Until Death do us apart January 6, 2007
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People do not think very much about death. They spend their lives worrying about absurdities; they put things off, and fail to notice important moments. They don’t take risks, because they think it is dangerous. They complain a lot, but are afraid to take action. They want everything to change, but they themselves refuse to change.
If they thought a little more about death, they would never forget to make that much-postponed phone call. They would be a little crazier. They would not be afraid of this incarnation coming to an end, because you cannot fear something that is going to happen anyway.
A wise man once said, ‘ Death is always sitting by your side so that, when you need to do something important, it will give you the strength and the courage that you need. ‘
Source: Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
News you can use:
Jaxtr: a Palo Alto-based start-up has developed a widget that allows you to make and receive phone calls, and can be embedded in your MySpace home page or on your blog. The service provides local phone numbers that allow callers to eliminate expensive international long distance charges from any of 29 national markets in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Initial countries range from United States to most of Western Europe to Brazil, Chile and Mexico and Japan and Singapore.
Friday Morning with Web 2.0 January 5, 2007
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This is not what I usually do on Friday mornings but yes, this is one of the ways to kill boredom; and I am killing boredom by surfing the world wide web.
The sites listed below caught my eyes and impressed me to the extent that I am mentioning them right here on my blog.
- Private Phone: Get your FREE* PrivatePhone number. Give it out to friends. Co-workers. Anyone, for that matter. And your personal numbers always stay protected. Each call goes right to online voicemail that you can access anytime. It couldn’t be easier to stay as connected as you want. And protect what’s private.
I just signed up and this is what my number looks like : (225) 395-0857
- Then there is the blog which shows you how to make 7 cool gadgets sitting at home. It also has live videos, teaching you how exactly to go about making them. click here to get started. You now have something to keep you occupied this weekend. (you are welcome.)
- If you are a regular user of Alexa, check out Compete which is powered by Yahoo! search. This is what the site has to tell about itself:
MyCompete provides highlights and trends on the most interesting places to visit online, an opportunity to participate in paid surveys and access to special offers from our partners. Over time, MyCompete will become increasingly personalized to your interests, especially when you install the Compete Toolbar with Community Share.
- Boing Boing: You’ll surely find something to read about in this ‘wonderful’ blog.
- A list of the top 100 Web 2.0 sites. (This doesn’t need a description, does it?)
- LinkedIN: It’s a social networking site (I hope it’s not another one of ‘em) which seems to be in the league of Facebook. To read more about it, click here.
This is all for now Weblings, have a great day and keep 
ing.
The story of the pencil January 4, 2007
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Food for thought:
A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked:
‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me?’
His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:
‘I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I’m using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.’
Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn’t seem very special.
‘But it’s just like any other pencil I’ve ever seen!’
‘That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.’
‘First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.’
‘Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpner. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he’s much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.
‘Third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.’
‘Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.’
‘Finally, the pencil’s fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. in just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action’
Source: Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
Feel no fear of your reflection January 4, 2007
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Worth a read.. go on, feed your brain !
A visitor arrives from Morocco and tells me a curious story about how certain desert tribes perceive original sin.
Eve was walking in the Garden of Eden when the serpent slithered over to her.
‘Eat this apple,’ said the serpent.
Eve, who had been properly instructed by God, refused.
‘Eat this apple,’ insisted the serpent. ‘You need to look more beautiful for your man.’
‘No, I don’t,’ replied Eve. ‘He has no other woman but me.’
The serpent laughed.
‘Of course he has.’
And when Eve did not believe him, he led her up to a well on the top of a hill.
‘She’s in that cave. Adam hid her in there.’
Eve leaned over and, reflected in the water of the well, she saw a lovely woman. She immediately ate the apple the serpent was holding out to her.
According to this same Moroccan tribe, a return to paradise is guaranteed to anyone who recognizes his or her reflection in the water and feels no fear.
Source: Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
Who said its My First Post. January 4, 2007
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Yupp, Ma first post.. a new year.. a new blog. Wouldn’t have been possible without WordPress supporting me completely.
I would also like to thank Google and Yahoo who are my mentors and loyal friends.
If you still can’t understand what I am here for , click on the links above and don’t be surprised if you are directed to the home page!
This blog will be my stress buster, my serene world, my sunrise, my sunset, my walk on the beech.
This blog has nothing to do with google or yahoo and nor with wordpress other than they hosting this lovely blog.
Have already thanked them for it, will do it again, THANKYOU.
This blog also has nothing to do with the technical world or whats happening in the World Wide Web. It is only to give words to the innumerable thoughts which keeps zapping through my head. Want to give peace to my mind and hence achieve the first step to my goal which has to be kept a secret along with my identity and my location.
Wishing you great times ahead and please keep that smile intact. You never know who might fall for it, and change your life for the better.
