India's hooked !

If TIMES NOW is asking "Is there anyone who doesn't watch TIMES NOW AT 9 PM?", then what is the market share showing?
TIMES NOW as shown in the ad has 34% share. So evidently, rest of India is not watching TIMES NOW.

Making money out of Blogging

When I started blogging (or so called blogging :-)) I wasn't aware of AdSense which can be used to generate revenue out of what you write.

Well, my content does not seem to have enough meat as of now to take a step in that direction. But, while reading a few blogs about tips for blogging, I found its power when combined with AdSense.

Here is a blog by VIN (Here) which explains quite a lot about AdSense and generating money by blogging. (There is some JavaScript issue opening this blog but I guess it's just my machine.)

Check it out!!

Hyderabad - Best place to live?

I heard a discussion on Radio City FM today about why Hyderabad did not figure in the list of the best places to live in India. At the same time they were puzzled about how 5 cities from kerala got on to the list.

Here is an article Best cities to live, invest and earn in by Rediff.com.

It says:
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The best cities to reside are Kochi, Kozhikode, Shimla, Thiruvananthapuram, Mysore, Goa, Thrissur, Pondicherry, Kannur and Thiruvalur. Interestingly, five of these cities are in God's own country, Kerala. Shimla is the only northern city in this list, while Chandigarh, among the few fully planned cities in the country, failed to find a place.

The list of 'earn-in' cities has been topped by Gurgaon, followed by Silvaasa, Noida, Faridabad, Rupnagar, Chandigarh, Surat, Bangalore, Gandhinagar and Pune.

Indicus considered six parameters - health, education, environment, safety, public facilities and entertainment - for preparing the 'reside-in' index

Now about Hyderabad. The pic shown above is my way to office. If you look at the full image, you might be able to see something that looks like fog at the end of the road. Well, that's not fog, but dust. Pure dust. If I leave my house uncleaned for a day, I can start drawing on my floor or the TV screens for such is the dust accumulation in the city. I start wheezing if I stand in the smoking zone. My lungs are doing only 30% of what they should be doing. Thanks to Hyderabad and it's pollution and chaos.

Having lived here for over 4 years now, believe me, Hyderabad is not among the best places to live. If you are using a two wheeler to commute, you have a high chance of getting all sorts of bronchal issues by the time you hit 30 and if you have a 4 wheeler, your BP will pump up to dangerous levels. The city is growing, no doubt about it, but with it, the supporting infrastructure is not.

Here are some points.
1. There are no foot-paths in the busiest part of the city (a city which boasts of the best roads. It is assumed that pedestrians can fly)

2. The real estate and construction boom has increased the use of lorries right in the center of the city carrying mud with nothing to cover it with.

3. The worst traffic sense and if you are one those who stick to the traffic rules, man, you are the biggest fool.

4. Hyderabadis are color blind. There is no sense in having red lights at traffic junctions. Everything looks green to people.

5. Blame it on the development, there are no more grasslands near Madhapur and you should not be surprised to see a buffalo standing right in the middle of the road pondering about what YSR or Chandra babu Naidu could have done to make their life better.

6. If you need to get anything done which involves customer service from any vendor, you need to be ready to accept that the service personnel will come late. There is no value for time (I do not think that I found this issue with any other city)
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I can go on and on but I better stop ...

Subprime meltdown

I was going through Niraj Juneja's blog(Industry Observer) and found this hilarious take on the Subprime meltdown. Check it out.

American Elections

I was going through Amit Varma's blog and found this:

Obama, Clinton, Dowd (Here)

Cleaning up the mess - Is it just the spirit of Mumbai?

Here is an example of the sense of ownership when the whole of India cribs about problems with cleanliness and slums.

Syed Nazima Amir Ahmed, 39, is a real case of leading by example. You can read the article here.

However, I do not agree with the whole mumbaikar concept. Of course there is a certain level of spirit associated with people in Mumbai because of their fast paced life and lack of time to mourn over the issues hounding the place.

It's not only Mumbai which needs people like Nazima. Look at Chennai, Hyderabad or any other place in India for that matter. We need people who can clean up the mess just for the fact that authorities are least interested in doing their job (what are they getting paid for??? Our tax is going waste !!!).

As for me, I have stopped littering. Not on my own, of course.

Changing the view - ;-)

This is my latest buy:

Samsung Bordeaux Art

It's pretty huge for my place, but it feels awesome to have something like this.

To go with it, ONKYO Home Theater.