A friend pointed out that recently his Gmail account started showing 50 available invites to be distributed. I had long shifted to using Outlook to get and send my gmail and thus hadn’t been to the Gmail site for a long time. Well, after hearing this, I did look up the site and yes, to my astonishment, Gmail’s invite portion was listing 50 invites available!

So it, finally looks like Gmail is broadening their beta to include a lot more people. I wonder, if this is the final testing phase for them, they must be doing load / space quota testing now if they are broadening their service so much.

One can only guess that the next thing that Google is going to do is to open up their service to public registration. And when that happens, with their search engine results pumping in users, they should pretty much start to dominate the free email market. And I think that users would be very amiable to the switch, most other free services are plagued by prominent and intrusive advertising, much lesser space and slow web page serving.

Oh, by the way, my invites are up for grabs, by the way, so, if you still don’t have a Gmail account yet, you can add a comment to this post and I’ll be happy to invite you.

I just spent the last half an hour cleaning out all the comment spam on my site. People are trying to sell you all sorts of drugs, and god only knows what else on my site!

I hate comment spam. I wish they would stop it. I really don’t see the point. I mean, c’mon, what do they get out of posting random, long comments with links to all sorts of sites on my site. Everyday, at least 3 spam comments are added on my blog. It’s really getting to be a chore to go and delete all of these unwanted comments.

I suppose the whole point of all this is to fool search engines (especially google) into some sort of link popularity gimmick wherein a lot of sites have these comment spam links to their sites and their page rating increases because of so many blog sites linking to them.

Somebody should still shoot these idiots though.

Time and again I have seen blogs that have been begun with great enthusiasm (and great prose) but abruptly been stopped with a complete lack of any entries whatsoever. Why does this happen? I am softly but surely, being led to believe that this happens because the particular blogger tends to “give up” on the blog.

Why? One might ask. The answer is audience. The whole point of creating something like dhigu.com was because it was my soapbox, on which I could stand and talk about whatever topic I chose and the whole wwweb was my audience. The problem with that is sooner or later you realize that nobody may be actually listening to you while you spout forth from your makeshift soapbox (however goodlooking (thanks Dude) it  may be).

Since then I have changed my voice on this soapbox (I no longer write keeping an audience in mind) and even gone to the extent of making a blog entry claiming that I was no longer doing this for an audience; but instead for myself. I like to write on my blog because it lets me write clearly whatever I wanted to without any sort of restrictions whatsover.

So, what’s next? My only plea to you, my dear constant reader, is to please comment a bit more often. It keeps this particular author happy enough to keep blogging. And when you don’t, I start blogging about weird things that are selfish Braindumps so deep from my head that you wouldn’t understand them any way.