Ever get a song in your head just totally randomly and just singing it all day? It isn’t the subminal ones that you hear off the radio and sticks with you, but the one you hum to yourself all day giving you a background theme music for the day?
Currently mine is Chicago - Saturday in the Park.
After reading this article: At Netflix, vacation time has no limits explaining how NetFlix doesn’t have an attendance policy or even count the number of days you take a vacation as long as you do the work that is required of you. And it has been working for them. They have good retention of their employees, reached nearly a billion dollar of sales and are a great company to work for.
The Truth About Cars has a great article on the AstonMartin deal. Giving details on why they separated from Ford and the other share holders and the future of the company.
Looks like AstonMartin is going to be a supercar powerhouse now.
I also like to mention that The Truth About Cars is one of the best car websites on the net. I really enjoy their editorials and car reviews. It has been a great filler for Top Gear in car reviews and also news insights on the auto industry.
I just called a friend of mine in the US. I haven’t seen him in ages, and well I dont recall the last time I even heard his voice, yet I still keep tabs on him via messaging, SMSes and other online stuff. Yet I never thought of calling him, so I called him tonight.
And it felt good.
Which got to me thinking that all this crazy internet stuff that we have been using in terms of social interaction via blogs, flickr, social networks and such were great when we had a limited community that we interacted with and it was a great way to keep the extended one some what connected.
Then slowly the community that we interact with regularly joins this extended one in terms of communication and interaction. Dont get me wrong it is great being able to know that your friends are still alive and well and doing stuff, but isn’t it better to contact them and actually have a one on one conversation on what they are doing.
What we put up online isn’t what really goes on in our lives. We sugar coat it and put some rose color glasses on it, and still it just 10% of what really goes on in our lives.
So I believe that all this extended communication is going to go soon. Well not really just go away, but be less of an active presence in our lives. We are actually going to contact people and go back to having individual conversations. It is time we got personal with the people we care about and not just keeping them at an arms length.
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I already picked up some talk radios for $9.99 and they got some other great deals and for really dirt cheap prices.
My friend Aziz sent me this message on MSN and here is my reply:
Aziz: wain il 7ekoma
nibaq: the 7ekoma is playing hide and seek
nibaq: sheik sabah is counting to a 100
nibaq: the first person he finds becomes the minister of information
