infosys, had come up with his plan to suggest infosys that it can save around $50 million/yr.

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All business plans are so simple and have simple architecture. So, is this plan. This idea completely based on his keen observation on operations in infosys.

There are many factors, which i shouldn't explain here. But, few simple logics were mentioned here.

First Factor: This plan is a practical application of a subject "Operations Research". He found that employees are spending few minutes unproductively during lunch. Its mistake neither with company nor with employees.  During lunch break, employee need to take a coupon for which every one is spending 3 minutes on an average. That can be either reduced or eliminated using digitization of the process.

Second Factor: All infys are required to mention their login details in a particular site. They need to fill up a form in which they need to switch off 3 pages. For switching off from one page to another page takes few seconds. Instead, putting all of them in a single web page saves those few seconds. These few seconds may be negligle, but if u look at them for 1 lakh times(no. of employees), it matters much.

The simple statastics of it are as follows:

His broad analysis shows that non-value added work is 10 minutes per infy per day, at least. Here, i am showing some rough stats. (just as an example)

So, in total, total 10 lakh minutes are being wasted.

Means, 16666.666 man hours per day are gone wasted, unknowingly.

One can calculate these man hours per year to 5000000 man hours. A normal fresher to infosys is paid with INR25000 for his 25 days work. Suppose there are 10 working hrs per day, above man hours equals to  INR500000000. So, infosys is loosing USD12,500,000. These figures didn't consider other breaks like BF, Dinner, Tea breaks. If at all, Infosys can put new measures of reducing unproductive time, it can save all these bucks.

Yogesh had written a paper, precisely, with all these facts and submitted to his HR manager. This paper is now with high end managerial team that works with CEO of the company as well.Lets wish his work will see some practical implementations.

It may be difficult to save 10 min/person, but if u look at as Infosys its loosing a lot. I don't know how much practical this plan is. But, his approach and initiative deserves appreciation.

Any one could have proved it, if one thought as yogesh considered infosys. I knew him very closely since our UG, before he got placed in that software gaint, he started dreaming about this company. May be, his passion and love for organisation would have done this all.

Placements in IITs...Companies Perspective has to be changed about IITians for mutual benifit.

Here is the brief scenario of how placements are going in IITs especially IIT-Madras. At out set, I can state that "Economical Crisis is making few corrections in the industry regarding distribution of students"

The number of students that are getting placed has been down drastically. Statistically, around 700 outof 1050 students got placed at the same time by the last year. In this year, by now, only 500 out of 1050  students got placed.  Its not at all possible to achieve 100% placements at any year at any effors. The reason is 'Nothing is perfect'.  Last year, 95% in B.Tech, 87% in M.Tech and 26% in Ph.D got placed.  You no need to consider Ph.D in placements due to several reasons like their uninterest, their research profile.

The question is "How many will get placed by the end of this academic year?"

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Before answering this, let me explain what is the problem with placements in this year. There are somany factors where we can look of like No. Of companies, Companies intake, economical crisis, Companies perspective about IITians.

Last time, 270 companies visited out IIT-madras. Out of these, approximately 170 have been turned up this year. During placements, out of these 170 about 25 companies bounced back. Still, there are about 225-250 companies are coming this year. Why.... The reason is there are about 90-100 new companies have been visiting. Again, what is the problem with placements. The problem comes here. Last year, for example,  a company 'X' came and recruited about 15 members. The same company came this year also, but intake was about 5 members.

Right now, we can't say anything. But by the end of january-2009, may be 65% students will get placed. This is because of certainity about companies that we have till jan-09, But what is the condition from Feb. ?????? So many uncertainties.

So, there are lots of lots of chances for few intelligent students to be left without being placed. Till last year, any student especially from B.Tech & Dual preferred financial companies, consultancy companies to core comps. Whereas, M.Tech do prefer Core at any situation. As there are no finance/ consultancy companies, these Dual students became competition to M.Techs. This is one of the reason for not having good placements for Masters.

So lot of masters, few duals, few btechs are left. Companies can turn up to these guys.  As, they can be recruited with low salaries. This will be benificial to companies also. At the same time, student will look forward to join in the organisation as there are no other big chances. Chance for going higher education is also less. Because, only those who are 9 or 10 pointers will go to pick up other options like Ph.D.However, Ohers cann't and don't.

It is the opportunity for the companies to energise its man-power for bringing in brilliant future to the company  in the days to come, especially for medium size companies. If companies realises the situation, as few companies did, it will take no longer for 100% placements.