Happy Birthday!

Thank You God!

For guiding me in your path, for teaching me more of WordPress, keeping my server healthy and for blessing me with the best readers I could ever have. Be with me Lord! And help me fight the Hackers and Spam and all other forms of evil I might encounter on my way ahead.Happy Brithday! Have some cake.

Million Clues! is one year old.

On my last birthday, when I turned 20, I looked back and thought. What have I done with my 20 years? Though every moment was worth living for (school life, amazing friends and the celebrations), there was nothing I could point out as ’something’. I turned 21 today, and here it is, my cute little space on the web, that I am a lot proud of!

Thank You all for being part of me, for all your support and words that kept me writing on and on.

A Little bit about Myself

To all the new readers: Hi, My name is Arun Basil Lal. I am a student in Engineering from India, who attend college with the sun and blog with the moon.

Am on Twitter and Facebook, add me up too. Thanks for reading this blog, I hope you are enjoying.

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Here I Stand

Some Statistics, I guess this is the right time to say:

  • Higher and HigherTotal Published Posts: 125
  • Comments: 1998 (I reply to all comments, so 999 comments from readers, about 8 comments per post)
  • Visitors per month: 11k (for last 6 months)
  • Top Traffic Soruces: Google > StumbeUpon > Yahoo > Twitter
  • Google Page Rank: 4
  • Best Alexa Average for 3 months: 83,365
  • Twitter Followers: 245 (on @MillionClues profile)
  • Total Guest Posts: 10

Suddenly Everyone wants a Blog…

“Total waste of time”, “You got nothing else to do?”, “No one is gonna read”. These are some of the comments I got when I was starting off with Blogging. Not many of my friends even cared to ask what I was doing. Oh! Reading and writing are not very popular subjects of discussion at college.

Now that I have started getting checks, everyone wants to know what I am doing, how I do it. Surprisingly, even some guys who never went online started asking. I like the treatment.

Was it worth the time? Hell, yea! Blogging looks like the best decision I ever made. Thank You all again!

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32 Comments

  1. Posted September 14, 2009 at 02:57 | Permalink

    happy birthday :) god bless ya buddy. good luck with the blog :)

    • Posted September 15, 2009 at 23:37 | Permalink

      Thanks bro. This was the year I made most of my friends, you were a big start followed by @dharshana and the #coffeeclub :)

  2. Posted September 14, 2009 at 05:16 | Permalink

    Be the changemaker…..

    Congrats on the stats, they look very healthy for a 1 yr old blog. :) I am impressed :)

    • Posted September 15, 2009 at 23:41 | Permalink

      The Feed-Good-Factor never goes away from you. That’s a big testimonial. Thanks :)

      Update: This happens to be the 2000th comment, which is technically the 1000th. yay :)

  3. Posted September 14, 2009 at 07:02 | Permalink

    Is today your Birthday too? If it is, it’s a fantastic day to start your next life.
    Happy BirthDay to Arun and Millionclues.
    Wish you finish your Engg soon and concentrate full time in Blogging.
    And don’t forget to courier me a piece of that cake :D
    Have a Great Day ahead…..

    • Posted September 15, 2009 at 23:39 | Permalink

      I sent that cake via BlueDart, hope they will send you via express delivery and deliver it the same way they did my Dell Laptop. (You know the story, right?). Express delivery took over a month. LOL
      Thanks for the wishes.

  4. Posted September 14, 2009 at 11:25 | Permalink

    Wishing a many happy returns of the day my dear buddy :)
    Inspiring stats and words.

  5. Posted September 14, 2009 at 13:12 | Permalink

    Arun,
    I thought I should be the first to congratulate you for your blog’s birthday, but when I came here , I could see there are many others glued to your blog..

    Keep up your great work, all the best

    Happy Birthday ..

