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Do you ever get tired of calling customer service centers and getting the runaround or getting stuck trying to weave your way through the computerized phone system before getting to an actualy LIVE person? Well faint not!

Here is the link to "Customer Service Cheat Sheet"

Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing. There are the Writing Tool links:

Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing

It is a great found that the book How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School has a free online version! The book has some great research and concepts of learning, such as memory and its structure, analysis and reasoning, self-regulatory capabilities, community participation and so on.

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School

Engadget is still welcoming Engadget Mobile to their family by giving away a phone a day for 30 days. This week is Treos, but not for long -- just thought you should know. In case you're into Treos or something. So head on over and drop your comment for a chance, no pressure or anything, just free Treos is all.
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There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance.

Click here to see "Procrastination: Ten Things To Know"

“Just about every product category has its blue-chip, gold-plated stars. Movie stars? Brad Pitt. Best rock song of all time? Sweet Home, Alabama, of course. Office chairs? The Herman Miller Aeron. Portable MP3 players? Clearly the Apple iPod.

“What do these products have in common?”

What Makes It Great?, first draft, is the third and final part of the introduction to Great design.

Kyon ki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi.

While streams of IT vendors are talking about low-cost PC solutions for the Indian market, the cheapest-ever laptop being designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the world’s poorest children, is already getting express backup from India.

American software maker Red Hat Inc signed up this week as ‘‘founding corporate member’’ of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the MIT initiative that is driving the $100 laptop. As a result, Mumbai-based Red Hat India is now one of the global foundries where software to run the most affordable laptop is being written.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/060208/48/62f0b.html

Letter from Bill Gates

Click here to see the letter

During First World War a soldier in the trenches saw his friend a hundred meters away stumble and fall in hail of bullets. He said to his officer, “May I go sir, and bring him in?” The officer refused, “No, I would lose you too”.

Disobeying the order, the man went to try and save his friend. They had been great friends throughout the whole war. Some how he got his friend on the shoulder and staggered back to the trenches but he himself was mortally wounded and his friend was dead.

The officer was angry, “I told you not to go”, and he said “Now, I have lost both of you. It was not worth it”. With his dying breath the man said, “It was worth it, sir” “Worth it!” queried the officer. “How could it be? Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded!”

Looking in his officers face, the guy said “It was worth it sir, because when I got to him he said “My friend I knew you would come!”