The 2009 Index of Economic Freedom

Hong Kong returned to occupy its top-spot for the 15th consecutive time, in the ‘Index of Economic Freedom’.

WTF this ranking is all about?
This ranking/study is done by the Heritage Foundation and the "Wall Street Journal.", to quote them

We measure ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic freedom score for each country. The ten components of economic freedom are:
Business Freedom | Trade Freedom | Fiscal Freedom | Government Size | Monetary Freedom | Investment Freedom | Financial Freedom | Property rights | Freedom from Corruption | Labor Freedom

Where are we (Indian?)
Very well placed at 123th spot out of 183 nations, doing well against China, Nepal, Niger etc etc . Anyway we can say that like any other ranking , this is also of dubious nature, reason is simple: Pakistan is placed at 102.


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SeX in Advertising Part 1

Sex or Sexuality as we all knows, do influences our thoughts, behaviours, orientations toward others, all in all life in general. I have been doing a lot of research on this, resulting lots of funny/crazy/dud stuff. I had posted a series titled “Sexy Advertising” on my other blog, anyway with not much time and energy left to run multiple blogs, I will continue that series on BiZdom ONLY.

Cast your vote, not vote your caste

It is often said that in India, People don't cast their vote, rather vote their caste.
Taking a clue from this our politician do all sort of activity that could helped them in seeking votes. One such event is this " 5th Multilingual Brahmin convention", at Pune.

My only request to all those who are reading this post is to, please vote this time and if you vote, please don't vote your caste.

Anyway trivia is "Baba Ramdev" himself is a Yadav, not a Brahmin....

Tumblr: easiest way to express yourself.

Presently the two most common way of regularly publishing your content are blogging and micro blogging. Though Blogs (like us) are technically far less complex than any other professional content management systems, but still they do require some basic knowledge of web design. Micro blogging services like Twitter on the other hand, usually serve as a platform for short, daily or hourly status reports kind of thing for their users - at 140 maximum authorized characters per entry. Here comes another service Tumblr, created by young David Karp, in 2005

Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML.

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UsernameCheck.com : online identity management

The Web, predominantly under its latest avatar of "2.0" offers many great things and these things do require a username to login. Sometime we do all the hard work of registering as a new user with a desired id, only to later getting a disappointing message as “This username is not available”. If , this is the same wit you also then do visit www.usernamecheck.com

The webpage reviews 68 Web Services (more will be added soon) one after another, and tells you whether a user name is available or not.