<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157122334716805287</id><updated>2011-07-31T00:16:17.819-07:00</updated><title type='text'>~:Phitiyali:~</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Dennis Dsouza</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04083166666249341373</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwC8iZzuinc/SoQd-GagN2I/AAAAAAAAADg/U56hb3iJkf0/S220/me.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157122334716805287.post-7936146321710889874</id><published>2011-03-24T08:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-24T08:49:23.791-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BzG0QivEy4E/TYtn8OhcKLI/AAAAAAAAAGk/dk7S6TT8HJU/s1600/ddjqg67b_1hp3mc6z8.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BzG0QivEy4E/TYtn8OhcKLI/AAAAAAAAAGk/dk7S6TT8HJU/s400/ddjqg67b_1hp3mc6z8.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587674047071398066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CFTnLq98WxM/TYtntBKfmBI/AAAAAAAAAGc/UATE04nMqDc/s1600/ddjqg67b_1hp3mc6z8.jpeg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7157122334716805287-7936146321710889874?l=phitiyali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/feeds/7936146321710889874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7157122334716805287&amp;postID=7936146321710889874' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/7936146321710889874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/7936146321710889874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Dennis Dsouza</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04083166666249341373</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwC8iZzuinc/SoQd-GagN2I/AAAAAAAAADg/U56hb3iJkf0/S220/me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BzG0QivEy4E/TYtn8OhcKLI/AAAAAAAAAGk/dk7S6TT8HJU/s72-c/ddjqg67b_1hp3mc6z8.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157122334716805287.post-865570474764827021</id><published>2010-08-05T08:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-05T08:46:27.932-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;SERVICES&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We know you have a choice in custom professional  web design services. 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Since you know your business best, we will turn to you throughout the  project to tell us what works and what doesn't work for your specific audience&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Careful analysis of consumer wants and needs  coupled with strategic execution is critical to the delivery of a successful design.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Web Design &amp;amp; Development&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We approach all of our designs with a strategic  approach to fuse design elements with function and purpose to communicate who you  are and what you have to offer to your target audience. 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We service  clients world wide.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We have dedicated this firm to provide the best web  designs and development services needed in today’s competitive market. We  constantly strive to improve upon our services and resources to give the best in everything.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We believe developing a professional website is the  first step toward a successful online business. With every decision we make,  we consider what it means for you - your brand, your budget, your  customers, your prospects, your competition and your market. So at every milestone  touched we turn to you for your input and reviews to reach your expectations.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Webstyle.in is a professional team of web designers  and developers. We serve clients on an international level. Our team has  years of experience in the field, working on design and development on hundreds  of projects.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Our most requested service is home page design and  custom web development for existing and start-up firms. We'll meet all your  needs in a prompt manner, while providing the highest quality product. Our  experience gives us the ability to develop high-end websites, at an affordable  price, for any type of business.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;So, Lets start ! //* hyperlink to contact us  page*//&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7157122334716805287-3756215446132608944?l=phitiyali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/feeds/3756215446132608944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7157122334716805287&amp;postID=3756215446132608944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/3756215446132608944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/3756215446132608944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/2010/08/about-us-webstyle.html' title=''/><author><name>Dennis Dsouza</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04083166666249341373</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwC8iZzuinc/SoQd-GagN2I/AAAAAAAAADg/U56hb3iJkf0/S220/me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157122334716805287.post-5106402862297179043</id><published>2009-02-19T15:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T15:59:15.149-08:00</updated><title type='text'>“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="text"&gt;Guys who are enjoying their holidays between jobs, check out some great videos to help you move in soon to your desk......cheers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please forward these videos to job seekers in your network:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Winner Resume&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnP_cIku9oi0%26amp%3Bfeature%3Drelated&amp;amp;urlhash=2U3n&amp;amp;_t=mbox_mebc"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_cIku9oi0&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) 10 Steps to a Great Conversation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEM6KOlVmDUM%26amp%3Bfeature%3Drelated&amp;amp;urlhash=qond&amp;amp;_t=mbox_mebc"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM6KOlVmDUM&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) How to follow-up and land the interview&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYwjBpCWPuOI%26amp%3Bfeature%3Drelated&amp;amp;urlhash=UTzT&amp;amp;_t=mbox_mebc"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwjBpCWPuOI&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Ace your interview&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhWBaJY4IJhQ%26amp%3Bfeature%3Drelated&amp;amp;urlhash=YZxL&amp;amp;_t=mbox_mebc"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWBaJY4IJhQ&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Send Top Job Leads as a Gift&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DY30_WjiKy_c%26amp%3Bfeature%3Drelated&amp;amp;urlhash=TjyR&amp;amp;_t=mbox_mebc"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30_WjiKy_c&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) Intro to Top Job