Sunday, August 16, 2009
Google Is Not All That GOD , Actually
We swear by It , we thank , we reckon , we pray to it, we love it , we can’t survive without it ,we are addicted , it’s our best companion , on this our professions survive. It has answers to all the questions under this sky. But there are loopholes .
If you are expecting a comparative study of search engines with some blue links here ,then move on to next blog or carry on with FBing .
As this is more on humanity than on world wide web ‘s vanity.
Ok , still reading ? then let me convey If some of you cannot digest poetic way of writing and facts are what you feed on, then visit here.
PS: Just making things easier for the readers , as they say “Time is money “.
Ok, if some of you managed till here , I hope to meet you in the end.heh don’t worry, a very short post , but as they say "60 seconds make a minute" .
Once upon a time there lived a boy named Tom …….hmm , I told poetic na? , why the hell am I constructing a story out of it ?Fine no more drama , read on.
All these years we used our tiny little human brains to store -persist- analyze -create data and now everything is click away.
For all our queries we often don’t know the answer, but we all know how and from whom to fetch it .
We don’t tend to remember ,we really don’t require remembrance !! cause there is someone storing it “ALL” for us .We only tend to buffer information for short duration and take pride in flaunting googled info.
The art of querying is nurtured more than the art of resolving and crafting .And in this era, in a galaxy of software crowd such studs are worshiped .
Those cool geeky dudes you often encounter ,whom you think “I know it all” are most of the times hollow shells with information overload .Most of them flash some buzz words and fancy links and feed it on sites.
They can no longer create , they plume click away found info. We all do the same at times don’t we.
Gone are the days when libraries were turned upside down for one research presentation in college . When stuff was more created than circulated. When teachers were guiding force .Good in a way that dependency has reduced and one needn’t run behind human sources and Knowledge is ample and is freely flowing all across but creativity is suffering and is curbed unknowingly . Memory loss is a common complaint now.
Just think. All we need to teach our children in future is How to Google - copy paste -social networking .These are the key words to success . Everything else pretty much will fall into place.
It will be their new mom n dad. Yeah from abc to job hunting , from colors to photography , from anatomy to child birth ,from relations to business, travel , java blah. It instructs you on all. And pretty much like parents it can control with child locks.
Yes , the author truly acclaims , applauds and also uses this revolution in her day to day life .And there is no denial of life without web. But there is a different angle to it . Cause an overdose of anything can kill u .A line has to be drawn somewhere such a way that only necessity is extracted. As.............
it teaches you dance not grace
it teaches you music not rhythms
it builds networks not relations
it teaches you coding not development
it teaches you technology not science
it teaches you skill not ability
it gives you facts not salvation
it gives history , not future
it’s a tool , not the solution
it’s a path, not your destination
So let it be what it was meant for
let it give you answers , not results
let mentors still be seeked for enlightenment
let friends than just profiles, be in persons
let Daddy still teach you how to ride a bike
And let Mommy still tell you 2+3 is five .
And let god be god .
Monday, April 20, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Wahan Se Kiya Hai Telefoon
Finally! After months of dragging , author has zeroed –in for four options and has already developed a soft corner for the first .
As they say, “Better late than never”and as they also say, “Looks can be deceptive“.(I don’t know who *they* are but if you do, do drop a comment. I’ve got a bone to pick with them).
1. Sony Ericson W595i .
It’s sexy be it feature , performance, looks. That’s what the reviews rave about.
2. Nokia E51
Is a safe buy .(Ok, if readers wondering why the hell do I need a business phone……….why not haan? why not ?..after all one already has some business ideas lurking around -A tiffin center ….likewise a community washing machine....likewise a matrimonial site using QR engine to filter (remember this even won me an award @ YTOP) . :D
Coming to point. This is the only Nokia phone which is sleek and has all basic features within my budget .
3. Nokia Navigator.
I will rather prefer to ask auto wala, bandi wala , watch man or Hawaldar or just any passerby for the routes than wait to figure out the complex menu options to see an even more complex map to know where on earth am I and which route leads me to destination.
But again it’s a safe buy in terms of Battery life. Please note that the camera sucks! Not that I am expecting a cool quality , but at least it should outshine my previous buy .
It's slightly sleek.
