July 16th, 2009 — guides,mobile
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For a long time I was using Outlook to track my meetings and tasks using the default calendar. Then I started using the Google calendar as well, mostly to track personal items. And then some birthdays and reminders on my mobile. While all this worked, there were obvious limitations:
I couldn’t access all my calendar items at one place.
The only thing I always had access to was my Mobile.
So the goal was to at least have everything on my Mobile, irrespective of where they were created. Of course the wish was to have all three synchronized.
The [...] Continue Reading…
July 5th, 2009 — Internet,trends
If you go through the archives on my blog, you will notice that there are a couple of instances where I haven’t written for an entire month or so. I thought that I am one of the *few* turning sluggish at times. However, I was shocked to know that 95% of the blogs which are tracked on technorati, a blog search engine, have not been updated in the last 120 days!
So what is the reason? Well primarily it is the same old human tendency I guess. We start a lot of things enthusiastically but do not take them forward [...] Continue Reading…
July 3rd, 2009 — Internet,thoughts
Just to clarify before we proceed, the title of the post can explain:
Personality ‘on’ the web
Personality ‘of’ web
I am going to talk about the second one, i.e. personality ‘of’ the web.
We all use some or the other social networking sites. In fact we now use multiple social networking sites to connect to each other. Let’s take examples:
LinkedIn: <Professional>: As we all know, LinkedIn was always meant to be a professional networking portal. If you are caught browsing LinkedIn at your workplace? Ah, everyone will look with due respect. It is so professional.
Facebook: <Decent and Sober>: Well, I am not [...] Continue Reading…
June 23rd, 2009 — behavior,diary,fun
It is said that everyone has a risk profile according to which they take their decisions. Opps, for those who do not know, ‘Risk Profile’ is simply the ability to take risk. The more risk you take in your day-to-day life, the steeper is your risk profile. We take more risk when we are young and the risk taking ability or urge diminishes as we grow old. Of course, different people at the same age could have diametrically opposite risk profiles.
Anyways, why I am writing this is for the fact that I seem to have a high risk profile. [...] Continue Reading…
June 18th, 2009 — Asides
It looks as if my last post ‘Closure’ literally put a ‘closure’ to my blog!
This is to announce that I am back (don’t know from where) to put in some more boring stuff ;-)
Let’s see how it goes!