Its just an Ad.....

These four classified ads appeared in a local newspaper on four consecutive days. The last three hopelessly trying to correct the first day's mistake.

MONDAY:

For sale - SK Shah has a sewing machine for sale. Phone 2555-0707 after 7PM and ask for Mrs Mani who lives with him cheap.

TUESDAY:

Notice: We regret having erred in SK Shah's ad yesterday. It should have read,

"One sewing machine for sale cheap. Phone 2555-0707 and ask for Mrs Mani, who lives with him after 7PM."

WEDNESDAY:

Notice: SK Shah has informed us that he has received several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made in the classified ad yesterday. The ad stands correct as follows:

"For sale - SK Shah has a sewing machine for sale. Cheap. Phone 2555-0707 after 7PM and ask for Mrs Mani who loves with him."

THURSDAY:

Notice: I, SK Shah, have no sewing machine for sale. I smashed it. Don't call 2555-0707 as I have had the phone disconnected. I have not been carrying on with Mrs Mani. Until yesterday, she was my housekeeper but she quit.

Quick Exercise for the Mind

Carry out this test; it's quite bizarre......
Just follow the instructions as quickly as possible but only one question at a time. Do not carry on reading the following questions before you finish the previous one.

You do NOT need to write the answers OR remember them - just do it using your mind.

You'll be surprised by the result.

How much is:

15+6


3+56


89+2


12+53


75+26


25+52

63+32


I know! Calculations are hard work but this is the real thing!



Come on a few more.


123+5


QUICK! THINK ABOUT A TOOL AND A COLOR!



You have just thought about a red hammer, haven't you?


If this is not the case, you are among the people who have a "different" if not "abnormal" mind. Most folks answer a "red hammer" while doing this exercise.

If you do not believe this, pass it around and you'll see.

My Israel visit.....

Last weekend I went for a trip to Eilat which is the southern most (almost) part of Israel. Surrounded by Jordan and Egypt ... the borders are really close ..
U can enjoy different water sports like paragliding, sailing, surfing , scuba diving etc...

Eilat is also famous for the marine life there ... u can see all kinds of corals and underwater life in the red sea.
There is a very good underwater observatory...

Israel....

Presently I am on a visit to Israel, and it has a lot of spots to visit....
A view near the hotel

here's a cool pic of a water fall at yahudia natural reserve in north east of israel.

and a beautiful view of bahai gardens at Haifa

Guy!!!

Letters of Kids to God

Very cute letters............... These are actual letters that kids have written to God. This was done in a Sunday School class and were too cute to miss.

Dear God... Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you have now?

Dear God... Who draws the lines around the countries?

Dear God... I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay?

Dear God... Thank you for my baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.

Dear God... It rained for our whole vacation and is my father mad! He said some things about you that people are not supposed to say, but hope you will not hurt him anyway.

Dear God... Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up.

Dear God... If we come back as something, please don't let me be Jennifer because I hate her.

Dear God... I want to be just like my daddy when I get big, but not with so much hair all over.

Dear God... I think about you sometimes, even when I'm not praying.

Dear God... I bet it is very hard for you to love all the people in the world. There are only four people in our family and I can never do it.

Dear God... Of all the people who worked for you, I like Noah and David the best.

Dear God... If you watch me in church Sunday, I'll show you my new shoes.

Dear God... I do not think anybody could be a better God. Well, I just want you to know that I am not just saying this because you are God already.

Dear God... I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool!

The Way to get Educated

This is a mail by first year NITIE ( one of the leading Institutes for Management education in India) student:

O yes dear! Degrees do differ a lot. Engineering keeps us busy with Kirchoff¡¦s laws, Laplace transformations, Distribution curves blah blah blah. Sadly, we never use them on anything beyond pieces of paper. In contrast, a MBA is an excursion to reality; a confrontation with hideous facts.

Dear friends, in my 7 months of MBA education so far, I¡¦ve come across plenty of quite-disturbing truths. Each of these has a potential to stir a thinking mind. I wanted to document some of those and share them with you.
I hope you can spare a few minutes for them.

@ My first lesson was like a ¡¥wake up¡¦ alarm. Without ever realising it
I¡¦ve always lived on foreign brands. Right from the Farex which my mom
fed me many moons ago to the Reeboks I now wear; from the Colgate with
which I begin my day, to the Mortein which burns after I fall asleep,
hardly anything is Indian. Ditto for you.

