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.
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.
no more secrets!
its final. I've decided that I will no longer be posting on my secret blog (yeah, the one with the nuclear and world domination ideas), but instead I will start using this blog more often.
Frankly it gets a bit tedious when you are writing 5 blogs (and the secret one), so I made a bold decision to boldly go where no other blogger has gone before. Get all the blogs on one blog. Actually this was an idea that occured to me in fall last year but you know technology!
So, I am back now in Jakarta after a short trip to Singapore ( spent the weekend there). Also on a slightly different note, I was going through some blogs and found that a lot of people post pics, and actually made an online travelogue with their blogs. Neither am I a Shutterbug, nor do i like to write a travelogue, however i still do like the idea. So i will start making an effort to post something of a journelogue (thats a word i made up!).
Frankly it gets a bit tedious when you are writing 5 blogs (and the secret one), so I made a bold decision to boldly go where no other blogger has gone before. Get all the blogs on one blog. Actually this was an idea that occured to me in fall last year but you know technology!
So, I am back now in Jakarta after a short trip to Singapore ( spent the weekend there). Also on a slightly different note, I was going through some blogs and found that a lot of people post pics, and actually made an online travelogue with their blogs. Neither am I a Shutterbug, nor do i like to write a travelogue, however i still do like the idea. So i will start making an effort to post something of a journelogue (thats a word i made up!).
evolution?
circa 1997 a.d.
a young student in bangalore gets interested in the internet. The power to make yourself known to millions. many a night are spent creating a web page, its design etc.
circa 1999 a.d.
more tools arrive. interest revived in the website design. now lots of sites offering free webspace. Also wins a contest and gets a free domain name.
circa 2000 a.d.
the power of publishing from the desktop. More design- powered by photoshop.
circa 2001 a.d.
the power of flash
circa 2004
Blogging. Finally a cool effective solution to millions to see your message.
circa 2005
Podcasting. This is the definitive solution to making yourself heard by the millions
circa ?
maybe the millions are not worth enough to hear me after all.
a young student in bangalore gets interested in the internet. The power to make yourself known to millions. many a night are spent creating a web page, its design etc.
circa 1999 a.d.
more tools arrive. interest revived in the website design. now lots of sites offering free webspace. Also wins a contest and gets a free domain name.
circa 2000 a.d.
the power of publishing from the desktop. More design- powered by photoshop.
circa 2001 a.d.
the power of flash
circa 2004
Blogging. Finally a cool effective solution to millions to see your message.
circa 2005
Podcasting. This is the definitive solution to making yourself heard by the millions
circa ?
maybe the millions are not worth enough to hear me after all.
a day in the life of....
9.00 a.m : arrive at work
9.10 : set up laptop. get coffee.
9.15: check email. start up yahoo messenger, skype & msn.
9.20: reply emails.
9.30: get another coffee.
9.35: news reports from IHT,NYT, CNET, BBC, CNN, Zenit, REUTERS, REDIFF.
10.00: Busy look as CEO walks in. ( news updating continued.)
10:45: Done with morning news.
10:50: Update Podcast & Rss feeds.
10:55: Fiddle with photoshop, itunes, and icons.
11:00: Found out coffee was actually mocha coffee. no more coffee for the day.
11:01: Check email.
11:04: Check email. ( my default mail application checks my mail only every five minutes)
11:05: Apple Dashboard.
11:08: Update Antivirus software.
11:45: thinking about lunch
12:05: Order Lunch
12:40: Lunch arrives.
1:30 : Done with Lunch
1:35 : Another round of news updates.
1:55: Blog updates.
2:10 : another cup of mocha.
2:15 : Check mail.
2:30: Some new mail arrives.
2:35: Reply to mails.
3:00: Phone call to Singapore.
3:35: Done with phone call.
3:45: Brag about versatility of the apple to colleagues.
4:10: Write blog post.
4:25: Read some technical stuff ( about blogging, podcasting etc.)
4:45: Check email.
4:50: Open a can of coke.
4:55: Fill up travel expense report of past trips.
5:25: Count days upto end of month and next paycheck.
5:35 : plan holiday.
5:46: check no of visitors today at the blog.
6:00: check email.
6:05: download some applications.
6:35: decide to go home after hectic day.
9.10 : set up laptop. get coffee.
9.15: check email. start up yahoo messenger, skype & msn.
9.20: reply emails.
9.30: get another coffee.
9.35: news reports from IHT,NYT, CNET, BBC, CNN, Zenit, REUTERS, REDIFF.
10.00: Busy look as CEO walks in. ( news updating continued.)
10:45: Done with morning news.
10:50: Update Podcast & Rss feeds.
10:55: Fiddle with photoshop, itunes, and icons.
