10 Ways To Waste Time When Jobless At Work!

Many of us might have been in a situation where there is nothing much to do in office and you are practically jobless at the job. The most creative ones of us will spend that time learning, researching and innovating. But what about the lazy bunch. They don’t want to do all that. They just want to spent the free time that they have doing nothing but un-productive work.

But what if you’re totally in a fix? What if you just don’t know what to do with the time that you have and you’re just as confused as a blind man at a strip club?

Here is the Top 10 things that you can do to waste time at office, in the order leading up to the least productive activity, in what so ever manner to the company or to you -

10. Do blind surfing

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Now is the time to open Google or Wikipedia and type in something that you wanted to search for a long time and just couldn’t get the time to do it. It could be the photos of Barbara Mori or the latest flick of Jenna Jameson. Just do it. Read about the gossips about celebs that you wanted to know all the time. Once you are at that page, there will be some other link that will capture your attention, click on that. Sure it will be something that you might be interested in. Else why would it catch your attention. Question nothing .. follow your instincts…

9. Watch YouTube videos

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Ever since YouTube has come into existence, there has been no shortage of interesting videos. Search for F1 Crashes, Football, the latest episode of your favorite tv program, watch America’s Funniest Videos. What was the new song from Shakira? Find that on YouTube. Take a look at the related video links it will sure lead you to more interesting videos.

8. Read and Update your blogs

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Read blogs, check the blog roll of that blog, follow the links, read more and more. Don’t know what topic to read on checkout Technorati and search for the top blogs under your favorite category.

Once your think you have read enough and has been inspired enough, why don’t you start a blog for your self. Well that’s exactly how yours truly started his first blog. At least it kills the time.

7. Tweet

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Follow people on twitter, re-tweet and tweet anything to everything that comes on your mind. Follow conversations on twitter. Who knows you might even win free tickets for a movie. People whose real work is to update twitter, read this as Google Buzz and skip to 6

6. Play Online games

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Tons of sites out there that offer free flash based games. Play them find out which of those are worth the time spent (like that matters). Send them to your friends. Playing such kind of games is one of the best ways to spent time. You really never know how time flew by.

5. Use office phone to talk to friends

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Stay connected. When you are not using the office phone for official work, call up your friends. Sure there would be someone who is interested in talking to you. They say at work you need to grow you network. So call up that fellow who joined with you 2 years back and you couldn’t keep in touch. The advantage of this being, when the boss’ looking you are busy on the phone. If he asks tell him you were explaining something very technical to a co-worker.

4. Chill out at the cafeteria

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P.S. You would be required to find like minded people for this.

Just chill out at the cafeteria. Sip coffee, chat, enjoy the snacks, just spent time. There is nothing more rewarding than spending quality time with your friends. Get to know couple of them. Who knows they could turn out to be real jack asses. Then stop hanging out with them, find new ones and just chill at the cafeteria. The advantage of this being, the cafeteria owner might start giving you ‘frequent customer’ reductions.

3. Being active on social-networking sites

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Orkut, Ibibo, Facebook, MySpace, IndyaRocks etc. etc.

There are a many that you can just select from and be active on. Pick one at a time. Build a network of 200 people. That should be your aim. Try and build that network as soon as possible and then move on to the next networking site. Build again. As i said before there is nothing more rewarding than networking with people. Once your are done with almost all the networking sites available, why don’t you write a post in your blog telling your readers why a particular networking site is better than the other.

2. Sleep

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You don’t have the habit of snoring, then sleeping is the best activity to do. This requires minimal effort. The flip side being that if your boss catches you in the act its really hard to explain. So think about something very clever before you decide to doze off. Beware there might be other jobless people around that might take this opportunity to take a pic or video of yours and post it on their twitter / blog / social-networking sites etc. After all you are not the only one jobless.

1. Play Farmville and Mafia

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Totally meant for wasting time. It really doesn’t matter if you have work or even a job. These games on Facebook are build for only one purpose – waste time while in no way being productive. You can be glued on to it for hours, without really making any sense of things. Compared to conventional games these games are never ending. Once you have build something on Farmville or your Mafia rating is high enough you can gift items to other people on the network. Its an all in one total time waster package rolled into one.

WTF List of Wedding Gifts!

Wedding+Gift WTF List of Wedding Gifts!I’m not the marriage kind of guy, but even i’m pretty much sure about what is considered as cliche or lame for a wedding gift. But time and again i see people not even caring for what they want to give as gift. If you cant find a right gift, then better dont buy anything. Later, for sure, you can find one and gift the couple.

Here is my list of items that i think is lame and useless -

  1. Flowers – totally WTF!
  2. Wall clock – Totally lame
  3. Dinner Set – I have no clue why people gift this
  4. DVDs and CDs – Strict no no (i did the mistake and had to pay dearly)
  5. Teddy Bears – This aint a birthday party you bone head!
  6. Cushions – Yes i have seen people gifting wrapped up cushions.. WTWTF!!!

If you have a worse item. Feel free to add along…

iPod Touch Headset Test

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Almost a month and a half back, i bought a new 2nd Gen. 8GB iPod Touch. Well i have to say that its one handy device and i look like a star (or atleast i feel so), given the fact that i mostly come in contact with people whose knowledge of technology is as good as my knowledge of politics.

