The Whiz’s Crucible

‘Economic Idiocy‘ is an interestingly downbeat post by a generally upbeat personality. It is interesting not just from the current context of the big failure being faced by the US economy. More interesting, in my opinion, was his questioning the intellect of the collective – of the masses. He has managed to pinpoint the exact issue with a decentralised system, it just takes a small critical mass to cause a wave and not all waves are necessarily well thought out or even healthy in the long run. At the same time the other end of the spectrum is to live in a gilded cage of a centralised system. I have often thought about these things. However the way Scoble put it out there and the fact that ‘he’ did (I did not expect such a cynical view from blogosphere’s and disrptive media’s biggest fanboy) – made me link him here for the 2-3 people who visit me.

P.S: Normally you would find my favourite Scoble’s posts in my shared links. You can also find the latest posts there in my sidebar.

I loved the DePo Masthead theme but only having 3 posts on my site was just not working for me – too much extra work for me to ensure that all my new posts had links on the front page.
So while I am still experimenting with that theme, I am doing it somewhere else and in the meantime I am changing the theme again for this site. This theme is called The Journalist. Of course both these themes are available in the design section of WordPress.com. I could probably play with css files to change the last theme to my needs but that is a paid upgrade and I am happy keeping my blogging endeavours free:)

{imade by tantra}

I love fonts

MSNBC reports on NORAD’s plans to track Santa this year, as they have been doing since 1955. As the report informs us:

The military has taken on the task of checking up on Santa as a volunteer activity ever since 1955, when someone misprinted a Yuletide hotline so that it rang up Col. Harry Shoup’s hotline at the Continental Air Defense Command instead. When CONAD became NORAD in 1958, the joint U.S.-Canadian airspace monitoring agency inherited the Santa-watching job as well.

Check out the NORAD site here.

Lots of reason for moving onto this server. Maybe sometime later I will discuss a little bit about this move. For now lets just be satisfied with the fact that I just want to restart my blogging. It has been a little quiet around here for some time. That was partly my fault and partly the fault of my friends Sarat and Venky.

My fault was that I was not quick in noting stuff down when I was in the mood. This resulted in me having nothing to say while I was in front of the computer. Still I would have got something going if it weren’t for Sarat and Venky . The problem with both of these guys are they write quite well and in a manner that seems effortless. Sarat has been doing this for years now so I have kinda got used to it. However even he has increased his frequency of posting. Of course his increased frequencies has not diluted the content one bit, the bastard!!! As if this was not enough to make one feel inferior out comes Venky – thinking and then managing to convey his thoughts in a most succinct manner.
(please note my emphasis on Venky thinking – it is not normal behaviour for him as he is known to act and then think rather than the other way around;))

So long story short I was feeling quite inconfident and was wondering whether I would ever write again.
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OK, alright that’s total bulls*#t and a poor excuse for not writing. Mind, the dudes are really good and a tough act to beat. But hey, I don’t give an elephant’s f*#t whether i suck or not. So here’s promising myself for the umpteenth time that I will write – regularly.

In the meantime hop over and enjoy the sites of my buddies.

P.S: A special thanks to Sujith for not updating his blog. At least I do not have to worry about having to beat another phenomenal writer.