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In 1954, when I was 33 years old, I opened a clothing store in Mihara city, Hiroshima Prefecture. Business thrived and I was eventually able to open three stores around Hiroshima.
However, the new stores didn't enjoy the same success, and six months later I was on the verge of bankruptcy. I felt I could no longer go on living. All this time, my wife, Teruko, had been encouraging me to begin practicing Nichiren Buddhism. Convinced that faith had nothing to do with business, I had shown little interest.
I was intrigued, however, by the Buddhist concept of "human revolution," that a change in the inner life of a person will create a change in their circumstances, and began to read up on it. I thought, "Well, it's true that transforming myself is the basis of everything."
I started practicing Buddhism and felt full of life. I realized that my problems weren't as bad as they seemed. Around the same time, my friends began to offer their support in taking care of matters if I went bankrupt. Surprised by my optimistic attitude, they instead began to help me pull my business back together. As a result, I was able to avoid going bankrupt and business began to look up. Later, my company merged with a supermarket chain, and I was appointed company director. I went on to serve as the chief of its West Japan headquarters.
In 1983, the year before I was to retire, I received a poem of encouragement from SGI President Daisaku Ikeda during one of his visits to Hiroshima. This had a profound impact on me. It was as if he was telling me, "Your true stage awaits you!" Approaching retirement, I had been feeling as if I had reached the end of the line. However, I realized, "Yes, I am only 60 years old! There's no reason I can't go on making an active contribution until I'm 100!"
I threw myself into voluntary advisory work which I had begun doing for corporations, helping people start up businesses as well as offering advice on post-retirement life to retirees. I also dedicated myself to listening to and supporting younger colleagues. related article The Meaning of Work by Daisaku Ikeda In this excerpt from "Discussions on Youth", SGI President Daisaku Ikeda discusses the meaning of work from a Buddhist perspective.
I tell retirees, "You're still an active part of society for 30, 40 years to come. All the experiences you've gained in your busy careers are your life's treasures."
Seeing the importance of revitalizing one's community, I helped launch a local revitalization committee in my hometown of Mihara. In 1996, when I was 75 years old, I became the first general director (and currently serve as the president) of a social welfare corporation that helps people with physical and mental disabilities join the workforce.
In January 2005, when I was approaching the age of 84, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. This was a shock, but I told myself, "There is more work to be done. I'm still in the middle of helping revitalize my local community. I mustn't die yet." I underwent treatment, and when I was tested again in October that year, all counts were back to normal.
Often, young employees come to me with their problems, telling me they want to quit. I share with them my analogy of the cup, which represents one's capacity as a human being. I tell them that they have to expand their capacity from that small cup: first to a large bowl, then to a bucket, a barrel, a pond and eventually a lake. My Buddhist practice has taught me that this is the most significant undertaking of life.
I'm 91 years old now, and the older I become, the more my horizons expand. I still have a lot of unfinished "homework" to take care of--this is what keeps my life force strong. I have a long road ahead of me. I have decided that I must win in life, no matter what. This is what keeps me vigorous.
[Courtesy October 2012 SGI Quarterly]
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These felt flower pillows have been all over the place lately–they were demoed at our Super Saturday, I've seen them on a few blogs, and even spotted one sitting on my cousin's couch! When my sisters decided to exchange handmade gifts for Christmas, I knew this is what I'd be making! And just because I've seem them doesn't mean you have-so here's a tutorial just for you!
All you need is a little felt and a glue gun. Our local JoAnn's had wool felt before Christmas for much, much less than quilt stores sell it for. When I asked about a different color an employee told me to just be happy they had what they did. She said it is a rare thing they carry and had been 2 years since they'd had it in stock.
Deciding to just be happy I bought more than I thought I'd need, just in case.
The petals are half circles in 3 different sizes. I traced common, but yet random objects to get my variety of sizes. A glass, a canning lid, and the top of a baby bottle provided my templates. Once you've found the sizes you want , start tracing it onto the felt. You'll need approximately 30 petals of each size–for a total of 90 petals. This was for a 16″ x 16″ pillow so adjust accordingly.
Here are my petals and my 16″ squares of fabric.
I sewed around the edges, leaving an opening at the bottom to stuff it through. If you'd rather use a pillow form, you can make an envelope pillow back like Jamie showed last week. I did some each way, but in the end decided that since felt won't hold up well in the wash, and I used hot glue, and the pillows cost less than $5 each to make it was pointless in making a removable cover. Instead this is a disposable pillow. If you don't have access to a sewing machine you could use fabric glue, or even hot glue if you are feeling brave.
