Me, Myself, and My Blog

Anonymous

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:18:00 +0000

"We are insane people doing an impossible task, but as insane people we do not know the meaning of an impossible task"

Anonymous

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:32:00 +0000

"Criticism raises walls; Challenges raises our game"

Anonymous

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:09:00 +0000

"Quis custodiet custodes ipsos?"
"Who watches the watchers?"

Anonymous

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:05:00 +0000

"There are 3 kinds of people in this world. Those who want things to happen, those that make things happen, and those who just wonder what the hell happened!"

Lord John Dalberg-Acton

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:47:00 +0000

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Anonymous - "Elegy for the Withered Soul"

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:34:00 +0000

O’withered soul,
Darkness does shine for thee,
Not a laugh or smile to light you, no melody,
A smile, her candour means no more to me.

To stand the will to live, flee,
Into the darkness, to find comfort on a broken kinship,
But carry with thee the scar of those memories, deeply, and
With wretched wanting.

Aristotle

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:38:00 +0000

"We are what we frequently do"

Socrates

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:34:00 +0000

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

IPhone: A To-Do List for Steve Jobs

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:22:00 +0000

Browsing today brought my attention to this website, which is an official looking site for Apple. I myself am holding out for IPhone Version 3 and as such the simple application let downs and camera would need to be fixed for me.

The pleasefixtheiphone.com site let's iPhone owners, or anyone else, list and vote on the features that most need fixing on the iPhone.

The Top 3 user generated next fixes are:

(1) Copy and Paste
(2) Landscape view for emails
(3) View flash in Safari

The more votes a feature has, the higher in the ranks this would be. So go onto the site and vote for your favorite feature...and who knows...Steve might be listening.

Andrew Weiss @ the advent of recession

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:20:00 +0000

"The absence of fear continues to astonish me. I fear the absence of fear."

Anonymous

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:37:00 +0000

"Never Assume, because it makes an Ass of U and Me"

Mahatma Gandhi

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:11:00 +0000

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Madhu Chamarty - Three Wise Men

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0000

Here's an ode to three wise men I know,
Each so decorated, with much to bestow
What brought them to me? Chance, perhaps fate?
Many a good quality, they encapsulate

First there was the quiet one, stoic & simple,
Imparting wisdom as a matter of principle,
Brevity, intellect, but seemingly aloof;
I used to wonder, why no thought, no debate,
Then it dawned on me:
In matters of the heart, his word was most accurate

Then the stern one, open and fun,
With many a fair friend and advice unexplained,
Tough to perceive, caring with some restraint,
Then it dawned on me:
What he says is seldom faint

Finally the buoyant one, a friend to everyone,
Pleasant, effervescent, but an open book to none,
Crossing stages, reinforcing learning (yes, quite)
Like brothers in arms marching through philosophical fields,
Then it dawned on me:
Emotional mines we unsealed, imbibing all that introspection yields

Thus I carry on, amidst winds of change,
On the shoulders of giants, with collective strength in range,
Calmer, wiser, aware and "on the way";
We may part ways, each with a different sway
But in my memory these three wise men will remain always

Damien McGrath

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:44:00 +0000

"Subtle as the 'b' in subtle"

Pablo Neruda - "XVII - I do not love you..."

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:18:00 +0000

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

by Pablo Neruda.

Poetry that inspires me...

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:16:00 +0000

I have gained a new love of poetry over the past few years and i will start posting them here so that everyone can enjoy them also. I like the idea of words that are able to create such emotion within oneself.

Guy Kawasaki - LinkedIn Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:39:00 +0000

I recently found and extensively make use of the professional network site Linked In. It is a fantastic place where you can connect with so many colleagues and professionals.

In the process of setting up My Linked In profile, I came across another interesting article from Guy Kawasaki with tips to improve and utilise Linked In to get the best visibility online.

Some tips from Guy's Blog Post are:

(1) Obviously increase your visibility with more connections
(2) Improve your connectability by essentially replicating a CV in the Linked In site
(3) Improve your Google Search Rank - Linked In is highly ranked in Google, so if you have a public profile with full view, then you are ranked highly by the Google engine.

and so on...