¡§Wah Wah Globalisation¡¨ some might utter. But go a step below that
rhetoric and you¡¦ll notice the fact that we don¡¦t have a single truly
global brand of our own except Kamasutra and Yoga. Why?

I¡¦ve identified some of the culprits. It¡¦s us ¡V the so called best
B-schools of the country. We slog day and night dreaming to be picked up
by the Goldman Sachs¡¦, McKinseys, E&Ys and other blue chip companies. We
follow the system too soon, forgetting to question it when required.
Perhaps we need a Munnabhai MBA who can think different. And until that
happens we will continue to eulogise dynasties like Tatas, Birlas et al,
but never see an entrepreneurial genius like a FedEx, a Dell or a Google.

@*@ The next time you come across the ubiquitous blue coloured Parachute
Coconut Oil dabba, notice it carefully. Though majority uses it as hair
oil, it never mentions ¡¥hair oil¡¦ on the package. That brings us to our
next lesson -Play with the rulebook. It pays.

Edible products are exempted from excise duty and also enjoy benefits on
sales tax. Therefore Marico/HLL officially promote their Coconut Oil
brands as edible products ONLY. By doing this they avoid paying excise
duty (16%) which maximises their profits.

@*@ Now some trade news. I assume you know that 95% of India¡¦s trade
happens through sea. We have 12 major ports in India. As per the last
Indian Ports report these 12 ports have TOGETHER handled 287.6 million
tonnes of cargo in fiscal 2001-02, which is lesser than a single Singapore
port (325.6 million tonnes) or a single Rotterdam port (320 million
tonnes).

Now you¡¦ll easily agree that we indeed contribute less than 1% to total
world trade.

@*@ Manufacturing has lost its pride. Today a Babulal & Sons manufactures
the goods, a Ghanshyamji Brothers Ltd packages it and then passes it to a
Nike/HLL. These guys offer it to you with the w-i-d-e-s-t artificial smile
and rob you off thousands in the name of ¡¥customer delight¡¦ and other
concocted management jargons.

You might think the profit pie is shared equally between all partners.
Take this. ..

There are many small enterprises in Bombay who manufacture toothbrushes
and sell it to the big FMCG companies for anything between Rs.1.75 to Rs
4. These toothbrushes are then ¡¥brandedised¡¦ and sent to primary market
with a price tag ranging between Rs 11 to Rs 20. Can you visualise the
easy profits after removing the advertising and distribution costs? It¡¦s
whopping!! Btw, this toothbrush market is alone worth Rs 2000 crores in
India.

@*@ Does price of a good always reflect ¡¥added value¡¦ inside it? Or is
the poor ignorant customer paying for something else? Let data answer this
question.

Most premium goods use raw materials which are imported. They pass through
our ports which are grossly inefficient. The importers have to make a
freight payment which is a proportion of the total import value. The world
total freight payment is 6.2%. In India the figure is a terrifying 12%.
This obviously gets added to the basic price.
Also, we are always over-staffed. Mumbai port alone has 23, 600+
employees. Their salaries and wages amount to 77% of its operational
earnings.

Who pays for these inefficiencies? The customer of course!!

@*@ After several years of deliberation a good thing is finally happing in
Indian Taxation System ¡V implementation of VAT. A little reading revealed
some interesting facts. VAT was first introduced in Morocco (1962) and is
being currently used in about 120 nations. In spite of many advantages
like general reduction in prices this bill faced huge resistance from many
traders. Guess why?

Because VAT mandates complete transparency. It requires traders to
maintain records of the transactions they make. Simply put, it makes pay
their income taxes which they have been evading since ages.

@*@ How urban are our cities? Does urbanisation mean constructing
commercial centers, malls, theme parks or iMax theatres? What about
sanitation, public health, transport? Forget the cities, why can¡¦t we
ever ¡¥urbanise¡¦ an Indian? Why do men treat this country like an
open-air toilet?

