technically me

Just realized I didn’t celebrate the fact that over 1100 of you have “technically” come here.
I won’t go into further stats - they are too embarassing to talk of..

Wee-ha!

S

Imagine you are in Africa. You have been tied hanging on a tree with a rope anchored on the ground, a candle is slowly burning the rope, and the lion is waiting for you to drop and be his lunch.

Your survival hinges on the rope staying intact, there is no one around to help you.

The only possible way is to somehow convince the lion to BLOW the candle out. How do you do that?

To illustrate:

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Yahoo! has long been, at least to me, one of the most underestimated service providers thats been around. I’ve used it for almost 8 years, just 2 years after its inception.. and one point that anyone will give it is that, it’s probably the reliable workhorse, with the best possible integration of services.

They may not be the first off the block when it comes to the ultimate features, like Gmail, or Blogger or even Amazon; though at one stage they used to be that entity as well.. but they are the site that allows beautiful integration with one id. Photos, mail, groups, briefcase, search, home page, messenger.. they’ve made it all part of just one id; and if you explore what they have on offer, its actually the real idea behind the connected world. Rather than managing a million accounts, think of one account, that can manage everything; and more.

I know, that in a competitive world, being the “good” service is just not good enough, but being the service that is just not realised… that’s another matter.

This sounds like a plug for Yahoo, I know, but when I heard of the acquiring of Flickr, the soon-to-be-launched 360, and this.. I realised Y! had done it again.

They’re still around, and its not going to be easy to knock them out.

Also: The origin of Easter Eggs. For anyone who was curious about why the oval reproductive body of a fowl got associated with spring festivals, or indeed, reincarnations.

S

Two useful links..

The trend of having an icon for your email contact, can be followed via this link.

And that little itty-bitty logo that you see next to the URL of a webpage in your browser, like can be made by you using this free Favicon generator.

You can also get it custom made.

An HTML reference is also pretty handy..

S