Sanjay's Journal Entries
Sanjay (re)discovers nature… his own true nature
move to new URL – phase 2
Jun 2nd
So atleast I have a working blog, with google ranking still working properly. I’ve fixed the URL mapping so that google results from my old URL redirect correctly to the new URLs. I also corrected the feedblitz thanks to my friend Sudhee’s intimation. I’m quite happy with the first phase of my migration involving upgrade to the new WordPress 3 with multi site support 
old gold run
May 23rd
Old is Gold – Let’s Stand By Them For A Golden Society!
Hi , I am Sanjay M , I pledge to make a difference to this world!!
moving to a new URL
May 14th
This here, my space on the web, is going through a transition. Over the next couple of weeks, it will be available on and off. Any inconvenience (ha ha just kidding) isn’t regretted as its all for a good reason 
It will continue to be hosted by the cool folks at weblogs.us (to whom I finally overcame procrastination and went beyond saying thanks merely in words to actually made an online donation). But it will move to a new domain (URL) that I purchased recently, along with an upgrade to WordPress 3.0 Beta.
So reorganising this site and its subsites during my spare time is going to take a while. I hope to complete atleast the initial structural level over the next two weeks. A few of the objectives (some short & some long term):
- a professional looking portal for software design and development consultancy services, which includes a knowledge base and guide for aspiring new developers
- de-clutter my journal/blog site and make info that I consider more relevant and important available more easily
- make the parenting website more accessible and interactive
- exhibhit more of my photographs & videos from my past travels around the world
- use a sub-portal as a tool for organizing any event where participants can RSVP or collaborate
Any further suggestions are welcome !
lets run!
May 1st
Recently registered for the 10 km marathon in Bangalore (23rd May, Kanteerava Stadium). As I came to know of this run thanks to Omashram Home for the elderly (on facebook), I’m dedicating (see bangalore cares.in) this run for them. The main beneficiary turns out to be myself, as I find the daily practicing for marathon is helping me feel very fit and energetic
My first pathetic practice run yesterday showed me how hopelessly out of shape I currently am, I was pretty much done after just 1 km! 
(Tracking using Nokia Sports Tracker on an E71) So this 10 km is a pretty unreasonable thing for me to do! Yesterday evening was kind of negligible. Today’s was marginally somewhat better.
This dedication personally for me will be a nice momento in memory of my (late) beloved Ajji and Tata grandparents whom I grew up with. They were a living example of countless nice values. One thing I learnt as they went through the last years of their life, as a kind of second-hand experience, was the fundamental problem of old age. My grandparents were surrounded by loved ones until their last moments. But others are not so lucky, considering so many elders discarded as liabilities by society. They deserve a better quality of life, and I dream of some day when they will be welcome as an integral part of their families. So this run will be only the beginning of expression of love in action for all our previous generation!
Anyone else joining? Maybe for this or any of the other worthy causes – but of course mainly for the pure fun of it! 
yet another somethingananda
Apr 29th
3 days I listened to his excellent lecture on Astavakra Gita (he had not charged any money also). The value I got from those 3 days remains unchanged, valuable to me even now. Just the metaphor of not being like a cobbler, but seeing beyond the mere depth of the skin, caused a permanent shift in my world view for the better.
I even now respect him for his vast in-depth knowledge an excellent mental faculty, not too much unlike Vishwanathan Anand being an adept at chess. He is a living example of the well known adage that the teaching is more valuable than the teacher.
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Walkers amidst the greenery
cause and effect
Apr 17th
Newton’s Third Law states that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This may be easy to see for simple situations where I apply force on this keyboard and it gets depressed, resulting in the letters appearing on this screen. But in more complex things – what is the exact cause of any particular situation – for example a headache?
license to kill
Apr 17th
A license to kill gives one a legal immunity, where one can kill someone else without it being considered as a crime. James Bond has no qualms in shooting down ‘bad’ guys with a gun, and gets away without it without a trace of any criminal record
Now James Bond may be just some character in a story/movie – but doesn’t this happen every day – we don’t use bullets, but we use words instead, to hurt or even kill (metaphorically) anybody whom we judge as ‘bad’ at that particular situation.
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best days were school days?
Apr 12th
Usually this is true for most of us. In school days we had the most fun – because we learnt the most! Not just in the classrooms (of course some classes were pretty boring! ) but everywhere else as well. We learnt new games like cricket and football and then we learnt how to bat and bowl better, we learnt how to tackle and kick (and also swear ) better! Learning was always playful… it was continuos learning all the way!
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10 day prison that started to free me
Apr 9th
In 2001, some stranger I had a chance encounter with told me of a 10 day camp residential camp. Out of curiosity I found out more about it eventually – that it has a rigorous daily timetable from morning 4 AM to night 9:30 PM sort of like a prison! After all the procrastination I finally made it in Oct 2001.
In the course of the camp, I realised that I had unknowingly been like a prisoner in the world all along, and now I really felt much more free!
