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Pay Poverty Tax to get rid of Poverty from the World – Blog Action Day 2008

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Poverty: The word itself is very vague in nature. Because poverty is measured in different ways by different people for different reasons. As per Wikipedia, Poverty is defined as the deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of [...]

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080808 – A Remarkable date for few

Friday, August 8th, 2008

In one of my previous posts, I wrote about different ways every country uses different date formats and how much confusion it creates when you are traveling from one such country to another. Read this post, you might find it interesting. But the person born today won’t face any of these issue in his entire [...]

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Best of 2007 – ‘Think About It’

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Happy New Year!  I’d take the opportunity to look back on the year 2007.  This post contains some highlights from the last year in terms of popular posts and a quick look forward at the year ahead. So lets take a look back on the year 2007 on Think About It.   In fact initial [...]

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Quote of the Day

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

"You can never plan the future by the past."  —Edmund Burke

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Internet sites you can’t live without?

Monday, November 5th, 2007

In the high-tech world, it is very tough to answer this question : What are the Internet sites you can’t live without? 100s of sites are launched daily with something interesting and may be better than the other. You use them or not but at least they are there. Lots of websites send invites to [...]

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Quote of the Day

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw

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Some Facts of Life

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Wife: Darling today is our anniversary, what should we do? Husband: Let us stand in silence for 2 minutes. It’s funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. It’s like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered. A man who surrenders when he’s wrong, is Honest. A man who surrenders when not Sure, [...]

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Indian IT professionals are among the worst paid

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

India is supposedly the hub of IT professional. Jobs are outsourced from US and other countries to generally India, China and other Asian countries. As a matter of fact Indian IT professionals are supposed to be the best amongst all. But what they get in return, this survey reveals : Indian IT professionals are among [...]

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What Twitter does after all?

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

In my personal opinion, Twitter is the worst online communication tool. I never understood, what it actually does. How it helps people being in touch? What will people do knowing what I am (or anyone is) doing in the world? I don’t understand why it is getting popular. Why and how people like it? Instead [...]

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Use Blog instead of sending e-mails

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Everyone uses e-mails to forward the blog posts, links and other stuff to their friends. I have a new way in which you don’t need to send any mail to your friends. How do you do that – Simple : Use Blogs… Steps involved What you have to do? Create a blog on blogger, livejournal, [...]

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Difference between Blogger and Journalist

Friday, October 12th, 2007

There is a big difference between a Blogger and a Journalist. Agree with me…No…OK. I can prove it here. Look at these posts from the Top 100 blogs on Technorati. All of them almost have the same post with almost the same information but with a little bit of tweaking here and there.Let me take [...]

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Do You Suffer Social Networking Burnout?

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Don’t you ever think how many overwhelming options are available for social networking these days? See the picture below (I have tried to put together the options I am aware of.) Most popular as of social networking per say are Orkut, Vox, LiveJournal, Friendster, Live Spaces, Linkedin, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and Xanga. But others [...]

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God IS here somewhere

Monday, October 1st, 2007

I know it is all about faith.  If you believe in God, then you will see Him else there is nothing like God anywhere.  Yesterday, something happened that makes it stronger for me to believe that GOD IS HERE SOMEWHERE. The day before yesterday night, I was playing with my 1 year old daughter and [...]

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Do you sign on back of your credit card?

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Supposedly the safest way (according to banks) is to sign on the back of your card as soon as you receive it. So that when you shop, your signature be matched to ensure you are the one who has authority to use that card. But in my personal opinion, it is very risky to sign [...]

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Blog of Knowledge – Monthly Recap : September 2007

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

If you have missed something over the month, you can read that again following the links provided here.  Every month end I will be providing this recap, just to make sure that none of my post go un-noticed and the readers visiting for the first time can quickly run through the posts.  Hope you would [...]

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