I what? I stumbledupon??

Facebook has integrated itself in to our life so much that we spend almost of all of our online time logged on to Facebook. But Facebook has never been much of my thing, but its a necessity. Anyway my point is that apart from facebook, there are lots of other websites thats worth your online time.
One example is Stumbleupon

Wikipedia reads

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate random Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.
Web pages are presented when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the browser's toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. Users can rate or choose not to rate any Web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles "channel-surfing" the Web. StumbleUpon also allows their users to indicate their interests from a list of nearly 500 topics to produce relevant content for the user.There is also one-click blogging built in as well.

These are couple of sites I stumpled in 5 mins. I bet you wouldn't find these sites even if you spend whole day logged on to facebook.
So lets start....

I know (assuming you are normal) that most of the people would hate maths. But you can always impress your friends by acting like a maths genius. Start from here
http://freestylemind.com/mental-math-tricks

Most of us would have lost touch with drawing, but if you still want start over, here is A-Z list of lessons
http://www.drawspace.com/

Don't want install softwares- use alternative to desktop softwares
here is good list to start with.
http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/15-web-alternatives-to-popular-desktop-software/

People still believe that, if you use Mac, you have to buy all the softwares. But thats not actually true,
http://hmatt.com/mac/macbookfreeware.html

Pencil Sculptures that would take you breath away.
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/12-Cool-Colored-Pencil-Sculptures.html

Its been a while since you have installed windows 7 and now it seems a little leggy, you might need to check this
http://lifehacker.com/5388948/top-10-windows-7-booster-apps

And also I believe only ninjas we have are in Naruto Anime, and this cat too is supposedly a ninja
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/092009/1253886074_ninja-cat.gif

adios.

Let's start shall we?

Three years ago, I started blogging- but by midway through, the blog slowly started losing its identity.

This was started as strictly off politics blog, but writing about social and personal chronicles of people around me in couple of posts ridiculed some of my friends and created rifts between others. That created this mental argument -if I could not write about what I feel and think, what is the point of writing a blog? I could zip my mouth as well as tape my hands.

Couple of incidents above, political and civic changes that took place during last three years literally put me off blogging.

Then again whole point of blogging is to express oneself and call forth an argument hence create a productive discussion, there is no room to see if that offends anyone. It could offend people but that’s another discussion.

So let’s start again shall we?

microblogging! and now microvideoblogging!

Maybe the micro-blogging can never fully replace the normal blogging, but that never stop new innovative thinking to be forged thus creating brand new platforms. it doesn't.

Maldivians, at least technologically literate Maldivians, are aware of Twitter, a micro-blogging service which allows the user to post 140 character status updates and read updates from other users. Quite addictive actually. :)

Now there is a another micro-blogging service known as Robo.to, which allows users to publish 4-second videos that act as visual status updates. According to NewYorkTimes.

" In addition to microvideos, which can be uploaded from a webcam or a mobile phone camera and pushed out via Facebook and Twitter with a few short lines of text, Robo.to is meant to be a digital calling card online or a hub that houses information about an individual’s identity on the web. [Read more]

So would this be as addictive as Twitter/Facebook? We will have to wait and see.