It is said that keeping ur eyes open can be good for business. How? Read this to know! Hats off to this guys wisdom!
"Kiyoshi Nishikawa established the Tokyo company in 1971 as a signmaker and parking lot equipment supplier. He noticed that he was selling an awful lot of No Parking signs, as more cars flowed onto Japan's crowded roads. So 14 years ago he switched gears, taking up the business of managing parking lots. "
Read the full story
Go here for a 30 GB email ID!
For those on a broadband connection, who needs a hard disk?
http://ummat1.com/30GIGA/30gigs-account-regi.html
Saw the movie. Since I always fall for crafted dialogues, here are a few good ones:
"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless. That is your oath. "
" A king may move a man, a father may claim a son. But remember that, even when those who move you be kings or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convinient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that."
From my favourite forums!
(This was mailed by Amit Da of Mensa to us)
In the Kolkata Metro, INCODA TV runs the monitors that have
programs and ads, and also scrolling news superimposed on
the programs.
In the text news, one recent news item was that --
QUOTE
CBSE to go spft on speling erors, ICSE to folow suit.
UNQUOTE
Metro Railway Leading by example? ;)
My dear brother Prantik has toiled hard to understand and explain recursion in his blog:
http://www.prantikbhattacharyya.blogspot.com/
Here's my shot at recursion(though neither me nor my dear friend Joydeep Chakraborty never really got what the heck was recursion!!! ;) )......................
Found some good personality tests from some good old friends......try them!
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
http://www.briantracyassessments.com/assessment.asp
Here's a tribute to the magnificent Seven that ruled JU CSE 2005.
We called ourselves the BaWaL group.
May the spirit of true bawal live on forever.
Chulbuli Chulbuli Dhum Dharakka
HU HA HU HA
Hamchupamu
Hambakatimba
Horr bor bor bor bor bor!
The Magnificent Seven
We are(from left).....................
Syamantak aka Gambu/Gambat/Mar Load/(!)Mukto Purush
myself, aka Laltu/Guns
Dhiman(slanted) aka Budu/Badani/Badu/(any khisti will do for him)
Aritra aka Gola
Vijit aka bi*hi/vk/vijitkhanna vijitkhanna
Debamitro(slanted) aka Boggu/Kisses
and last, but not the least,
Joydeep aka Chhoru/Roses
So close no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are.....................................
And Nothing Else Matters!
For those who r not currently in Kolkata and missing the Puja burst, take a look at http://anandautsav.com/
Best of Pujo - 2005
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AHIRITOLA
BARISA SRISTI
BOSEPUKUR SITALAMANDIR
CHALTA BAGAN
Create kool logos for your email account(s). These r kewl!
http://services.nexodyne.com/email/index.php
;)
Debating Society and Quiz Forum
Jadavpur University
Kolkata
Dear Quizzers,
This is to inform you that Enquiry, the Jadavpur University Quiz club is going to host
Qriosity 2005, a quiz open to students of all schools and colleges. It will be held on 1st October, 2005 at 2 pm in Jadavpur University. The quizmaster is G Sreekanth, one of the most reputed young quizmasters of the city and a revered member of the TCS Kolkata quiz team. We have successfully hosted Qriosity 2003 and 2004 with generous participation from best quizzers of the city and with much success. We will like to invite you and your friends to participate in the quiz and make it a huge success.
Please feel free to forward this email to all your quiz loving friends as we will be glad to have people with a love for quizzing as a part of this endeavour.
Event details: Qriosity 2005
Time:
2 pm
Venue:
T.T.Room, Jadavpur University (Ground floor, A C Canteen)
Nature:
An open quiz for all school and college students. No restriction on the number of teams per institution. Mixed teams will also be accepted, as long as there is no school-college intermixing. The event focuses on having a quality quizzing session as well as emphasizing the main motto of Enquiry :
Quizzing is Fun!
The Quizmaster:
The quizmaster, G Sreekanth, is an employee of TCS Kolkata and a well-known face in the Kolkata quizzing circuit. An engineering graduate from Bhubaneshwar, he is regarded as the best quizzer in Orissa. He has been a Semi-Finalist in the prestigious Mastermind India Quiz-1999 (where he was the Runners-Up in the East Zone semifinal) and won the Economic Times Brand Equity Quiz 2004 East Zone Winner. He conducted open quizzes at IIT Kharagpur and XIMB. He has taken the Kolkata corporate quizzing circle by storm by winning almost all the corporate quizzes viz TATA Crucible, Royal Bengal Corporate Quiz, Ad Club Quiz etc.
