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Mar 11th
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To Tweet or Not To Tweet

To Tweet or Not To TweetEvery morning as soon as I get up and on the way to the office I update my status on my mobile Twitter with words on the lines of ‘good morning people’ or ‘on my way to the office, traffic not so bad this morning’. Throughout the day as I go through my daily activities I duly tweet what I do, what I eat, my opinions on current issues, my responses to what other Twitterers post and from time to time, my ideas and from time to time, some words or wisdom that cross my mind.

The last thing I do before retiring for the night is to check my Twitter Timeline and post a final tweet for the day, usually not forgetting to wish people goodnight.

I notice that I’m not the only one who in the last few months has developed this new habit. As a matter of fact, if anything other people tweet their statuses (which mostly consist of re-tweeting other people’s messages and a variation of the content I listed above) with even greater frequency.

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The Joys and Pains of Multitasking

The Joys and Pains of Multitasking

I can barely remember the days when life was not all about multitasking. When one did things one at a time, and if you wanted to do a lot of things, then it was a matter ...

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Twitter Twit

Twitter Twit

When I was in high school I used to hate it when my French teacher called me a twit. Every time I did something stupid, she’d say, “You’re such a twit, aren’t you?” with ...

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Hold That Stimulus

Hold That Stimulus

I am somewhat disconcerted by the world’s obsession with the need for so called economic stimulus as if it is a panacea for all the unfortunate things happening on this p...

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In search of good investments

In search of good investments

Increasingly numbers and figures are becoming the means by which we define our lives. We measure our joy in yields and gains and track our emotions in the rise and fall ...

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Greed and Fear

Greed and Fear

The global financial meltdown is proof that Money indeed makes the world go round. Not only that, it shakes the world beneath our feet, robbing us of our rationality and...

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The Joys of Facebook

The Joys of Facebook

For those of you who have been too busy with work to commune with the Internet or who are lucky enough to have a rich and fulfilling real (as opposed to virtual) social l...

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Bill Gates: in praise of the computer

Bill Gates: in praise of the computer

Shaking hands with and talking to one of the world’s most successful men, Bill Gates, I half expected to feel awe at being at such close proximity with a living manifesta...

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