This is my first stay in Bombay and I¡¦m enjoying the love-hate
relationship with it. This city is the true microcosm of India. I¡¦ve seen
grandeur which can make any middle class guy gape. I¡¦ve also seen gauns
(villages) right here which made me chuckle. You¡¦ll be surprised to know
that in a mega-city like Bombay the distribution of kerosene still happens
through bullock carts. Yes, bullock driven carts fº Click this link.

http://community.webshots.com/slideshow?ID=272755265&key=ZsBHPr&pos=0

@*@ India got independence in 1947. Israel, a year later, in 1948. In the
last 50 odd years they have fought more wars than us. Had more bitter
enemies (Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria) than just China and
Pakistan. Terrorism never let them breathe peacefully. Add to it severe
shortages of water, land and capital.

Today, they are irrefutably more advanced than us in most departments. We
take their help in Agricutute (drip irrigation), Weather (artificial
rain), Defence (Phalcons, Tavor rifles) and even peacetime reconnaissance
(advanced UAVs).

Where did we go wrong?

@*@ Lemme end this list with that fact which pushed me into writing this
mail. Every year, the World Bank comes out with a compendium ¡¥World
Development Indicators¡¦ which has rankings of all nations on various
parameters.

The 2004 edition of the same has the World income map on its inside cover.
The map pictorially categorises 210 nations into 4 slots ¡V Low income,
Low middle income, Upper middle income and High income. Guess where we
stand?

Low income; alongside nations like Ethiopia, Rwanda, Togo, Cameroon, Sudan
and other no-so-glorious names. How does it feel? Doesn¡¦t it feel worse
than losing the World Cup finals to Australia?

My dear reader, I can go on like this forever, but I¡¦ll stop here. I hope
you have got the gist of what I¡¦m trying to say. It will be a shame if
you think my sole purpose was to criticise or mock the system. NO. I am as
much a part of it as anybody else. My only motive was to make you aware of
the malaise around us. To make you ¡¥think¡¦ over some basic issues. God
willing, one of us will probably solve a few of those.

A departing note ¡V A country as great as India cannot be judged solely on
a few hiccups like mentioned above. Agreed, these are some aspects which
make us feel uncomfortable. But the fact that this nation braves to fight
this cancer is what makes us all proud. On some other day, I¡¦ll tell you
about innovative projects like Tripura¡¦s Rubber Parks or mighty moves
like the Iran-Pak-India pipeline, Kochi¡¦s Hybrid Port etc which have the
potential to affect even the last common man.

Before I sign out, I¡¦d like to thank my college for making me capable enuff to write this mail.

Praveen Gattu
First Year, PGDIM
National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
Mumbai.
(praveenk.im11@nitie.edu)

PS: This mail is going to a lot of people from diverse fields. I¡¦d love
to know the ¡¥weak-links¡¦ in your part of the system. Thanks.

Vaidik Tradition - A commentry

This is an article written by my uncle ..... he's a preacher for vaidic tradition and feels that its the oldest on this earth and holds answers to most of the queries of present....
He wrote this in hindi and is translated to english by my aunt Priyamvada kolhatkar.
Long but worth reading article.

A commentary on Hinduism
(With a definition of Islam)

Dr. Ishwar Chandra Karkare

This matter is not just a thousand or lakhs of years ago. It is a crore years old matter. You may or may not believe, may even ridicule but the tradition meant here is really a crore years old. The oldest tradition, culture and a system of life meant here is called vaidic tradition.

Vid means to know and vaidic menas after acknowledging - to line life that way. The same tradition was then called Sanatan, then Aryan and Dravid. And then the same was called Hinduisim from this only Jani and Baudh cults came later on. And from the same, from the only wisdom and scientific tradition, from the oldest and yet the most modern and highest Aryan and Hindu tradition two different cults took birth. They are known as Christianity and Islam.

San means to move forward towards wisdom and Atan means everlasting everyday. And so Aryan and Dravid tradition was called Sanatan Dharma. Then came the word Hindu. "Hinsa Duriyate Chittam" means "One who becomes sad because of violence is a Hindu." He may or may not have faith in God, may or may not pray to Allah but who is non-violent in real sense of the word Hindu. He may not then belong to any cult.

