When I signed up for text-link-ads several months earlier, I meticulously read the terms and conditions. Nowhere was it mentioned that you couldn't use nofollow on your links. As such I had signed up with text-link-ads and have used nofollow from the very beginning. I used to make under 400$ monthly. Few days back I got a very interesting email from Brock Boser, Inventory manager of text-link-ads.

I tested several file compression programs like zip, gzip, arj, bzip2, jar etc for compressing big files. The corpus constituted 5 POI generated Microsoft Excel documents totaling 298.8 MB. And there is a clear winner!

Monsoon is a feature of Indian sub-continent. The rainy season is upon us and with a vengeance this time. There are water-logged streets and homes everywhere, thanks to effective drainage management of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Businesses, including IT, are being affected as employers cannot easily commute with public transport being almost down or minimally operating in places, most private vehicles are also incapable of negotiating the high water level in streets. It is appalling to see a major metropolitan city brought down to its knees by few days of rain. Even the dataone broadband connection is acting up. Irrespective of all the problems I love monsoon.