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This post was guest blogged by Sneezy Melon of The Goofy Express.

1) Different browsers mean different displays.

2) None of the displays match the way it was supposed to be.

3) Internet Explorer 5.5 is “recommended”.

4) Same set of username and password results differently on different occasions.

5) Flash is used more than HTML.

6) Internet finally makes your head all dizzy.

I recently happened to come across one such website. It was designed for the Employee Information System of the Delhi Governent. Not-so-surprisingly, the title tags said otherwise. The stupidity didn’t begin here, actually. The password for login (a 3-letter string) was the same as the username. Both were printed on thousands of notices which were circulated across all the employee offices in Delhi. Yet, a “highly-secure database” was insisted upon. I don’t see how that works.

As expected, the website worked neither on Opera Kestrel (9.50 Beta 2), Opera 9.27, Mozilla Firefox 3 (Beta 4,5), Mozilla Firefox 2, Apple Safari or Konqueror. The only hope left was the world’s best browser of all time. Yes, I’m talking about your, mine and Microsoft’s favorite (*drum roll*) Internet Explorer! Now working on Intenet Explorer and that too on Windows would have been no better than sleeping with two ugly witches.

So, some Googling and a few minutes later, I had downloaded the IES4linux project and was already running it. I decided to start with the latest stable version and step down one-by-one (which I was pretty sure I would have to). Sadly, the beta feature (in ies4linux) didn’t work as the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Setup file was “corrupted”. 6.0 got installed easily. 6.0 gave up easily. 5.5 was no better. And 5.0 did not get install altogether. Again, the file was “corrupted”.

Finally, 48 hours, lots of head-banging and around a fifty thousand curses later, I’m still stuck. And I know I may remain stuck till eternity, unless I die about 20 years from now due to food-poisoning. Let’s hope the dog pees in my porridge!

Techcrunch has an interesting article on the rise of click fraud activities in 2007, which declares 2007 as the worst year for online ad monetisation. The stats even state that “one out of every three clicks on a Google or Yahoo ad is fraudulent.”

The most shameful part is that India is the largest single source (4.3 percent) of online click fraud activities. This just proves how we use our ‘overly’ intelligent Indian minds - which is the major reason Indians aren’t respected; even online. People want to earn money from us, by uncovering the talent over here, but all they get in return is a bunch of untrustworthy bastards who are always ready to stab you in your back for your money. We Indians don’t realise that if they spend half of the time spent on thinking of different cheating systems, on making your website/blog more useful to the internet, or spend time in writing quality content and building sustainable traffic, then you could earn much more, and that too - cleanly!

All of us very well know about the TOS, still we try to outsmart the system by using various methods. But in the end, you can never earn as much using cheating as you can by spending time and working hard on the monetisation of your site.

Other countries which are just behind our footsteps are - Germany (3.9 percent), and South Korea (3.7 percent).

Boring. The same old, ‘uninspiring’ forced inspiration squeezed in at every possible point in the movie. Dumb concept, filled with dumb emotions. Yash Raj Films depends heavily on background music to create emotions, which is pathetic. I’m starting to hate Yash Raj, more than I have ever before. Most of us have already seen the movie, so I don’t feel the need to write a plot synopsis.

Rating - 3/10