Archive for March 13th, 2009
Lonely Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on March 13, 2009
It’s just so comfortable, this corner of mine.
Even if I sit there all by myself, alone, I know it’s still mine.
People come and go, they see me here all alone.
They pass me by, maybe say hello.
But eventually they’ll carry on and off they go.
They have their own lives, their own dreams.
This corner …
To them it’s dark …
To me it’s home …
To them it’s cold …
To me it’s warm …
People are scared of being alone …
I am … or used to be …
I made peace, I’m at ease …
Many years from now, maybe they’ll get to know …
This feeling … of being all alone …
But I’ll be in my corner …
Not afraid of the unknown …
Because I already know what they don’t know …
Eventually you’ll be alone.
Green WiFi
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on March 13, 2009
I listened on the radio about this charity organization that provides Internet access to developing countries. I admit that I thought, do they actually need Internet access, wouldn’t they rather have food, shelter, clean water, medical care, etc.
Then they talked about how access to all the information helped the locals with their farming techniques and now more children attend schools rather than work on farms because they could afford all books online.
And since these countries have no source of electricity, this organization utilizes solar-power panels to provide power to all devices.
The Green WiFi, is committed to providing solar powered access to global information and educational resources for developing regions and K-12 school children striving for knowledge in a digitally divided world.
I was impressed and admired the founders of such organizations, the ones that give in order for others to have.
It makes me wonder, what am I doing to contribute in this world!
E-mail Etiquette
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on March 13, 2009
People should follow certain rules when exchanging official emails.
I do complain that IT email exchange is always stiff and boring!
Please provide 1.2.3, problems, requests, analysis, reports, etc. Include a happy face once in a while, a joke perhaps … but what I hate is this …
FYI, a simple email with FYI, I sometimes want to reply, WTF!, They want you to scroll down to see the original correspondents! So you couldn’t actually type: for your information!!
Taking the time to properly construct an email with …
Dear (person name/designation)
This is for your information
(Regards/Thanks)
(senders name) -which can be automatically added through outlook’s signature configuration
… isn’t hard, nor does it take that much time!!
Unless you’re using one finger to type, people who do that should simply be tortured! Because it’s a complete painful agony to watch them raise that index finger way high in the air and then pointing to the letter and descend in excruciating slowlyness and ‘click’ lock down that letter – off topic 
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Or just simply forward the email and I’ll understand that I’m required to read it through, unless I have an IQ of a golden fish!!!
PLZ, another thing I hate, it’s not difficult to write please!!
Ya3nee, when you get an email reporting a problem and then someone within that group sends it again, though you received it the first time, with “PLZ handle”, WTH, you knew I got it, why are you sending it to me again cc-ing “أمة لا اله الا الله” !!!
Which brings me to the CC field, this is not a field to use to show others that YOU have work to do!! CC-ing the whole country won’t prove that you’re such a busy person, especially if the subject is so LAME, that no one gives a damn …
People who send emails with spelling mistakes, OK it happens, I just sent one lately, but there are people that if you read their emails a thousands times, you need to pick the telephone up and ask, “what the hell is your problem”, you just get a migrane trying to decypher the language they used. Have your secretary send emails and pleeeease use spell checker.
These rules don’t apply to friends, do whatever you want to do, when sending emails to friends, but official emails, keep it professional 
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