11:00: Found out coffee was actually mocha coffee. no more coffee for the day.
11:01: Check email.
11:04: Check email. ( my default mail application checks my mail only every five minutes)
11:05: Apple Dashboard.
11:08: Update Antivirus software.
11:45: thinking about lunch
12:05: Order Lunch
12:40: Lunch arrives.
1:30 : Done with Lunch
1:35 : Another round of news updates.
1:55: Blog updates.
2:10 : another cup of mocha.
2:15 : Check mail.
2:30: Some new mail arrives.
2:35: Reply to mails.
3:00: Phone call to Singapore.
3:35: Done with phone call.
3:45: Brag about versatility of the apple to colleagues.
4:10: Write blog post.
4:25: Read some technical stuff ( about blogging, podcasting etc.)
4:45: Check email.
4:50: Open a can of coke.
4:55: Fill up travel expense report of past trips.
5:25: Count days upto end of month and next paycheck.
5:35 : plan holiday.
5:46: check no of visitors today at the blog.
6:00: check email.
6:05: download some applications.
6:35: decide to go home after hectic day.
Fwd: this!
Today I got one of those hoax mails, claiming that there was a play being staged somewhere that depicted a particular religion in a bad light. And they needed me to add my list to 400 already on the mail to do something about it.
Why do people ever believe such things? why are they so naive? and more importantly why don't they for once use their minds to figure out that their putting a signature and sending it to everybody in their address book is not going to change a thing about the problem (if there was one) apart from making a few more people aware of their stupidity.
Anyways here are a couple of links to check out on these hoaxes.Truthminers is a good site to start of with checking for a hoax and this link shows shows how much it costs, everytime you are gullible enough to be fooled by one of these mails.
Remember, you have one unique ability that you can use if you want to. Its called common sense.
Why do people ever believe such things? why are they so naive? and more importantly why don't they for once use their minds to figure out that their putting a signature and sending it to everybody in their address book is not going to change a thing about the problem (if there was one) apart from making a few more people aware of their stupidity.
Anyways here are a couple of links to check out on these hoaxes.Truthminers is a good site to start of with checking for a hoax and this link shows shows how much it costs, everytime you are gullible enough to be fooled by one of these mails.
Remember, you have one unique ability that you can use if you want to. Its called common sense.
The real war on terror!
I don't know if this guy actually rehearses to give this constipated look every time he talks to the media. I am no fan of politics and like discussing it either, but this guy makes me do otherwise.
"When they are constantly on the run they can't plan attacks, so we and our allies will stay on the offensive," was what he said at the FBI academy today.
Read that as, we are busy trying to bust them in iraq & afghanistan that those guys have now moved onto America and Europe where they are having all the time they want to plan more attacks.
I do think that its high time bush stopped this nonsense of what he calls the war on terror. What he (or the people behind him) don't realize is that for every civilian that the american forces take out in the middle east, there is gonna be a blood cry. For that family, Bush sure is the terror, and it just gives rise to another individual crying out for justice. And mind you these are people who have felt pain close to their heart, that they are no longer fundamentalist terrorists, but people who believe they have been wronged.
They do not do it for religion or for beliefs, but for a personal sense of being wronged. What America is doing is spawning a new breed of individuals who just need an opportunity to get revenge. And the so called terrorists are not missing out on them either.
Face it we do not live in an era, where everybody forgives and forgets. Maybe they would if the feel its gonna make a difference, but with Bush's persistence on the war on terror, every human taken down will beget another baying for America's blood.
Life is precious to every man. And every man and woman does have the right to protect it. And no man or woman has any right to take however he/she might justify it. Period.
Freeeloaders!
well somebody's got to stop the freeloaders.
recently i just so happened to notice that the creamer just stopped getting refilled in the office. then it was the sugar. but when the hot water dispensing machine started dispensing cold water........ well thats a great way to send a cool message.
gotta get a coffee though. i think i see some creamer & sugar in the next office. wow!
In case you were wondering what i do, to have my coffee privileges illegally withdrawn, well heres my desktop screen. hope you get the idea!
recently i just so happened to notice that the creamer just stopped getting refilled in the office. then it was the sugar. but when the hot water dispensing machine started dispensing cold water........ well thats a great way to send a cool message.
gotta get a coffee though. i think i see some creamer & sugar in the next office. wow!
In case you were wondering what i do, to have my coffee privileges illegally withdrawn, well heres my desktop screen. hope you get the idea!
HD Movies
You have to check out the BBC Motion Gallery. Especially this HD movie from Quicktime. Its a different experience. Also check out the theatre at the BBC Motion Gallery. Talking about HD movies, they have been around for some time, but now quicktime gives it to you in a format thats much easier to download and without any special plugins. 
You have to have Quicktime 7
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