My work at Accenture is going great. Working with some intelligent brains around me and learning along the way as well.

On the other front, couple of months back, at IT Masters (my previous employer) my boss asked me if I wanted to work part time. I agreed for a Trimester. But along with few other things I think it is the time to move on. Move on truly to do something exciting while generating more income. So in the coming days the plan is to analyze as to what I want to do next and start working on it.

I am open to suggestions, so feel free to drop a line if you have any suggestions. I still get dragged by Training. So will definitely give a thought if I want to get into part time training (if that is an option available). Will keep you all posted.

This post is for praising my host Lunarpages. They did a great job supporting me over a technical issue I was facing with my blogging engine. I give them 8 out of 10 here. I am using a beta version of B2evolution and was facing a technical issue blogging but my persistence following with Lunarpages paid off as they went ahead and got it all right. Well done Stas Grichkosey.

Before nine months I used to keep myself on top of things by going through hundred of sites by using Google Reader or some other news aggregator. The things going on in my life in last nine months has not helped me to keep up with the routine (so such a huge gap on this blog). But I had this urge to keep myself on top of the most important things happening around me when I can. I am sure I have missed so many important/interesting services in this time but hopefully if they are good enough, I will see or hear about them any how.

So while I was caught up with things, I decided to make it a point to at least go through Techmeme.com site when I could. So I did get a glimpse of what was going on in the Tech Internet Space. Although I could not always spare the time to read through the linked articles, I still got the hint of what was going on. A tool that I started using was Twitter. Although I don’t twitter as much as I could, I am having fun following Frank Arrigo’s twittering. I followed him on his journey to USA while he was on a vacation which was interesting. In my drive to improve my productivity I tried to keep on track with the links on Del.icio.us. Yes, Lifehacker and Brazen Careerist are on the list too.

While traveling to and from work, instead of just sitting in the train idle or reading MX (local free evening newspaper) I decided to read books or articles. So far I have read through a Self Help book, completed reading few technical magazines and have read few many news and journal articles in my native language Gujarati (I hardly used to do this before, so have enjoyed reading it again). I hardly used to play online or offline games before 9 months, but now I have developed liking for the game of Suduko. I have printed booklet from KrazyDad.com site and now can finish a Suduko in about 25 minutes (my train trip is 30-35 minutes).

So having too much time away from Internet, I have made myself enjoy readings other topics than just reading Tech Blogs and Tech Magazines and blogging mostly all tech. This period is the time before I started blogging and I knew what news aggregator does!

While I am writing this, I got a comment from Penelope to my previous post and I agree. Blogging is like going to gym. We just need to show up to get into the habbit again. I don’t think I will worry about putting unique content up here, but even if I get myself to be present on this blog, would be a good restart for me.

This makes me wonder, what do you read when you are not reading blogs or following your aggregator?

I had to reveal the good news on here! Komal and I are soon to be parents of a Great soul to be. Along with all other things that are keeping me busy, now taking care of Komal and her needs has become out most important to me as well. So part of my time now also goes to Komal, spending some quality time with her and getting new things for our new home (this one is time consuming!).

One of the website that is helping a lot understanding what is going on is Baby Center. I try to make it a point to check Baby Center's weekly email and see how's our baby shaping in the week. These are exciting times for us.

The first trimester is over and both the mother and the tiny baby is fine. I am enjoying Komal getting bigger as days are passing. Will keep all posted as to how we are going with the journey in coming months.

Do anybody have tips or experiences they want to share with me here?

it's good to be blogging again. I have ignored this blog for a long long time now.

So where have I been?

Work at Accenture is really busy and does more then 8 hours of my day. Infact I have not seen even a single 8 hour day at Accenture ( I am not complaining about this though). On top of that I am still working for my previous Employer (contracting too) on a part time basis. So among all this work load it becomes hard to do some quality blogging. So much so that I even had to abandon reading Google Reader for a long time and be connected to any of my feeds.

But the good news is that lately I have made a point to at least keep up with the headlines on Techmeme and that is working well. One other blog that has kept me glued onto it Brazen Careerist which I try to read as often as possible as well. I have missed blogging all these months. All I can say is I will try to blog as much as possible.

If you are one of the few regular readers of this blog, I am sure lately you have seen skins changing on this blog. It is due to the fact that I have upgraded to the latest version of blog engine and the old skin was not compatible with the latest version of engine. But I will get onto it eventually.

Feels good to type for this blog after such a long time .