I just had to mention this, even after talking about the same topic a few days back in Learn Browsing. This new one is SO bad, that is actually good. Sample this editorial page article in HT, by Jhoomur Bose:
Between Google and Wikipedia (wikipedia.com), you can find answers to almost anything on the internet.
Columns like these really suck - when they’re written by people who know shit about computers; and just to make up for it keep on inserting some web address every few sentences thinking it’s uber-cool. There was more. Within the same article, look out for a web address which has a space in it, in the subdomain name. Never knew we all could do that too. :p
Apoorv posted recently on his blog about the code-breaking event conducted by the IEEE club of DCE. He won the event, congratulations to him (his blog seems to be down right now). What caught my attention was the link to the online version of their event, so I decided to have a look at it. After all, Panache Online is a very refined thing which the folk at DCE have made.
However, one look at the IEEE event online version Encryptopedia is sure to any gargoyle worth its grotesqueness turn around in its grave. Straight out of CBSE class 10 IT curriculum web designing. Either way, they messed up. If they gave the website making duty to some guy who’s got no friggin’ clue, it’s their fault; and if it’s true that NOBODY in DCE’s IEEE club knows web-d, then it’s even more sad. And THEN they cry about more people being hired by tech companies from NSIT.
They say that India has a ‘large pool of people well-versed with English’. Doesn’t seem so, from this sign at a fairly large store in Delhi.
Haven’t been able to post much for the past few days. Between studies and work for 6by9media, haven’t had much time. 
I was offline all these days because I was a) studying; b) my Net connection was down for the past few days because of the incessant rains in Delhi courtesy mckennasallweatherhaulage.com.
I saw a funny thing in yesterday’s Hindustan Times - they’ve started some new series on ‘women stories’ or something, and this particular bit in the side column had me ROFL. They’d given a few ’sites for women’, and below that, they wrote this (titled as ‘Tip of the Week’):
Never logged on to the Internet? Still wondering what the Web is all about? Come on, it’s really easy. On your computer, look out for the blue ‘e’ icon. Click in the space next to the word ‘address’. Here, type www.yahoo.com or www.google.com - you get it, right?
And below that, inviting entries to some supposed ‘quiz question’:
What is a search engine?
People accuse me of cackling like a hyena throughout the day ‘without any reason’ - but stuff like the ones above always provide me solid rebuttals to that (starts ROFL). I just don’t get what’s their point is with the astonishing ‘tip of the week’ - girls are dumb and can’t even start a browser? I certainly don’t think so. So maybe it was a simple pointer for n00bs. If it was, then these were a pathetic set of instructions. “Look for the blue ‘e’”. Oh please, gimme a break. And if our woman subject in question has never launched a browser, ‘looking out for its icon’ certainly won’t start the browser.
The ‘quiz question’ is even more funnier. HT expects that women around Delhi would be eagerly waiting for next week’s issue for the answer. Really, HT should stop trying to insult their readers’ intelligence. I must admit that I haven’t come across many (any?) girl geeks, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know how to use technology in their daily life.