If anyone want to connect with me, please use my LinkedIn public profile, which I belive is the easiest way to do so.

Anonymous

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:58:00 +0000

"There are 3 kinds of people in this world...those you want things to happen, those that make things happen, and those who just wonder what the hell happened!"

George Bernard Shaw

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:56:00 +0000

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

Madhu & Pras

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:52:00 +0000

"Life's all about ANDs, not about ORs, but there are a lot of BUTs"

Favourite Quotations

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:48:00 +0000

My best friends from college - Madhu, Hugh, Eoin and Roman have inspired me to keep a record of some of our most insightful conversations. In particular i am going to start posting the wonderful quotations that have been appearing in our discussions. As such I will create a new section for quotations and post them as they come up.

Stewie's Greatest Lines.....

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:41:00 +0000

A friend of mine sent me a very funny video on youtube...and it is fantastic...so i thought i would do an entry on stewie's (family guy) top 10....

(1) "Stewie: You know, I rather like this God fellow. He’s very theatrical. A little pestilence here, a plague there... Omnipotence...got to get me some of that"

(2)"Baskeball player: Yo man, that's trippin!
Stewie: Brotha please, you're the one who's trippin'! Now go on! Cry home to your momma! She waitin' for ya!
Basketball player: Now don't make me stick my size thirteens up yo narrow ass!
Stewie: Oh, sweet! Bring it on bitch! Now how you gonna act?! (Basketball player walks away.) Jeeze! Bringin that trash in here. Dis is my house!!!"

(3) "Stewie to servantsYou. Fetch me my copy of the Wall Street Journal. You two, fight to the death."

(4) "Stewie to Meg: Did you hear that Meg? Guys can marry other guys now. So...this is awkward, but I mean, if they can do that, that is pretty much it for you, isn't it? I mean you as well pack it in. Game over."

(5) "Stewie: Yes I could go for a frozen treat right about now. But no sprinkles. And for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you"

(6) "Stewie: [After Lois tries to feed Stewie his broccoli "airplane style"] Damn you, Damn the Broccoli, and Damn the Wright Brothers."

(7) "Stewie: Did you forge my name? How dare you! Is this backwards "S" supposed to be cute? I'm going to crap double for you tonight."

(8) "Stewie: Damn you vile woman, you've impeded my work since the day I escaped your vile womb."

(9) "Stewie confesses: There's always been a lot of tension between Lois and me. And it's not so much that I want to kill her, it's just, I want her not to be alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. And then I think to myself, 'My God wouldn't it be marvelous if i turned out to be a homosexual?"

(10) "Stewie to Janet: Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch."

Props to the creators of Family Guy and Stewie...you make the world a funny place.

A while...time for a book review

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:54:00 +0000

Sorry it has been a while, but I have been working on a couple of book reviews, which I hope to have up on the site soon.

Firefox 3 is awesome

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:46:00 +0000

I have downloaded firefox 3 and already i am lovin the new browser.
Some of the noticeable features are:
(1) It is fast - loading pages, loading application etc.
(2) It is secure (and you can security check any site)
(3) Kick ass search bar - with suggestions
(4) and so on...

You have to get it....Firefox 3 is the dog's bollox.

Guiness World Record: Mozilla Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (Pras) — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:55:00 +0000

I read a recent article on techtree.com where Mozilla with the new release of Firefox 3 (coming very soon) are going for a Guiness World Record. The category "Most Software Downloads in 24hours".

So I am on the bandwagon and urge anyone to help as much as they can...as I mentioned before Firefox 3 is a much more usable and secure version of the popular Firefox Internet Browser. According to Techtree.com who quoted Mozilla:

"Firefox 3 is claimed to have more than 14,000 changes vis-a-vis Firefox 2. The new browser is claimed to be the fastest Firefox ever. According to Mozilla, the browser has been downloaded from its Web site for more than 563 million times since it's introduction. "

So lets break that record.