In an earlier post I had I had mentioned that I hate poems and poets. Now I know why I hate them. Now I understand why I hate most of the things I hate. I attended a session on parenting from a well known psychiatrist in Trivandrum. He talked about brain readiness. Children are not supposed to walk until they are around 1 yr old. We dont force them to walk before that. We will never say to a 6 month old child “Hey you have...

Are you using google reader ? If you are not using google reader, then you are missing a lot in your life. Believe me, once you use this, you will never stop using it. Reader allows you to organize all the websites and blogs you read. Its basically an online feed reader. And Its available from the links on top of your gmail. See the image below. Take a look at this software right now. To know its advantages click on “Add...

Orkut adds private communities. By this communities can be private places where the owner has full control and only the members have access to the content inside. Now this is not surprise move from orkut. But what surprised me is the example they have given, as a usage scenario in their official blog. “Have you ever thought of creating a community poll like “Who is the best teacher at your school?”, but stopped...

Guest Post by Jyothi M John I have been thinking about this concepts of management after watching Last week’s Hard Talk show on BBC. Let me first explain the concepts before going about the pro’s and con’s of each style. First the Top down management is a management structure in which, the managers are appointed directly -with or without relevent experience but with the necessary qualification. The Bottom Up...

I am sure most of you are unaware of this little secret feature that most of the mobile phones have. This can cause fights with the warranty and customer care team of your mobile company. I had a bad experience with Motorola. There is a small white dot on your mobile, mostly under the back cover. Open your phone and check. Most mobiles have it as a white dot, some has it as a white square or rectangle. If you have found it, and...

I hope all of you have got emails from strange people saying that someone left a huge fortune and they want to transfer it out of the country and need your help etc etc. Me also used to get many of these emails and my common sense told me that its some kind of a fraud. So I never really cared to know the real motive behind these emails until recently. There are many different groups running such fraud schemes. If you reply to such...

A week back I was talking to a friend of mine in a college in central Travancore and he was complaining that his HOD is not allowing him to choose a project topic that he likes. The fellow wants to develop a GTK application. The HOD not only has got not any clue about GTK, but he insists that all the students join a particular institution in Cochin. Having heard this I called up a few friends of mine in various colleges across...