Pinsanity.
Not too excited about “pinning” anything. [???]
Facebook, Twitter In Real Life
Some really funny videos on how social sites like Facebook and Twitter can be a real time killer. And sometimes, a privacy pirate!
A Short Story Of 4 Dogs And A Parrot
Once upon a time, there lived 4 dogs in a colony who were very good friends. They stayed together, played together and constituted a happy family.
Dog #1, the strongest and the fastest, was the leader of the group.
One sunny afternoon, while three of them were busy playing with an abandoned rubber tyre, the fourth dog was silently observing the show from a distance. This guy is very lazy and although part of the family, he never showed interest in funny ventures. The fact - he was always outperformed by his mates, who leisurely beat him in every other game.
While the tyre show was on, the lazy dog suddenly jumps over and starts a wild goose chase.
Even Hitler Knows ….
One Intelligent Step For Google, One Pathetic Leap For Mankind
Short version: Search Plus Your World is the worst thing that ever happened to Google. In simple terms, this is Google’s wild attempt to serve personalized results from its “nascent” social network - Google Plus.
Google says that web search should not be limited to a universe of only public webpages, hence they are changing that by aligning people, information, pages, friends and what not from Google Plus on top of every search result page.
Here is a visual gist which shows how Google search results will look, once the feature is active for your Google Plus profile:
Getting Rid of Brain Garbage .. The easy way
More than anything else, everyone needs motivation to keep going. A writer, a snake charmer, a laundry boy … noone is an exception.
Imagine how your laundry boy will feel if you slam the door saying:
What the hell dude? I am pissed off with your work, I don’t like the way you wash my clothes.
As a blogger, sometimes you may feel really weared out. Happens with everyone.
Ideas wont come in, words wont flow, you have dozens of unfinished drafts, deadlines to meet ….. and so on.
Here is how I get myself back on track.
I have a password protected blog which remains anonymous. There I don’t reveal my identity and write whenever I am in Pain or not feeling well. Call it as a garbage dump for my thoughts, I pour my heart out whenever something is wrong with me or I am lacking the spirit to go ahead. No, I don’t do this on Twitter or Facebook but on that anonymous blog where I am the only reader.
This helps me get the frustation out of my head and my head knows …”
Okay, your frustrating thoughts are now properly backed up and documented, no you can delete the copy that’s stored in your brain.
Crazy eh? But this is my own way to get rid of brain garbage.
I never read what I wrote. I never hit backspace on my keyboard. I never share it with anyone (as long as my sanity is in control). I just write all the crap…all in one shot.
When I am finished, I close the browser window, slam down the laptop lid and head outside. A walk around the streets and a small cup of tea in a local shop helps me get over it.
P.S: This is not my garbage dump. :-|
Indian Politics And You
All Politicians are corrupt. All citizens are patriots.
We as responsible citizens of the union of India know everything about our culture, our administration, what is right, what is wrong. We know it all!
To add to that, We have our Facebook accounts and round table gossip stations at office where we assemble to criticize our administration, the government, the politicians, the administration and the dog next door.
“Just look at this country, You want to spend your whole life in this corrupt environment?”
“See I am going to U.K because I have a future there. I am not going to waste my life where all the Jobs are reserved for quotas and all”
That’s an escape. A great one.
You think it is all right to blame the politicians for corruption. But you forget the underlying fact that YOU (yes YOU) are contributing to this system every single day. You bribe customs, railways, administrative departments to get a paper out, you wag your tail and push notes to traffic police, you travel ticket less in trains and you cheat in exams to get that fucking degree so that you can manage a job which will feed you for the rest of your life!
- You are reading this from a pirated Windows computer. Aren’t you?
- Don’t you download songs from the Internet (which is pirated and illegal)?
- Don’t you download movies using pirated torrent sites?
- Have you never abused any Government property?
- Don’t you spit randomly at stations, throw away left overs from train and make the environment dirty?
The list is endless.
So how does that make any difference?
If YOU ARE CORRUPT, so will be thy POLITICIANS. They are your representative, remember?
So How Do We change Things?
Honesty needs guts. Real ones.
You can’t lift a chair by sitting over it. You have to first stand up, get out and then lift the chair.
Likewise, you have to stand up against something, if you want to move the system. You have to sacrifice your god damn cover just to piss off the person taking bribes, you have to fight it, you have to stand hours in queues to file a complaint and win it eventually.
If you are waving flags and lighting candles for JanLokPal, you are just shouting with the crowd. The Crowd joins these rallies for different reasons, here are some of them:
- I joined the LokPal rally because she joined it. She is my best friend and I should support her!
- I got to show my neighbors that I am a patriot.
- This mess needs to be cleaned up.Let’s buy some candles and join the rally (the next morning this guy will travel ticket less in train).
- I am pissed off from work and friends have organized some padyatra, so that would be a cool hangout.
- I support ABC party and believe that XYZ party is the root of all problems.[When ABC comes to power, someone else will do the same because he likes XYZ party]
I am sure there are more awful reasons.
Hey, everyone is updating their Facebook status about JanLokPaL, why should I stay behind?
People suck. Don’t follow the mass!
If you have the balls, scratch it and do something. Start small, grow overtime
Examples:
1. You have a job, right? Spare your makeup costs of 3 months (ladies)/ beer party (boys) and help the society with those 1000 bucks. Buy a shoe polish kit to a child beggar, enlighten him, touch his life.
2. You don’t have a job? Teach kids who can’t afford tuition fees. One of them will thank you 20 years later.
3. You want to change things? Clean your own house first, spare your mom and the home maid and then talk about cleaning the shit from this country.
There are a lot of ways you can help, rather than just blaming the shit out of politicians. And if you can’t change, shut the fuck up and let the system go as it is.
Game over!
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Disclaimer: I am not 100% honest either but I am not like you, shouting wild in streets and doing the exact opposite in real life.
Who is The Real Sergey Brin?
I don’t know whether the jury was acting or whether they meant it. Guess what…more than 70% of the audience could not identify the real Google founder, Sergey Brin.
The ROFL moment was when the lady asked
“What is a search engine? Do you plug it into your computer?”
Thanks Sachin
Some Google Plus Figures Worth Noting
Just look at the time it took Google+ to reach 20 million users, compared to its closest competitors Facebook and Twitter.
Can you really compare the growth of Google+ with the growth of Facebook and Twitter users? Majordojo thinks otherwise.
An excerpt from the post:
Facebook and Twitter were the Pioneers, and as such their job was much, much harder by comparison. Facebook and Twitter for example had to overcome people’s fear of these types of services, they had to build the social graph from the ground up, they had to prove that people talking about what they had for breakfast actually had value. G+ didn’t have to do any of this.
He is right.
Facebook had to educate users what social networking really is. Twitter introduced a revolutionary idea of micro-blogging. When I saw Twitter back in 2009, my initial reaction was -’ What the heck is this ? A chat room or what … where is the IM button”
Google Plus didn’t. They are dealing with an already educated user base who might abandon Plus, should another social site offers something better.
I don’t know whether Google Plus will stay or whether Facebook will meet the same fate as Orkut in coming days, but I have learned a lesson from this.
If you can’t create, steal the heck of it. But make sure, your stolen product is way better than your competitors product. Common people have a very short memory, they just don’t give a damn care and need the best thing, as fast as possible and probably for FREE!
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