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October 20, 2008 – 6:13 pm

For all these 20 years of life, wait…probably until 6 I was not much into introspection. So for all these 14 years of life I was busy trying to trace out alternative routes to many problems. Finally came up with these indispensable statements. Ways has changed and so is our society,  there are more maniacs than normal people. Since majority defines the trend, it’s a changed world now and that too with all kind of tarts including me. You can’t go in straight. Twist it and then scoop it out. Here are those statements:

• Criticize to gain attention - Now this sounds a little intriguing but believe me it works and I have some practical tarts falling for the bait. It worked in many ways for me. I mostly use Open Source softwares for my daily use, Linux is a crucial part of that. It’s a good OS (well…it’s just a kernel honestly) so why not other people let it try and use. But the barricade is that people (read tarts) will not be impressed by the good things in it, they will most probably deny the obvious while defending their proprietary OS. So what I did was to take another approach. Every once in a while when there happens to be talk about Linux, or someone want to try it. I criticize Linux and tell them to not to try it, sarcastically. To my surprise it had a positive effect on them (or rather say implications went my way), they were just more curious enough to try it. Many installed it and found it decent. It’s natural for a human to defend his own decisions while you scathe them.
• Let the customer solve his problems - It’s not a surprise that if you are a specialist in something then arguably you will try to impose your ways on your customers and convince them that what you are doing is much better and efficient. But this is kind of a turn off for customer, face it. The other approach which is much better is to let the customer speak out for the possible solution and you just slip in subtly you ideas in harmony with customer’s view. Hey but watch out for certain brain dead tarts too, you don’t want to create a zombie software.
• Listen to people (read tarts) - This goes specifically for ladies (no pun intended, I have come across a situation where one lady threatened to kill my girlfriend…albeit an imaginary girlfriend). But works well with some overly ambitious tarts too. Works wonder when you have those rhythmic facial expressions to show that you are actually interested despite of a dull boring routine.
• Present the negative covered with best positive - In another word make the worst more digestible and tangible to tongue. Instead of saying “I hate to say”, make it “I don’t like to say”. Use Euphemism - a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression. It’s more appropriate to call someone Daredevil than acute vision. Calling opportunity to reinstall an OS instead of pain in arse to install an OS. More technically, calling DRM (digital restriction management) a much better way to make your rights flexible.
• Love is just a feeling - Yes, not much different from pain and happiness. It’s not something much heavenly but an excuse that we are still living in a better world and still not lonely.
• There are no limits for desires - A year or two back, I was an technology upgrade maniac. If there is something released then I wanted to be the one getting it as soon as possible. But as they say with age comes wisdom, I too realized that it wasn’t worth doing. My desires took the best part of me. Keep your desires and ambitions in closet inside the basement. Ambitions make people sick.
• Innovation is yet another name for advertised recycling - There is not much left to innovate, the basic is same. Creativity is all about hiding your sources, rightly said by Einstein. You are just another brain in here among gazillions of others. So its a joke to talk about innovation. It’s more like who copyrighted it first or who patented it first. This system, however, is flawed design.

Now some future speculations, with reference to technology.

• Internet will be a subscription based service. You pay for what website you visit.
• Your insurance will depend upon you genes. You will be tested for genetic defects before lending out a huge sum.
• Some corporates (draconian) are trying hard to restrict your access to digital media such as audio, video and softwares. It’s called as DRM. The effect is in nascent stage, stomp over it before it’s too late. You don’t want others to decide on which device you play your favorite album and how many times you can install a software on you home computer. Search for EA+spore+DRM for more details about it. Music industry has indeed turned fugly (wink wink iTunes store).

Oh I almost forgot my old habit of embedding some of my favorite songs. Here is one for this post.

Before it’s too late by The Goo Goo Dolls. Seems like this video is not available for my country, I had to switch to worldwide URL. Friggin youtube :/