A look at Youth Curry

Somehow I ended up at Ms. Rashmi’s blog yesterday (I only added the link to her blog on my blogroll yesterday). I now feel as though I’m starting my blog once again. I first started my blog after her guest lecture down at NIT Trichy during Currents, the Electrical Engineering department symposium. (More on how i started on this post).



I don’t know why, but I like her blog a lot. Not only is her design simple, she also uses a lot of links, pictures, and her writing style is really nice. While reading through her posts, theyre very easy to follow (except for her occasional hindi expressions here and there - I don’t know Hindi - very bad).



I’ll take her post on the smart card implementation in Mumbai as an example. The title “Smart Card, Dumb Implementation” it self is very self explanatory and simple. The reader would have been able to figure out the subject and tone of her post very quickly.



In the post, she starts off with a light introduction of what got her into a train (something like narrowing into the subject) and then writes on about her experience with smart cards and what she has observed about them. Some of the good things to note in her post is that she posts pictures wherever something might seem ambiguous.



She also uses links to refer to external articles that relates to events that she mentions on her post. This is a really good practice to do and I only realized it after seeing her blog. (So i started using links on my posts too - I posted links to websites instead of cutting and pasting their URLs in my web design links post.) Right now I haven’t posted many pictures yet because not much I’ve posted requires photos. However I should restart the picture posting because “A Picture is equivalent to a thousand words” right?



On with the rest of her blog. She’s got her twitter feed which she used to post her little thoughts that aren’t big enough to actually right a post on. This inspired me to start a twitter account too. Follow me on twitter if you want to by clicking here. And I’ve positioned my ads on the right hand side bottom of my page just as she has - no biggie there - just keeping the ads away from the main content.



However theres one thing I don’t like with her blog. She has her blog roll at the bottom of her blog which I didn’t find appealing because after I finish with one blog I usually use the links to move to another to read on. But thats just a minor issue. Other than that, thank you Ms. Bansal for creating a nice blog and inspiring others.