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There are many ways to avoid success in life, but lets see if I can put together a sureshot way to achieve it. You may be thinking that one has to do little to ensure failure, but the truth is you have to really work hard at being a “successful” failure.

10. Procrastination: The most sure-fire way to to become a great failure is through procrastination. Procrastination is a lifestyle, albeit a maladaptive one but it can get you there. To be a good procrastinator all you have to do is be over optimistic than others while estimating time. You have to learn tell lies to yourself such as, “I’ll feel more like doing this tomorrow or This thing needs more attention so I am going to have to do it next week whan I will be more free.” You have to actively look for distractions, particularly ones that don’t take a lot of commitment on their part like Orkutting or chatting.

9. Being the Frog in the well: Never try to expand your horizon. What do we need it for anyways. Remember that life doesn’t exist beyond your well and even if it does it shouldn’t make any difference to you. You never need to learn anything new….apart from what you already learnt in your well. That’s all you need to survive. Stay in the well. Have a nice time.

8. Listen to failures: Learn from the successes of other people. Its difficult finding failures around you. One way you can learn from other people is by listening to them. Learn how to genuinely listening to other people and DO not interrupt whenever they are saying something. Listen thoroughly how they got there, acknowledge them for their efforts and implement the same in your life.

7. Daydream: Yes! learn to exercise the power of your imagination by thinking in great detail how you can laze around not doing anything. Do this often and one day you will be surprised that your dream has already become a reality.

6. Make Goals: Hmm…you would say..that’s supposed to be a hindrance..but no it helps and in a big way. You have to make your life goals so big, that you just can’t achieve them. GO for the impossible!! This way you will never have to work towards it..and you can always have the pleasure of putting the blame on someone else that they couldn’t help you get your dreams [:P].

5. Learn to relax: Take it easy. Whats the big hurry? Being a failure is hard work. Not only that…people keep pestering not to become one. So learn to ease your mind. Close your ears ….and just listen to your heart.

4. Enjoy the journey: Life is a journey. Whats the point in working…working..and working. Enjoy life….laze around, take naps, do whatever..but don’t do anything that smells of responsibility or work. Ewww! Whats the point …we all are going to die anyways.

3. Never look at the watch: A minute gone into working may accidentally lead you towards success. Avoid it all costs. Throw away the watch. It’s the devils creation to wean you away from eternal happiness.

2. Take proud in your achievements: Take note and be proud of your successes in achieving failure. Remember the obstacles that you have overcome in the past. Remember all you had to go through…before you finally got there. Never let all the hard work go down the drain. The path to achieving failure is much more difficult than to achieve success, no one will be there to help you or even empathize with you. But you have to carry on. Be a proud failure and keep going.

1. Write blogs: Yea, waste time writing worthless posts like this. You can not only waste your own time…but also inspire an entire generation towards something they always wanted….a nap. [:P]

I guess that covers most things. 10 ways to achieving “failurehood.” Hope it helps.

If you’re not familiar with the concept of mouse gestures, it’s simple: by holding down the right-click button and dragging your mouse in a pre-defined fashion, you can execute a user-defined command or action.

For example, you could set up a global mouse gesture that launches Opera any time you trace ‘O’ on your screen.

StrokeIt lets you customize commands based on application, and it comes with a ton of pre-baked gestures that you might want to try out to get the hang of it. Mouse gestures are only limited by your imagination to use them. It is a very useful tool if you want to save time or are too lazy[:P] to take your mouse all the way into the Programs menu to execute your programs.

StrokeIt is donationware, Windows only. It also comes with a plugin to minimize it to the system tray. I find it very useful. Download it here

I just bought my second USB flash drive last week and boy was I impressed. The Kingston’s U3 DataTraveler smart drive offers more than just portable storage.

It can also store and run software programs that you can download from U3.com. U3 DataTraveler is ideal for users who move between different locations that have PCs, including: home, office, homes of friends and family. I can now carry my world with me in my pocket.

U3 DataTraveler is designed to ensure that no personal data is left behind viz. chat archives or browser history on the desktop or laptop where it is used, giving you extra security when using public access PCs at Internet cafés or schools. You can also restrict access to data by setting your own personal password with the password protection feature.

U3 is an emerging standard for making portable applications that run on flash drives. It requires a compatible device and for the application to be made with a few, simple standards.

Major flash drive manufacturers are partnering with U3 to make lines of drives that are compatible. I anticipate that not just some, but most flash drives sold in the future will be U3 compatible.

A few applications that are already available are Skype, Trillian, Thunderbird, Firefox and WinAmp. The U3 site has several applications available for download, but not all freeware.

With a five year warranty, this stuff is real cool. Get one today!

Check out this sleek and stylish, the Compaq Presario B1822 notebook I got. It’s incredibly lightweight and yet exceptionally powerful with the latest Intel technology. It is one of the smallest and lightest notebook ever designed by HP.

I was actually not sure about the 12″ screen — At some point, resolution beyond a certain depth is too fine for me to use for long periods. In this case, the crispness of each character on the screen is amazing, and the aspect ratio being as wide as it is means I have some huge amount of screen real estate.

The machine is fast, not too heavy and elegant. It took me some 6 hours to load all my software onto it, that’s fast.

I have already finished a couple of kewl games on it including “Call of Duty” and “Chronicles of Riddick -Escape from Butcher Bay”. Its wonderful.

I just came across this very interesting article I had had to share. The author Craig Mazur talks about a traditional Eastern Philosophy originating from Japan. “Kaizen” is a Japanese philosophy of continual improvement. The concept embraces the idea that a designer or manufacturer should be continually looking for ways to make a product better. Kaizen, he believes, calls for a relentless incremental effort. The Kaizen approach works because any design and process improvement is never-ending. There are always ways to make something better or do something more efficiently, and that is the heart of the Kaizen philosophy.

Google is the most advance spam avoiding search engine. It is very difficult if not impossible to spam Google for better listing in SERPs. Any abrupt changes to your website like suddenly adding 50,000 inbound links or creating a thousand new pages will be construed as a clear sign of spamming from Google’s efficient filter. This filter keeps a track on the pace at which the website is updated regularly. It doesn’t matter how big or small update you are doing, but you should do it regularly to keep Google informed and alert.

Kaizen quite naturally works well with Google search engine optimization since their algorithms also practice the same Kaizen philosophy to develop. Recent information confirm that they have an algorithm that tracks the growth of inbound links to a site, and that algorithm favors “natural growth” of links to a site that is built gradually over time. The addition of large numbers of inbound links to a site in a short time reveals an unnatural link building pattern and thus the site may get hit with a spam penalty.

SEO is also a process that never really ends due to changing search engine algorithms. Kaizen SEO is therefore a philosophy that continually seeks ways to make a Web site more visible and attractive to the search engines. It is a process that requires periodic tweaks to a Web site’s content or script code in order to help the site to rank more favorably. The process never ends because the evolution never ends. The goal is perfection, but perfection can never be reached, and thus the art of Kaizen lives on forever.

“To adopt Kaizen means to be ever willing to change, for if you don’t, you surrender yourself and your market to those who do.”