My previous post, which features a tutorial on how to read a blog may raise some eyebrows, especially for the younger generation. The fact is, that most of us, who learned to use Internet later in life, use it only when necessary: Email for working needs and occasional jokes, searching for the illness symptoms, [...]
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Ever since I started my blog, to the greeting “How are you?” I reply “Great, thanks. I got myself a blog!” Too often the response is silence and a very slow: ”A what?” and then I get myself an attentive listener. I found out that while many of my friends are using computers at work, [...]
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A preview of things to come. We all get e-mails containing pictures and presentations. Some of them boring, but some are simply exceptional, just like the pictures taken by the guys from RGS Blog. I think, viewing photographs like this, may sway you into traveling places, which weren’t even entered into the consideration, [...]
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How would you feel, if the object of art you own, was estimated to be worth a couple of hundred dollars and sold for twenty times more? Happy? And how would you feel, if the trusted professional, who helped you to unload that now sorely missed artifact, had made a mistake in estimating it, which [...]
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“Google’s Translated Search Translate.google.com helps you find information in languages you don’t speak, with two-way translation: your search query is translated into the target language, and the returned web pages are translated back to your language. Try these examples: War and Peace in Russian Wine and Cheese in French ”. Convinced? Bookmark it! [...]
Have you been to Spain? If yes, then you’ve seen one of the most beautiful and impressive architectural wonders of Barcelona the Sagrada Familia. Designed and partly built by the famous Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi (the construction is still going on after 125 years from the start) the imposing church attracts tourists and locals alike [...]
“Men consider themselves way smarter than they are while women underplay their brains, according to new research out today. The findings from a leading London psychologist show the male ego tends to exaggerate cleverness while females seem happy to play dumb. Professor Adrian Furnham, of University College London, examined the results of 25 studies [...]
If you spend at least some of your free time by watching movies, you’ll like the following announcements by Apple and Netflix. “Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled movie rentals from iTunes…at his Macworld presentation in San Francisco on Tuesday. Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) shares fell nearly 7 percent in afternoon trading, signaling shareholder disappointment in [...]
A work by graffiti artist Banksy has sold. I wrote about it being on the eBay earlier . A piece of the wall with the graffiti on it is sold on eBay for approx. $407,000. The successful bidder will have to find a way to cut out the part of a concrete wall so the [...]
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” Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by accidentally removing themselves from it.” RUNNER UP # FIVE: THE LAPTOP STILL WORKS (Confirmed True by Darwin) ”Driving is not a time to be practicing your multitasking skills,” remarked CHP spokesman Tom [...]