Turn the square right side out and get ready to make some magic!
Before gluing the petals down I, did a run through on each pillow to make sure I had enough petals. Start with the outside edge and overlap the petals forming a circle, and then continue in a spiral pattern til the flower is full. This step isn't necessary, but it is fun.
When you are sure you have enough petals and you can't wait any longer–take all the petals off and start over. This time run a bead of hot glue along the straight edge of the petal and glue it down. The petals will be able to move since only the bottom edge is attached.
This is really a fool proof craft. If you see a bare spot, simply insert another petal by lifting the top petals up and sticking a new one in until you like how is looks. Just keep the hot glue from showing and now one will ever guess how simple they are.
If you want a fuller looking flower, pucker the petals by slightly pinching the edges of the petal together once you've placed it on the pillow and before the glue cools. I really like how it looks, but didn't get a picture of that pillow.
For the center of the flower, cut 4 circles. I used a glass for my pattern, but you can use whatever you used for your largest petal. Then fold each circle in half.
And then in half again and glue at the point. Repeat on all four circles and then glue in the middle of the pillow.
That's it! Now it is time to either stuff with batting, or insert a pillow form. Once you've stuffed, sew up that opening and you're done!
For a 16″ x16″ pillow I used a little over a 1/2 yard of wool felt and noticed the acrylic felt comes wider, so 1/2 yard of acrylic felt should be plenty.
After making 4 of these I'm still amazed that it is hot glued together and I love the feminine touch it adds to my house of boys.
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What a great project! Sure makes me wish I had stocked up on felt BEFORE getting snowed in 🙂
Love it!!!!
Thanks for the tutorial- glad to know it's easier than it looks!
Deidra Says: January 12, 2011 at 7:22 am
My box of Christmas goodies I mailed to myself arrived yesterday. I can't wait to bust out my pillow and stuff it! Maybe it will be my reward if I put Christmas decorations away!
Looks like a great project for the no sewers out there. And it's great that it stays together and looks good.
Very cute!! Thanks for sharing the tutorial.
Thank you sooooo much for the tutorial! I heart these pillows!
Laurie Says: January 12, 2011 at 9:37 am
So cute!!! Can you follow up by teaching me how to make one of the cute silk ruffled pillows??
Kathy Says: January 12, 2011 at 11:10 am
I'm sorry but those red felt pieces look just like pepperonis! I think I'll make mine in blue. Great project!
NIK, that is the cutest project, it's SO beautiful in red. Those really are stunning!!!
The pillow is lovely, at last something I can do with all the felt left over from Christmas, thanks for sharing
I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!! I have to make one!
Talk about gorgeous! Amazing that this is a DIY kind of project. Darling.
This project was love at first sight! Just finished my first one 🙂 Thanks for the great tutorial, I posted my results on my blog http://brittneysbudgetcrafts.blogspot.com/ feel free to check it out 🙂
I love this…I am going out to get felt TOMORROW! I hope I can find some burnt orange or maybe a maroonish color if not I'll go with red…
Mind if I show this on my new blog? I am featuring a bunch of "want to do" projects for the month…www.warmfuzzypurpleandgold.blogspot.com
I will give credit and link back to you =)
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That turned out great! I saw a barrel shaped lampshade last week where they made the same kind of felt flower on it (all white) and I wanted to do something similar for my daughter's room, so this will be a great help.
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Would you mind sharing where you got the zebra print pillow? I've been looking all over for one.
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What a fun project! I can't wait to try it out! This will be my next throw pillow makeover project, I just finished one I wrote about on my blog. Thanks for much for sharing your creative ideas!
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Job well done. It looks simple enough for a kid! This is a great project for me to work on.
Sara Says: March 6, 2012 at 9:57 am
Your ebautiful DIY is on my blog!
Thak you so much!
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After you have added the flower, have you tried washing the pillow cover? How does it hold up? Not machine washable?


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Martin Bina (Kwadro-Stannah) dominated the 2014 Czech national cyclocross championships on Saturday in Lostice.
