I have been in love with podcasts and iTunes. When reading books are not the luxury (crowded commuting or just a mood for something different other than reading), listening to podcasts while on the go is always a step ahead… my list includes…

1. Amateur Travels
2. QDT
3. Beautiful Places in HD
4. The Welch Way
5. Photoshop killer tips
6. Pixel Perfect
7. Tekzilla
8. Pop Siren
9. TWIP
10. SKywatch
11. 65 bits
12. Travel with Rick Steeves
13. Planet Green Podcast
14. Lightroom for digital photographers

few of them on the desktop…

1. analog clock
2. month calendar
3. countdown
4. stock updates
5. world clocks

List of stufff to install/download after reformatting my laptop…

1. OS
2. Office – word precessing, spreadsheet and presentations

1. anti-virus – AVG
2. MSN messenger
3. Skype
4. Firefox
5. Chrome
6. Adobe reader
7. Flash player
8. FLV Player
9. Dropbox
10. piclens
11. iTunes
12. Google Earth
13. Irfan View
14. Yahoo Widgets

that’s a long list… no wonder i can take up to a day to install everything

This is an interesting one i thought. I am not conscious when to use ‘whether’ and when to use ‘if’

• Whether – for a choice/alternatives
• If – for a condition

Account for / Account to… when to use what?

• Account for – explain something 
  E.g. We had to account for the delay.
• Account to – receive blame or credit
  E.g. You will have to account to the the teacher for your naughtiness

Types of tenses in English Language:

• Present Tense
• Present Continuous Tense
• Present Perfect Tense – The action started in the past and it continues upto now.
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense – The action has just stopped or an action continuing up to now

• Past Tense
• Past Continuous Tense
• Past Perfect Tense – The action in the past before another action in the past.
• Past Perfect Continuous Tense – It expresses longer actions in the past before another action in the past
  E.g. I was very tired because I had been running.

• Future Tense
• Future Continuous Tense
• Future Perfect Tense
  The train will have left when you arrive.  
• Future Perfect Continuous Tense - about a long action before some point in the future
  I will have been working here for ten years next week. 

Accept versus Except

• Accept means “to agree to” or “to receive.”
  E.g. We will accept (receive) your manuscript for review.
• Except means “to object to” or “to leave out.”
  e.g. No parking is allowed, except (leave out) on holidays. 

What is a modifier? In grammar, a modifier (or qualifier) is a word or sentence element that limits or qualifies another word, a phrase, or a clause.  There are 2 kinds of modifiers are:

1. adjectives - modify nouns and pronouns
2. adverbs - modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

Subjunctive is a special rare verb in English. The structure is extremely simple:

• be (past)  - I were, you were, he/ she/it were, we were, they were
• be (present) - I be, you be, he/ she/ it be, we be, they be
• all other verbs (past & present) - I play, you play, he/ she/it play, we play, they play

Some links:

• Grammar Girl
• GMAT Grammar
• English Club

It has long been a tenet of business theory that the best decisiosn are amde after careful review and consideration. Only then can a practical decision be made. Now that model is being questioned by some business thinkers in the light of the theories of Malcolm Gladwell, who states that human beings make better decisions in the blink of an eye. Gladwell argues that on the contrary, the human mind is able to make complicated decisions quickly, and that intuition often trumps an extended decision-making process.

Some links..

• Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink – the book