Now we should find out the meaning of Dharma. A cow will even die of hunger bit will not eat meat. A tiger will prefer to die of hunger but will not consume grass. The Dharma of a cow is to eat grass and that of a tiger to eat his kill. This is the meaning of Dharma. "Dharyati iti dharma", the nature borne by oneself is his Dharma. Dharma does not mean religion. Dharma does not mean Hindu, Muslim or Christian. Dharma of a teacher is to teach, that of a student is to learn. Dharma of a road is to give way to pedestrian and vehicles' traffic. These days people build temple, Mosque or chapel on roads. That is not fair. Human Dharma is to love and oblige. There is no other Dharma better than these. Thus we see that Hinduism is not a religion. It is not a cult, but it is a way of living, one which climbs on the top of Himalayas and declares "Live and let live", You can not create so you have to right to kill.

A few thousand years ago this Hindu tradition was the only one teaching formless God, Love and piety. Tolerance was and still main declaration. Worship of idols started after Gautam Buddha.

The word Krishna changes to Keshto in Bengal and to Karsan in Gujrat. Similarly it changed to Krist-Christ in Europe. Neeti changed to Nity. And so the yogi who taught Krishnaneeti there, became Christ. And Krishnaneeti became Christianity just by a different way of pronunciation.

Then is the same vaidic tradition one more yogi took birth. He was a shepherd doing meditation under a tree. Gibral (Gibrial) appeared before him. This gibrial is mentioned in Vedas also. He used to sing hymns during meditation and someone used to write those. The collection of these hymns is called Kuraan. And its prophet is known as Mohammad Paigambar. This happened 1400 years ago. As it was mentioned earlier Vaidic Tradition is a crore years old. Vedas were already written. At that time there was only one language 'Sanskrit'. The stories told by Christ have their origin in the epic 'Mahabharata';2000 years old. And those 1400 years old stories told by Mohammad Paigambar also have their origin in the same one and only 'Vaidic tradition'. Even the words 'Kuraan', 'Musalmaan' and Allah are from original single language Sanskrit. One by one we will see that, Kuru means to do and aan means to get, the highest yogi stage. Kuru + aan = Kuraan. Slaam is a Sanskrit word which means peace. Aa means of a great quality. This Aa changed to Ee. As 'Aadtyawaar' became 'Eitwaar', Abraham became Ibrahim, etc. Thus Islaam means who lives in a high quality peace. One who is not in Islam is 'Kaafir', kill him. It means that kill the person who is not peaceful. But because of ignorance, the meaning of kaafir is perverted. Simple, innocent people are killed just because they are idol worshippers. Human mind is created in such a way that he can not worship formless God, he needs some or the other form. If not an idol it becomes a Mosque. Then to insist on mosque is in opposition of formless worship. Islam agreed with the formless worship of Vaidic tradition, but did not accept tolerance. And so they started violence. Hindu view of life accepted formless as well as idol worship with tolerance and so did not resort to violence. Next is the word Musalmaan. Meaning: Mu means no/not, Sa means to move, Al means God, Iman means faith. In trying conditions also, whose implicit faith in God is not shattered, is Muslalmaan. Today's Muslims must understand the real meaning of Islam and Musalmaan and practice it, otherwise this world will trade on way of violence and will be destroyed. Allah is also a Sanskrit word: Amm -> Amma, Akk -> Akka, All -> Alla and Ha means the greatest. Amma and Akka mean mother. Thus the word Allah means the greatest mother. Jagat janani. They take the name Allah, recite it and torture the mother (woman), this is ignorance and this is irony.

In the original Vaidic tradition many Saints, yogi, Paigambar (Pag means foot, amber means the one whose foot is in the sky.) described by Hinduism but they never did idol worship or of any book. It is a pity that later on they started worshipping of either saint or a book. Sam means similar, pradaay means to give. So the word Sampradaay or cult means have faith in only one saint or Yogi, a bible or a kuraan. And so the Muslim cult started. And they lost faith in unity of all and they turned communal. Hinduism is not a cult. It is a system of living. It has accepted all under its wings; including monistic and agonist, worshipper of formless as well as of idol. It is a scientific fact that our body (our teeth and intestines) are not suitable for non-vegetarian food. So Hindus don't eat it. It is cause of many diseases as well. Islam also mentions non-violence. Kuraan says "Don't move on earth quarrelling others." As Arabia didn't have water, no agriculture, they were forced to eat meat. Because of shortage of water they used to do vaju (washing hands and feet from one pot), taking bath only once a week. This was not religion; it was only an adjustment according to the circumstances. As days were hot and nights were cool, they used to worship setting sun and love moon and stars. This is not a religion, not even a way of living. It was just an adjustment.

