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April 06 2008

Amwelles has made some amazing themes available for download at this website. The bullets theme is my favorite! Please do check them out and thank her! :-)

In-flight WiFi coming soon

katydid:

“American Airlines’ Boeing 767-200 fleet will be the first to be retrofitted, but the company has been adament that their technology is not limited to any one airline and has future plans to work with Virgin America.”

Yippie! SO looking forward to this =) I can switch off that useless Television sets located at the back of the seat in front of me.

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Are you a Windows user?

jakoblodwick:

It seems like most Tumblr users are Mac people. But there must be some PC/Windows Tumblrs out there. If you are a Windows user, can you explain why in a reblog?

If you are a former Windows user, like me, you can still participate. Just reblog why you used a PC before you switched.

In my case, I thought PCs were the real deal, while Macs were slow and for posers. Two years ago, the most serious computer users at my company (Kunal and Andrew) were like, Yeah, Macs are so much better. Reluctantly, I tried one and immediately fell in love. I soon enjoyed being a computer user without needing to be a computer expert anymore.

What a ‘classic’ way of getting reblogs: ask questions! And here I am…not answering the question, but doing what the original author wanted me to do, that is reblog his post.

a letter

amwelles:

jessicap:

Dear David Karp, I need some sort of bookmark to keep track of where I left off on my dashboard. Sometimes I don’t have the time to look through all the posts at once. It would be great if you could work on this. Tumblr love, JPA

Just use a private text post. That’s what I do, anyway, and I believe Marco suggested the same thing awhile back.

Use a feed reader.

April 04 2008

Your Facebook Profile Isn't Really "You": - ReadWriteWeb

obiterdicta:

It really is all about positioning, it seems.

Unless you are like me and never invite anyone into your Facebook world if you do not know them in real life. It is bad enough keeping in touch with people we know not to have to contend with random, faceless people we will never meet.

Old-fashioned? Yes. Clutter-free/ feng shui approach to life? Oh, yes. Not up your street? See if I care ;-)

You need to be pretty stupid to believe that you’ll get along with someone else based upon your choice of clothes, shoes, books, movies etc. It’s easy to “build” an online profile, which might be as fake as you are in real life. One of the many reasons why I’m uncomfortable blurring the lines between real life and online friends. It’s not always what you think it is. :-) There were times when I thought that I really like a person, only to be exposed later to some weird thinking on their part and then, sadly realize that I don’t really like him/her THAT much!

I don’t care if people feel that I don’t have many “friends”. It’s always more valuable to add people whom you really know, instead of adding just about anyone you met in some random party or a meeting somewhere…or worse, have not even met.

Bombay had made them more American than Cambridge had, my mother said, something she hadn’t anticipated and didn’t understand. There were remarks concerning your mother’s short hair, her slacks, the Johnnie Walker she and your father had continued to drink after the meal was finished, taking it with them from the dining room to the living room.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, in her short story, Once in a Life Time, that appeared in The New Yorker and is also a part of her collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. I’ve ordered my copy and I can’t wait to read it!

April 03 2008

On Chatting Etiquette

Why do people feel that it is okay to Buzz!!! on Yahoo messenger? Nothing is more annoying than people clamoring for your attention. In this case, I was chatting with this woman and wasn’t even doing anything else. During the course of the “conversation”, she buzzed me three times! And it’s not like I was replying late. I was replying as soon as I was getting her message.

Even if I don’t reply instantaneously, there is absolutely no reason to Buzz me. Just because I’m signed into Yahoo! doesn’t mean that she should be the sole recipient of my attention.

I find such behavior to be absolutely annoying and it turns me off completely.

Can you name the Elements of the Periodic Table?

sarahcroberts:

I got 18 before I had to give up. I’m a Communications major, I’ll never need to know the elements. Good game to make you feel like a total idiot.

via bg5000

44/118 , with 9 minutes left. Then I gave up.

Disclaimer: I was a law student and now, a Finance major.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
— Lawrence J. Peter

I've picked a college

alexkehr:

I’ve committed to the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Congratulations Alex! :-)

April 02 2008

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How Smart Are You?
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Life is anything but LOL right now for me.

April 01 2008

jaredm:

I just realized that today is a big personal health milestone for me:

Six months without a cigarette!

All true, no fooling. Yay me :)

Congratulations! You deserve a re-blog.

But what does following a lot of people say?

  1. You’re trying to learn more.
  2. You’re trying to meet more people.
  3. You’re trying to be a better listener.
  4. You’re communicating to the world that you’d like to be listened to (golden rule: treat people how you’d like to be treated).
  5. You’re trying to find out about more stuff. More events. More stories.

Now, who would you rather hang out with? A person who only talks and doesn’t listen? Or a person who listens to as many people as he can?

Now, I really don’t care about people who unfollow me anymore. Go ahead. Doesn’t make me feel bad. But the more people I follow, the smarter I get, the more connected I get, the better the experiences I have in life (see previous post). So, that’s my new story. The secret to Twitter is how many people are you listening to, not how many people are listening to you.

Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger Scoble, you still manage to spam everyone who’s in your network with your silly tweets. Obviously, quantity over quality of “networking” is your way of getting popular. We all know about your “friends” on Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Flickr, Friendfeed and many other social networking sites.

Indian footie captain refuses to carry Olympic torch

obiterdicta:

Bhaichung Bhutia, a buddhist from the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim, and captain of the Indian football team, refused to carry the Olympic Torch to show his support for the Tibetans and their struggle.

India has notably disallowed protests from Tibetans. So much for democracy and free speech!

I was thinking about this same thing yesterday. I admire Bhaichung Bhutia for taking this stand. And on the other hand, we have Aamir Khan- THE badshah…who seems to be doing anything for publicity. His video, where he talks about his decision of being the torch bearer reeks with boredom and illiteracy. He uses sentences, such as “It’s a great sport! Such an amazing sporting event, that is world’s best sporting event!”…and “This year’s theme is based on Environment preservation. We need to preserve it. I do a lot for it. I’m careful about the quantity of water that I use. You need to be careful. You need to be very aware..” and so on and so forth. And the interviewer says that he’s a true “social activist”.

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