Continuing on the jobless theme, there seem to be many online sites which allow you to work for clients all over the world. Check one popular one at rent a coder.

The Yaksha's question and its equivalent today

In the famous 'Yaksha Prasna' in the Mahabharata, the Yaksha asks Dharmaputra to answer a few questions and stipulates that if he does not give proper answers, he would be killed the same way as his other Pandava brothers were killed.

The last question he asks is "What is the most astonishing thing in this world"?
The answer was something along the lines of "People see people dying all around them all the time but they dont realize that they are going to die themselves sooner or later."

So whats the answer to that question in todays context?
I think it is "We see people losing their jobs all around us, but we dont think we are going to lose our jobs anytime soon" :)

There is a nice article about keeping your job at the pp website . Though it assumes an american audience, it holds for all programmers and is well worth a read.

Saw Harry Potter at IMAX over the weekend. Good timepass movie.