Now is the time to understand the meaning of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian as one and to behave accordingly. To become a real Hindu is to be a real non-violence follower. Now is the time to live in peace; to be a real Muslim is to have faith in God. To be a real Jaini means Gnyani (In Sanskrit 'Dnya' is called 'Jya'). To a real Baudh means Buddhiwan (intelligent) To be a real Sikh means to become a real disciple of Guru. To become real Christian means to follow Krishnaneeti.

Only by colouring our clothes, our outer appearance, saffron, green or red will be of no use. Let us colour our inside with the colour of love and charity. Then only we will be called real religious.

Om sahana vavatu, sahananu bhunaktu
Sahaveeryam karavav hai, Tejaswimam vadhit mastu
Mam vid vishar hai, om shanty shanti shanty.

(Lets all join together in becoming bright, and not in envying others)

Breakfast at Tiffany's?

I really like this song having some plain simple lyrics:


you say that we've got nothing in common
No common ground to start from
And we're falling apart
You'll say the world has come between us
Our lives have come between us
But I know you just dont care


And I said "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember the film,
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, thats the one thing we've got."


I see you - the only one who knew me,
And now your eyes see through me
I guess I was wrong
So what now? It's plain to see we're over,
And I hate when things are over -
When so much is left undone.

-- Deep Blue Something

Calvin and Hobbes are the Best

yesterday i was browsing thru the net looking for some comics and incidently found a web page dedicated to calvin and hobbes. It had 25 best calvin strips of author's choice.
I got introduced to calvin when one of my colleague forwarded me a mail having some of his comic strips... they were mind boggling, really amazing. After that i became an avid fan of calvin...looking out for whatever i could get of him. The creator Mr walterson has trapped the mind of a very clever boy who loves his toy tiger (hobbes) very much and has his own way of looking at the world as any other child .... im sure we in our childhood did some of these ..

just have a look at the strips and u'll get to know who/how calvin is..

http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm

Room Service

Recently purchased "Room Service - Bryan Adams". Has superb collection of songs, especially Flying, Nowhere Fast and Open Road are my favs. Bryan Adams as usual is at its best when it comes to lyrics.
As a bonus, a DVD of his Japan tour is free with pack and has four song videos from live concert there.

For more reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002ZMIE4/104-2321175-3887166?v=glance

simpest way to create jar files

This ia the simpest way to create jar files....

How to create a jar file - by Tanul Karkare:

create a file MANIFEST.MF having 2 lines:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: path of ur main class file..

create a folder META-INF in ur application dir.
put this MANIFEST.MF into that.

execute the command:
jar cvfm xyz.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF *.class

to create an executable jar file.

just that's it.


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Take an example:
create a folder test(any name will do)
create a file TestJar.java in that:

import javax.swing.*;

class TestJar extends JFrame
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
TestJar tj = new TestJar();
tj.setSize(200, 200);
tj.setVisible(true);
tj.show();
}
}

compile this file , test with java command.
it should show a window.

create a manifest file as above inside meta-inf folder (which is inside test folder) with content:-

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: Tanul
Main-Class: TestJar


execute the command inside test folder:(test.jar can be any name)
jar cvfm test.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF *.class

ur executable jar is ready.
double click on it and it will show u a window.

u can give this to anybody without letting him have ur source files.

Professional League

I think this is one news that may help Indian Hockey achieve its earlier status.... I hope it does that !!!

The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) will launch a professional domestic league in January involving foreign players to help the country regain its past glory in the game.
India have not won a major title since claiming the last of their eight men's Olympic gold medals at Moscow in 1980. The team finished seventh at the Athens Games in August.
Each of the five top tier teams - the league will be played in two levels - will include five foreign players each with both domestic and foreign players signing up financial contracts, IHF president KPS Gill told reporters on Wednesday.
"The premier hockey league is the beginning of a landmark journey of re-capturing the glory of hockey and rebuilding India's supremacy in the game internationally," Gill said.
"The rebuilding has to start at ground level by giving a platform to our players to hone their talent by playing in an active league," he said.
The league, offering a total prize money of around Rs seven million ($155,380), will be played over five weeks from January 13 in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Many top Asian players now figure in European leagues and the IHF will schedule the league during winter to attract the best talent from Europe as well as major continental sides like South Korea and Pakistan.
Global sports channel ESPN have said they will broadcast the games live for 10 years to help bring in sponsorship which is almost entirely focussed on cricket in India.
The games would be played NBA-style, over four quarters in an effort to package the league better. Hockey matches are normally played over 70 minutes in two sessions.