Rules:
• Each team must have three members
• There can be any number of teams from a particular institution
• The three members of a team must either all study in school or all study in college/university
• Forming of cross-teams is permitted in the sense that you can team up with a college/university student only if you are a college/university student yourself, and with a school student only if you are a school student yourself
• Participants must bring their institutional identity cards. Without proper identification, participation may be cancelledRegistration:
• Spot registration will be offered on the venue from 1 pm
• You can register online by visiting our website (from 28th September):
www.geocities.com/juqc or http://www.enquiry.uni.cc
With Regards,
Enquiry
Quizzing is fun!
The Jadavpur University Quiz Club
A part of Debating Society and Quiz Forum, JU
http://www.enquiry.uni.cc/
www.geocities.com/juqc
Email : juqc@yahoo.com
What is the greatest use of a computer?
???
Elementary, my dear Watson. Its Copy and Paste!!!
So here I go .............
Stupid Label Instructions
In case you needed further proof that the human race is doomed through stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods: On a bag of chips: You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside. (The shoplifter special!) On a packaged dessert (printed on bottom of the box) Do not turn upside down. (Too late! You lose!) On packaging for a iron: Do not iron clothes on body. (But wouldn't that save more time?) On a Children's cough medicine: Do not drive car or operate machinery. (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if we could just kept those 5 year olds off those fork lifts.) On a string of Christmas lights: For indoor or outdoor use only. (As opposed to use in outer space?) On a food processor: Not to be used for the other use. (Now I'm curious.) On a packaged peanuts: Warning: contains nuts. (Really???) On an Airlines packet of nuts: Instructions: open packet, eat nuts. (I'm glad they cleared that up...) On a child’s superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly. (That's right, destroy a universal childhood fantasy!) In a Laundromat : Automatic washing machines. Please remove all your clothes when the light goes out. In an office: Would the person who took the step ladder yesterday please bring it back or further steps will be taken. Quicksand Warning : Quicksand. Any person passing this point will be drowned. By order of the District Council. Seen during a Conference: For anyone who has children and doesn't know it, there is a day care on the first floor. Notice in a Field: The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges. On a Repair Shop Door : We can repair anything (Please knock hard on the door - the bell doesn't work) On some frozen dinners: Serving suggestion: Defrost. (But it's *just* a suggestion!) On a sleep aid Warning: may cause drowsiness. (One would hope!)
Different World
A worldwide survey was conducted by the unitednations. the only question asked was "would you please give your honest opinionabout solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"The survey was a huge failure.because ,In Africa, no one understood what "food "meantIn India no one understood what "honest" meantIn China, no one understood what "opinion "meantIn Europe no one understood what" shortage "meantIn the Middleeast no one understood what "solution" meantIn South America, no one understood what "please" meantIn the US of A no one understood what the "rest of the world" meant
OUTSOURCING funda, an aweeeeesome article. If u have free time like me, waste it by reading it, undoubtable intersting:
http://www.smartmoney.com/esquire/index.cfm?Story=20050909-outsource
Whoa! MY first free day at office. Lets celebrate it by bloggin a lot!!
This is a collection of things to prove that 42 is the answer to everything, indeed(Those who have missed H2G2, please don't mind!)
First things first. If we have a question, we need an answer. For an answer, we go to : http://www.google.com . So go there and type: "answer to life, the universe and everything". What does Uncle Google has to say?
http://www.ambrish.de/answer_to_the_ultimate_question_.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything
And this is irresistable, just look:
There is a joke amongst computer programmers that Deep Thought may have had some order of operations issues. The following code in the C programming language defines the macros SIX as "1 + 5" and NINE as "8 + 1", and then performs the computation "SIX * NINE". It returns the answer "42", because "SIX * NINE" is expanded by the computer to "1 + 5 * 8 + 1", and the multiplication takes precedence over the additions. (This occurs because the macro expansion is textual, not logical.)
#include
#define SIX 1 + 5
#define NINE 8 + 1
void main()
{
printf( "What do you get if you multiply %d by %d: %d\n", SIX, NINE, SIX * NINE );
}
Its true that I haven't posted for a long long long time, but nor am I dead, neither did I forget my blogger password. Was just too busy managing the transition from idler to working man. The office is a kewl place......nice people, good treatment of employees and complex but challenging work. Anyway, this post is just blah this blah that one! I just wanted to announce that I am not yet.
I WILL BE BACK!
Roger Waters is back! He has written an opera named "Ca Ira" set during the French Revolution. It will hit the stores on 27th Sept! Will be waiting for that!
http://www.rogerwatersonline.com/ca_ira_whats_known.html
Welcome back, Roger!
Finished reading 'PREY', one of Crichton's more recent works. Its a nice read, more so for people having little interest in AI and stuff. Frankly speaking, I understood more about AI from this one book than I did from my full 6-month semester course on AI(gives you some idea about me ;) )! Anyway, I liked the ending and I would like to quote it for those lost soldiers who will wander to my realm -----
"They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstoneof the human race.
I hope it's not.
We might get lucky."
Interested? get it and read it..........it's worth it.
