I got goosebumps reading this short story : On a cold Christmas Eve in 1952, when Korea was in the throes of civil war, one young woman struggled along a village street, obviously soon to deliver a child. She pleaded with passersby, “Help me! Please. My baby.” No one paid any attention to her. A […]
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paradox of our time
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider free-ways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more […]
Read More10 Reasons not to use Linux … ever !
1. If you expect everything you use to work, look, perform and perhaps even smell to be exactly like Windows or Apple or PDP11, or whatever it is that you have only ever used for the majority of your life of using computers. 2. If you are the type of person who calls customer support […]
Read MoreThought for the day
Ready or not, some day, it will come to an end. There will be no more surprises: no more minutes, hours or days. All things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass on to some else. Your wealth, fame, and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owed or […]
Read MoreAnette vs Tarja
As you may already know somewhere around May 2007, Anette Olzon was announced as the new singer for Nightwish replacing Tarja Turunen as band vocalist. The band met Anette on her first visit to Finland earlier this year, and after going through over 2,000 applications, knew they had found a match. In an official statement […]
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