It is Thanksgiving day. I have a lot to be thankful of. I can’t imagine my life without any of these.
- The Internet – For giving me a way to earn a living
- Browsers and plugins (I spend more time of my life in this app than with my family)
- Email – My second most heavily used app
- Blogging Tools – This is how I make all my new friends and have conversations
- Micro-blogs like Twitter – My major source of news
- Scripting Languages like Python – How I still (after 30 years) keep in touch with programming
- Wikis – How I share knowledge both inside our company and outside
- Social Networks like Facebook – Another way to keep in touch with extended family and friends
- Ning – How I set up and participate in many social networks
- Cell Phones – My constant companions for calling, communicating and reading
- Podcasts – Make the time on my treadmill a pleasure and keep me informed
- Skype/Gtalk – How I get almost all my work done with colleagues in different parts of the world
- delicious – A social bookmarking tool that serves as my memory to cool resources
- YouTube and Other Videos – a bigger source of entertainment and education than TV
- The Tech and Startup Communities – That give me the oxygen I need to survive
- Bloggers – My virtual teachers
- My Students and Colleagues – They accelerate my learning by sharing
- My family, friends and colleagues – They make life worth living