But as the great Nora Ephron said about her profession, "The hardest part about writing is writing."

Similarly, the hardest part about coding is actually coding.

A question is a beautiful thing. It represents interest in the subject. It represents interest in the person presenting the subject. It represents involvement in the moment. It represents a desire to learn and to gain knowledge. These elements combine to make a question into a very valuable thing. Questions can launch new areas of discussion in workplace meetings. Questions can show your interest in another person or in a topic. Questions can get a dying conversation back on a lively track. Questions can be the glue that binds together personal and professional relationships, and those relationships are often the ones that carry opportunities to your door.

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A career plagued by injuries, Derek Redmond arrived at Barcelona with an eye on the gold medal. It wasn’t to be. With 175 meters to go in his 400 meters semifinal he pulled his hamstring. The dream had ended it seemed. Not for Redmond though. The succeeding events are etched in the minds of millions. Crying he stands up again, only to try to finish on one leg. His father watching from the sidelines joins him with words of comfort – “We’ll finish together”.’ Strength is measured in pounds. Speed is measured in seconds. Courage? You cant measure courage’, were the words used by the IOC to promote the Olympic movement by the act of perseverance. But for Derek Redmond, it was the only plausible thing to do.

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a time was there when the only notification i used to have on my mobile was a text message, often a poetry snippet or a joke or a simple “hi” from a friend.

time changed and now a many notifications. a notification for a facebook post, one for missed call, one for email, one for new app updates, one for a new chat message, one for a new download, one for new friend request.

with each notification a life little unfolds, and turns from simpler to a more complicated version…

was just thinking to move some of my “accessed over a year ago” files to windows live sky drive when I received this Yahoo Mail is Down funny assuring message.

Sometimes, I am too confused. Why upload “my” data to some other place, unknown to me, far far away “in someone else’s hands”?

And added disadvantages include ANYTIME DOWNTIME, like famous gmail crash.

I need to think seriously about it and we need to go a long way before we can say yes Cloud Computing is safer, faster & reliable.

Until then, stay stuck on “Sorry, you can’t access your mail and data!”

Now that’s the bummer

Some of the available options seemed to complement one another, some seemed to contradict one another, and some just wanted to tell you their copyright details — “OK”? That’s the thing about features: if you don’t watch out, they creep. Creep with all the coherence, supervision and elegance of most things on the planet that creep. And no, that’s not “OK”.

-- Omit needless code