15 October 2008 ~ View Comments

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

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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 [...]

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08 August 2008 ~ View Comments

080808 – A Remarkable date for few

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 life [...]

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31 December 2007 ~ View Comments

Best of 2007 – ‘Think About It’

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 months [...]

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17 November 2007 ~ View Comments

Quote of the Day

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

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05 November 2007 ~ View Comments

Internet sites you can’t live without?

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 [...]

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03 November 2007 ~ View Comments

Quote of the Day

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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27 October 2007 ~ View Comments

Some Facts of Life

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. [...]

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25 October 2007 ~ View Comments

Indian IT professionals are among the worst paid

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 [...]

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22 October 2007 ~ View Comments

What Twitter does after all?

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 of wasting your [...]

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17 October 2007 ~ View Comments

Use Blog instead of sending e-mails

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, wordpress, [...]

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12 October 2007 ~ View Comments

Difference between Blogger and Journalist

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 [...]

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02 October 2007 ~ View Comments

Do You Suffer Social Networking Burnout?

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 [...]

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01 October 2007 ~ View Comments

God IS here somewhere

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 I [...]

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30 September 2007 ~ View Comments

Do you sign on back of your credit card?

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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29 September 2007 ~ View Comments

Blog of Knowledge – Monthly Recap : September 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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