Bryan Adams : Career in brief

Im a great fan of bryan adams.. anyone who listens him becomes his fan.. that's the magic of his voice...
enjoy,

Bryan Adams: Career in brief

Bryan Adams' solo career was launched with the release of his self-titled debut album Bryan Adams in February of 1980 on A&M Records.
His second album, You Want It, You Got It, which was recorded in NYC in two weeks and released in the spring of 1981.
His third album, Cuts Like a Knife was released in January of 1983, with the single "Straight from the Heart", leading the way.
Adams' fourth album Reckless was released on his 25th birthday, November 5, 1984, and was preceded by the single "Run to You", which reached the Top Ten. Reckless reached No. 1 in the U.S. selling five million copies in America and a reported three million more in the rest of the world.
Into the Fire, followed in March of 1987, prefaced by the single "Heat of the Night," which became Adams' fifth Top Ten hit in the U.S.
Live! Live! Live! a concert album drawn from the 1988 Belgium show, was initially released only in Japan but later garnered a wider audience.
In June of 1991, Adams went back on the road in Europe co-headlining with ZZ Top. This coincided with the release of the single "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" which topped the U.S. charts for seven weeks - the longest any song had remained at No. 1 in eight years. Its international success was even greater; spending 16 weeks at No. 1 in the U.K., making it the longest-running chart-topper in the history of the British charts.
Waking Up the Neighbours was released in September of 1991, and Adams once again hit the road - this time until July of 1993.
Adams began to look forward to his next studio album, but in the interim released a hits compilation, So Far So Good, in November 1993 featuring the single "Please Forgive Me," a new Adams/Lange track. The song would also find its way into the Top Ten. Then came the Adams' theme song for the movie The Three Musketeers, "All for Love", recorded with Rod Stewart and Sting, which hit No. 1 in the U.S. in January of 1994.
At the beginning of 1996 Adams released a new album 18 'Til I Die. The album featured the flamenco-tinged "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" from the Johnny Depp/Marlon Brando film Don Juan DeMarco
Adams filmed an appearance for MTV's popular Unplugged series in the fall of 1997, and it was released as an album in December.
It was a modest success, and served as a stopgap until the appearance of his next studio album, On a Day Like Today, which was released in October 1998
In November 1999, Adams issued a second hits compilation, The Best of Me, but the American branch of A&M/Interscope declined to release it.
Adams returned in the spring of 2002 collaborating with Hans Zimmer on his first full-length song score for a film, the animated DreamWorks feature Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
His most recent work is entitled Room Service, which was released in September of 2004 where it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard European Top 100 albums Chart.

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Tongue Twisters

Here are some of the tongue twisters to keep urself and others ;-) busy....

If you understand, say "understand". If you don't understand, say "don't understand". But if you understand and say "don't understand".How do I understand that you understand? Understand!

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
A sailor went to sea to see, what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

I thought a thought.But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

Once a fellow met a fellow In a field of beans. Said a fellow to a fellow, "If a fellow asks a fellow, Can a fellow tell a fellow What a fellow means?"


Mr Inside went over to see Mr Outside. Mr Inside stood outside and called
to MrOutside inside. Mr Outside answered Mr Inside from inside and Told Mr
Inside to come inside. Mr Inside said "NO", and told Mr Outside to come
outside. MrOutside and Mr Inside argued from inside and outside about going
outside or coming inside. Finally, Mr Outside coaxed Mr Inside to come
inside, then both Mr Outside and Mr Inside went outside to the riverside.

SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON THE SEA SHORE , BUT THE SEA SHELLS THAT SHE SELLS,
ON THE SEA SHORE ARE NOT THE REAL ONES

The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside
outside his inside inn.


