blog-wired

at work, lm wanted to know when daylight saving time started this year...Traditionally I'd Google. But today I did something very different, and weird :S . I quickly typed in a url: yup, a BLOG! It was an instant reaction. I didn't have to think which blog might have it, or what the url is, or (knowing how dyxlesic* i am) how to spell it :D
It was on "The Blog About Nothing"

* Google says it's "dyxlesic". The ironing is delicious!

Lately, I realize I've been referring to blog quite a bit. Hrah and I were discussing mawlids, and instantly I'd remember a blog where I read something or watched a video about it.

And we were talking about the Ghazali Project, and voilà, I knew the blog where I had read an article by a member of the project

That prolly says a lot about how much I spend reading blogs :

Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed.

Source: Sunni Path Blog

DILBERT

How to Annoy People Using Instant Messaging

I came across this website, while looking for "time management tips". But this post is even better.

How to Annoy People Using Instant Messaging

1. Disregard any presence indicators your colleagues use such as busy or away.
2. Never check whether a person has time to chat
3. Don’t ever use correct capitalization or punctuation
4. Try out all the abbreviations you can think of

For complete list, see webworkerdaily

Local number portability (LNP)

enables customers to keep the same phone number when changing service providers or carriers. The transferring of landline numbers to other landline numbers has
existed for several years. Now, thanks to wireless number portability (WNP),
which is often also referred to as Local Number Portability, customers will also
be able to keep the same phone number when transferring their landline phone
service to wireless service and vice versa

See Rogers

new Indian sadhu

Ever seen a hermit his body smeared with ash and hair knotted, carrying a laptop?...The new Indian sadhu who carries a mobile phone, is techno-savvy and uses latest technology even at the cost of losing his traditional image.

Read more: Sadhus chant tech mantra