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Blogging

December 13, 2010 — Blogging, Education, Internet and Personal. Closed Tags: , , , .

I miss blogging. It used to be my escape when I had no one to go to. This was back in the day when Blogger had just become a part of Google. I would blog several times a day. That was pretty fun.

I used to try and promote myself as much as I could. I left the blog open on a few Macs at the Apple Store in SoHo. (Back when it was just “the Apple Store.”) I even printed myself some business cards on my printer. I didn’t care who read, I just wanted readers.

These days, I rarely blog. Hell, I don’t even tweet as much as I used to. Not sure what happened. Maybe it’s because my laptop is so slow that I don’t like doing anything on it. My iPhone isn’t very comfortable to write long pieces on. I’m typing this out on my iPhone, though.

Also, I don’t know what to write about anymore. Back in 7th grade, I would write about everything. I’m slightly hesitant now about publishing every detail of my life online. Possibly a side effect of Facebook.

Maybe I’ll blog more. I used to redesign or at least tweak my blog every once in a while. Not sure what happened to that. I guess I should get back into it. God knows if I remember much HTML or CSS anymore.

With that, I’ll finish off by stating that I should really be studying for finals. Guess I’ll head to bed so I can wake up and study in the morning/afternoon.

My Last Name Isn’t Kapoor

March 9, 2010 — Blogging and Geeky. 7 Comments Tags: , , .

Sometime during the 8th grade, which was around 2005, my blog kept getting hits from people searching for Shahid Kapoor. From what I could tell, there was some cellphone video of the guy kissing Kareena Kapoor. The guy’s really big in the Bollywood movie industry. That was the first time I was confused for Shahid Kapoor.

Over the last couple of years, Twitter’s gotten huge and many celebrities are using it. At some point in time, people started tweeting to @shahid, my username, confusing me for Kapoor. Then, Kapoor joined Twitter (@shahidkapoor) and I’ve been bombarded with even more tweets intended for him. Some people leave a space in his name, typing it as “@shahid kapoor” while others omit his last name entirely.

Of course, my account was private for a long time. I recently made it public for a research paper and to try and communicate with Kapoor. This hasn’t worked yet.

Normally, I would have no problem receiving his tweets. The thing is, these are his fans trying to reach out to him and their messages are coming my way instead. Also, I have to decipher between replies sent to @shahidkapoor and those sent to me, @shahid.

I’m not exactly sure what to do.

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