Going to "fast"

Getting tired of hearing the news with every two time politician and social activist starting a fast.

Seriously here, here, here and here...and much much more.

Half these guys are overweight and their fasting is more of a much needed break from binge eating. To top this off, they get a ton of press, a "breaking the fast" press release where everyone is feeding the faster (fastee?) a glass of orange juice, milk, sweets etc. which negate the whole fast this guy was on, which by the way does not go past one day (typically)!

Next thing we know there will be headlines like :

10 year old boy goes on fast unto iPad 3 or

Engineering graduate goes on fast unto getting a girlfriend in Chennai etc..

For crying out loud, enough with the fasting already!

We should say "patni kedakkariya.. Nalladhu! Odambu koraiyum." (Want to starve for a few days, good. Your body will get in shape).

Or I am going to go on a fast unto no fasting..

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Addictive video..

My cousin shared a really addictive video called "Land of Lungi"

It is a nice appreciation/funny video of Kerala, a southern state in India. If you are a Tamilian who travels a lot and lives outside of Tamilnadu, chances are your life crosses paths with way too many folks who are Keralites and you are heavily influenced by the culture from Kerala. You always go to Vishu parties, you prefer Ada pradaman to semiya paayasam and you constantly try to convince your wife that a white silk saree with gold jewellery with coins will suit her, irrespective of what the oldies in your house say about a white saree being unauspicious..

As usual I am off topic. Back to the Land of the Lungi..

Check out this video. Really cool..

The little one has been dancing with the iPhone in her hand to this song wearing her
"T-shirt and chaddi".. She even has a bangra type move where she points her two index fingers into the sky and does a little jiggle.

We are actually thinking of making a secret video of it tomorrow, when she is wearing her pants.

Long live the land of Lungi!

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Adsense

after turning on the ads on the side (for more than two months) happened to go check that account.

Yippppeee...

have made a whopping 7300 bucks!

No, just kidding.

Actually made 73 cents in two months.

When I told my MIL that there was enough money to buy balli mittai for one kid, she said "how come I don't see any ads?". Then we compared it on our laptops and she was right. My laptop shows the ads and her laptop didn't.

Then we figured out that the ads show up only on Firefox and you don't see them if you use Internet explorer as the browser. My MIL, who is very devoted to her Microsoft employee son, is loyal to the explorer. Me being the paranoid techie, switched to firefox after many friends told me it is safer.

The lack of making the 10000 dollar mark.. err. 1$ mark has been blamed on IE.

To all those people who said "indha blog wog ellam oru ana paisavukku prayojanam unda?" (Is this blog wog even worth an ana paisa?).....

Okay, first we need to tell you what an ana-paisa is. One "ana" which used to be the old Indian minor currency denomination is 6.25 paise in today's terms. (one rupee was 16 anas and is now 100 paise).

If you use the conversion, one dollar is 47.66 rupees (today's rate). One rupee is 16 anas. So 1 ana is 0.13 cents. If I made 73 cents, it is 556 anas!

There, take that you nay sayers!

ps. The ads are consistantly irrelevant since they were turned on. The topic of the post and the ads seem to have no connection. Really wanted to see the algorithm at work. That is the real reason for turning on adsense. Fond hopes that a photoblog for canon and HDR would turn up ads for really popular software that fits the context. Nope, instead we get ads for home loans. This seems to be highly over rated!

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