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Copy cat recipe of Popeye's cajun gravy recipe. It even has the tiny little bits of meat that the original has! Posted in response to a request.From www.TopSecretRecipes.com
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 chicken gizzards
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons minced green bell peppers
- 1⁄4 cup ground beef
- 1⁄4 cup ground pork, plus
- 2 tablespoons ground pork
- 2 cups water
- 14 ounces beef broth or 14 ounces chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 2 teaspoons distilled white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a large saucepan.
- Saute chicken gizzard in the oil for 4 to 5 minutes until cooked.
- Remove gizzard from the pan and finely mince.
- Combine ground beef and ground pork in a small bowl.
- Smash the meat together with your hands until it's well-mixed.
- Add bell pepper to the saucepan and saute it for 1 minute.
- Add the ground beef and ground pork to the pan and cook it until it's brown.
- Use a potato masher to smash meat into tiny pieces as it browns.
- Add water and beef broth to the pan.
- Immediately whisk in cornstarch and flour.
- Add remaining ingredients and bring the mixture to a boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer gravy for 30 to 35 minutes or until thick.
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This is very close to pop eyes. great recipe
This was the closest clone recipe I have ever attempted. The person that rated this as bland must have made a mistake.

I made this exactly as the recipe directed. I then purchased some mashed potatoes and gravy from Popeye's and did a taste test. Extremely close. So close that without a side-by-side comparison you can't tell the difference.

Some suggestions to make it even closer.

Taste - this is slightly saltier, hotter and has less chicken flavor than Popeye's. I suggest using low sodium broth and salting to taste. Use ever so slightly less cayenne. Also add one or two tablespoons chicken base to up the chicken flavor.

Consistency - Popeye's gravy is thin. This recipe is even thinner as directed. I chose to up the simmer time in future attempts to get the desired consistency.

Wildcard - There is a subtle flavor in the original that I can't copy. I originally thought it was a shellfish base but I added some clam juice to a recipe and it wasn't that. I finally gave up without success.

Except for the wildcard flavor this is a fantastic recipe. I make extra and use it as my gravy with all chicken recipes.
Really enjoyed this since had to so many gizzards made a big pot bagged
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TED Talk by Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
It really has been a long while since I blogged. The usual life and work suspects to blame which I suppose isn't enough explanation for the several months of absence. Glad to be back and nothing like having another TED2010 Talk classic to move me to blog it. Jane's talk about gaming and making the world, life, and people better hit the sweet spot.
The key points which bear remembering are:
Nowadays I find that the emphasis in education is away from play and more toward standardization, memorization but this is a mistake. Innovation, creativity, the lack of fear of failure are losing out because it's hard work. And likewise, gaming is hard work but necessary and from Jane's inspirational case for more gaming efforts to be used and harnessed.
Unleash your inner-gamer!
Another primer on managing technical guys & gals
An amazing opinion piece from ComputerWorld was recommended through one of my project management newslists – Newgrange: It's titled "The unspoken truth about managing geeks". It's an even better piece than the one I blogged about here.
For sure, the amount of comments on and off the site is very strong. And I totally understand the bashing because it's self-aggrandizing to the "Amen" responses. IT folks really are quite diverse but I like to think that there are much more similarities than not based on my limited experiences in different countries, industries, and technical/management teams.
My personal view is that the author Jeff Ello has got it totally right – not just the analysis but also where it starts: It's all about respect. Just break down this analysis:
Few people notice this, but for IT groups respect is the currency of the realm. IT pros do not squander this currency. Those whom they do not believe are worthy of their respect might instead be treated to professional courtesy, a friendly demeanor or the acceptance of authority. Gaining respect is not a matter of being the boss and has nothing to do with being likeable or sociable; whether you talk, eat or smell right; or any measure that isn't directly related to the work. The amount of respect an IT pro pays someone is a measure of how tolerable that person is when it comes to getting things done, including the elegance and practicality of his solutions and suggestions. IT pros always and without fail, quietly self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder, independent of the organizational chart.
1. For sure, when I was as tech grunt, that's how I felt about the respect to others, especially managers. I also saw it, heard it from others. IT teams are pretty ruthless when it comes to people who can't "fit in" with the rest of the team. "Fitting in" can mean many things but the social dynamics of IT teams can be pretty brutal.
2. As a manager of technical guys, I learned first hand about "earning your stripes" because there are always more technical guys than you. The process repeats itself at each stop along the IT management journey.