If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor
doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does the
doctor doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors? "When a doctor falls
ill another doctor doctor's the doctor. Does the doctor doctoring the doctor
doctor the doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor
doctors the doctor in the doctor's way"

We surely shall see the sun shine shortly. Whether the weather be fine, Or
whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or whether the
weather be hot, We'll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we
like it or not. watch? Whether the weather is hot. Whether the weather is
cold. Whether the weather is either or not. It is whether we like it or not.

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

A flea and a fly in a flue Said the fly "Oh what should we do" Said the
flea" Let us fly Said the fly"Let us flee" So they flew through a flaw in
the flue

If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister his tongue will be twisted as
tongue-twister twists tongues.

Mr. See owned a saw.And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's
seesaw Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.Had Soar seen See's saw Before See sawed Soar's
seesaw, See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw. So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.But it was sad to see Soar
so sore Just because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw ...

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we all know that Google loves to play pranks on its users. Recently an article was floating around saying google uses some pigeon-rank-technology with "actual" pigeons... if anyone has got some explanations I am really eager to hear that.
but what I liked most is the FAQ section ;-)

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Story of Tortoise and Hare revisited

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster.
They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race.

The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time.
Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under a
tree for some time and relax before continuing the race.

He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding
on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ.

The hare woke up and realised that he'd lost the race.

The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race.

This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with.

But then recently, someone told me a more interesting version of this story.
It continues.

The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some soul-searching.
He realised that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax.
If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise
could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race.
The tortoise agreed.

This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish.
He won by several miles.

The moral of the story? Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady.
If you have two people in your organisation, one slow, methodical and reliable,
and the other fast and still reliable at what he does, the fast and reliable chap
will consistently climb the organisational ladder faster than the slow, methodical chap.

It's good to be slow and steady; but it's better to be fast and reliable.

But the story doesn't end here. The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realised
that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted.
He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route.

The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast,
the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river.
The finishing line was a couple of kilometres on the other side of the river.

The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along,
got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.

The moral of the story? First identify your core competency and then change the playing
field to suit your core competency.

In an organisation, if you are a good speaker, make sure you create opportunities to
give presentations that enable the senior management to notice you.

If your strength is analysis, make sure you do some sort of research,
make a report and send it upstairs. Working to your strengths will not only get you noticed,
but will also create opportunities for growth and advancement.

The story still hasn't ended.

The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did
some thinking together. Both realised that the last race could have been run much better.

So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time.

They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank.
There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back.
On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing
line together. They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.

The moral of the story? It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core
competencies; but unless you're able to work in a team and harness each other's core
competencies, you'll always perform below par because there will always
be situations at which you'll do poorly and someone else does well.

Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant
core competency for a situation take leadership.

There are more lessons to be learnt from this story.

Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures.
The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure.

The tortoise changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could.
In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder and put in more
effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different.
And sometimes it is appropriate to do both.

The hare and the tortoise also learnt another vital lesson. When we stop competing against
a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better.

When Roberto Goizueta took over as CEO of Coca-Cola in the 1980s, he was faced with
intense competition from Pepsi that was eating into Coke's growth. His executives were
Pepsi-focussed and intent on increasing market share 0.1 per cent a time.

Goizueta decided to stop competing against Pepsi and instead compete against
the situation of 0.1 per cent growth.

He asked his executives what was the average fluid intake of an American per day?
The answer was 14 ounces. What was Coke's share of that? Two ounces. Goizueta said Coke needed a
larger share of that market. The competition wasn't Pepsi. It was the water, tea, coffee, milk
and fruit juices that went into the remaining 12 ounces. The public should reach for a
Coke whenever they felt like drinking something.

To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner.
Sales took a quantum jump and Pepsi has never quite caught up since.

To sum up, the story of the hare and tortoise teaches us many things.
Chief among them are that fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady;
work to your competencies; pooling resources and working as a team will always
beat individual performers; never give up when faced with failure; and finally,
compete against the situation - not against a rival

recently i was going through some of the sites to look out something related to JUnit which is an automatic tool for testing mostly java applications and found something which could be helpful if somebody wants to use it with Eclipse.

Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE by Alexander Prohorenko and Olexiy Prohorenko -- Test-driven development principles call for writing the tests before writing any code. Alexander and Olexiy Prohorenko demonstrate how this approach can be used with the JUnit testing tool and the Eclipse IDE.

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