This template rocks! & Some Rarely available Facts.

I always wanted similar type of template in my blog. Though it's not wat I actually wanted but still it's not that bad in looks+functionality as provided by other templates of the wordpress. Now i m desparately waiting for the moment when wordpress will allow us to customize our blog like blogger.

Looking at this I jst remembered the template which i once created for our 200 site during felicity time which had one sidebar along with bottom bar.

These are some of the rarely available pics/fact that i got thru a forwarded mail. Quite Impressive!

1) Tim Berners Lee — Founder of the World Wide Web

 

 

2) Picture taken when microsoft was started

 

 

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3) Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers.
He was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn't get any better name for his new company.
So one day he told to the staff: "
If I'll not get better name by 5 o'clcok today, our company's name will be anything he likes…"

so at 5 o'clcok nobody comeup with better name, and he was eating APPLE that time…
so he keep the name of the company
'Apple Computers'
 

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4) Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard(R) of HP.
Behind them in the picture is the famous HP Garage.
Bill
Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company
they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
And the winner was
NOT
Bill… the winner was Dave.

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5) Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX.
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.
B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named
after his wife Bonnie)
He later called it C.
 

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6) Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin(R), founders of Google.
Google was originally named 'Googol'.
After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor…
they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !…
So they kept name as GOOGLE

 

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7) Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel.
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'.
But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain…
So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics…
INTEL

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Andreas Bechtolsheim , Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod Khosla of SUN(StanfordUniversity Network) MicroSystems.
Founded by four StanfordUniversity buddies.
Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;
Vinod Khosla recruited him;
Scott McNealy to manufacture computers
based on it;
and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer…

SUN
is the acronym for
Stanford University Network
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9)
Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds originally used
the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS.
Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).
He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free + freak + x).
His friend Ari Lemmk encouraged Linus to
upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded.
Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.
Linus like that directory name and he kept the name of his new OS to LINUX…

 

 

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10) Picture taken when
INFY
was started. This picture was found in the album of the clerk who took this picture…
The
picture was with that clerk only because it was his birthday and he
just told everyone to stand together at one place to take a pic.
He borrow a camera from his friend and as he can not tell
any of his boss to take pic, so he took pic by himself… even it was
his birthday.

 

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AND THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN WHEN SUPERHIT
SHOLEY
WAS STARTED……

They were looking at asrani when he was doing practice first time with his funny Jailer's dress… ALONE on one rock…

 

 

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PS: Finally , I made changes on my personal domain which I bought last yr. Now I think wat was so hurry to buy that :(( .. 

Funny Woody Allen Quotes*

I love this guy..

He started his venture from Hotmail, failed on Arzoo once and still not letting his hands go off the “hot” technologies. He is an ideal idol for me and for every indian technologist. Yes! I am talking about Sabeer Bhatia who once walked away with the $400 million and that too ten years ago. Recently i came across an article on Sabeer on the launch of his another venture BlogEverywhere.com along with Shiraz Kanga, a former employee of Cisco.
Apart from revving up Hotmail, Blogeverywhere’s application software will help you access blogs and retrieve real site syndication (RSS) feeds faster. Whether his new ventures will help Hotmail regain some of its lost lustre isn’t clear but Bhatia isn’t unduly bothered.
Well, I was highly impressed by the enterpreneur skills that this guy has and still remember the wise words which he said in his talk at iiit — “I only need my laptop and an internet connection and I can work and live forever in any part of the world”.
Hot Links:
Bhatia on Hot Mission
Samsung SGH-i310 - World’s First 8GB Hard Disk Smartphone - (Do we need separate music players now ? )
Patched Mac holed in 30 minutes

Bangalore, Filmfare & BLACK

Last weekend I visited Bangalore for the second time. Nice place with such a nice crowd and yes.. better than hyderabad. The most impressive thing that I noticed is the people looking like professionals talking professional and apart from that the way they talk also seems to be a real professional I must say.. Don’t believe ? better checkout this . Now if I start comparing between Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad then definitely the things will come down to TRAFFIC. Though traffic of Delhi has improved alot due to MetroRail (Thanks to Sheila Dixit and Central govt) but it’ll take few more yrs to make it a world class city.
MG Road .. Times Square at Bangalore . A nice place to spend an evening . I was roaming at MG road for arnd 3 hrs on stretch and still wasn’t feeling tired at all. A pizza at Dominoz made the visit more splendid. Also visited Bangalore Central which is more or less similar to Hyderabad one except that is doesn have any multiplex like PVR in HC.
The thing I need to mention now is the pretty weather of bangalore. I can still remember my last visit to Bangalore arnd 3 yrs b4 and that too in the month of May n u know wat ? the weather was arnd 26 deg C then .
Now the Forum Mall.. was jst like other malls and with a PVR multiplex The Food Court is good and you may observe many outlets there which you may not have seen earlier. The LandMark is also good but only if you can shell out large chunk of money for things you are not in habit to buy at such places.
Awww.. McChicken at McDonalds is worth eating especially if you are having it after say 2-3 months .I really miss McD at Hyderabad (y can’t they have atleast one outlet here at hyd)
Now the Filmfare ! I didn’t know that Filmfare was supposed to come on the day of my landing to bangalore. I always miss the opportunity to watch Filmfare awards. I can only say few words after watching it this time . .. “The BLACK lady didn’t want to color herself in some other color.”
The movie Black bagged arnd 11 Filmfare awards .. now that is something unusual. Gr8 direction by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Acc to me the only category where Black cudn get the award was the best music , singer etc .. due to black out of songs in it . and Rani Mukherjee was really looking pretty in that white saree.