At times those maps are useful ,but one needs to pay for them and they are just for cities .India mein nahee chalta ! gully-nukkad-konaas gyan comes with experience.
For this am surely expecting outrage from Com.
4. Nokia 5660
Initially I planned to buy a sasta handset , coz all I majorly do is talk!(By talk I do NOT mean … Reliance to Reliance free “couple” talk , I mean the genuine required quantity).
But then the desired basic features listed below hyperbolized the requirement and eventually the budget.
1. Camera 2 MP , so that I can capture sudden, funny , admirable, rare moments(what if I witness spaceship with aliens .The probability of having a phone than a digi at that cosmic moment is higher :D )
2. Mp3 player , so that I can dance or get consumed in a song without disturbing my roomy. (The Mp3 player I had earlier is dead , errrr the dancing tremors might itself wake up the neighbors na , silly! )
3. Bluetooth ,so that I can immediately transfer that alien pic taken above to someone with wi-fi enabled service.
4. Games , so that .. fustian
5.FM ,speaker, so that ..blah
Etc ...
But what about my phobia?
I have this strange fear with all battery operated devices , that the charge will go down as soon I need them the most. Thanks to my current phone for worsening it.
MP3 players , cameras running out of charge is still passable, but what about mobiles?..what if I am lost somewhere and I need to call urgently...what if I consumed all its power in listening music and clicking and when finally I need to make/receive a call , it bulbs.
OverAndOutRed!Red! phobia(just now named it) makes me realize that this all- in-one thingy is not such a great deal, unless backed with a powerful battery .
May be each gadget should be bought and used separately so that events can surpass mutual-exclusiveness in extreme situations.
PS0: Drop in suggestions
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
1 of those 6.
Google Transliteration rocks!
Google Transliteration sucks at times. It’s impossible to get chotee ee ki matra in that and the result follows. Half of the urdu/Hindi words(especially with half letters,matraas and other such complication) might tend to mean something else. Hence it’s highly recommended to use your language optimization and Hindi grammar correction skills before reading the content below below.
Blogspot spell check sucks!( client/customer side testing !, nobody can test /use it more or better)
Blogspot Language converter ...........! (Read dash) haven’t used so no idea.
So the tools I have used to come with this post are :-
MS Outlook mail , Google Transliteration, to some extent MSword.Well the blogspot editor was just used to assemble various content from above places.Damn! I need some outsourcing to be done here.
कीस दौड़ में खोए हैं हम
कीस दौर की है ये ज़ंग
की शीकस्त पीछे रह गई
और पता ही न चला
इतने आगे नीकल गए हैं हम
जिंदगी आज मैं है , आज मैं जीले
कल कीसने देखा है
पलों को हंसी के धागे में पीरोले
कल कीसने देखा है
मेटा दे सारे शीकवे गीले
कल कीसने देखा है
तोड वो सारे बन्धन जों हें सीलें
कल कीसने देखा है
अपने अकेलेपन का ख़ुद हे साथी हूँ
मुसफीर हूँ , जों राह मीले, उसीपे चल पड़ता हूँ
मंजीलों के आगे जों शीतीज है
उसी सफर का में रही हूँ
कुछ देर तक हमें वेहम में जीने दो
हमें बस! यूंही पीने दो
होश वालों की हकीक़त ईतनी कड़वी हे
की कुछ देर तक और मदहोशी मैं रहनें दो
Blogspot Language converter sucks !( & is buggy have just used it for editing).
The diary is empty now.Except for one song whose lyrics are ok types (can be ignored as it was composed back then when i was in 12th ,but the tune and the song rocks :)
Ps0: it rained again, yipeee
Ps1: Got drenched again, yippee
Ps2: Holi was good but dry :( , this time successfully smashed an egg, yipeee
Ps3: No, no post on Holi , those people are already honored in my previous post :D
Ps4: 6 days, 6 posts = Boss on leave for 6 days , yipeee
Ps5: 3 days already gone :(
Ps6: But 3 days are still left, yipeee
Ps7: My hands/wrist have given up, The RSI is back due to the usage of desktop and laptop in that highly ergonomically against micro mini cubicle
Ps8: Hence only 1 post in 6 days.
Ps9: For the first time I have written a post without deciding the heading.
Ps10: Cool... got it now, yipeeeee.
Ps11:The End