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Every second you spend on the Internet, you're actively involved in painting a digital picture of yourself. This portrait helps companies target content at specific markets and consumers, helps employers look into your background, and helps advertisers track your movements across multiple websites. Whatever you do online, you might be leaving digital footprints behind. ( http://www.internetsociety.org/your-digital-footprint-matters ) In short, your digital footprint is everything you do online. Social media activity, app usage, email records. Watching videos, visiting adult sites, using certain plugins, everything goes into this piece of art. Whether you like it or not, everything you do on the web can be tracked. A lot of people seem to think that using incognito features on browsers or routers does any good. It might hide data locally (on your system) but it does nothing to completely hide your presence on the web. A diagram of how your internet works The abov...

I started my blog with a post about space, and that really attracted people to check out the entire blog. I find it only right that I write blogs about space from time to time. So, let's get right into it. Why is Space so fascinating to humans? Think of space as a huge stage, where performances take place every second. Some incredible things happen on this stage. Giant stars exploding, black holes that don't even let light escape, asteroids, giant meteors that have the potential to wipe out most life on earth should they hit us. For some people, space is a way to predict their life, this is called astrology. It lets us imagine, use our creative skills, and to contemplate what could this all really mean. It lets us look in worlds much different than ours, and to delve deep into the past. You must've heard in movies or otherwise, about this 'space-time' fabric or whatever. I'll tell you something very simple, but it'll change the way you look at sp...

So, a lot of cool things happened in 2000. Mainly, I was born. Probably nothing more memorable other than that. If you’ve been on the internet — or, well, on Earth— lately, you've probably heard about Pokémon Go. You may be wondering what the hell is going on. Don't worry, I too was asking "What are Pokemon?", but that was all the way back in 2005, if you've never heard of Pokémon, time to get out of your cave, Cletus.  Nevermind, let me quickly introduce you to Pokémon. From Vox.com: Pokémon is a Nintendo franchise that launched in the 1990s. In its world, "trainers" travel the world to catch varied monsters called Pokémon — rats, dragons, swordlike creatures, and more — and use these critters to fight each other. The trainer’s goal is to "catch ’em all," as the franchise’s slogan suggests, and become a Pokémon master by defeating prestigious trainers known as gym leaders and Elite Four. Well, Pokémon Go is Nintendo's latest creat...

In a competitive world like ours, performing is the only way to survive. You can't sit for 8 hours on a couch and expect it elevate you to greatness. You got to be ready to give it a 110% every day. Hard work is the stuff that legends are made of. Talent is the head start that some people are given in life. Hard work is driven by a certain motivation. Talent is given, not earned. Hard work is based on principle, because behind every principle (i.e waking up at six) is a promise, a promise that this is the sacrifice you must make for a greater good. Talent can be useless. Some people have talents that will never get them anywhere in life. Yes, it's great that your tongue can touch your nose, or the fact that you can lick your elbow, but when you show up for a job interview, ask yourself what good that does you? "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough." Whether you have talent or not, you can have hard work. Hard work is not a genetic m...

For you, I don't know what it is, but if you have a problem in your life, a challenge that you feel you can't overcome, learn to deal with it. It will not disappear on its own. You won't sleep one night and wake up the next day without it being there. The sooner you deal with it, the sooner you get to your rewards, baby!. Deal with the fact that you are a procrastinator. Deal with the fact that you have anxiety. Deal with the fact that you're overwhelmed by your success, deal with the fact that it's hard for you to execute. It's not the end of the world, deal with it. - Eric Thomas I could have been writing this blog two years ago,  but because I didn't believe in myself, and I let people's opinions control my destiny, I didn't act on my ideas. Not only is it important for you to chase your dream, it's necessary you associate yourself with greatness, and not people who aren't striving, who aren't growing, who have become lazy, it...

Space has interested us as far back as the dawn of humanity. It has become quite the realm of our fantasy. Nothing makes a good debate as much as the existence of extra-terrestrial life does. Rightly so, humans have always used space as a measuring stick to validate themselves. "Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." - Carl Sagan Perhaps it's the fact of belonging to something so complex, vast and elaborate that interests us or maybe it stems from general human curiosity. It can be observed in history that humans have always been doing things that seemed impossible, and that is what separates us from any other species. Humans have always expanded the confines of possibility with curiosity and sacrifice. Space is huge. I'm sure I don't have to explicitly define how small our triumphs are in the face of this mighty universe. Let alone the un...

I'm going to get in here before people start hashtagging  ‪#‎ PrayForIstanbul‬  or the like. It's deeply saddening that it only resonates to people when places like Paris or Brussels are attacked. Why the double standard?  Are places like Ankara not important enough? Are the daily attacks in Syria and Gaza not cool enough to talk about? I'm sure that most people haven't even heard about what happened in Istanbul yet, so before hashtagging and changing your DPs to flag colours becomes the new trend, please inform yourselves.