Having been called a blood sucking vampire by some close friends, I should show that I can experience the same thing.

Giving blood is a simple task, takes about 1 hour of your life, and has great benefits. Until one of the synthetic blood companies I see really takes off, this is the primary way we have of maintaining the blood supply.

Was the Indian election results another instance of mis-focused polls?

Everyone who responded to a phone poll said Dewey would win. This conveniently ignored that most people who voted back then didn't have a phone.

With Gandhi winning the Indian election, was this another instance of near-sightedness? Most of the voters didn't have email, so what's the significance of sending out 1.8 million e-mails? Most people don't have phones, most voters didn't share in the "India Shining" future.

People have paraphrased Darwin as "Only the Strong survive." Which is an aggressive, and incorrect interpretation of "Survival of the fittest."

However, my favorite interpretation of is runs along the lines of. "What exists today, only exists because everyone else died off first." More of the survivor bias, instead of any intrinsic superiority in what we have now.

The webpage already says "No Customers = No Company".

So this Blog is now an open admission that I make mistakes.
Lots of them.
Over and over again.

Plus now I don't have to worry about being 'right' all the time.

I know there are errors in this text, finding them and correcting them will be left as an exercise to the reader.

Eventually, I'll fail to fail, and claim that as a success.

This thought "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Probably accounts for 90% of all decisions made by anyone.

But it also has the sub-text of "I couldn't come up with anything else"

Now, lots of bad results can arise from this, but at the time it seemed like a good idea.

The point of this post? don't always believe that there's malice in your misfortune. Ignorance, and best intentions tend to be the main reason why things are done/not done. Not outright malice against you.

Finally here. Blogging online on my site.
Thank Owen for this, he can take the credit for being the final straw.

More random thoughts to come.