3. As part of the IT team, you always are building relationships with those who can get it done. Because the environment is so much about firefighting, it's a totally Darwinian world. No one likes to burn during IT service outages, user problems etc and so the ones who can prevent fires and/or fight fires quickest are "the best". These folks in my experience become the tight-knit high performing teams that makes IT a well-oiled machine we strive for.
4. The last statement that IT-pros "quietly self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder, independent of the organizational chart." is the heart of what gives life to "Shadow IT". Check out Mike Schaffner's excellent commentary about the Shadow IT topic.
It's a definite read for anyone curious about IT and get a wide spectrum of the views.
However, one part of the article Jeff wrote which bears repeating:
Users need to be reminded a few things, including:
* IT wants to help me.
* I should keep an open mind.
* IT is not my personal tech adviser, nor is my work computer my personal computer.
* IT people have lives and other interests.
Results Matter – What performance?
The blogosphere kicked up some good posts recently on this topic. It follows on my previous post on Management and Drucker. Drucker had written about results and performance in "Managing for Results" and it's companion "The Effective Executive". As I rant about the corporate lunancy rampant through the ranks, it goes back to these questions and topics.
Let's start with, do you know where you're heading and what the end-game vision is to be? That's like the horizon and the north star to help guide the captain of the boat (yes, that would be you so wake up and focus!). I like how Stacey Douglas blogged about it in her take on Results Matter:
You simply cannot manage what you don't understand, nor can you delegate it or request updates on it. Understand and manage to results, not to line items on a task list.
For the management folks, take heed to these wise words – thanks to Jonathan Becher for sharing it:
"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises—but only performance is reality."
Harold S. Geneen, 1910-1997, communications executive
"The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, author and pioneer in self-improvement and interpersonal skills
So, drop the powerpoint, step away from the excel sheet, stop the MS Word document/memo, and walk away from the email. We're mindless manipulators of meaningless meditations. Focus – 5Ws (Who, What, Where, Why, When) + 2Hs (How, How many). It's appalling how so many folks can't start their analysis with this and seemingly go off the deep end down the rabbit hole because they simply don't know where the organization needs to go and what should be done to get there. One cannot simply delegate that thinking to others. Want sheep then go to New Zealand.
Know why you are here. Why the company or organization you belong to is here. Mission – Vision > leads to rolling up the sleeves and doing stuff that gets the results directly impacting and affecting the company's performance be it in dollars, customer satisfaction, sales, new innovations and patents, but it's got to be SMART.
I close today's musings with reference the latest CEO and leadership profile from Adam Bryant's Corner Office column. Read the interview of Linda Hudson, president of the land and armaments group for BAE Systems, a military contractor.
IT Management and Culture (in an Asian context)
My blogging has been mostly off recently due to trying to achieve work-life balance by re-prioritizing things, get some vacation time in between projects and upcoming management activities, and figuring out what are the things important to me. Some good cave time to be had is good for the soul and recharging the mind and calming one's emotions. Getting some inner peace is a good exercise.
Last week, I participated in an IT Forum that a network company sponsored to introduce to their customers and interested IT professionals their new products and services. Additionally, it was a forum for just general sharing amongst IT professionals about common IT issues. I facilitated the second part of it and found it to be great fun and glad I did.
We had a wide ranging group of professionals – technical experts, IT operations folks to very senior ASPAC level IT Directors and CIOs. It was an open sharing format and to get such a diverse group of people to open up was super stuff.
We discussed in hopscotch fashion:
1. Business change – faster and sharper than before?
a. How to manage it? Personally, organizationally? Or just be like a jelly-fish?
2. Cost-savings/Budget reductions –> IT Governance
a. More systems integration, consolidation, legacy consolidation
b. Where are the pressures hitting? infra? apps? security? people? outsourcing?
c. How to manage long term IT needs vs. short-term tactical requirements
d. How to prioritize, what to prioritize?
3. Staff retention / hiring
a. Roles and responsibilities changing
b. Skills sets raised higher?
c. Status of the IT Director?
4. IT innovation – avoid latest & greatest or continue to push for innovation in our IT operations, services, infrastructure, technology to better serve?
From the crowd mood, personally and organizationally, the super fast change of the business and IT environments was creating major stress points. In fact, one of the participants shared that after 20 years, this forced him out and look to do something other than IT. And nearly everyone expressed similar types of this sentiment – the personal difficulty facing today's IT environment and secretive longing to also leave IT for other pastures.