On the internet you’ll find all sorts of tests that people do on the unsuspecting iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone etc. But did you really care to test the headset. No! none of them really did any of that. I’m into QA (quality assurance) and though my testing of the iPod headset wont do me any good. Also any expenses involved has to be from my account. No one will ever ever fund something like what i did…

Disclaimer: This is a seasoned experienced tester. Experiments like this can leave you broke. Please do not attempt this at home.

Cost of a brand new iPod headset – Rs 1’600/-

I didnt care to buy a new one. I just used the one that they shipped with the iPod.

Steps :

  1. Place the headset in a shirt pocket, preferrably with a button on top, so that the test-material a.k.a headset doesnt drop off
  2. Soak the shirt in a half a bucket of water, with 2 spoons of detergent ( Yes!!!)
  3. Wait for 12hrs
  4. Take the shirt (with the headset in its pocket) and dump it into a washing machine along with other clothes and do a dirt-run.
  5. Wait 1hr
  6. Pretend that you forgot about the clothes and the headset in the washing machine and wait for 1 more hour
  7. Take the clothes, put them to dry

Now, take the headset out, wipe it clean, give it CPR, plug it into the iPod and play ….

IT WORKS !!! icon biggrin iPod Touch Headset Test and here it is ladies and gentlemen, the headset that made it through, resting on my laptop

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How to Start a Blog?

I have been blogging since 2006 and looking back, i’m feeling euphoric that i had picked up this hobby. But time and time again, i come across people who doesn’t have an idea what a blog is or how to start blogging. They are particularly clueless where to start. The fact is that they all know that blogging involves writing, but they don’t know where to start. Today too, i was asked twice by people as to how to start blogging.

So i finally decide that its time for me to do a writing as to – ‘How to Start a Blog?’. Don’t worry, its EASY! Its a 2 step hassle free process -  blogger How to Start a Blog?

Step – 1

Get youself registerd at one of the blogging sites like – WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, Rediff etc.

Step – 2

(this is from a WordPress perspective) Click on “NewPost”, Enter a title for your post -> write -> Add this under a category -> Publishtypepad How to Start a Blog?

DONE!!!

Couple of things that u need to be aware of -

  1. You are not a star overnight – unless of course you are Aamir Khan / Amitab Bachan – Be patient and keep posting
  2. Don’t worry about the way you write, trust me, no one is a born Shakespeare (please don’t ever ever write like Shakespeare) – Keep writing, you will improve
  3. You wont get comments as soon as you do a post, for that u need to look at point 1 – Be patient and keep writing
  4. Read others blogs and comment and reply – This will lead to point 1 and 3 and help you with 2
  5. Don’t hesitate to write and be prepared for any comments.

The only way to get noticed is to keep writing and commenting, build you network in small steps. If u dont want to get noticed, its ok, still keep writing for what ever reason it may be – Bitching about you boss, writing about your love – to anything…logo How to Start a Blog?

icon smile How to Start a Blog? Happy Blogging.

I had done couple of Blogging sessions at WIPRO and at BIMTECHhere is the link to the slides

Mallu in Delhi – Part 2

December 19, 2008 …

I didn’t expect to write this second part the very next day. But something really funny happened that i had to write about day 2.

After taking the session to a crowd, that enrolled itself for the advanced training, for something that they didn’t know, i was quite exhausted. Every time i finish a slide i’d ask them, “Did u guys understand that?”. They all will then have that look like Katrina Kaif just asked them out. Interestingly the only girl in the session, was trying out the student exercises and was cursing big time – “Yeh, kitna ghatiya system hai…”. With all that, i needed a break.

I decided to walk it up to the guest house. After all it was just a 15 min walk from the office. Got out to the main road and got on to a cycle rickshaw. I was told by my friend from Delhi that one of things to try out in Delhi was to take a ride in one of the cycle rickshaws. Hopped on to one of them and as i was nearing my guest house, i changed my plan.

(translation of my conversation with the rickshaw guy)

“Do you know any shopping malls near by..”

“Yes sir”

“Can you take me there?”

“Ok”

So he started peddling. On and on and on. On the way i see one Grand Mall, he didn’t stop there. Then i see a Mega Mall. he didnt stop there either. I asked him why he didn’t stop any where there? He replied that he will take me to a better place. 20 minutes into the ride i end up in a place like the BDA Complex in Bangalore and there was a big red board on top of that building and on it was written in white Arial Bold font – “DLF Shopping Mall”. Yes! he took me to a building named shopping mall. I just couldn’t stop laughing at myself. Paid the rickshaw guy and walked back to Mega Mall. All the way laughing at myself.

So if u ever end up in Delhi/Gurgaon/any NCR region, dont ask for shopping malls. Just ask for ‘malls’. I must warn you, if u cant say ‘mall’ with the ‘o’, and can only say that with an ‘a’; Oops! My advice – stay at home, Delhi is not the place for you. Or may be if you are lucky enough the mall can get you to a place full of ‘mall’.