I have never quite understood why the debate over piracy rages on.Well its true that if you have created a piece of work,it matters a lot to you,but then its not the same stuff as plagiarism.Piracy may be the cheap selling of the products.....but then i strongly feel that obscurity is far greater a threat to creative artists and authors than piracy.
Atleast in piracy you have your name on it.And the credit remains.So rather than playing around with words and leading movements against piracy,the best thing to do would be to march towards an open source movement.
Monday
Sunday
There are forwards and then.... there are forwards
Here's the thing. Not all forwards are bad. By and large I delete all forwards with a cussword directed at the senders. But these are usually forwards which are inane. I do not want to be part of a divine email chain about ganesha or venkateshwara or some such deity who has enough time on hand to follow email trails. I also do not want inane zero-intellect observations about men and women, or about Indians and Americans. I do not want stories about people who missed out their last chance to say or do something nice for someone. And I definitely do not want inspiring stories about brave individuals who overcame some crippling illness to achieve something great in life. And please oh please, I do not want idiotic puzzles with a glaringly obvious catch that you were stupid enough to miss or gif files which require me to stare at some image for 15 seconds. I could also do without the standard event-related jokes (like "Misbah hit the last chip shot in the T20 cup because he didnt know there was a mallu in every corner of the world") that I usually get on ma cell as a forward before anyone composes an email about them.
The forwards I do not mind are the ones which are funny, witty and non-standard. Like Becky the Dublin girl. Or the material girl from New York who posted a message on craigslist wondering how to bag a millionaire. Those are the kind of forwards I could do with.Now you may say.... how can one differentiate between the two? Which forwards are inane and which are witty? A simple thumb rule is, what you do before forwarding them. If you send them to a standard set of email IDs saved in your email program, no thanks. If you just hit the forward button with a pointless message like "this is good!", please excuse. If you do not wait for even 10 seconds before you send out the forward, kindly adjust.However, if you pick and choose the recipients, write a non-standard message accompaying the main message body, and actually take efforts to delete the email IDs, headers and footers from the previous message, sure, send it across.
The forwards I do not mind are the ones which are funny, witty and non-standard. Like Becky the Dublin girl. Or the material girl from New York who posted a message on craigslist wondering how to bag a millionaire. Those are the kind of forwards I could do with.Now you may say.... how can one differentiate between the two? Which forwards are inane and which are witty? A simple thumb rule is, what you do before forwarding them. If you send them to a standard set of email IDs saved in your email program, no thanks. If you just hit the forward button with a pointless message like "this is good!", please excuse. If you do not wait for even 10 seconds before you send out the forward, kindly adjust.However, if you pick and choose the recipients, write a non-standard message accompaying the main message body, and actually take efforts to delete the email IDs, headers and footers from the previous message, sure, send it across.
Genuine Question
What exactly are "monkey chants"? Assuming they are chants imitating monkeys, how are they racist? Are we expected to believe that the Baroda crowd knew that Symonds is of mixed ethnicity? Everyone says Indian crowd is quite well versed in cricket, but that is stretching it a bit too far.What probably happened was that the crowd was having some fun with him. But I fail to see the racist angle.
Friday
Measuring Success
If I had to count the number of times i have succeeded in my life so far,i would...well..fail.
Success to me happens several times a day,all day,all week,all year.But nobody really hears these successes because conventional wisdom has a limited understanding of what success really is and that is why we dont bask it.
Commercialised and glitz-driven as our world is,it underrates success.
The thousand little smiles we earn everyday by doing something we love or making a tiny difference in a friend's or a stranger's life is no success but a paycheque is reckoned to be a huge success.
The stroke of condolence given to somebody in strife is no success but a paycheque sure is.
The efforts and sweat a mother puts in to allay a child's sob ..is no success..but merely her duty...but a paycheque sure is a tremendous success.
The relentless toils a father puts in to empower the future of his children....is no success...but the dough sure is.....
I've always felt that the world has set parameters with which it measures the worth of a man
which are money,power and status.And i fear that success (according to the world) will very soon join this league.
And before it is made a commodity the true meaning of success which has been forgotten has to be reminded which is merely "NOT FAILING".
Success to me happens several times a day,all day,all week,all year.But nobody really hears these successes because conventional wisdom has a limited understanding of what success really is and that is why we dont bask it.
Commercialised and glitz-driven as our world is,it underrates success.
The thousand little smiles we earn everyday by doing something we love or making a tiny difference in a friend's or a stranger's life is no success but a paycheque is reckoned to be a huge success.
The stroke of condolence given to somebody in strife is no success but a paycheque sure is.
The efforts and sweat a mother puts in to allay a child's sob ..is no success..but merely her duty...but a paycheque sure is a tremendous success.
The relentless toils a father puts in to empower the future of his children....is no success...but the dough sure is.....
I've always felt that the world has set parameters with which it measures the worth of a man
which are money,power and status.And i fear that success (according to the world) will very soon join this league.
And before it is made a commodity the true meaning of success which has been forgotten has to be reminded which is merely "NOT FAILING".
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