According to the latest statistics released by w3counter.com, Firefox
Year: 2007
Major World Religions Ranked by Number of Adherents
The following is the list of the world’s major religions ranked by the number of believers adherent to them:
1. Christianity: 2.1 billion
2. Islam: 1.3 billion
3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
4. Hinduism: 900 million
5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
6. Buddhism: 376 million
7. primal-indigenous: 300 million
8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
9. Sikhism: 23 million
10. Juche: 19 million
11. Spiritism: 15 million
12. Judaism: 14 million
13. Baha’i: 7 million
14. Jainism: 4.2 million
15. Shinto: 4 million
16. Cao Dai: 4 million
17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
18. Tenrikyo: 2 million
19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million
20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
21. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
22. Scientology: 500 thousand
Why Don’t Tunisians Pay Online?
E-commerce never really took off in Tunisia, and a lot of people I know think that it’ll be a while before it even starts to work. There aren’t that many Tunisian websites that offer possibilities to pay online, and on the other hand not that many Tunisians are willing to use these possibilities if they exist.
I think it is important to try and understand why Tunisians aren’t ready or willing to pay online in order for businesses to search and find solutions to making the internet into another effective sales and services channel.
Some of the factors that could be behind the Tunisian’s unacceptance to use online payment are:
– Fears regarding the security of online payment platforms
– Not being used to paying online, neither locally nor internationally
– Lack of incentives to pay online, in term of access to cheaper prices or wider choice of products
– Lack and complexity of payment options
– Unawareness of the online payment options that exist in the Tunisian market today
I personally think it’s a combination of all of the above.
10 Simple Ways To Not Mess Up Your Life
I found this really interesting list of 10 ways you can avoid messing up your life; the list goes as follows:
1. Stop taking so much notice of how you feel.
2. Let go of worrying. It often makes things worse.
3. Ease up on the internal life commentary.
4. Take no notice of your inner critic.
5. Give up on feeling guilty.
6. Stop being concerned what the rest of the world says about you.
7. Stop keeping score.
8. Don’t be concerned that your life and career aren’t working out the way you planned.
9. Don’t let others use you to avoid being responsible for their own decisions.
10. Don’t worry about about your personality. You don’t really have one.
Personally, I agree with all the points above and do my best to apply them, although some are harder than others.
I guess a lot of people will find the last point a bit weird, and will be totally against it at first, but when you come to think of it, personality truly is something flexible and undefinable, it changes as we change as people.
For details on each point, read the full post: 10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life.
Problems: In The Software Or The User?
I just loved these two cartoons on Gaping Void, they totally reflect the relationship between the user and the software developers, a reality I’ve lived in the development environment ever since I started my professional career.
On one side, you have the users who do everything wrong and then blame the software for their mistakes; and on the other hand you have the developers who blame everything on the user in order to defend their code and software even if it’s full of problems.
The everlasting cycle… Very amusing at times, and very annoying at others…
The Nine Biggest Myths of the Workplace
A list of the nine biggest myths of the workplace by Penelope Trunk:
1. You
The Clash Within
(…) Until the spring of 2004, its parliamentary government was increasingly controlled by right-wing Hindu extremists who condoned and in some cases actively supported violence against minority groups, especially Muslims.
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If we really want to understand the impact of religious nationalism on democratic values, India currently provides a deeply troubling example, and one without which any understanding of the more general phenomenon is dangerously incomplete. It also provides an example of how democracy can survive the assault of religious extremism.
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The real “clash of civilizations” is not between “Islam” and “the West,” but instead within virtually all modern nations
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If we really want to understand the impact of religious nationalism on democratic values, India currently provides a deeply troubling example, and one without which any understanding of the more general phenomenon is dangerously incomplete. It also provides an example of how democracy can survive the assault of religious extremism.
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The real “clash of civilizations” is not between “Islam” and “the West,” but instead within virtually all modern nations
Your Choices, Your Life
I just came across this really interesting and true quote:
… Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
— Barbara Hall
It’s amazing how this simple fact slips the minds of so many people, and how they forget that it is up to them to make their lives whatever they become based on the different choices and decisions they take in various situations throughout life.
7 Lies That Prevent Powerful Results
I just came across a list of the seven lies that prevent people from getting to powerful results in whatever they do in life.
The list of lies goes as follows:
Lie #1: Expect Quick Results
Lie #2: Complaining is ok
Lie #3: Fix it later.
Lie #4: Having an *idea* instead of a plan
Lie #5: Ignoring your talents
Lie #6: Elusive Goals instead of Do-able Goals
Lie #7: Adopting a
If I Were A Woman…
– I wouldn’t nag and nag and then nag some more…
– I wouldn’t talk simply for the sake of talking…
– I wouldn’t spend over two hours getting ready to go out for only half an hour…
– I wouldn’t go into panic mode at the slightest hint of a wrinkle starting to form on my face…
– I would always be on time…
– I wouldn’t be a bimbo…
– I wouldn’t be insanely addicted to shoes…
– I would only go shopping when I needed to…
– I wouldn’t obsess on how big or small a certain body part of mine is…
– I wouldn’t be a tease…
– I wouldn’t talk about things I have no idea about…
– I wouldn’t give a shit about this or that celebrity’s new look…
I think you get the idea…
But above all: I wouldn’t complain and nag about how much I want to be treated as an equal to man, and then ask to be treated specially, as a woman, when it suits me better.
These points are inspired from the different annoying things I have seen in a lot of girls and women at work, at the mall, at school, …etc throughout my life.
Obviously not one person can have all these things together, that’d be a disaster, although I’ve seen some people come pretty close, and it’s really rare to find a girl/woman who doesn’t have at least one of them; I believe my dear wife is one of the closest there is to that side of the spectrum; lucky me.
Update: I’ve obviously upset some people with this post, who think that it’s a sexist post. I just wanted to apologize if it came across as such, it wasn’t meant in that way at all. The idea of the post is that we, from both sexes, find a number of annoying things in the opposite sex, and this post just summed some of these things in women. It doesn’t imply in any way that we men are perfect or superior, in fact I know that we’re even worse in our own ways, and I’ll even be posting about that soon.