the other significant piece of writing i did today

Hi all,

Many of you (this actually depended on quite a few factors), would have received an email early this week, asking you to send me your email ids, so that we could furnish you with an account at our new AWS BLOG. Well, after much thought and work, we have finally managed to give all of you accounts at this AWS Blog.

To find out what the blog is, open up your web browsers and redirect it to: http://157.227.18.220/public_html/
You will have to add 157.227.18.220 to the list of sites that do not need a proxy.

To do this you will have to open Internet Explorer then choose tools->internet options->lan settings->advanced and type in 157.227.18.220 into the textbox next to the "do not use proxy server for..." label.

You can then save this in your bookmark as AWS Blog, so that you can visit it, without having to remember an odd ip.

So what is this blog anyway?

A blog is a site that contains news from different sources. It may be news from your personal life, or something terrifically technical. The important point is that you are free (within certain limits of course) to write up on any topic that catches your interest.

Our purpose?

We want this to be a forum for discussing anything that you want to, with everyone else in AWS, the twelfth floor or can access that ip. If you have a tough sql query that just doesn't seem to work, post it on our blog and let's see if somebody comes up with an answer. If you are going onsite and want to find out which is the best restaurant for original Rajasthani food, that you'd like to take your friends to, post it and maybe somebody would come up with a possible candidate. Or, if you have just discovered something nice which you would like everyone else to know, post it, and you reach out to all those who are accessing the site. We want it to be a discussion forum for everyone. An online one, since getting everybody into the same room is quite a tight fit.

How do I use it?

Just get to our website and check out all the stories posted there.

If you want to contribute a story, please login.

By default your login is that part of your tcs.com email id without the @tcs.com. So if your email id is ramesh.ananthakrishnan@tcs.com then your username would be: ramesh.ananthakrishnan

Your default password is password
You can then change it to anything you wish.

Click on the link which says either "contribute" or "get published"
You will now be taken to a page. The important fields are Title, Topic and Body Text. Type in some relevant title, and choose a relevant Topic. Right now we have the following topics:
1. Ask Aws Blog
2. General News
3. Linux
4. Programming
5. Windoze
6. Wireless

Choose a relevant topic. If more than one topic seems relevant, choose the best one. Type out your entire story in the Body Text box, and then type in submit.
Your story will right now be posted on the website for one and all to see (after authorization from the moderator).

And then, what?...

Well all services depend on their users. We now have an online forum for discussion. Let's make the best use of it.

Cheers and may you blog well.

I had actually wanted to make it very very vitriolic but then ythee stayed my hand

gwaha...

may move to a new skin over the weekend.