Google Inline advertisements

Gone are the days where we could read news without having to navigate through advertisements bang in the middle of the text!!

Hard paper never had them, FREE mail from Google doesn't have it, but sites using google adds have them. I'm sure its a decision made by the hosting site and not google but it sucks big time so I decided to do something about them....blog :)

The following image is an example



Well I've seen articles broken into several pages so visitors generate more clicks and see more adds but this is ridiculous. And this wasn't enough. They wanted more, so now they break the articles into several pages and put the advertisement right before the navigation pane, that's right, it actually makes you search for the navigation pane, see the below image.



Now was that to confuse the visitor or make him read the adds, I would love to ask the sites usability "expert".

Here's the link to the article from which I took the screen shots : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pirates-aden/389328/0

Indian Space Prowess

My friend Vijay sent this article to me and I wanted to share it with all of you :)
I was apparently published in the Qatar Tribune

I think we Indians need to really appreciated (more) the work of our scientist and our government without which this wouldn't be possible.

Always proud to be an Indian and hope to make India proud of me one day.

Wouldn't want anyone to state examples of where we lag behind, but applaud what India has achieved.

Jai Hind

P.S: The image was taken from QatarLiving (http://lmnop36.googlepages.com/Qatar-Tribune-27-10-08.jpg).

Brewhaha

Well I'm blogging after a very long time and I'm going to make this more frequent.

I went to this eat out called Brewhaha with my friends today. Its supposed to be this happening joint setup by B school grads and you got lots of games to play with and I've heard a lot about this place but hadn't visited it till today. And I was totally disappointed at the state of this place. It was appalling. There where these mattresses and pillows that were really really dirty and the joint looked like a very shady place. I was wondering what happened to the place. The last time I heard about this place was that it was the venue for a meet of young entrepreneurs. Plus there was nothing much to eat and most of the items on the menu were not available and the items on display looked stale. Man, it was quite disgusting and I'm never going back to that place. I should have taken pictures but I kinda forgot.

Well, what I took away from the place was that its not enough to set up something good, its more important that you maintain the standard and be consistent, else its of no use at all. You don't set up a business to give you returns for a short term. I may be wrong in this case cos I don't know why it was in a bad state but there's no excuse to keep the place so filthy. I don't see that in any other joints so why this one. With the hype it had, I'm sure they were making a decent amount of money to pay for laundry.

You get a lot of joy in building things, but I sure its gonna wash away all the happiness if it ends up in a bad state a few months later!!!