i’m legit, now
this is what having a job does for you: it gets you a pan card. it’s been a few years that i’ve been working, and not really existing.
i finally got my pan card, yesterday… i finally have a form of id. enough of my explaining to people that i am a good citizen of this country, i just don’t have a license, or a voter’s id, or a ration card, or any other form of identification.
say hello to citizen aswpp1090p
getting jobbed…
i’ve been tied down. finally. i have a job… a real one. and i guess this time it’s going to be for a while. i have finally given up my self-employed ways. i’m still with plus minus zero, just not as much as before.
i now work at cyberclay. you wouldn’t have heard of it before… it’s a start-up web 2.0 company, but it’s due for many great things ahead if things go as planned. and as for my role there, i can’t really define it. but it’s interesting… more about cyberclay and me in the months to come.
and now, a job posting: we’re hiring people who know web 2.0 technologies. any/all of the following: php, javascript, mysql, ajax… and things like that. most importantly, you must be smart. and must realize there’s more to life than working in a place where they give you a badge to wear to work. i still don’t see how that’s a job incentive. contact me for specifics.
a new name, a new address
i bought myself a new domain… this one.
my name used to be ousep for a while after i was born… not for too long though. it got changed to joseph, and that set the ball rolling for more joseph pottenkulams in my family. i know three others, and i’m sure there are many more. i have been asked if i’m the joseph pottenkulam who…
- studied at alleppey [x]
- is studying in std 12 at cochin [x]
- got married recently [x]
- got married a while back [x]
- has a shrimp farming business [x]
- does handstands [x]
- died a few years ago [?]
- is slowly going bald [imagine tick here]
so, to sort out the whole identity crisis issue, i’m shifting my blog to this shiny new domain. so… even if nobody knows which ousep i am, they’d feel pretty stupid asking if i’m ousep from cochin. that’d be like asking someone if he’s raju from nepal.
for those who don’t know, which would be most of you… ousep (or ouseph) is the malayalam version of joseph. much like the italians have giuseppe, and the arabs have yusuf, and the czechs have jzoezsepzf. okay, so i made the last one up. plus, ousep was my callter-ego back in school. the name has served me well in the past, and it is mine again…
so, for both my regular readers, update your bookmarks. or learn the new spelling.
i’m sick of downtimes
my site’s been down for long periods at a time, visible from certain computers and not from others, keeps flip-flopping between a new and a week-old version. i moved on, bought some new space from a reliable (i hope) host.
so things will be missing from here… again. until i find that back-up i made. so keep reading this post, until then.
update: got all my posts and comments back up… but a whole lot of characters seem to look a little ugly… back to manual editing, i guess…
usurpation!
i’m a slighty reluctant about editing at wikipedia. up until now, my username was pottenkulam, and it identifies me too easily. but thanks to their usurpation policy, i’m now joseph.
i know. they both take you to the same page.
i know. big deal.