One very senior IT manager asked the audience whether or not IT managers are treating IT staff well? That's a brave question to ask and I commend him for asking.*
On this point, I would say that in an Asian context, most managers I see, are not supporting or supportive of IT staff. I believe it is culturally rooted – short term thinking, coupled with a poor view on talent development, and treating people as commodities that can be easily replaced – are fundamental reasons for why quite a few IT people I know in this part of the world are not optimistic in an IT career.
Discouraging yes, but hopefully this can change as economic and business prospects turn around for the better. But, there is a central need IMHO to find a better way to develop IT profesionals, promote greater IT maturity because it's a key foundation for long term sustained business success. And this for us in Asia is an on-going concern always in an ever-increasing competitive business world.
* Note: I recently was explaining to a promising junior helpdesk talent in my team the criticality of upward communication, especially when news is bad. There's strong cultural pressure in Asia to not speak up when news is bad. Undertanding this, I countered with this: "If you don't speak up, then you will keep living in shit. That's guaranteed. Do you want to keep living in shit every day?" But I said by the same token, "if you do speak up and management doesn't listen and fix things, then management is shit." Both needs attention and he and I agreed that it takes two-sides to make the future better so let's give it a try.
And this fits into today's Brainy Quote:
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"Success is a journey, not a destination."
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"Nothing will work unless you do."
RIP – Rajeev Motwani, Google founder's professor and early investor, dies
This is worth a separate mention. While Sergey and Larry certainly should get their due recognition for Google, the fact is, it's often the people behind the entrepreneurs that really "make or break" the startup. Such is the life of Silicon Valley startups – your VC is equally critical to your success – hence the need to find the very best.
With out Motwani's influence would Google have been as successful? I shudder to think life without Google – it's been that powerful and transformative in our generation.
Check out Techstartups 3.0 obit.
MBA Oath & Masters of Barely Anything
I couldn't help myself on this blog post. The article "A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality" from New York Times, May 29, just triggered a mental conniption in my head. It follows the efforts of Harvard MBA grad Max Anderson and his fellow classmates in their pledge to not advance their "own narrow ambitions" in an MBA Oath.
What a bunch of fringe lunatics really. These folks don't have anything to show for from of their truly expensive education? That supposedly among the best and brightest feel compelled to taking an "oath" will somehow make them more ethical than before they got into the program and graduated? We got ourselves a bunch of genius' for sure.
For the corporate hiring managers world-wide, here are the 651 losers to-date who you will definitely NOT want to hire.
I promise you, taking the oath won't make any of the 651 more ethical than before they entered Harvard. And, that is perhaps the saddest testimony from this whole embarrassing tale. We have sown a generation of "future leaders" that out-Gecko, Gordon Gecko!
NOTE: The terminology "Masters of Barely Anything" came from a July 12, 2004 BusinessWeek article. I liked the following book reviews – by Eric Nehrlich, an unrepentant generalist, and Jim Stroup, author of Managing Leadership.
Quick blog update – Back in the saddle
Dear readers,
Past couple of weeks, I've been busy with filling my own gas tank while also navigating the way forward. As my team likes to joke with me, for-better-or-for-worse, I'm now the captain of the ship… the Titanic ship to be exact.
Sometimes gallows humor can help ease the daily grind but it can also be as happy as a ice cold shower during the winter time (sorry, I'm not a polar bear!). Juggling the here and now with the there and after, I brought the team together for a couple of days and figure out what we have and what we want to do and how we want to go about doing it. The other part of it was getting key folks (re)acquainted with the ABCS of business financials – specifically, the business case.
While we struggle with the change management aspect of companies adjusting to harsh business challenges and other realities, we need to find an anchor point to tie it all together. Otherwise, the loss of focus and meaning for why we are here every day will take a huge toll on the organizational effectiveness and health. I decided to peg the anchor on understanding the business – namely what, why, when, how part of what we do – finding meaning through understanding the business case surrounding our BAU and Projects/Portfolios. Then as a team we can better prioritize and figure out what we are doing right and wrong (and even missing altogether).
So far, the impact was quite positive. One of the best part was listening to the troops, I actually had some of my perceptions shot down or seriously altered. That's a good health check result for any manager or leader. As I'm fond of saying, 20 brains are better than 1 (see Francis Galton on his work that the wisdom of the masses is better than a single expert – Simon Kuper writes in FT Sept 5 2008).


