Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A job or an entrepreneur?

If you haven’t done so already, Student Entrepreneurs will get to a stage where they graduate and must make the decision as to whether stay, or become, an entrepreneur, or alternatively go into a graduate job. It’s a big decision to make and there are advantages and disadvantages to both.
Being an entrepreneur at a young age means that you can start building your business early, you are in control of where you are going and have the potential to make it big early on. On the other side most graduates don’t have too much commercial experience and also there is the small issue of making a living. You need to be making a living and supporting yourself somehow
Going into a graduate job can teach you the skills needed to be in business, or have your own business, and get paid for it at the same time. Of course a lot of this will depend on what job you go into. A graduate training scheme in a big firm can teach you about many aspects of business and at the same time you can build your network up. In a small company you can get a lot more responsibility and variety in the role and also have the chance of seeing the business grow.
Whatever you choose my advice would be to think everything through carefully and whatever happens you are still young and can always start again.

The advantages of being young:

  • Most Student Entrepreneurs are young. Some people see this as a disadvantage, however, youth can be used as an advantage:
  • A 20 year old becoming a millionaire is a bigger story than a 40 year old
  • More people want to help and mentor you
  • Shaking up industries gains more PR when you are 20 rather than someone that has seen it all at 60 i.e. James Murray Wells at Glasses Direct
  • You are naïve. A lot of people wouldn’t go into business if they knew what they had to go through
  • You have less (or no) commitments. Mortgages, families, children come later
  • If you lose it all what did you have to start with? And you are still young enough to start again
  • Universities are ploughing a lot of money and support into helping budding entrepreneurs
  • You’re not ‘institutionalised’ by the world of work
    And when is the best time to start…Now!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Filter Ur Gf’s mails….8-)

If you hate seeing those mails( when i say mails these days, it obviously means gmails) 4m ur gf rite inside ur inbox wit her name and d subject line attracting one’s attention, well here is a way out to filter those mails into a label. Now start learning how to…

Let’s say that your email address is ‘bolan@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.
* bolan@gmail.com * b.olan@gmail.com
* bo.lan@gmail.com * bol.an@gmail.com
* bolan@googlemail.com * b.olan@googlemail.com
* bo.lan@googlemail.com


* bola.n@googlemail.com

And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘b.o.l.a.n@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘bolan@gmail.com’

Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using ‘+’ sign. That is to say ‘bolan+logabolan@gmail.com’ can be used as your email address, as well.

Ok I got it. Now what ?

Now what u can do is use the above naming covention 2 ur advantage ( mayb ur gf’s as well)….
What u can do for instance is ask ur gf to mail u to the id- “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” which will be forwarded to bolan@gmail.com (assuming u’ve understood the above naming convention for gmail).
Step 2 is “create a filter” (this link is availabe on the right side of search mail box inside ur gmail inbox), upon clicking u will have From:,To:,Subject:,Has the words:,Doesn’t have:. now in our case we will hv to enter the email id “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com”(which is the email id u askd ur gf 2 mail to, Bola!!) in the to field. Click next step and check the first option “skip the inbox”, then……… check the “apply label” nd choose a label if 1 already exist or else create a new 1(bolanteboli is my name for ur label ;)).

Now what this does is all those mails sent to d id “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” skips the inbox and is forwarded to d label “bolanteboli”.

Now u may ask y such hassles when u can directly filter mails coming 4m a particular id say bolathi@gmail.com.
Good question bola!!

Here is a better answer, what if u hv more than 1 girlfriend( which is not at all alien these days)?? u will have to create more than 1 filter, i.e 1 each filter for each gf’s mail id (like 1 for bolathi@gmail.com,bolathi2@gmail.com,bolathi3@gmail.com……. bolathi19@gmail.com). well that depends on how many gfs u ultimately have.

So thats y i say the “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” is the better hack( esecially if u hv multiple gfs). You can give the id “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” to all ur gfs nd all those “junk” mails will b accumulated in d label bolanteboli.
Hope theres no confusion ;)………

This hack can be used to 1’s advantage not only in d case of gfs but also in many other extra usefull cases. like if u r registering at a site nd u dont want their confirmation mails to appear inside ur inbox u can provide the site with a “+” id, say “bolan+site@gmail.com” nd create a filter for that.

Bottomline: Now please dont assume that i personally use this hack ………. ;)

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Orkut,Youtube Blocked??lolx!:p,here is the solution!




I’ve recently discovered most secure way to unlock any kind of filters n’ firewalls, it is a kind of breakthrough in right for 100% information for people of countries like china where government has spent millions of dollars for raising cyber walls so that their people get filtered information. – Why I’m calling it as world’s best proxy Surfing technology or technique??
Lets find it and compare it











So what exactly it is??
It is the flagship software product from UltraReach Internet Corp. for Internet anti-censorship. It enables users inside countries with heavy Internet censorship to visit any public web sites in the world safely and freely. it enables users to browse any website freely just the same as using the regular IE browser while it automatically searches the highest speed proxy servers in the background.

What does it means??
100% freedom to have 100% information in most secure way.It means no matter where you are you can access 100% free version of internet I mean no firewalls no restriction nothing….Almost all schools, universities and corporate offices raise firewalls to filter out not work related sites, now those firewalls will be of no use or they have to change their plans.Everybody can access various social networks like Orkut, Youtube, Myspace, Hi5, Facebook, Linkedin etc. which are blocked almost in 99% schools and offices.100% real time and it’s encryption is better then any online banking system.
How to get going??
It’s very simple you have to just-
download an exe file(http://www.wujie.net/downloads/ultrasurf/u.zip)then extract itand runSet proxy if u have any (generally in offices internet are provided through proxies, you can find that, through tools>>internet options>>Connections>>LAN Settings>> there you are with proxy server for your LAN and it’s portJust copy that to proxy settings of Ultrasurf.Then a window will pop up, says some thing in Chinese, just close this windowAnd open fresh internet explorerThere you are, you can surf any information.For office people: beware don’t spread words to your colleagues keep this info as limited as you can, coz if system people got to know about it then they’ll take your comp for scrutinizing.What is the Flip Side??
I should start with a quote that I’ve learnt in my life
“Too much freedom can Make you or it can Break you”
The flip side is that you can access to anything, I thing you got my point, In school, universities and Work office various sites are blocked to raise their efficiency and productivity, and it is very much likely that if anyone get freedom he/she will definitely try to miss use it.

Al@s...bak home...[8)]

Yea,really feels gud..........seein mom,dad,sweet sis..neighb..chickz..;)..lolx
As olways,mom shouted like..wy i becomin lean N lean N lean?????yea mom actually tats wot im thinkin olways!!lolx..!
gota get sme new clothes,sm new deo smell....
yea gota catchup ta soulmates..wat we say friends!
oopse,frgottn taht farris went 2 dxb!.hmph..!
lucky brat!wil miss M fr sure..
wateva,hope tat he cud bring out me em..yea ta new zippo!!:p

Thursday, February 21, 2008

My Life...



I am here,inside..always!!Busy,doin…………………………….nothing!!

Hello Blog!!

Having successfully failed to maintain a personal blog despite a catchy 7-letter domain for several years now, I’ll take a stab at using blogspot. I couldn’t possibly put up *less* content than before, so what’s the risk?
All I know is that this is my first attempt at real blogging and I hope I can find interesting stuff to write about..
DISCLAIMER:Whatever appears here in this blog except comments are my own views/reflections. My Employer have got nothing to do with them. I am in no way representing my Employer here.