Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
-- Erich Fromm
-- Erich Fromm
Aug 31, 2005
Aug 30, 2005
Signature lines I have used
I tend to get comment on the signature line that I use. Here are some of them...
SMILE is the only curve that sets things straight...
Why does the choice between happiness and sadness seem such a hard one to make?
The best indices to a person's character are
how he treats people who can't do him any good,
and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Don't GIVE UP because it might not work;
TRY because it might.
Since I lost HOPE I feel much better.
A friend is someone who helps you up when you are down,
and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The soul had no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.
Never have I tried so hard to understand something,
and understood so little about it.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
and now back to my fav one
Smile is the only curve that sets things straight...
SMILE is the only curve that sets things straight...
Why does the choice between happiness and sadness seem such a hard one to make?
The best indices to a person's character are
how he treats people who can't do him any good,
and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Don't GIVE UP because it might not work;
TRY because it might.
Since I lost HOPE I feel much better.
A friend is someone who helps you up when you are down,
and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The soul had no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.
Never have I tried so hard to understand something,
and understood so little about it.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
and now back to my fav one
Smile is the only curve that sets things straight...
Aug 29, 2005
thought
What - could have been, should have been or would have been - does not matter.
What - was, is and will be - matters.
What - was, is and will be - matters.
Job Description for HIM
One of the jobs for Software developers said under the section for desired profile 'HE' should... 'HIS' experience... etc. etc.
And guess what I did.
Promptly applied for it :) Would love to see the face of the HIS majesty once HE recieves HER(my) resume.
And guess what I did.
Promptly applied for it :) Would love to see the face of the HIS majesty once HE recieves HER(my) resume.
Aug 25, 2005
thought
on some days it just seems that there is a need to go through the archive of life...
it is amazing how many memories we collect in different categories happy, sad, funny, humiliating, irritating, hurtful, etc. and how over time these memories shift from one category to another without any conscious effort on our part.
...awaiting few such changes.
it is amazing how many memories we collect in different categories happy, sad, funny, humiliating, irritating, hurtful, etc. and how over time these memories shift from one category to another without any conscious effort on our part.
...awaiting few such changes.
Could this be true?
Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet via CNN
"What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user's precise location? The gatekeeper of the world's information could become one of the globe's biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?
First it would build a national broadband network -- let's call it the GoogleNet -- massive enough to rival even the country's biggest Internet service providers. Business 2.0 has learned from telecom insiders that Google is already building such a network, though ostensibly for many reasons. For the past year, it has quietly been shopping for miles and miles of "dark," or unused, fiber-optic cable across the country from wholesalers such as New York's AboveNet. It's also acquiring superfast connections from Cogent Communications and WilTel, among others, between East Coast cities including Atlanta, Miami, and New York. Such large-scale purchases are unprecedented for an Internet company, but Google's timing is impeccable."
Also there are rumores that Google is to buy Skype (my fav VoIP s/w).
Too much of google news in the past few days!
"What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user's precise location? The gatekeeper of the world's information could become one of the globe's biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?
First it would build a national broadband network -- let's call it the GoogleNet -- massive enough to rival even the country's biggest Internet service providers. Business 2.0 has learned from telecom insiders that Google is already building such a network, though ostensibly for many reasons. For the past year, it has quietly been shopping for miles and miles of "dark," or unused, fiber-optic cable across the country from wholesalers such as New York's AboveNet. It's also acquiring superfast connections from Cogent Communications and WilTel, among others, between East Coast cities including Atlanta, Miami, and New York. Such large-scale purchases are unprecedented for an Internet company, but Google's timing is impeccable."
Also there are rumores that Google is to buy Skype (my fav VoIP s/w).
Too much of google news in the past few days!
Aug 24, 2005
follow up on intelligent design vs evolution
I saw Larry King Live... and there was a discussion on intelligent design vs evolution. And ofcourse there were religious experts there too. And all of them amazed me by their strong conviction!!!!
One of the panalist Deepak Chopra has a blog called intentblog and he has some intresting discussion there abt this topic under the heading Intelligent Design without the Bible. There are a lot of comments but the one given by a person named chappy is intresting to read. chappy's recomendation is to read the 'Selfish Gene'. I have tried reading it twice but somehow I have never read it completely. Maybe I should try it once more.
I guess i will put something here after the followup blog by him.
Caution a lot of remarks are very provoking to the religiously sensitive.
One of the panalist Deepak Chopra has a blog called intentblog and he has some intresting discussion there abt this topic under the heading Intelligent Design without the Bible. There are a lot of comments but the one given by a person named chappy is intresting to read. chappy's recomendation is to read the 'Selfish Gene'. I have tried reading it twice but somehow I have never read it completely. Maybe I should try it once more.
I guess i will put something here after the followup blog by him.
