Peak of Erudition

When your near and dear ones are outside the US, you need to keep in touch with them. Given the advance in the telecommunications, that is easy now. You can call them anytime you want. There are also so many choices available from which you can choose your telecommunications partner. But, that is not such a simple decision. Each vendor of the phone cards has a particular price and a tariff structure. There could be such complexity in the minutes available for calling at the given price and also the particular call duration.

What one needs is a clear, structured way of assimilating and analysing the information for choosing the best calling card option. Whether it is for calling cards or for prepaid phone card , one can get very good, very structured information from a number of sites nowadays.

Phone Cards, of different variety, which can be used to call different nations are available. One needs to look at the pay structure, the minutes available and any other fine print that is there to take a call on which card to go with.

At times, there may also be different discounts being offered on a particular brand or variety of card which would make the card more attractive than others.

Go, buy the card and start calling your near and dear ones!

Have you ever wondered how much variety we have in every single thing that is there? Take a simple comb. It is not a simple comb anymore. There is a slim one. There is a really fat looking one. There are large ones. There are really small ones which can fit your purse. There are ones with so many teeth. There are ones with minimum number of teeth. There are ones with really fancy type of handle. There are ones which are made of simple plastic. There are ones which are made of elephant’s dusk and cost the earth.

Variety is surely the spice of life!

Most times when you travel to a new place in the world, you stay in a familiar hotel and watch familiar landmarks and come back. However, once in a while it is good to stay in a place which is truly reflective of the place that you go to.

For example, if you are going to stay in paris, then try staying at B&B Paris. This Hotel Paris will give you an insider understanding of what paris life is all about. Similarly, if you are staying in Prague, get to stay in Hotel prague . If you are staying in NewYorc city, get to stay in Hotel nyc .

Enjoy it with the localites. Become the French. Especially when you are in paris!

I was reading “I, Robot” for the sixteenth time this morning. I don’t tire of reading that book. What a classic. To provide the laws of robotics, the fundamental laws that govern the entire series of science fiction is simply marvellous. Issac Asimov, that multi talented personality is quite a personality. What a thought process. The positronic brain that can never hurt any human being, or can it being human being to harm by inaction and which has to defend itself from getting harmed and the explanation for how the positronic brain works …amazing.

This is an interesting site that I saw recently. it gives information on any phone number that you type in – that is – in case there is some information already provided about that number. Suppose you would like to leave some info on some number, you can do so. So that, this becomes a directory of sorts which can provide information on either numbers which become annoying or those numbers which provide good service. Either way it is useful for people.

For example, you get frequent calls from a number and you would like to leave your Caller Complaints. You can go to www.callerwiki.net and punch in the number. Punch in the pains that you have gone through. Give the complaint. Leave it.

Suppose you get some suspicious calls. You think that you may be being set up or duped. You would like to check it out. You can check out whether there is some information already punched in about that number and see. In case there is already some comments, it will only validate your fears or suspicions on that number.

Over a period of time, it becomes a wonderful service to a lot of people. It becomes a wikipedia of telephone numbers and hence the name caller wiki is absolutely apt.

Why is it that all CEOs love to play golf? Is it because other CEOs play it? Is it because there is inherently something CEOic (a new word that I have coined!!) about Golf? I am not sure. I have played the game and I must admit that it is indeed exciting. You lose all sense of time. There is the ball. There is the club and there is the hole somewhere. At times you are not even sure where the hole is. You simply need to guess. Take your chances and swing. And, even when you can see the hole right in front of you and all you need is a simple nudge, the ball rolls over the edge. Stops serenly at the tip of the edge and almost smiles at you.

Somewhere, to me, it looks as if Golf mimics how life is. May be that is why CEOs love it so much!

If there is one common thing that every one in this world is facing, I am sure it must be stress. Induced by the living conditions which become increasingly more demanding. The order of the day is to practise some stress reduction technique

The stress is not only by the living conditions. It is also because of the demand that we make on ourselves. We demand ourself that we should live in absolute splendour. We look at our neighbours and want all that they have in terms of the materialistic benefits whether they are good for us or not. Whether we need them or not.

Even children are not immune to stress. We attach so much importance these days to academic performance and performance in sports. We expect our children to do so well that anything short of our expectation, both ourselves and our children get stressed out. We get stressed out in office. We get out to do so much work that our life at home suffers because of that.

What really is the solution? Work life balance and stress free relaxed living are the only way to go. Something which is preached and practised by The Stress Institute® kind of company. Incidentally, The stress institute provides solutions and practices in the fields of stress management and work/life balance to corporations, non-profits and even individuals.

They basically advice people on how to balance out things. How to manage the expectations. How to destress oneself if one has worked out to so much stress already.

This is really needed these days.

I don’t remember whether there was anyone before that Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at Bush who seems to have started the shoe throwing culture. Whoever throws the shoes becomes a hero. And who ever gets them becomes the zero.

The latest after the Bush incident have been reported from India. The Home minister Mr.P.Chidambaram got some shoes thrown by a reporter. And then again were a few local incidents – all of them which were shoe throwing ones were also reported.

Is there an opportunity for any of the shoe company to get into the picture and advertise this? I guess there is some!!

Getting a new roof for your house is not an easy task. Not only it is not easy, it is also going to be very expensive one. There are materials which might need to be changed or added. And, the labour. In fact, the cost of labour will be the major portion in the total cost. However, the roofing has to be changed if you notice rain water leaking in or if it is actually very old and the chances of rain or fury of nature lashing is great.

You need to locate the very best team to change the roof. They should have the requisite expertise. They should be able to do different kinds of things depending on the need. Sundance roofing is such a party who have the required range of experiences. They have done residential as well as commecial roofing.

How do you select the right Albuquerque Roofer? You need to consider a few things :

1) The experience of the roofer. Does he have enough experience? Has he done enough projects?
2) The references provided and the experience of the people who have used this roofer
3) Whether he has the required licenses
4) Whether he and his team has the required insurance coverage

Post checking all this, you should ideally have a discussion with a few of the people and brief them on what you have in mind. Ask them to prepare an estimate and a detailed bid. You need to select the party based on the bid.

By now you would all be familiar with Gate’s quip on GM and GM’s retort on MS – Windows. For those who are a little uninitiated into this, a quick summary : Gates quipped : “If only the car technology has evolved at the same rate as the Chip technology evolved, we should have cars which go 200 milo meters with 1 litre of gasoline. We should be breaking speed records every 18 months. The cars should have become more economical, much faster and all that in ever reducing cost of cars”. GM quipped back : “If such cars evolved, then it would simply crash now and then without reason”.

I was wondering about human evolution. Suppose human beings evolved at the chip’s rate of evolution? What would have happened? We would double out life span every 18 months. We should be able to memorize 4 times more things in half the time every 18 months. We should be able to triple our productvity every 24 months. Right? But there would also be un explained deaths with absolutely healthy human beings. Some people may not function at all, irrespective of what you do to them and so on. The very thought looks silly. Makes me shudder!