    Girish

    • Posted September 15, 2009 at 23:47 | Permalink

      Thanks for the wishes bro. I was amazed too. I never thought Cheth and Anand are early birdies. They commented even before I woke up. Maybe they didnt sleep at all.
      Glad you dropped in :)

  6. Posted September 14, 2009 at 17:20 | Permalink

    Hey Million Clues Happy Birthday ! ;)

    I want this blog to be active for Million Years !

    And I’m glad to be a part of MC and glad to say, I wrote two guest articles here ! :)

    • Posted September 15, 2009 at 23:53 | Permalink

      Thanks Pradeep, that was one of its kind. Also for the great guest posts :)

  7. Posted September 14, 2009 at 18:01 | Permalink

    Arun,
    Congratulations!
    I’m really happy for you. Good job.
    Chris

    • Posted September 15, 2009 at 23:55 | Permalink

      Thanks mate. In fact, it all started with guest posting at vitamincm, that’s where I first admired WordPress. I still remember what you said, “You will love it once you see its awesome Power”. Look what it has turned into.

      Thanks a lot. Life is really a game of dots :)

  8. Posted September 14, 2009 at 18:12 | Permalink

    Congrats man. It feels great when we look back our days, when some one told we can’t do it and today we have done it.
    I wish you a great success in the coming years.

    Happy Birth Day to Arun and MillionClues.

    • Posted September 15, 2009 at 23:57 | Permalink

      Thanks bro. The ultimate fun is always doing the impossible. Glad I gave it a start. You too – have an amazing year ahead :)

  9. Posted September 14, 2009 at 19:18 | Permalink

    Happy Birthday Millionclues. Hope it will drive you million one fine day :) Keep rocking dude..!

    • Posted September 16, 2009 at 00:02 | Permalink

      Lol. Lets see, maybe millions. he he..
      Thanks bro. Good to see you here.

  10. Posted September 15, 2009 at 01:31 | Permalink

    Very nice man! Thats a long time and you came a good way! Keep it up!!!

  11. Posted September 15, 2009 at 05:30 | Permalink

    Congratulations on you 1 year birthday. I’ve been reading yuor blog for some time now and enjoy your posts. Wow 11K visitors per month? That is a fantastic accomplishment. Keep up the great work.

    • Posted September 16, 2009 at 00:05 | Permalink

      Thanks to Google and SU for that 11k. I remember you from the post regarding permalinks and SEO. Good to have you back. Thanks for the wishes :)

  12. Posted September 15, 2009 at 10:04 | Permalink

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILLION CLUES!
    Thanks for a positive blogger like Arun.

  13. Posted September 15, 2009 at 21:33 | Permalink

    ~~~~~~~~~~` Let A Very Happy And Prosperous Future Come ahead in your path. Wish You a Happy Birth Day `~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I really like that part “Suddenly Everyone wants a Blog”
    This is the same ditto thing that i too hear now. Each and every sentence of that part is the same with me too :)

    Now I too proudly says, Blogging looks like the best decision I ever made :)

    Good Luck

    • Posted September 16, 2009 at 00:11 | Permalink

      You are atleast 4 years ahead, and way ahead. You are gonna rock sometime soon (if not already.. lol). Made for blogging I would say.
      Thanks for the wishes.

  14. JAGAN
    Posted September 15, 2009 at 22:10 | Permalink

    congratulation Arun….may god bless and enlighten you not just in blogging but in every sphere of life.you are the man who deserve lot and lot more.you are just gorgeous boy
    and charak jagan is back now from a prolonged injury

    • Posted September 16, 2009 at 00:16 | Permalink

      Thanks Jagan, I am sorry to hear about your injury. I had noticed your absence for a while. Hope you are better now. God bless.

  15. Posted September 16, 2009 at 07:48 | Permalink

    Wish you a happy birthday!(belated) I wish you luck and prosperity in the future. Also, looking forward to working with you.

  16. Posted September 18, 2009 at 12:19 | Permalink

    :) Happy B’day Arun.
    You are a better example for new bloggers.
    Keep going… God and We with you.

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