Caution a lot of remarks are very provoking to the religiously sensitive.
New candiate for 'Love to Hate'
Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain rom NYTimes
"To place Google in context, Mr. Kraus offered a brief history lesson. In the 1990's, he said, I.B.M. was widely perceived in Silicon Valley as a "gentle giant" that was easy to partner with while Microsoft was perceived as an "extraordinarily fearsome, competitive company wanting to be in as many businesses as possible and with the engineering talent capable of implementing effectively anything."
...
""Google is doing more damage to innovation in the Valley right now than Microsoft ever did," said Reid Hoffman, the founder of two Internet ventures, including LinkedIn, a business networking Web site popular among Silicon Valley's digerati. "It's largely that they're hiring up so many talented people, and the fact they're working on so many different things. It's harder for start-ups to do interesting stuff right now.""
...
"Google recently announced that it would not talk to any reporter from CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, until July 2006, after a reporter for the site wrote an article raising privacy questions about the information Google collects about individuals.
The company also provoked the ire of many within the blogging world - not to mention snarky comments in Silicon Valley from those thinking Google was behaving like an old-line company that doesn't get it - when earlier this year it fired a new employee who had joked online that the free meals, the on-site gym and all the other perks were a clever ploy to keep people at their desks longer. "
...
""I like and respect the Google guys," Mr. Lent said, "but let's just say that their ultimate aim seems to me to be, 'One Google under Google, for which it stands.' ""
"To place Google in context, Mr. Kraus offered a brief history lesson. In the 1990's, he said, I.B.M. was widely perceived in Silicon Valley as a "gentle giant" that was easy to partner with while Microsoft was perceived as an "extraordinarily fearsome, competitive company wanting to be in as many businesses as possible and with the engineering talent capable of implementing effectively anything."
...
""Google is doing more damage to innovation in the Valley right now than Microsoft ever did," said Reid Hoffman, the founder of two Internet ventures, including LinkedIn, a business networking Web site popular among Silicon Valley's digerati. "It's largely that they're hiring up so many talented people, and the fact they're working on so many different things. It's harder for start-ups to do interesting stuff right now.""
...
"Google recently announced that it would not talk to any reporter from CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, until July 2006, after a reporter for the site wrote an article raising privacy questions about the information Google collects about individuals.
The company also provoked the ire of many within the blogging world - not to mention snarky comments in Silicon Valley from those thinking Google was behaving like an old-line company that doesn't get it - when earlier this year it fired a new employee who had joked online that the free meals, the on-site gym and all the other perks were a clever ploy to keep people at their desks longer. "
...
""I like and respect the Google guys," Mr. Lent said, "but let's just say that their ultimate aim seems to me to be, 'One Google under Google, for which it stands.' ""
:) feminisation
The myth of "feminisation" from Hindu
The ':)' in the subject line is there cause when I read this article I was smiling... No not because I thought anything written in the article was really good or funny. I was smiling because I fail to understand what difference does it make weather it is male or female or black or white or brown person who gets the job, as long as a deserving person is given the job.
Maybe they should devise a way to appoint people for jobs without knowing these things abt them, it might solve some of the problems that arise due to the prejudice people have.
The ':)' in the subject line is there cause when I read this article I was smiling... No not because I thought anything written in the article was really good or funny. I was smiling because I fail to understand what difference does it make weather it is male or female or black or white or brown person who gets the job, as long as a deserving person is given the job.
Maybe they should devise a way to appoint people for jobs without knowing these things abt them, it might solve some of the problems that arise due to the prejudice people have.
Aug 23, 2005
another one creation vs evolution
Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution from NYTimes
"The universe is perhaps 14 billion years old. Earth is some 4.5 billion years old. The oldest hominid fossils are between 6 million and 7 million years old. The oldest distinctly modern human fossils are about 160,000 years old."
...
"Accepting the fact of evolution does not necessarily mean discarding a personal faith in God. But accepting intelligent design means discarding science. Much has been made of a 2004 poll showing that some 45 percent of Americans believe that the Earth - and humans with it - was created as described in the book of Genesis, and within the past 10,000 years. This isn't a triumph of faith. It's a failure of education. "
"The universe is perhaps 14 billion years old. Earth is some 4.5 billion years old. The oldest hominid fossils are between 6 million and 7 million years old. The oldest distinctly modern human fossils are about 160,000 years old."
...
"Accepting the fact of evolution does not necessarily mean discarding a personal faith in God. But accepting intelligent design means discarding science. Much has been made of a 2004 poll showing that some 45 percent of Americans believe that the Earth - and humans with it - was created as described in the book of Genesis, and within the past 10,000 years. This isn't a triumph of faith. It's a failure of education. "
hmmmmm... and after this?
Robertson: U.S. should assassinate Venezuela's Chavez from CNN
"Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas."
"Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas."