Archive for July, 2007

Two months into blogging and it still feels pretty much like boarding the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 3/4.  Don’t laugh but “widget”, “plugin”, “meme” etc sound every bit like the charms Harry applies on Lord Voldemort…  (BTW many of them do work like a charm.)  Picking up gradually and I found that many lessons that I learnt from blogging […]

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Wine making is an art.
Chateau Mouton Rothschild, which produces first growth wine at Bordeaux, France, definitely knows the art of wine making. 
On top of that, since the 1945 vintage, it has also been famous for another form of art - paintings drawn by  a famous artist of the day on each year’s wine label. 
Below are some highlights:
1945 […]

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Is our life determined by chance? 
Sliding Doors made an interesting attempt in answering the question by presenting the parallel stories of Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow).   And it all starts from the sliding doors…
Helen was fired from work that day.  Shocked, she made her way home via the tube.  She boarded the train before the sliding doors closed - and was […]

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People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered.  Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.  Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.  Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.  Be honest […]

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I have become a Problogger fan - visiting his site almost on a daily basis.  His posts’ quality is very consistent, consistently good to be exact.  So far I haven’t found one not-so-useful post there.  This time, I would like to highlight the following:

“If you had a Gun against your Head to Double your Readership in Two Weeks, What Would you Do?” An […]

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