Recession is more in your mind than in the market...

This story is about a man who once upon a time was selling Hotdogs by
the roadside. He was illiterate, so he never read newspapers. He was
hard of hearing, so he never listened to the radio. His eyes were
weak, so he never watched television. But enthusiastically, he sold
lots of hotdogs.

He was smart enough to offer some attractive schemes to increase his
sales. His sales and profit went up. He ordered more a more raw
material and buns and sold more. He recruited more supporting staff to
serve more customers. He started offering home deliveries. Eventually
he got himself a bigger and better stove. As his business was growing,
the son, who had recently graduated from college, joined his father.

Then something strange happened.

The son asked, “Dad, aren’t you aware of the great recession that is
coming our way?” The father replied, “No, but tell me about it.” The
son said, “The international situation is terrible. The domestic
situation is even worse. We should be prepared for the coming bad
times.”

The man thought that since his son had been to college, read the
papers, listened to the radio and watched TV. He ought to know and his
advice should not be taken lightly. So the next day onwards, the
father cut down the his raw material order and buns, took down the
colorful signboard, removed all the special schemes he was offering to
the customers and was no longer as enthusiastic. He reduced his staff
strength by giving layoffs. Very soon, fewer and fewer people bothered
to stop at his Hotdog stand.. And his sales started coming down rapidly
and so did the profit. The father said to his son, “Son, you were
right”. “We are in the middle of a recession and crisis. I am glad you
warned me ahead of time.”

Moral of the Story: Recession is certainly there but its more in your MIND than in the market… And we actually FUEL this recession much more than we think.

Ten Things That Math and Sex Have in Common

10. Explicit discussions of either topic is a faux pas at most cocktail parties.
9. Historically, men have been in control, but there are now efforts to get women more involved.
8. There are many joint results.
7. Both are prominent on college campuses, and are usually practiced indoors.
6. Most people wish they knew more about both subjects.
5. Both involve long and hard problems, and can produce interesting topology and geometry.
4. Both merit undivided attention, but mathematicians are prone to think about one while doing the other.
3. Saint Augustine was hostile to both, and Alan Turing took an unusual approach to both.
2. Both typically begin with a lot of hard work and end with a great but brief reward.
1. Professionals are generally viewed with suspicion, and most do not earn high pay.

Writing about the Event

Sorry for the absense of yesterday's post, I was bit busy as I was having a keen watch on succes of my blog "SamIdeas" and thus was unable to get on to some other blogs to read something and post it here. I am back now, with today's read....
For the long time, I have been reading the blog, handled by Bothack, most of the time he keep me aerted with the new events going around India, This time he have track down the event in Chennai called BarCamp, with the long updates and review of what's going on in that event. From the one day before the beginning of the Barcamp to the first and the second day of the event, he have blogging conitnously to update us.

Technology Stupidity

This morning, I thought of having a quick surf through all my previous post at my blog "SamIdeas", so I went and started from the first post of my blog, there in between I found these stupid technology pics....

Some more pictures: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06

Also have a read to some Amazing Facts and some Shocking Facts.

Random reads....

Some random reads of the day...

How to build a game in a week from scratch with no budget: Interesting to read the title, this is a tutorial at GameDev.net written by "Jay Barnson. He will show you to build a game called "old-school" where the player will move through rooms in the stereo typical dungeon, doing battle with various monsters with magic and combat. The tools he use includes Phython 2.3, PythonWin and more....if you want to build a game then read it....and follow the steps.

Create your own feedo and put it on your site,blog: The web site feedostyle.com gives you the flexibility to create your own feed style and put it on to your web page for your users and for you.

How to use Bandwidth Wisely: If you are from India and using the broadband connection where you have the limit of the bandwidth then just check this tutorial and you will definately save your bandwidth.

Get familiar with BlinkList: The chronotron celebration of the Web 2.0 week have another article in the BlinkList.com, The socal bookmarking site.

Till the time I read more and come back here don't forget to surf at SamIdea.

Web 2.0 Week

My friend, chronotron, is celebrating the Web 2.0 week from 9th April to 16 April, He have already started posting all about the basics of Web 2.0.
He promises to increase our knowledge about Web 2.0 and gurantee’s the
excellent fun. I will be busy reading at his blog, this entire week, I
will update this post over here regularly to reflect the Web 2.0 week
at chronotron.wordpress.com.

Till the time he posts more, check out this funny posts at SamIdeas.

• Just for laugh
• SMS Palace
• more…

List of Free Downloads

So now lets have a look at the hardware tutorial around the net..

List free software: Get ready to get exposed to the endless list of free software which can be downloaded for free. Bothack gives the categorized list of free softwares.

Small list of Free Software: The guy seems to be saying that the list is small, but you get the reality when you scroll down, many other users at that forum have also given there own free list, don't forget to check this one. Really Interesting.

Big Guide to free program: The good post have been made at the tutorial section of the thinkdigit.com forum.It's really a big one.

Getting Techy...

Let us read something about the technology around the Internet.....

Internet tops 80 million websites: The netcraft's most recent web server survey, tells the amount of hostname on the Internet have doubled within the past three years, to the total of 80,655,992 websites.

Bug In Google Web Search: It's on Sam Ideas. There is a bug in a google web search, with the international domains....read more.

MSN Down: The man reports about the MSN server which was down yesterday.