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Through Reddit.com I found this great article from Psycology Today:

What’s really blocking our joy in relationships, our creativity, and our peace of mind? One surprising answer, in this age of alienation, is a lack of solitude.

Meaningful alone time, it turns out, is a powerful need and a necessary tonic in today’s rapid-fire world. Indeed, solitude actually allows us to connect to others in a far richer way.

I found the article to be intriguing and thought provoking. Maybe this is why so many people burn out. They are never truly alone anymore!

You can find the whole article here !

If you have ever wondered how they paint the big aircraft, check out this video from youtube!

Google just posted this info as i logged into my gmail account:

What’s new on Gmail?

Just launched!

Get mail from other accounts
Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail. Then you can even create a customized ‘From:’ address, which lets you send messages from Gmail, but have them look like they were sent from another one of your email accounts. Please note that you can only retrieve mail from accounts that have POP3 access enabled.  Learn more

On this site is an interesting list of the  10 Most Bizarre People in the world !!!

Check out this Beautifully animated and original game!

On Reddit, i found this video, which shows a fun way of multiplying ! Highly recommended!

On the blog site Digital Inspiration i found this site Flashface.

This is a site where you can make sketches of faces based on templates of hair, eyebrows, eyes, glasses noses and so on. The site is cleverly built and is quick and responsive and I had made my first face in a minute !!!!

Highly recommended!

Read/WriteWeb has a post regarding the twenty best extensions or add-ons as they are called now. You can find the post here. I’ll try to post more about the add-ons I use and my experience with them in a later post.

I’m in Chennai, India aka Madras for a week on business, and would you believe I’m having great problems finding coca cola? It’s like living a nightmare… I now have 4 days without a decent can of coke , and I’m getting desperate. I think I’ll have to take this up with the Ministry of Tourism…..

If your a fan of e-books, you have to check out Project Gutenberg. They even provide a top 100 list of all downloads here, in case need ideas for books to read.

Just to entice you, here is a excerpt of the top 5…

1. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (737)
2. Kamasutra by Vatsyayana (386)
3. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (361)
4. Ulysses by James Joyce (278)
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (274)

If you read my post regarding Active Colab on a USB stick, I can now only say : DO IT !

I am no expert in HTML and Apache and so on, but following the instructions in the post it took me 15 minutes to install. Now i have a project management system installed locally on my computer to test before I go and recommend this to my collegues. The only problem i faced , was with the APache Server service not starting because of Skype was using Port 80. You can read more about the work around here.

Here is a great post about the hidden labels in GMAIL. For me this was a time saver !

Here is a great post on how to set up the free Basecamp alternative ActiveCollab on a USB Stick. You have to check this out!