Today Seth reminded me of a quote that I had read long time ago and loved – A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying, SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES. The other writes back triumphantly, GLORIOUS BUSINESS [...] [...more]
Institutional Investor: A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. Institutional investors face less protective regulations because it is assumed that they are more knowledgeable and better able to protect themselves. - Investopedia There is a thin line between [...] [...more]
Look ma, now you don’t need My-crow-softie FrontPage to create that page about your grandson! After all Google has come up with an online homepage editor and a free webhosting service (the rumor floated a few years ago has finally come true!). You get 100 MB free webspace, a sub-domain (name.googlepages.com) and loads of pre-made templates [...] [...more]
PassMyTime.com Woah! I can’t believe it was available. Needless to say that I grabbed it without blinking. As for what I plan to do with it — turn it into an funny pictures, videos, jokes and games site (yeah yeah I know it isn’t such a profitable niche and there are zillions of other sites in [...] [...more]
Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter ‘n sing for the tears. Sing with me, if it’s just for today. Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away Those are the main lyrics of the song Dream On by Aerosmith and that sums up the way I live my life and make every decision [...] [...more]
The topic of debate on the editorial page of today’s Sunday Times is — Should boys be allowed to marry at the age of 18? What the fuck? Current age of marriage in India for boys is 21 years (18 for women) and if I had it in my hand, I would raise it to 25 [...] [...more]
Okay this one is pretty-pretty old but I was reminded of it when I saw it posted on NetBusiness Talk. Let’s consider A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z to be represented with their corresponding number 1 [...] [...more]
A few months ago I had participated in a contest held by Site5 — my webhost — and, surprisingly, won it! The prize was David Allen’s book Getting Things Done (which I really-really wanted to get hold of). Right after I got the confirmation of my winning the contest I sent in my shipping details. One [...] [...more]
It doesn’t need a second thought that Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. It has broken all the artificial boundaries created by humans, has empowered the Average Joe to have his voice heard and start a business that competes with Fortune 500s with virtually zero capital. However, this extreme ease of start-up means that [...] [...more]
Voila! This brand new innovation from Google is something like a dream come true. The ability to automatically save my discussions with others on instant messenger is what really made me love to use Trillian. And, Google is now allowing you the ability to automatically save your complete conversation online in your GMail account, without you [...] [...more]
