Sunday, April 27, 2008
Will Power !
An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work.
His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation.
Dear Son, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year.
I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison.
Love, Dad.........
Shortly, the old man received this telegram:
"For Heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up the garden!! That's where I buried the GUNS!"
At 4a.m. The next morning, A dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns.
Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asked him what to do next.
His son's reply was: "Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad. It's the best I could do for you from here."
- Moral Of the Story
NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING DEEP FROM YOUR HEART, YOU CAN DO IT
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Google Mini Search Appliance
Google Mini Search Appliance - relevant and secure search
Details here:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/
Details here:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/
Google India Movies : What Movies running in theater?
try,
http://www.google.co.in/movies
Enter your location and see the details of movies currently on theater.
This is really cool.
http://www.google.co.in/movies
Enter your location and see the details of movies currently on theater.
This is really cool.
Happy BirthDay: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Today(April 24) Sachin has reached another milestone, now he is 35 years old. But still his age is less than the number of centuries, he scored in Test matches.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Earth Day - 22nd April
Today is world's earth day.The official site: http://ww2.earthday.net/
Read about earth day in wiki
Image Source: http://www.outlook.noaa.gov/earthday/images/eday5.jpg
Old Story -- New Look
Have you heard the story of "The Washer man and the Foolish Donkey"?
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To refresh your memory, and for the benefit of those who have not grown up listening to this moral story, it goes like this
There was once a washer man who had a donkey and a dog. One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief broke into the house, the washer man was fast asleep but the donkey and the dog were awake. The dog decided not to bark since the master did not take good care of him and wanted to teach him a lesson. The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if he doesn't bark, the donkey will have to do something himself. The dog did not change his mind and the donkey started braying loudly. Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the donkey for braying in the middle of the night for no reason.
Moral of the story " One must not engage in duties other than his own"
Now take a new look at the same story
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The washer man was a well educated man from a premier management institute. He had the fundas of looking at the bigger picture and thinking out of the box. He was convinced that there must be some reason for the donkey to bray in the night. He walked outside a little and did some fact finding, applied a bottom up approach, figured out from the ground realities that there was a thief who broke in and the donkey only wanted to alert him about it. Looking at the donkey's extra initiative and going beyond the call of the duty, he rewarded him with lot of hay and other perks and became his favorite pet. The dog's life didn't change much, except that now the donkey was more motivated in doing the dogs duties as well. In the annual appraisal the dog managed a " meets requirement" Soon the dog realized that the donkey is taking care of his duties and he can enjoy his life sleeping and lazing around. The donkey was rated as " star performer". The donkey had to live up to his already high performance standards. Soon he was over burdened with work and always under pressure and now is looking for a job rotation
Moral: If you have worked in a corporate environment, I am sure you have guessed the characters of the new story.
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To refresh your memory, and for the benefit of those who have not grown up listening to this moral story, it goes like this
There was once a washer man who had a donkey and a dog. One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief broke into the house, the washer man was fast asleep but the donkey and the dog were awake. The dog decided not to bark since the master did not take good care of him and wanted to teach him a lesson. The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if he doesn't bark, the donkey will have to do something himself. The dog did not change his mind and the donkey started braying loudly. Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the donkey for braying in the middle of the night for no reason.
Moral of the story " One must not engage in duties other than his own"
Now take a new look at the same story
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The washer man was a well educated man from a premier management institute. He had the fundas of looking at the bigger picture and thinking out of the box. He was convinced that there must be some reason for the donkey to bray in the night. He walked outside a little and did some fact finding, applied a bottom up approach, figured out from the ground realities that there was a thief who broke in and the donkey only wanted to alert him about it. Looking at the donkey's extra initiative and going beyond the call of the duty, he rewarded him with lot of hay and other perks and became his favorite pet. The dog's life didn't change much, except that now the donkey was more motivated in doing the dogs duties as well. In the annual appraisal the dog managed a " meets requirement" Soon the dog realized that the donkey is taking care of his duties and he can enjoy his life sleeping and lazing around. The donkey was rated as " star performer". The donkey had to live up to his already high performance standards. Soon he was over burdened with work and always under pressure and now is looking for a job rotation
Moral: If you have worked in a corporate environment, I am sure you have guessed the characters of the new story.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Eye-catching The Beijing Capital International Airport
The pictures are of The Beijing Capital International Airport.Read the whole details about the airport here:
IPL Opening Ceremony
I had a chance to witness the beautiful opening ceremony of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, on 18 April 2008 night.The 1 hr+ ceremony was mind blowing.