Leads&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPqczWdQ0f0A%26amp%3Bfeature%3Drelated&amp;amp;urlhash=OdNK&amp;amp;_t=mbox_mebc"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqczWdQ0f0A&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2ETopJobLeads%2Ecom&amp;amp;urlhash=kmm1&amp;amp;_t=mbox_mebc"&gt;www.TopJobLeads.com&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 100,000 job leads nationwide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7157122334716805287-5106402862297179043?l=phitiyali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/feeds/5106402862297179043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7157122334716805287&amp;postID=5106402862297179043' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/5106402862297179043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/5106402862297179043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-way-to-appreciate-your-job-is-to.html' title='“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”'/><author><name>Dennis Dsouza</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04083166666249341373</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwC8iZzuinc/SoQd-GagN2I/AAAAAAAAADg/U56hb3iJkf0/S220/me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157122334716805287.post-6473449595424225318</id><published>2009-02-05T08:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T15:34:47.047-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Get a Life and Look at the View</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a very good post and would like to share this with everyone who are re-evaluating their stand in life and looking ways to find themselves......cheers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Villanova Commencement Address by Anna Quindlen (Pulitzer Prize Winner)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;It's a great honor for me to be the third member of my family to receive an honorary doctorate from this great university. It's an honor to follow my great-Uncle Jim, who was a gifted physician, and my Uncle Jack, who is a remarkable businessman. Both of them could have told you something important about their professions, about medicine or commerce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no specialized field of interest or expertise, which puts me at a disadvantage, talking to you today. I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. Don't ever forget the words my father sent me on a postcard last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat." Or what John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of the Dakota: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds of people out there with your same degree; there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But is a resume a cold comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen, I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cutout. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here is what I wanted to tell you today:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over the water gap or the way a baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a cheerio with her thumb and first finger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get a life. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. Kiss your Mom. Hug your Dad. Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas in the suburban neighborhood where you grew up; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black, black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. Just keep your eyes and ears open, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end. No man ever said on his deathbed, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found one of my best teachers on the boardwalk at Coney Island maybe 15 years ago. It was December, and I was doing a story about how the homeless survive in the winter months. He and I sat on the edge of the wooden supports, dangling our feet over the side, and he told me about his schedule, panhandling the boulevard when the summer crowds were gone, sleeping in a church when the temperature went below freezing, hiding from the police amidst the Tilt a Whirl and the Cyclone and some of the other seasonal rides. But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them. And I asked him why. Why didn't he go to one of the shelters? Why didn't he check himself into the hospital for detox? And he just stared out at the ocean and said, "Look at the view, young lady. Look at the view."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And every day, in some little way, I try to do what he said. I try to look at the view. And that's the last thing I have to tell you today, words of wisdom from a man with not a dime in his pocket, no place to go, nowhere to be. Look at the view. You'll never be disappointed!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7157122334716805287-6473449595424225318?l=phitiyali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/feeds/6473449595424225318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7157122334716805287&amp;postID=6473449595424225318' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/6473449595424225318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/6473449595424225318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/2009/02/get-life-and-look-at-view.html' title='Get a Life and Look at the View'/><author><name>Dennis Dsouza</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04083166666249341373</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwC8iZzuinc/SoQd-GagN2I/AAAAAAAAADg/U56hb3iJkf0/S220/me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157122334716805287.post-8738116248715002694</id><published>2009-02-05T08:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T08:06:22.111-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Advice You Never Learned in School</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Although the following list of eleven useful "rules" you did not learn in school is typically attributed to Bill Gates, it is actually from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 1: Life is not fair; get used to it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills; cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RULE 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7157122334716805287-8738116248715002694?l=phitiyali.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/feeds/8738116248715002694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7157122334716805287&amp;postID=8738116248715002694' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/8738116248715002694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7157122334716805287/posts/default/8738116248715002694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://phitiyali.blogspot.com/2009/02/advice-you-never-learned-in-school.html' title='Advice You Never Learned in School'/><author><name>Dennis Dsouza</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04083166666249341373</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwC8iZzuinc/SoQd-GagN2I/AAAAAAAAADg/U56hb3iJkf0/S220/me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
