THE MOST TERRIBBLE POVERTY IS LONELINESS AND THE FEELING OF BEING UNLOVED."

Seven Social Sins - Mahatma Gandhi

1. Politics without Principle
2. Wealth without Work
3. Pleasure without Conscience
4. Knowledge without Character
5. Commerce without Morality
6. Science without Humanity
7. Worship without Sacrifice"

Mahatma Gandhi - in "Young India"

മനസിന്‍റെ മണിയറയില്‍ സുന്ദരനായ മോനുണ്ട്‌.. കഥ പറയാന്‍ കൂട്ടിനായി കാത്തു വെച്ചൊരു പൊന്നാണ്.. നാണത്താല്‍ ചിരി തൂകും സുന്ദരനായ മോനാണ്.... ഉപ്പാടെ കരളാണ്...ഖല്‍ബിന്റെ നിധിയാണ്‌...

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison

KNOW ALL ABOUT ABOUT.COM

A pioneering website that was a bit like Yahoo with expert human guides, writes Jack Schofield

In 1996, when the web was young, someone emailed me with a brilliant idea. Scott Kurnit from The Mining Company was starting an information site that would bring together thousands of people who were experts in their particular field – computing, cooking, cartooning or whatever – and host them under one giant umbrella. It would be called About.com.

At the time, thousands of amateurs were setting up small websites, but most of them didn't really know what they were doing. Even if they did, there would be thousands of small sites that all looked different, and had different editorial standards. By joining About.com, these would-be webmasters could band together, share site designs, and get basic training and support.

They would get more visitors, because most people who went to About.com would generally visit two or three different topics. They would even make a little money – $250 a month, to start – because About.com would be big enough to sell advertising to companies that would never deal with lots of small amateur websites.

About.com was duly launched on 21 April 1997, and it was a success, though it was nothing like as successful as I'd expected. The quality was patchy, the site wasn't easy to navigate, the page design was flat and dull, and About.com had an annoying habit of "framing" other sites. (If you click a link to go to a different site, its content is shown under a big About.com header.)

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim " by Henry Brooks Adams