Jul 13, 2007

Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th

well i don't believe in this 13th, friday fear concept...

but quite interesting to know about the historical events which are being associated to this origin...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th

Jul 4, 2007

Post it

one of the easiest titles :)

Generally i am not a big fan of Patents and IP Stuff. Yes, i do understand it generates revenue, creates an edge/ niche among competition, adds value in many other ways...
but still, not many patents are out of the world types or has altered our walk of life.

now coming to Post-it, I started using these after entering into the professional world. And frankly got addicted to it...

i have been using it for anything and everything....track the pending activities, sites to be browsed, books to be bought, movies to be watched, accounts to be settled, email ids to be saved, notes taken while reading crucial stuff...

there are always 3-4 Post-it notes at my desk with some stuff written in it, some bunch of notes in my purse with some info...
also there is the Post-it lite in the desktop with list of activities....

i had always been a fan of Post-it and inturn started admiring 3M...but i never fully realized my Post-it usage/ addiction till i read the below article and started correlating my usage...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/29/arts/postit.php

there is another product which i have admired a lot from 3M.it is ScotchBrite. this is the ideal home cleaning products list i have ever seen...http://www.3m.com/us/home_leisure/scotchbrite/

the thing about these products are, they are ever green and hence the company will continue to hold a dominant market share with minimal competition...
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On another note, i came across a well written article about "Arrogance in Google". it might be easy to ignore this thought assuming that non-googlers are jealous over googlers...but in reality, there seems to be an element of truth on this thought...

also i think it's a curse of growing big.