Sunday, February 11, 2007
Unforgettable Photos
1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days. 
January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.
1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.
1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments. 
1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.
1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town. 
2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Contrary proverbs
All good things come to those who wait.BUTTime and tide wait for no man.
The pen is mightier than the sword.BUTActions speak louder than words.
Wise men think alike.BUT Fools seldom differ.
The best things in life are free .BUTThere's no such thing as a free lunch .
Slow and steady wins the race .BUT Time waits for no man .
Look before you leap . BUT Strike while the iron is hot .
Do it well, or not at all. BUT Half a loaf is better than none.
Birds of a feather flock together. BUT Opposites attract.
Don't cross your bridges before you come to them. BUT Forewarned is forearmed.
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. BUT Faith will move mountains.
Great starts make great finishes. BUT It ain't over 'till it's over.
Practice makes perfect.
BUT
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Silence is golden.
BUT
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
You're never too old to learn.
BUT
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
BUT
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
BUT
Out of sight, out of mind.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
BUT
Many hands make light work.
Hold fast to the words of your ancestors.
BUT
Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them.
The pen is mightier than the sword.BUTActions speak louder than words.
Wise men think alike.BUT Fools seldom differ.
The best things in life are free .BUTThere's no such thing as a free lunch .
Slow and steady wins the race .BUT Time waits for no man .
Look before you leap . BUT Strike while the iron is hot .
Do it well, or not at all. BUT Half a loaf is better than none.
Birds of a feather flock together. BUT Opposites attract.
Don't cross your bridges before you come to them. BUT Forewarned is forearmed.
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. BUT Faith will move mountains.
Great starts make great finishes. BUT It ain't over 'till it's over.
Practice makes perfect.
BUT
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Silence is golden.
BUT
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
You're never too old to learn.
BUT
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
BUT
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
BUT
Out of sight, out of mind.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
BUT
Many hands make light work.
Hold fast to the words of your ancestors.
BUT
Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
FW: Kirchoff's Law.................
Kirchoff's Current Law At every node, the sum of all currents entering a node must equal zero. Kirchoff's Voltage Law (KVL) The voltage law says that the sum of voltages around every closed loop in the circuit must equal zero. Exercise : Please apply Kirchoff's Current and Voltage laws to the following figures. And submit the assignments by today evening.
Figure 1:
Figure 2:
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ? - Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro
Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile. Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer. He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office,and the very best technology,even a canteen that served superb food. Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined. Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job. Why did this talented employee leave ? Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away. The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding: If you're losing good people, look to their immediate boss .Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition. "People leave managers not companies," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. Mostly manager drives people away? HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job. When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job." Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.
Can't Stop Laughing...
A college student needed a small two-hour course to fill his schedule and the only one available was wildlife Zoology. So he joined in and after one week of study, a test was held.The professor passed out a sheet of small paper where in each square was a carefully drawn picture of a bird's legs.
No bodies, no feet, just legs.
The test asked each student to identify the birds from their legs. Our student sat and stared at the test getting angrier every minute. Finally he stomped up to the front of the classroom and threw the test on the teacher's desk. "This is the worst test I have ever written."
The teacher looked up and said: "Young man, you have not filled in anything and you definitely have failed the test. Tell me, what's your name?"
The student pulled up his pant to the knee showing his legs and said, " You tell me..."
No bodies, no feet, just legs.
The test asked each student to identify the birds from their legs. Our student sat and stared at the test getting angrier every minute. Finally he stomped up to the front of the classroom and threw the test on the teacher's desk. "This is the worst test I have ever written."
The teacher looked up and said: "Young man, you have not filled in anything and you definitely have failed the test. Tell me, what's your name?"
The student pulled up his pant to the knee showing his legs and said, " You tell me..."
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Old is gold - good olden days...Are we really missing something?
Good old days…do u miss the days …
…When gulli-danda and kanche (marbles) were more popular than cricket ...
When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy),chhepan-chhepai
and pitthoo anytime
When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai jindagi' ..
When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki kahaniyaan were so
fulfilling
When there was just one tv in every five houses and
When bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were worrying if papas
will get back into the train in time or not when they were getting down
at stations to fill up the water bottle ..
When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the 'yeh jo hai
jindagi' day ..
When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and sweets and
moms seeking our help while preparing them
When Maths teachers were not worried of our mummys and papas while
slapping/beating us ..
When we were exchanging comics and stamps and chacha-chaudaris and
billus were our heroes ...
When we were in nanihaals every summer and loved flying kites and
plucking and eating unripe mangoes and leechis ..
When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked
for and 'ek do teen chaar' and 'Rajni' inspired us
When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees ...
When left over pages of the last years notebooks were used for rough
work or even fair work
When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were encouraged against 'reynolds and
family' ..
When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud
and making 'kaagaj ki kishtis' ...
When there were no phones to tell friends that we will be at their
homes at six in the evening .
