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The latest hype in the technological circles is to own a netbook which is a portable computer with a much smaller form factor then the current generation of consumer notebooks. There is a fundamental difference between current netbooks and notebooks: price. Netbooks are significantly cheaper than regular notebooks in a smaller packaging. Thus they offer slower processors, less memory and harddisk space and smaller screens.
They are underpowered, they are tiny and they are cheap. These attributes define netbooks. So why I want a netbook? First of all they are really cute, toy-cute. They are much smaller then a notebook but offer enough power to perform many of the tasks an average user does in their daily routine. They are a perfect fit for surfing the web, e-mailing, instant messaging etc.
I believe netbooks are not competitors to regular notebooks. Rather they are located in the same market space as the high-end smartphones. This is the reason some people are not getting what netbooks offer. If you compare a netbook with a notebook, then netbooks are in trouble. However, when you compare a netbook with a smartphone there are important advantages.
Netbooks provide a full QWERTY keyboard, a minimum of 7 inch LCD screen and widely-used operating systems like Windows and Linux. This is a clear advantage over smartphones which run on constrained operating systems like the Windows Mobile, iPhone OS (whatever it is), Symbian, Blackberry OS and Palm's new Web OS.
I own a Windows Mobile based PDA, which is OK for most online tasks like e-mail, IMs and Twitter. The phone however have problems with office applications, MP3s, videos and etc. The screen is small and input is problematic at best.
This old and used PDA can on the other hand, run for a full work-day without needing battery charge, at the same time providing regular phone features, and a permanent Internet connection wherever applicable.
Owning a netbook and a high-end smartphone while a full-fledged notebook is absolutely necessary for your daily work seems to be impractical. Currently the best solution for me is to get a netbook that can be always online through a 3G card or a 3G-enabled bluetooth phone. The only catch is the battery life. 3 hours is not enough for anyone.

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It is wild to see that, without writing anything on this blog, I get almost 300 hits per week. Yes, I do have the weekly tweets digest on the blog. I also post occasional technical problems I ran into and provide solutions for them but it is insane that at this dark and lonely end of the web universe there are “you” guys wandering around my blog.
I have much to talk about and I do spit out them daily to those poor souls that happen to be my friends. I, unfortunately, do not spare enough time to myself to write 300 words so to have a much larger audience. This happens to be my new years resolution for the past few years. Sadly, I have realized that my new year’s resolutions have always remained unresolved. Let’s see if I would best who I am now and reach out.

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1. Swear on YouTube comments with a racist/obscene tone.

2. Tweet useless messages including when did you wake up, what have you eaten, who you have seen and what you have told them.
3. Create a blog, write an introductory message full of optimistic resolutions.
4. Never write anything else in that blog.
5. Post meaningless comments on other posts and finish them with "Visit my blog at myuselessblog.blogspot.com".
6. Upload drunk or naked pictures/videos of your friends on facebook (or any other social network), who will retaliate with yours.
7. Add everybody who have sent you a friend request on social networks.
8. Create meaningless wall posts of your friends.
9. Use an e-mail address containing words like pony, pink, funky and sexy. Do not forget to add numbers. Never register any e-mail address related to your name.
10. Open all e-mails sent to you, download the attachments and run them.
11. Click on every link in every e-mail message sent to you.
12. Give your e-mail, banking and social network passwords (which should be the same) to every webpage/e-mail requesting it.
Note: This is an incomplete list, feel free to submit yours in the comments.

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It has really been bugging me lately, how change brings awareness to your life. We (I at least) are drowned in a monotonous set of rituals that we call our daily routines. We (I) really enjoy them and think that they are what defines us (me). 

I have been having a time in my life, where some things that I have to do seems so out of place, so alien to me that I have to change how I do stuff. This change brings insights into what I have been doing and why.
I had some strict deadlines to finish some and some to start new ones. It is where you have been pushing hard to finish a stage in an arcade game, you reach the boss fight and you are bored to death. But I have to finish the bad guy off to see the next stage, play through it and enjoy extensively.
That is why I have to divert all my attention to the boss fight and leave what distracts me. This is what I have been doing these days.
I left aside my PSP so besides not playing it, I am not spending my time looking for games, reviews and new apps for the gadget. 
I unsubscribed from all the RSS feeds that were not relevant to me, and found out that almost half of them was useless. I subscribed to podcasts indeed and that made me keep up with things in my spare (driving) time. I am no longer trying to follow even some of my tweets as it started to take much time.
From now on, I will try to blog regularly instead of consuming all the things I got used to. I will try to be the influencer for a while, not an influencer as I have been.

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