Blog surfing!!

I decided to do some blog surfing today. Used the blogger navbar. It was funny out of the first 12 blogs that i came across,i could read only 3. Six were in foreign languages I didn't understand, 2 were absolutely horrible in content and 1 had only ads.

And what did i learn from this small experiment?

No, not that the world is made up of many cultures or the fact that i know very few languages. Wisdom speaketh.

"Every person who surfs blogs chances on an ad filled blog atleast once every 12 clicks".

So I shamelessly decided to try google's adsense on this blog. (Just in case you were wondering, its not for the money, I don't even live in a country where they can actually pay me). Its just that I am checking out if this service works.

Now according to their terms of service, "..........For example, your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here," "support us," "visit these links," or other similar language that could apply to any ad, regardless of content." That means I cannot post something thats says,

"CLICK ON THE ADS BELOW AND SUPPORT THIS BLOGGER",
or
"ONE LIFE.LIVE IT. ONE AD.CLICK IT."


Now for the real reason, that i am putting ads on my blog. I had written on one of my blogs (many of which have ceased to be updated) earlier, claiming that you can't actually make any money of this ad stuff. Look at this way. You have the ads on your blog/site, and nobody clicks through them (Lets assume for a moment that all the people who go through your blog are sane, rationalistic people who know that clicking on an online will only waste time and lead you to a place where you have to finally pay/mortagage your car/sell your house to actually get something of value).

So nobody clicks on the ads, but the ads have nevertheless been displayed and that means the advertiser has gotten some free eyeballs for nothing (except your generous stupidity). The advertiser gains, cause that is imprinted in the mind of the viewer and may lead to an url affair sometime later, while you are busy clicking on adsense checking why so many people visit your blog and yet you don't get any money.

Well, for now, I need a new website and I'm thinking of how i can pay for that unless of course this Google thing actually works. Peoples of the earth, you know what to do!

Life as it happens......instantly!

I have been wanting to write this for quite a lot of time, but then I guess today's the day.

As I written in an earlier post, there have been quite a lot of things I have experimented with in my hey days, from trying to develop an explosive to making a miniature flying craft to actually thinking about making my own parachute to crafting a flute out of bamboo (there was also the houseboat, the tree house and the designer stretch limo, quite ahead of its time but quite revolutionary, nobody thought of having a computer in a car in 1994, atleast not in India.)

All that was before I turned 14 years old.

Well then I got wilder if you must say, ending with a movie production in Bangkok which is still in the editing stage ( thats the best explanation you can give when you lose the original tapes.....ok i was just kidding about that....or maybe not all of the tapes).

I'd like to take some time now to thank all those people who have believed in me all this while I undertook one crazy project after another. Like Benny* and Asha* who played the lead roles in the movie production. Thanks guys I couldn't have experimented without you guys.

Now...its the time of the podcast. I have been working as a part-time evangelist on that one. You would be surprised to know how few actually know about it. So once again calling out my friends, detractors, smirkers, unbelievers and those just smitten by me, to stand by me as I begin one more of my adventures. Only this time I could use as much help as possible.

Thanks guys, you push me to the limit. ( I just hope we don't get too far motivating while on a rock climbing expedition).

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*Names changed to protect identity.