There are now more than 20,000 poems on Boloji. Time and again I've
thought of giving my name to Guinness Book to see if I hold the world
record for editing and publishing more than 17,000 poems :-) When I
joined Boloji in April 2005, there were a little over 2000 poems. It's
gonna be my 10th year with Boloji next year. Till date I've edited and
published on Boloji almost daily except the days when I've been really
unwell or when I've been out of station on holidays. Till date I've
edited and published on Boloji almost daily except the days when I've
been really unwell or when I've been out of station on holidays. Not
that I've enjoyed it every day because a daily reading & writing
routine can get tedious and monotonous but those moments when I get to
read some really good poems making them Ed's Choice I feel so contented.
When I had joined Boloji, Rajender Ji used to picturise the poems and
he kept doing it for some more years till I took over. Finding a
befitting picture for a particular poem does take time but when it all
beautifully matches and falls in place, the feeling is so sublime. I
feel immensely pleased being able to decorate a poem with a nice
picture. Moments like these keep me attracted to Boloji poetry even
though all my work is voluntary. It's a non-paid role and I'm not in it
for monetary remuneration. My love for good poetry and good pics from
our Getty Images gallery keeps me going despite the hard work I need to
put in every day juggling my familial responsibilities of taking care of
my 2 children for whom I'm their primary carer as my hubby has very
long working and commuting hours. Life and health permitting, I'll go
on....till death comes my way. Hence with regard to Boloji, even my
children keep egging me to put my name for Guinness Book :-)
But I won't do it as Name and Fame have always given me hiccups because I've always had a bad reputation ;-)
LOL
I
and hubby keep joking that as a business analyst, he's donated his eyes
to IT, being in front of the PC 24/7 as there's always so much of work
pressure, so many deadlines to meet, so many projects to complete.
Sometimes I really feel sorry for him as he has to wake up nights to
finish pending work. Being a team leader, even though he delegates some
tasks to his subordinates, but he is responsible for the overall
performance because if anything goes wrong, he'll be held accountable.
Hence, he's always on edge to see if all's working OK. I also wonder if
those organ donation people will be interested in my eyes after my
death, as I've already donated my eyes to Boloji and hence, the person
receiving my eyes might feel dreadful opening them if all he gets to see
are lines and lines of prolific poetry ;-) esp. if he's not a poetic
person. Imagine his plight, thanks to me ;-)
LOL
Anyway
jokes apart, just wanted to update you that not all of my 1400+ poems
are on Boloji as my permanent database has always been PH because it
allows me to make an E-Book of my poems which I diligently do after
every 3-4 months so that I have the latest copy with myself and of
course, I've circulated this E-Book amongst my trusted pals so that they
can preserve it for posterity.
PH has not always been good with
publishing. There have been many software bugs that have time and again
made the formatting of my poems look awry and despite repeated attempts
at fresh submissions, those HTML errors stay. Also, if you notice, poems
with the same titles have to be always put with some kind of symbols
otherwise the PH online publishing software doesn't accept it thinking
those are repeats of old poems. For e.g. if I write a poem with the
Title: You the next time I submit a different poem with a different
content but with the same title You, I have to submit it to PH as - You -
and then the next time as ~ You ~ and then as > You < and then
again as < You > and so on and so forth....Many times, I keep
running out of symbols and of course, all this symbolizing does make my
poems look stupid but I have no way out. I've even written to them
regarding this major flaw but they haven't been able to sort this out.
Thankfully, on Boloji, you can see that many of my different poems with
the same Titles don't have any silly symbols attached to them.
http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Writers&WriterID=2140
I
think the online PH software is akin to the Microsoft word software
wherein if we want to save 2 documents with the same names, it will tell
us that the document already exists and do we need to replace the old
file with the new one even though the content in both the files may be
different, only the Titles are the same. Just as Microsoft doesn't
recognize that the 2 same titled Files could have different content,
similarly, PH cannot recognize that 2/3/4 poems with the same title can
have different content. I wish PH gets rid of such online bugs and
limitations so that it becomes more progressive in publishing. It is
giving us an excellent service with the PDF facility and also the
facility that helps us download all our poems and save those in a Text
File. I wish it all success and a lot more progress in all its poetic
endeavours.
That's a lot of PH analysis for now.
Wishing you all a Happy Diwali :-)
Love always,
As Ever, AC--
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