Philosophy : To Blog or Not To Blog

..... yes thats the whole question. With more and more news being written about bloggers and their responsibilites, Blogosphere is slowly coming into limelight. This week there were 2 news hitting the headlines. Earlier it was the ban on certain blogs by the ISPs in India and today BBC ran an article on how to´s for a blog.

One of my friends is doing research in Intellectual Property and Legal issues over content of the Internet. His opinion is that the blog craze is bound to grow but the bloggers need to be aware of the legal implications and own responsibility of what they write about. Well not everyone is to be careful, its only those who love to complain and cribble over their lives, jobs, employers and people around them, who have to be ready to face some music for their actions. There are plenty of bloggers who write constructive, creative and informative content. I love to read such blogs rather than listen to somebody complaining.

Philosophy of Life : The End of Grad School

I came across this on the Net.

lyrics by Steven A. Wolfman

Hello caffeine my old friend
I’ve come to wire myself again
I should be back home in my bed sleeping
Instead I’m trying to write this thesis thing
But the chapters get jumbled in my head
Feels like lead
This is the end of grad school.

Late last night I worked alone
That’s when I heard the telephone
Headhunters spoke with tongues of honey
Weaving fever dreams of money
And the sound of ka-ching is rare for a PhC
We work for free
That was the end of grad school.

“Fools,” said I, “you do not know
Research like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Tenure track will soon defeat you.”
With those words, to lecture I am bound
Abandoning the sounds of grad school

And then some students knock on wood
Pray for three letters and a hood
A decade older than the new first-years
Sixty credit cards in deep arrears
Someday they’ll think: “If I’ll end up at Google,
I might as well go today.
I need the pay,
To make an end to grad school.”

Footnote : The Ph.C., or Philosophical Candidacy, is the utterly meaningless degree one receives upon qualifying for the Ph.D. program, as with a successful preliminary, generals, or thesis proposal examination.