- September, 2006
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Unnoticed bloggers
Hiren wrote this comment on my previous entry
I come across so many blogs which have good posts but the poor guys get unnoticed. They put in so much of effort and no comments. Two recent ones are:-
I think this is best answered by this sentence from Scoble
But, Steve Gillmor has it right: this isn't a game of traffic. It's about sharing what you love.
Most of my blog posts have 0 comments, but that still does not deters me from writing. Once, I too had despaired of the '0 comments' phenomenon, but I was motivated to start blogging again when I read through the Those Cute Kids archives of Aaron. Reading through that, I thought "Wow! I too would like to have something like that" (where that means a record of the days of my life
), and you know what -
it is not that hard to write a blog post everyday or at least every
weekend. These days, my motivation for writing blog is to keep a
record of the highlights or the lowlights of a day or sometimes to
record something new that I learnt that day (or in most cases, that
week).Coming back to Hiren's point of undiscovered bloggers, I guess those bloggers are driven by their own motivations. Or it might be the case that they are writing for their own family and close friends. If their idea is to be an A-list blogger (hehe), there are gazillion of pages dedicated to that too.
Defined tags for this entry: My take on life - August, 2006
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Three good tips
Three good tips that have made my life more productive
- Not to open my emails until I have completed at least one task in the morning. I read this tip on lifehacker.com
- No personal web surfing until at least noon. Found this tip on TheNowHabit mailing list
- Creative Observation . The advice sounds a bit corny, but I have been trying it out in small things and it works (somewhat).
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why 'proud to be an indian' ?
The Hindu has a thought provoking article on Isarel's militarism. The most striking line in that article is in the first paragraph.
AS a Jew, I've been asked if I'm ashamed at what Israel has been doing in Lebanon. And the answer I give is that I am disgusted, I am angry, I am appalled, but, no, I am not ashamed. Why should I be? I bear no personal responsibility for this criminal activity — except, of course, in so far as I fail to take whatever action I can to stop it.
If you are on any of the mailing list or if you have had an email id for at least one year, you might have received an email titled "jai hind" or "proud to be an indian" around 15th August. The email has a bunch of questions and answers like
and so on.Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
The email ends thus
Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN. Please forward this email to all known INDIANS...............
I have always been baffled by this chest beating. As an Indian, why should I take credit for the success of Sabeer Bhatia, Azim Premji and Vinod Dahm - what contribution did I make to their success ?
I am totally unpatriotic.
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yahoo! yodel
Check out how to say Ya-hoooooooo in the yahoo! way . Thanks to yodel anecdotal for the link.Defined tags for this entry: humour -
Caf
One of the thinking tools that I have learned from my manager is the Caf. Caf stands for "consider all factors" and it was invented by De Bono. I have started a wikipedia page on caf . Do add more to it if you know better or if you have any links further exploring this idea.
Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff - July, 2006
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India may scrap gay sex law over HIV fears
Yahoo! news has a coverage about this
The government's main AIDS prevention agency has filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, supporting a request by an AIDS activist group to scrap the law.
The National AIDS Control Organization, part of India's Health Ministry, argued in the affidavit filed last week that the 1861 law creates a public health risk.
"So long as the gay community is forced to go underground, it limits the access to them and makes it difficult for the AIDS prevention campaign to reach them," Sujatha Rao, who heads the AIDS Control Organization, also known as NACO, told The Associated Press.
I hope this law gets scrapped. This is covered under the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860.
"of unnatural offences: Who ever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years and shall also be liable to fine.
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Nokia turns cellphones into webservers
Nokia ports apache to Symbian , the name of the project is "Raccoon". The phone can serve as a web server. Check out their concept demos. I especially liked their Access to Core Data. They suggest "Mount a read-write view of the /Apache directory using WebDAV and edit your webpages directly.". Nice. Now I have to get my hands on a 6630 asap - just so that I can have a webserver running on it
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