http://blog.hthite.com My personal ranting space... For the everyday thoughts! Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:57:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just downloaded Google Chrome, Google's latest free-and-beta offering - a fast, lean and mean browser. And here are some of my first impressions: It's positively a small download. Borrows a lot of concepts from other browsers, most noticably, Opera: The URL bar auto suggests existing sites, sites you've already visited by explicitly ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/09/03/google-chrome-first-impressions/ The funny thing with management studies is that almost everything can be viewed or can be construed to be a genuiene persepective of the real world or a pure lie - and it doesn't end there, since that is exactly how the corporate (and otherwise) world seems to work. First, let ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/08/26/lies-or-perspectives/ Funny thing. Suddenly I'm all charged up and raring to go; to do something, to shake up everything. What's different? Mid-term marks are out, and frankly, they are disgusting by my standards. Is that it? Or is it the realization; the discovery of a purpose? Or are these OB (Organizational Behaviour, ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/08/19/motivation/ For some reason, I seem to have a natural inclination towards things that I cannot have. Not material things, necessarily. Even when I have some of those things, I still end up yearning and pining for those that I don't have, and probably shouldn't have or wouldn't have anyway. The ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/08/12/challenges/ Wu Shuo tuo is a strong man in his late twenties working in a garment manufacturing firm in Xinyang, China. His name means, quite literally, to support or to push, and such is his job - he is a fork lift operator in the factory unit 22. Wu has this brilliant idea ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/07/30/shocker/ Basic premise: An offer - you get to do whatever you want for a period of time - anything, just about anything, that you ever might want to do - but, and here's the fine print - you absolutely won't remember what you did. So, will you take it up? In essence, ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/07/18/it-isnt-unreal-just-because-we-stop-thinking/ They have done it again! They being the alternative rock band from England, the ones who gave us The Scientist, Clocks, Yellow and more recently, Talk. Yes, I'm writing about Coldplay and their latest offering, Viva La Vida / Death And All His Friends. Somehow I had not managed up until now ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/07/12/viva-la-vida-death-and-all-his-friends/ The problem with technology is that it inherently unreliable. And every so often, I keep forgetting that. Except that sometimes, people are unreliable too. Including you. And me. Ever wondered why we take the emotional decisions that we do? They are just so gray. It is extremely difficult to look back ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/07/03/musings-2/ Value systems and morals. Roots and ideologies. I have none baselined. What am I? What do I truly want? Am I a hypocrite? A strange series of co-incidences? What is important to me? Do I justify it being important to me? Do I make it feel that it is important ... http://blog.hthite.com/2008/06/11/thought-cloud/ Taken from Slashdot: Neuroses are red, Melancholia's blue. I'm schizophrenic, What are you? http://blog.hthite.com/2008/06/03/geek-rhyme/