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Calcutta (now Kolkatta), 1993, Mango Lane was where I was first introduced to the world of internet. With Rs 100 of my personal savings, combined with a loan of Rs 200 from a friend (who's name I've conveniently forgotten) and an additional Rs 200 provided to me by my the-then employer "Raj Bhaiya", I was able to pool enough money together to apply for a "Student Shell Internet Account" with VSNL.
I still vividly remember the first day, when internet entered my life. A representative from the VNSL had come over to our office to help us connect to the internet. The computer was running on a 40MB hard disk, windows 3.11 and had a 28.8 kbps modem. The excitement build-up was at its peak when 3, sorry 4 people huddled and hunched close to me when I switched on the Phillips monochrome monitor, connected the modem and opened up the Netscape Navigator browser window.
Every move I made for the next 40 seconds was met with a sigh as I typed my username and password on the screen. Then .. something happened .. huge scrolls of words .. suddenly appeared from no-where onto the screen and vanished off the screen with equal speed which none of us could read. When the scrolling stopped – all that was left was the blinking cursor .. waiting for the next set of instructions !
I'm not sure what the people huddled around me were expecting to see, once we connected to the internet, but I was in no way prepared for this abrupt start ! There were no fancy images, no chat boxes and neither did an email box automatically pop up. I was at a total loss, when the VSNL expert stepped in. Over the next few minutes, he showed me how to visit the all text Yahoo website (that was the only website he knew off) and even helped me setup my first email account.
On the 200km journey back home that evening, I was buzzing with excitement. Hardly able to contain my excitement, I shared the concept of internet with any and all co-passengers seated around me on the train. I vividly remember passing on my new email address to each of them as well, being fully aware that I'll never receive a single mail from them.
Life for the next few months had taken on a new charm. Every new email which found it way onto my mailbox was read multiple times from the first to the very last word. No matter if an email come through from a supposedly 19 year of Russian girl who had fallen in love with me (without me having ever known her at all) or the fact that I'd recently won a pair of Ray Ban sun-glasses from a new auction site called eBay (which I had never bid for), all emails were treated as REAL, FAIR and worthy of reading end to end. Am not really sure if I was naive or simply foolish, but I somehow made myself believe that there was always some element of truth in those emails out there (which escaped my young inexperienced mind), otherwise why would someone send an email specifically to me ? Email after all was a very personal and technologically advanced medium, it had to do the right thing.
That as 1993 and its 2011 now.
I still get very similar sounding emails everyday. Technology has ensured that I don't get to see them and they're very carefully filed across in a private little hidden folder called the "SPAM BOX". While at one level, I am glad that I don't get to see them everyday, every once in a while – I do venture into the SPAM box territory to check out what I've missed out on. A recent survey revealed that over the 25th and 26th of June, I had:
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1. Won a lottery ticket worth millions of pounds
2. I could buy a new Rolex watch at -18%
3. That my alternate ego name was Sir Spire Edge
4. That Dr. Dan Jason (Chairman of a Government Dept in Africa) wanted to invest in my country by sending money to my personal account, which I could then possibly invest on behalf of his government
5. That I had a long lost friend called Geetika who had joined a new social moto site and I was invited to join free as well
6. Last but not least, someone out there was offering me free pills to enlarge my manhood !!
Phew ! Here it was sitting on a treasure in my very own email box, hidden away in one folder – and I did not realize it at all ! Solutions to all my financial, business, psychological, medical and other problems were all out there – waiting for me to reach out and access it and here it was just ignoring the mails.
Even if 1% of what the world of junk email claims were to be true, given that I have so many email address and thus tons of SPAM, I am missing out on such wonderful opportunities to turn my life around on an everyday basis. Isn't it ? Well – we all know this is not true. Things have changed …….or have they ? Ever considered that it might just be us who have changed.
SPAM was so much of a reality in 1993 as much as it is today. I guess what has changed is me. Yes, the number of messages that has started pouring in have multiplied, but so have my personal contacts over the last 20 years or so. Given an average growth of 3% a year, its no surprise that junk email volumes has kept up with my life's progress.
The question to ask here is when SPAM is one of the biggest problems in today's internet age, why do leading email providers like Google, Yahoo and others still hold these mails in a corner of our mailbox hidden away as SPAM and not delete them all together ? I guess the answer is simple. Someone, somewhere out there, still believes, that maybe .. just maybe .. among the 1000's of SPAM emails we get every day, there might just be a hidden gem of an email – which might change things in your life for ever.
