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Net Gains (Jan 06, 98) |
For 1998 :
- Spend less time on the Internet, and more with human beings (specially since it's high time I find that elusive life-partner).
- Talk less about computers and the Net (and more about romance, joy, peace, history, geography, physics …)
- Learn new exercises (enough of mouse-clicking, keyboard-typing, finger exercises)
- Go out more (not only to cybercafes, and Internet seminars)
- Update my wardrobe (instead of upgrading my computer)
- Expand my vocabulary beyond TCP/IP, VSNL, www.blahblah.com, [email protected] etc. …
- Get a girlfriend (a live one - not one that's a .gif or a .jpg file)
- Get a life !
- To stop repeating myself
- To stop repeating myself
- To stop repeating myself (Oops - I better start this one right away !)
You guessed it - it's that time of year again when most of
us sit back, review the year gone by, and make resolutions for
the new year. While mere mortals would painstakingly write all
these resolutions in a brand new diary, we net heads wouldn't
really stoop so low, right ? Enter the World Wide Web - http://www.newyearresolution.com/
- a site dedicated exclusively to New Year Resolutions and everything
that goes along with it. You can follow the history and origin
of the resolution, browse through predictions for the New Year,
add your own resolutions, and peek into other people's resolutions
(lose weight, earn money, stop dating losers, lower debt, drink
more beer …). Another page that allows you to broadcast your
resolutions is at http://www.new-year.co.uk/resolutions/resolutions.htm.
Go on, there's space for you to make your resolutions known to
the world too !
Look out if your favourite author has announced his new years
resolution at http://www.randomhouse.com/special/newyears/. You
have Deepak Chopra with : "From now on, I'll never make a
New Year's resolution. That's my New Year's resolution: to stay
in the field of infinite possibilities." Or another author
being idealistically romantic : "I'd like to see more sunsets,
sleep more nights in the woods, hike more mountains, and catch
more fish." Or Terry Brooks for that matter : "My resolution
is to spend less time working and more time with my wife, Judine,
and with our family and friends."
While we, as individuals are very capable of making our own
new year resolutions, organisations sometimes face some difficulty
in getting their act together. With the aim of helping them out,
Net Gains has some suggestions for new year resolutions for our
favourite organisation :
VSNL - To provide excellent service to its Internet
subscribers. Well … for a start, we'll settle for any service
in the first place. Then comes customer satisfaction - through
benefits like toll-free dial up lines. With the phone bill drastically
slashed, subscribers would be able to get two to three more Internet
accounts with VSNL, boosting their revenues. Let's postpone issues
like modem:subscriber ratio, more bandwidth, value added services
and the like for the next century - come on yaar, let's
try to be realistic !
Finally, to each and every one of us, a happy 1998. Live long
and prosper. May your Internet access charges decrease. May you
get a leased line. And may you be one of the winners of the year
end contest announced on my website.
~#&^% NO CARRIER.