Don’t trust anybody!
“Don’t trust anybody. To trust is a weakness. It ain’t necessary that folks are bad; but they are weak or afrid. Be strong. Be your own man. Go your own way.”
This is the advice of a man who was living dangerously in a totally belligerent surroundings to his young son, egging him to fight and survive in adversity.
It amply holds to good to our everyday life too, isn’t it!
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Attract or dissuade?
Writers are expected to do everything under their control to attract the prospective buyers of their books. That includes the print, paper, packaging, get-up, cover, catchy title, images et al. But read this different insight from the foreword by Len Deighton to his “Spy Story“:
Like all writers I always worry about titles and covers. I have always believed that the principal object of both should be to deter people who won’t enjoy the book from buying it. Only secondary is the aim of attracting the reader who will like it. My reasoning is that one disappointed customer will go round making far more noice than anyone who liked it.
Interesting, eh!
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How much of your life is Google’d!
“It starts out as a convenience, becomes a habit, then a necessity, and finally an addiction.”
That is how Robert X.Cringley succinctly sums up the Google phenomenon!
Here is a partial list of the Google’s on line services – or staple offerings in addition to the Numero Uno status on web search (you don’t search any more, you merely Google it!):
- The ubiquitous Gmail (still Beta!)
- Online productivity suite – Docs, spreadsheets, presentations..
- Picasa web albums for storing and sharing images – may be a shade less popular than the professional looking Flickr of Yahoo!
- Blogger – that ushered in a “push-button” publishing revolution
- YouTube – the video service that has made itself a generic term for anything video; (and you are living in a “Youtube era”!)
- Orkut, the social networking app – though lagging behind Facebook and Myspace in popularity
- Google apps and labs – the production suite of geeks – Android, Gear, Ajax API’s, App engines, OpenSocial – the list is endless
- Google maps, Google Earth – mind-boggling stuff!
- Google Talk – mark my words, it will beat Skype soon!
- Adsense, the intelligent ad-inserting service that has turned blogging profitable – “pro-bloggers”, anyone!
- And Feedburner, Notebook, Calender, Reader, iGoogle, …
And when Google servers experienced a brief outage last week the sky almost fell on many addicts.
Here is Bob’s take on the perils of getting too dependent on Google, or, anyone particular service.
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Narayana Murthy invents E-food!
N.R. Narayanana Murthy, C0-Founder, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys and touted to be one the greatest brains that India has produced, has propounded an outlandish theory that “the need of the day is to move people away from agriculture to low-tech services and manufacturing”.
What a bizarre notion! If you move people away from agriculture, who will produce rice, millet, pulses, vegetables and all that we need to eat to survive?
Perhaps Narayana Murthy will produce them in the swanky offices of Infosys situated in prime real estates of Bangalore!
Anyway look out for the booking date to get your bag of E-Rice!
Here is the excerpt from that path-breaking interview that appeared in Businessworld (4th May 2009):
It is a lamentable fact that rural folk find it increasingly difficult to find young labourers willing to do work on the fields, since youth are lured towards glittery life in towns and cities as portrayed in films and TV shows. And Murthy adds his bit to the malady!
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