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The Internet has made connecting people so easy in a way our parents' never even have imagined.

People here who have never touched a computer goes to Internet parlors to take Net2Phone calls. Soon it'll be VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) phones.

For some the Internet means purely chat.

Chatting has stormed the Internet from the beginning. And there are a million chat cliants out there. Trillian, M2, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL you name it. It was nice to keep company with.
They are so famous and now even double as essential business tools apart from their initial appeal to the Internet new comers and teenagers.

Personally I never used any of until recently. I felt it's just wasting time typing useless dialogue with strangers. Mostly due to the slow but expensive dialup lines we had. It was even painful when we go voice streaming. So I spend all my online time reading and learning and searching, something worthwhile. When you got dialups chatting sucks.

It all changes when you gotta fast DSL line. It all changes when someone you know closely goes abroad. Suddenly chatting makes practicale sense.

Now Udani from Canada, Ruani from Fitch Ratings, Nuwan from UK buzzing me. The best thing is nobody's gonna pay a penny over phone bills.

Wonderful isn't it?

Today is a sad day.

A simple man, my ex-boss Suminda's father, the one who has written the famous Sinhala song ''Chandana Ellen Nâla'' which is coincidently happened to be my name too, has passed away.

This is a great loss to the Sinhala literature. Even though he has passed away the things he has written, songs, books, articles will stay among us, for many yeas to come.

Chandana: [Sanskrit] sandalwood, the fragrance, or the cosmetics made out of sandalwood

Yesterday, when I login to the Blogger, They threw at me their latest innovation, AdSense. That's what you see now under my profile and recent posts saying "Ads by Google"

I've been studying this, AdSense makes much sense over the taditional web banner advertising because they are:

• Relevant
  Will cover your subject, search or the interests
  

• Text based
  They won't eat up your bandwidth
  

• Yields more results
  So you will have more choices
  

• No hijackers or spammers allowed
  Your computer will be healthier
  

• Reliable
  Comes from the guys who made possible Google and gMail
  

• A win win thing
  You will find something you want, someone will make a penny out of it
  

• Utilises proven Google intelligence inbuilt
  So you can relax and do enjoy your web experience
  

Read on...

How often have you clicked on a distracting popup banner on a webpage?

If you like me, you would probably say "never" because we've learned all those banners were irrelevant, distracting, useless and sometimes happened to be browser hijacks, spam and virus sources.

So we left them in the dust. Period.

Now, think of Google, thing of gMail, think of AdSense, things have changed.

When was it Google did not return you answers that did not satisfy your search?

Has it ever failed you on your search, if it ever was on the web?

Mind you, since I have mastered the art of "search" for the last 5 years or so, If you know how to do a search, you gonna find anything on mankind and beyond, if it is connected to the net and given an IP address. Period.

So the answer is again gonna be "never" on this.

The net is useless without being able to "search". So here comes Google, I respect for what it has done to the net. Look at the dictionary, now we don't do "search" anymore but "google" instead.

Need more convincing?
They have cached "4,285,199,774" web pages in their vast RAM pool right at this moment as I write this. It's more less the whole web.

I have used dogpile, yahoo, altavista, msn, alltheweb, excite, kartoo and what else? but nothing yields fast results as rellevant as Google does when it comes to a search.

I lived and made my life around the net. If it wasn't Google, I will still manage but life wouldn't be this easy. No way.

I've been using gMail for months now. Mind you, it's by for the best responsive mail I ever used. With whoping 2GB + storage you can't beat it.

So likewise AdSense, it is too there to stay. Because it's one heck of a new innovative business model over the industry old web banner advertising. It takes in everyone into account. So if you find anything intersting here, you can click on one or two ads and pass a penny to me too.

Even if not, just relax, do enjoy your journey.
Life is beautiful. Cheer up!