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Hindsight
       -Guy Kawasaki

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
        -Bertrand Russell

Wear sunscreen
       -Mary Schmich

Man was given an imagination to compensate for what he isn't; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.
        - Francis Bacon

Leisure
       -W.H. Davies

Not all those that wander are lost.
       -J.R.R. Tolkein

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
       -Jean de La Bruyère

The average person thinks he isn't.
       -Father Larry Lorenzoni

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
       -Pablo Picasso

Become who you are.
       -Nietzshe

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
       -Frank Tyger

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
       -Anon









muse


Talking about sticky services - I've run into two incredible deals recently, which I haven't fully adopted because they're also incredibly painful to switch to.

Google's GMail seems like an amazing idea - a gigabyte of storage for your web based email, coupled with an incredibly zippy, lightweight and powerful UI. Unfortunately, I'm too firmly wedded to my Hotmail account to consider switching - because of the effort involved with telling everyone, and also because I'm uncertain of what Google's long term commitment to email is.

I've also subscribed to Reliance's CDMA mobile phone service - incredible value for money when it comes to long distance calling (1 buck a minute to any cellphone in India!) - but I'm still lugging my GSM phone along as my primary phone :( Again - too much effort shifting off, and an icky non-Nokia UI on the LG phone that I'm not sure I'll settle down well with.

If only making these transitions were easier...
8:38 AM Tuesday, June 08, 2004

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