It's that time of the year again...or rather it's past that time of the year. When you review the 365 odd days gone by, become nostalgic, and say, "Those really were the days!!!Ah, 2008..." (Or perhaps not). The season for top ten, bottom ten, middle ten and nondescript ten listings. The moment for new resolutions, which might have never been required had the older ones been adhered to. The time for parties, crackers, unmitigated rowdy-ism (no, am not a cynic through and through, just a realist. Any decent psychotherapist will give you the difference :)). Not that there is anything wrong with any of the above...people have their own way of coping with the passage of time.
One thing that changed in the past year, perhaps (it's difficult to say) is that people have begun to take public security (I hope), a bit more seriously. One thing that stubbornly remains unchanged, though, is blogger still doesn't allow me to type titles in English (reward's still open). My faith in technology takes a deeper and deeper blow with each passing day. Ah, well...
On an entirely different, unrelated and irrelevant note, here's an excerpt from one of my lectures a year or two back:
" Psychologists began to outgrow behaviourism when they discovered that there is more to the psychological framework than the simple 'stimulus-response' patterns. Behaviourism treated an individual like a vending machine- you put a quarter, you get a candy. But there are unknown variables, the 'x's, that influence human behaviour and make it much, much more complex than that. Sometime, you insert the quarter, and there is no candy...sometimes there is no quarter....and..well...you get the drift..."

What can I say...Thank God this is not my profession!
HAppy New Year!