Shankar Mahadeven, Eshaan Noorani(on the guitar) and Loy Mendonza (on the keyboard) had the more than 35,000 crowd overjoyed with their sizzling and JOSHILA performance.
Washington Redskins and about 65 international performers performed on the ocassion of the opening ceremony. It was awesome.
A part of the show can found in a VDO here
After the overwhelming openign ceremony, NZ WicketKeepr Brendon McCiullarm's 73 balls 158(13 sixes) runs innings rocked the ground. A post about the same is here
Really we enjoyed a lot!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We are very keen on cleanliness
Boss (to the new employee): We are very keen on cleanliness. Did you wipe your feet on the mat as you came in?
New employee: Yes, sir.
Boss: We are also keen on truthfulness. There is no mat.
New employee: Yes, sir.
Boss: We are also keen on truthfulness. There is no mat.
Traffic Squeezer - Linux based free Open Source WAN Network Acceleration Solution
Thought of sharing a good work done by one of my friend.
Traffic Squeezer is an Open-Source Linux WAN Network Traffic Acceleration solution/framework. URL: http://trafficsqueezer.sourceforge.net
Traffic Squeezer does WAN Traffic Acceleration in a private corporate leased lines. To accelerate the traffic Traffic Squeezer applies data-compression, frame-coalescing, protocol specific acceleration (like TCP fine tuning,etc) also traffic QoS. He/She can configure the Traffic Squeezer application in a Web based GUI Interface also check the statistics/performance using runtime graphs.
Traffic Squeezer is an Open-Source Linux WAN Network Traffic Acceleration solution/framework. URL: http://trafficsqueezer.sourcef
Traffic Squeezer does WAN Traffic Acceleration in a private corporate leased lines. To accelerate the traffic Traffic Squeezer applies data-compression, frame-coalescing, protocol specific acceleration (like TCP fine tuning,etc) also traffic QoS. He/She can configure the Traffic Squeezer application in a Web based GUI Interface also check the statistics/performance using runtime graphs.
Disposable cell phones
Image Source: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/critical/index.html
The media refers to disposable phones as "talk-and-toss," or "chat’n'chuck."
Mainly developed to target teens, seniors, those with poor credit histories, and consumers in developing countries.
Read More ...
Redskins Cheerleaders for Bangalore IPL
Image Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Redskin_Cheerleaders.jpg/800px-Redskin_Cheerleaders.jpg
They will be doing the first ever professional cheer-leading squad in India.
Tour details
http://www.redskins.com/cheerleaders/cheerleadernews.jsp?id=168
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Newton in romantic mood
Just for fun, not to be taken seriously :-)
Universal law:
"Love can neither be created nor be destroyed; only it can transfer
from
One girlfriend to another girlfriend with some loss of money "
First law:
"A boy in love with a girl, continue to be in love with her and a girl
in love with a boy, continue to be in love with him, until or unless
any external agent(brother or father of the gal) comes into play and
break the legs of the boy. "
Second law:
"The rate of change of intensity of love of a girl towards a boy is
directly proportional to the instantaneous bank balance of the boy and
the direction of this love is same to as increment or decrement of the
bank balance. "
Third law:
"The force applied while proposing a girl by a boy is equal and
opposite to the force applied by the girl while slap.
Universal law:
"Love can neither be created nor be destroyed; only it can transfer
from
One girlfriend to another girlfriend with some loss of money "
First law:
"A boy in love with a girl, continue to be in love with her and a girl
in love with a boy, continue to be in love with him, until or unless
any external agent(brother or father of the gal) comes into play and
break the legs of the boy. "
Second law:
"The rate of change of intensity of love of a girl towards a boy is
directly proportional to the instantaneous bank balance of the boy and
the direction of this love is same to as increment or decrement of the
bank balance. "
Third law:
"The force applied while proposing a girl by a boy is equal and
opposite to the force applied by the girl while slap.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Assamese Bihu
Source: http://epaper.timesofindia.com April 14th, Monday, Page 13
Bihu Dance: Actors Nishita Goswami, Barsha Rani, Bisaya and Aimi Barua dance during ‘Mukali Bihu’ celebrations, organized by All Assam Students Union in Guwahati on Sunday.
Bihu Dance: Actors Nishita Goswami, Barsha Rani, Bisaya and Aimi Barua dance during ‘Mukali Bihu’ celebrations, organized by All Assam Students Union in Guwahati on Sunday.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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