Earning a Living out of a Blog

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 12:22 am By Desh Kapoor

Here is a nice article on how to make a living from blogging and suggestions from Harold Davis. Here is what you need in your blog: "You should have at least 100 pages of high-quality content in the can. Blogs are good because they keep content fresh, but that's just a small part of it. Good reference material really draws traffic. On a photography site I run, for example, one piece I wrote on how to convert raw digital photos draws more traffic than 99 percent of my other photo pages." Read more

Commieland Jokes

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 8:18 pm By Desh Kapoor

These are some interesting jokes on Communism sent by a friend, Manesh Modi: The shortest joke of all: communism. What is the longest joke in the history of the world? 74 years of communism in Russia. Under the specified theory of historical materialism between Socialism and Communism the intermediate stage is inevitably-alcoholism. Brezhnev asked the Pope, 'Why do people believe in a Catholic paradise, but refuse to believe in a communist paradise?' 'Because we don't show our paradise!' Read more

Milking the Net

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 7:08 pm By Desh Kapoor

There is a slow but quiet reversal of free internet in the works! Major telecom companies, stung by the reversed fortunes as telephone of the past gives way to modern-day VoIP, are moving in with new "business models"! The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online. Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out. link Read more

Indian Army Chief against Muslim Census

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 6:44 pm By Desh Kapoor

Now, even Army Chief JJ Singh has joined in this debate on the Muslim census in the Indian Army as have other servicemen! Its amazing that the poiticians would not let the Armed Forces alone!! This is like tinkering with the ONLY shield we have left in our country!! The move also generated intense opposition from military brass. While Army Chief General JJ Singh has maintained that the Indian armed forces were "apolitical, secular and professional", ex-servicemen, including retired Generals, on Tuesday announced a protest rally on Wednesday "against politicisation of the armed forces with reference to Muslim personnel". Read more

Abode of Mohammad Bin Tughlaqs

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 5:36 pm By Desh Kapoor

Mohammad Bin Tughlaq was the son of Ghiyas ud din and came to the throne in 1325. Mohammad bin Tughlaq is known as a wise fool for two actions that seemed intelligent but utterly failed. So fraught they were with inconsistencies that their implementation left him weaker than before. Of course, they never solved the questions he had wanted to address in the first place either! Here are the two of his most famous actions: Delhi to Deogiri Move In order to improve administration of the southern parts of his Empire after winning in Deccan, Bin Tughlaq moved the capital from Delhi to Deogiri in the Deccan in the early part of his reign, renaming the city Daulatabad. Instead of moving just his goverment offices there, he, in his infinite wisdom, wanted to forcibily move the entire population of Delhi to the new capital. But the plan failed due to inadequate arrangements in Deogiri and the capital had to be shifted back again to Delhi after two years. A vast amount of the population died during the moves due to the inadequate travel arrangements. It is said that Delhi was a ghost town for years after the move back. Read more

Swami Vivekananda predicted Wireless Signals

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 5:22 am By Desh Kapoor

Here is a quote from the "Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda" Vol 1: "When the Kundalini is aroused, and enters the canal of the Sushumna, all the perceptions are in the mental space. When it has reached the end of the canal which opens out into the brain, the objectless perception is in the knowledge space. Taking the analogy of electricity, we find that man can send a current only along a wire, but nature requires no wires to send her tremendous currents. This proves that the wire is not really necessary, but that only our inability to dispense with it compels us to use it" Read more

Yeh Ishq Ishq hai

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 5:12 am By Desh Kapoor

This is a Qawwali on Love - one of the best from Indian movies.. and my favorite!! It has so much of wisdom in ONE poem that its difficult to even describe! Worth a read! Na To Caarvaan Ki Talaash Hai, Na To Humsafar Ki Talaash Hai Mere Shauq-E-Khaana Kharaab Ko, Teri Rehguzar Ki Talaash Hai Mere Naamuraad Junoon Ka Hai Ilaaj Koi To Maut Hai Jo Dava Ke Naam Pe Zehar De Usi Chaaraagar Ki Talaash Hai Tera Ishq Hai Meri Aarzoo, Tera Ishq Hai Meri Aabroo Dil Ishq Jism Ishq Hai Aur Jaan Ishq Hai Imaan Ki Jo Poochho To Imaan Ishq Hai Tera Ishq Hai Meri Aarzoo, Tera Ishq Hai Meri Aabroo, Read more

Don't Get Lost and Die

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 5:05 am By Desh Kapoor

This is a poem from Kabir who phrase "Yeh murdon ka gaon" was reverbrating in my mind. And as I googled.. up came this poem!! here it is along with the translation.. from boloji.com Sadho Ye Murdon Ka Gaon Peer Mare, Pygambar Mari Hain Mari Hain Zinda Jogi Raja Mari Hain, Parja Mari Hain Mari Hain Baid Aur Rogi Chanda Mari Hain, Suraj Mari Hain Mari Hain Dharni Akasa Chaudan Bhuvan Ke Chaudhry Mari Hain In Hun Ki Ka Asa Nauhun Mari Hain, Dus Hun Mari Hain Mari Hain Sahaj Athasi Tethis Koti Devata Mari Hain Read more

Freedom and Security

Last updated on: February 14, 2006 at 4:29 am By Desh Kapoor

Those willing to trade a little liberty for a little security deserve neither. Read more

Moderate Muslims will unite with Radicals!

Last updated on: February 13, 2006 at 9:03 pm By Desh Kapoor

This is the most amazing thing about the reaction in the Islamic world!! The radicals decide the agenda and the moderates just stay there as wimps and even leave their own position. The question that you really want to ask is - is there such a creature called a moderate Muslim? Why cant they speak out? The young in that world are being held to ransom!! Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are uniting moderate and radical Muslims in protests, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said today. President Musharraf told a group of visiting journalists that newspapers that have printed the caricatures were "being totally oblivious to the consequences for the world, for world peace and harmony." Read more