When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored 'antardesis' and 5
paise machli wale stamps at home
When we remembered tens of jokes and were not finding 'ice-cream and
papa' type jokes foolish enough to stop us from laughing ..
When we were not seeing patakhes on Diwalis and gulaals on Holis as air
and noise polluting or allergic agents ...
the list can be endless ..
on the serious note I would like to summarise with .
When we were using our hearts more than our brains, even for
scientifically brainy activities like 'thinking' and 'deciding' .
When we were crying and laughing more often, more openly and more
sincerily .
When we were enjoying our present more than worrying about our future ..
When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak
When journeys also were important and not just the destinations .
When life was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time and opportunity
to enjoy the sceneries from its open and transparent glass windows
instead of some superfast's second ac with its curtained, closed and dark
windows ...
We Really Miss them - dont U?
…When gulli-danda and kanche (marbles) were more popular than cricket ...
When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy),chhepan-chhepai
and pitthoo anytime
When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai jindagi' ..
When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki kahaniyaan were so
fulfilling
When there was just one tv in every five houses and
When bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were worrying if papas
will get back into the train in time or not when they were getting down
at stations to fill up the water bottle ..
When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the 'yeh jo hai
jindagi' day ..
When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and sweets and
moms seeking our help while preparing them
When Maths teachers were not worried of our mummys and papas while
slapping/beating us ..
When we were exchanging comics and stamps and chacha-chaudaris and
billus were our heroes ...
When we were in nanihaals every summer and loved flying kites and
plucking and eating unripe mangoes and leechis ..
When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked
for and 'ek do teen chaar' and 'Rajni' inspired us
When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees ...
When left over pages of the last years notebooks were used for rough
work or even fair work
When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were encouraged against 'reynolds and
family' ..
When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud
and making 'kaagaj ki kishtis' ...
When there were no phones to tell friends that we will be at their
homes at six in the evening .
When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored 'antardesis' and 5
paise machli wale stamps at home
When we remembered tens of jokes and were not finding 'ice-cream and
papa' type jokes foolish enough to stop us from laughing ..
When we were not seeing patakhes on Diwalis and gulaals on Holis as air
and noise polluting or allergic agents ...
the list can be endless ..
on the serious note I would like to summarise with .
When we were using our hearts more than our brains, even for
scientifically brainy activities like 'thinking' and 'deciding' .
When we were crying and laughing more often, more openly and more
sincerily .
When we were enjoying our present more than worrying about our future ..
When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak
When journeys also were important and not just the destinations .
When life was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time and opportunity
to enjoy the sceneries from its open and transparent glass windows
instead of some superfast's second ac with its curtained, closed and dark
windows ...
We Really Miss them - dont U?
Some Q&A
1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS
Answers
1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .
2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.
10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea .
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)
13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .
17. Polo.
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS
Answers
1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .
2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.
10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea .
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)
13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .
17. Polo.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Joke !!!!!!!!!!!
A disappointed salesman of Coca Cola returns from his Middle East assignment. A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful with the Arabs?" The salesman explained, "When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters... First poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand... totally exhausted and fainting. Second, the man is drinking our Cola and Third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place" "That should have worked," said the friend. The salesman replied, "Well, not only did I not speak Arabic, I also didn't realize that Arabs read from right to left..."
Chanakya's Quotes - Worth Learning
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"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first."
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"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous." ***************************************************
"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you." ***************************************************
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first."
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"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous." ***************************************************
"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you." ***************************************************
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
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"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead." ***************************************************
"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it." ***************************************************
"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest." ***************************************************
"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead." ***************************************************
"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it." ***************************************************
"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest." ***************************************************
"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
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"A man is great by deeds, not by birth." ***************************************************
"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years.
For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends." ***************************************************
"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth." ***************************************************
"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years.
For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends." ***************************************************
"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
Coolest Advertisements....
Volkswagen Van came up with this brilliant idea to promote its carrying capacity as against many other cars:
Ford Mondeo showcases its pickup speed with this stunner of an advertisement. Great execution. The copy reads “From 0 to 100 kmph in 8.7 seconds.”
Volkswagen comes with yet another winner for its Polo car in this classic advertisement. A little background may be essential to understand this one. The football rivalry between Germany and Holland is as big as that between India-Pak in cricket. This ad, which has the headline “Extremely Well Built.” has a group of german football team supporters travelling in a VW Polo car among a gang of Dutch fans. And the rest is self-explanatory. 
One last piece from Volswagen for its Nueva Passat car. Here the emphasis on the luxurious back space available in the car. Again, great art work and execution. 
effective anti-smoking advertisement that I came across recently:
This is a very catchy ad for a karate school. Looks like they have a very practical approach to learning it 
A very simple but hard-hitting advertisement by the Mumbai Traffic Police on the importance of wearing helmet:
Here is a very creative use of bowling alleys to advertise for dental implant insurance. Whoever got this idea and made a sudden leap of imagination was being sooo.. damn creative.
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