For me, its always fun to visit my SPAM box once in a while. If nothing else, it does get a few smiles and a few laughs from me. Its been nearly 20 years since anything truly beneficial has materialized, but I am ever hopeful that someday – one of these emails is going to be of great value to me. Until the SPAM box exists, I will indulge in looking up some of these emails from time to time.
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Yes, it is a favourite day trip destination for people of North Wales, Cheshire and Shropshire. The town is full of gift shops, cafes, hotels and pubs and knows how to cater for the serious holidaymaker as well as the day trippers.
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A Polish man was shot in the head on New Year's Eve 2005 and only recently discovered the bullet and had it removed. *no Polish jokes, no Polish jokes, no Polish jokes* HARD...TO...RESIST.
Robert Chojecki was partying on New Years Eve five years ago in the German town of Herne when he was hit with the .22-caliber bullet. Doctors removed it this week from between his skin and skull.
The Polish-born Chojecki told RTL television Wednesday he thought he'd been hit by fireworks, but later forgot about it.
He said at first he had "no pain, but approximately one year ago I started to get a headache."
Dude -- at one point there had to have been a bleeding hole in the back of your head, I'm just sayin'. That's something most people don't forget about. You, uh, you're a drinker, aren't you? BOOM -- everybody to the Mystery Machine, this case is closed.
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I forget lost of stuff when I'm drinking. And many times it's a good thing.
wow... first fail... that's imbarrassing
and your spelling is too
Bullet wounds don't always bleed like you see on TV. Especially bullets that are superficially embedded in the skull. Just sayin ;)
Sounds like the start of a new pollak joke...
"Like, ZOINKS Scoob.... I thought we were stoners".... just sayin
Good fucking lord.
I once was shot in the eye......with a rubber band. I lost the use of my left eye for almost 2 minutes.
Unfortunately because of the loss of depth perception I thought I was standing on a sidewalk when in reality I was in the road. I was hit by a Big Wheel traveling upwards of 4mph. Onlookers said I impacted the handlebars and flew almost 3 feet.
By the way, I landed on top of the kid that was driving.....He was killed instantly. On the bright side I regained full use of my eye! These stories always have a happy ending:)
huh you would think he would have his pain mapping software upgraded after this but nooo you humans are so strange. *roboflex*
Q: Why did the Polak cross the road?
A: He couldn't get his dick out of the chicken.
A 747 recently crashed in a cemetery in Poland.
Polish officials have so far retrieved over 2000 bodies.
Haha damn lag....
I put my dick in your mom and she didn't ever notice but hey, even a 747 looks small in the Grand Canyon...just ask Tom Hanks
Mother has been dead for 11 years. Necrophilia much? Nice to know she still got it though.
A guy i know had a car accident as a late teen and got a big gash between the top of his nose and his eye which was stitched up at hospital. about 15 years later he got accidentally elbowed in the eye and it got all swollen and infected. Went to the doc and he removed a 4mm square bit of glass windscreen they hadnt taken out all those years ago and sewn in there.
One time, I went further even as decided to use even go want to do look more like.
These kind of things happen in all countries but of course the anti-Polish media puts an emphasis on the nationality of the guy to go along with all the Nazi subhuman intelligence jokes about Polish people it has pushed for decades.
You just had a cannibal restaurant open up in one country. Trains in that country constantly crashing into each other, festivals in that country where the people trample on each other, Another country where the wedding dance floor collapsed on the 3rd floor, another country where a guy had a tree grow in his lung, Another country where a lady threw out a live cat in a garbage can in broadday light, another country where the people drink the same water they wash and crap in, etc etc yet the Anti-Polish media doesn't emphasize the nationality of those countries.
Just negative stories about Polish people to bring out all the Polish-haters they created from their previous anti-Polish hate propaganda.
yep. i'm not surprised. just goes to show that us Polish know how to fucking drink.


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Some readers dashed to the nearest hydrant to spray cold water on a scheme to bring the retired Riverside fire chief back into the fold as a $100 per hour consultant.
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My company is presently in the throws of Scrumerfall, or Waterile as I sometimes call it. Getting everyone to embrace their role, the good and the bad, is so important to the process working as it's instrumented to. I've had some success re-calibrating people on projects I wasn't immediately coupled to, but getting people to refocus / adjust expectations when you're in the middle is tough. I look forward to some more perspective.
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