Is a Paperless economy really 'Green' ?

With Global warming fears increasing, 'save-the-earth' proponents are rapidly embracing e-mail storage as the 'go-green' option in place of using paper.

I sometimes wonder if this affinity for e-storage really amounts to saving trees and is an environment friendly step. Give it a serious thought and it looks like it is not really true.
Besides the benefit of being able to search for the information we need from these archives of data, they are causing more harm than benefit sitting there in the massive servers of corporates and the free e-mail service providers and your own personal PCs and Macs.

Well lets see how. More than 90% of the data we accumulate and stash away is never used. Think about it. All your e-mails are just lying there from several years. Is there a reason why you should continue to store it when you are sure that you wont need it again ?

Most of the electricity that we use comes from thermal power plants. It requires over a tonne of coal to provide enough electricity for 10 homes a day. Server farms where the data is housed have huge electricity requirements to be able to run the servers adn continue to store the data, run the air conditioners etc. And again these servers are doing nothing much but guarding the trash of e-mails and fies that would never be required by us. Statistics show that to store an MB of data for an year, an lb of coal is required. and all this leads to burning more coal and more greenhouse gases being let into the environment.

As much as we reduce the consumption of paper, one must make an honest effort to clean up all the trash email and just delete them all.

If you truly care for the environment, do it today, do it now.

Clean up those trash emails from your mail box !

Economic ways to call families abroad

So.. you are hooked on to that calling card.. It never seems to last for enough time. With the minute rounding, call set up charges, the card expires faster than you recharge and you raise a brow when you get your credit statement at the end f the month !
You are always on the look out for the best quality ccallign card for the lowest rate. The hunt goes on.. and you wished calling abroad home or your loved ones whom you call so frequently would be free !

Well yes, it is free or atleast can be economical.
Here are a few ways you could cut costs.

I am not gonna tell you about the facilities available for computer savvy people. they have the google chat, yahoo messenger, skype , Ja-Ja and the like. Your folks out there are not that tech savvy. They are content with the plain old telephone or utmost the mobile phone and they would never touch a computer no matter what incentive you offer them. !

Let me cut the crap and go for it:

These are based on the assumptions that you have broadband internet connection at atleast either or both ends of the communicating parties.

1. Magic Jack. Here is how it works.
Lets say you have a computer. You just need to turn it on so that the Internet is running. Plug in the Magic Jack to the USB and plug in the telephone to this Magic Jack. Every Magic Jack comes with a pre-determined US Phone number. So, buy one of those and send it to your folks and help them set it up with a computer. All they need to learn is to turn the computer on. Irrespective of its configured US number, make a call to this number and the phone rings whichever part of the planet it is now at.

2. Invest in a Skype Phone. Configure the skype phone to have the users dial your name. Send it abroat to your family. All they have to do is to connect it to the router once an internet connection is set up at home. Make sure that the skype phone that they are using iss asociated with a Skype id for them. Whenever you make a call from your skype out, you should be able to reach them on the skype phone. When they make a call to your id, you can receive the call on your computer if you are online or your mobile phone if you have configured it for receiving Skype in Calls. All this will cost you nothing for international calling except for the investment in the Skype Phone.

How true is the Doomsday of Dec 21 2012 ?

We survived the millenium's dooms day but a few didn't who just fell for it. Now that we realize it was a hoax, what made people that the world was going to come to an end in the year 2000 ! ?


With that behind our backs, we seem to be approaching another one, this time, probably for real,with more certainty the fact being that it has been supported not just by prophecies,, but also by science and astronomy. And the Date is set 122112.


Well, the questions you may ask is :

• Why would the world come to an end ?


• What does it mean to us, humanity and all life on this planet ?


• Why is no one talking about it though it is only three years away?


• If it is were to happen, how can we plan to survive ?

These days, I am glued to the history channel during days and nights absorbing every bit of information that points to the Dooms day. Many of you could be doing the same as well !