Make yourself less noisy on Facebook with Lists and Audience Selector

With Facebook rapidly becoming popular around the world, updates are becoming more and more frequent. I often find myself sifting through irrelevant posts from my well-meaning friends to get to ones that are relevant to me. So I often also find myself showing them how to help reduce their "noise". I've done it so many times that it is time it gets written as a post here for everyone else to read.

A few improvements to my blog

A few improvements have been made to my blog. I spend an hour last weekend to check out the available choices and implement them. I've finally finished my tests and have decided to flick the switch to turn then on. Here's a small list.

Flash Mobs - when the crowd starts to dance

The internet is a wonderful thing. There seems to be literally no end to the number of ways it effects our lives. For me, the latest delight is the fast spreading phenomenon of flash mobs. This is where a number of people come together to suddenly appear and perform something unusual - typically in a public place. Here's a collection of my favourite flash mobs.

Black and White hits from 1937 to 1958

I usually don’t post contents of email forwards. But this one is special. It’s a large collection of links to Hindi songs from the black and white era between 1937 to 1958. This period is considered to be golden by hard-core fans of the golden Hindi oldies. I have posted the list mostly “as-is” and the original author is unknown.

The reason I am posting this collection of links is that it points to  the very best combination of the talent in the Hindi film industry at the time (and no! It was not known as Bollywood back then).

The immortality of the magical combination of voice, lyrics and music is apparent by that it continues to live in the memory of people born 2 generations after!

Doodling a stranger

I though I’d share a a small sketch I recently made while doodling on the back of a used envelope. I make quite a few of these, but they rarely end up looking human (I am particularly bad at making the lips).

 

As to who this is? This was someone who came by to drop off a parcel at my door. I didn’t ask for his name.

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