Some Pics of my Bangalore visit

Forum Mall

Hotel Leela Palace

MG Road

Microsoft Research

CCD @ Bangalore

Dell India

101 Tips for Time Management.. Can I do this ?

“Time is Precious! “. “Time and Tide waits for nobody” .. Now I came to know about the cent percent truth of these statement. I think i seriously need to manage time efficiently these days. Basically in simple words I shud say that I don’t want to sacrifice a bit and still i want the fruit. The first step towards this is “Early to bed , Early to rise”.. which is too difficult for me as far as i know. Though I am getting a bit philosophical but believe me .. there’s nothing good you can achieve without any sacrifice..
So from now onwards I make a commitment to sleep early.(atleast i can improve)
I was Stumbling upon recently and got some gr8 links

I Will press
Resource for Web Designers
Google Guide Quick Reference

101 Tips for Time Management .. somebody teach me atleast 10

1. Set aside time each day to review and prioritise demand on your time.
2. Take a small chunk of a difficult task, and deal with it straight away.
3. Think through your day while making your way to work
4. Always delegate your tasks that are not time-effective for you to do.
5. Split your working day into chunks of 30 minutes each.
6. Review your time log to assess your work efficiency.
7. Allow for some thinking time in your schedule.
8. Estimate how long a task will take you, and see how accurate you were.
9. Update your time log as often as possible-memory is often unreliable.
10. Break down long term plans into weekly and daily action plan.
11. Draw a flow chart of your career, and plan where you want to go next.
12. Ask for a second opinion if you cannot prioritise competing tasks.
13. Identify conflicts of priority between you and your boss.
14. Find out whether your colleagues priorities conflict with your own.
15. Classify all work engagements in your diary according to their importance.
16. If your schedule is full of A-tasks, then delegate or redefine them.
17. Alter priorities continually in line with changes or new information.
18. To keep discussions short, avoid open-ended questions.
19. Ensure that you have some quiet time every day.
20. Do not be afraid to leave the phone hook.
21. Time your physical and mental peaks so that you know how long they last.
22. Keep some energy for home life and leisure activities after work.
23. Suggest working flexible hours to improve company productivity.
24. Choose a diary that looks good and that you will enjoy using.
25. Always keep your pen in your diary for noting information and dates.
26. Use coloured pens to denote tasks of varying importance.
27. Set realistic deadlines. A deadline is meant to be helpful, not a major cause of stress.
28. Delegate enjoyable tasks as well as unpleasant ones
29. Reward yourself when you meet your deadlines
30. Plan your diary no more than one year ahead.
31. Make sure you do at least one thing every day that you enjoy.
32. Read a passage by your favourite author last thing at night.
33. Concentrate on your colleagues’ and clients’ positive attributes.
34. Use an organizer to list weaknesses, and then plan how to combat them, one by one.
35. Keep your desk clear of everything but the current job in hand.
36. Beware of self-sticking notes. They are easily lost.
37. Clear up daily. Never leave a mess for the morning.
38. Highlight key points on paperwork to speed up rereading.
39. Position a clock in your office so it is visible to you and to visitors.
40. Review your filing system at least every few months.
41. Set up a filing system that will grow with you and your business.
42. Go through your files regularly and discard documents that you no longer need.
43. File papers with no obvious home in a folder labelled ” Miscellaneous”.
44. File only essential documents that will be referred in future.
45. Ask your secretary or a colleague to screen incoming phone calls for you.
46. Pick up the phone to indicate the end of a meeting.
47. Do not sit down if you are followed into your office.
48. Place your chair out of view if your door is open.
49. Throw away any information that you think you do not need.
50. Keep all chance meetings short by standing- it will then be easier to get away.
51. Copy information only to those who need to know.
52. Stop subscriptions to magazines you no longer read.
53. Remove magazine and newspaper articles you wish to keep, and file them for reference.
54. Assess each piece of information for its relevance to current projects.
55. Keep only essential reading on your desk.
56. Think before you interrupt anyone. Their time is as valuable as yours.
57. Call a meeting only after considering other options.
58. Do not make assumptions about work colleagues.
59. Take a deep, relaxing breath before you make a phone call.
60. Avoid distractions when taking on the phone. Focus on what the caller is saying.
61. When making a phone call, have another project to hand to work on in case you are kept waiting.
62. Tell people when they can call you, and note the time in your diary.
63. Reroute your calls when you want to avoid interruptions.
64. Never delay dealing with any written material-it will just mount up.
65. Underline key phrases in reports you have to read.
66. Skim-read the headlines in your daily newspaper.
67. Keep essential reference material separate from your other documents and papers.
68. Clear unwanted documents from your computer once a month.
69. Consider carefully your computing requirements.
70. Keep your e-mail messages short, and address them accurately.
71. Encourage people to express views, even if they are contrary to yours.
72. Ask a colleague to interrupt “urgently” if a routine meeting lasts over an hour.
73. Keep meetings short by listening rather than talking.
74. Allocate a specific amount of time to each subject on an agenda.
75. Encourage people to attend only the parts of a meeting that concern them.
76. Remind everyone what was agreed at a meeting in a follow-up memo.
77. Before travelling, assess whether the trip is necessary and cost-effective.
78. If possible, fit everything you need to take into one small piece of hand luggage.
79. Take work to do in an airport lounge in case of delays.
80. Set your watch to the local time at your destinations.
81. Check how much your hotel charges for phone calls before making any.
82. Find out whether you need adapters for your electrical equipment abroad.
83. Take two or three short holidays instead of one long one.
84. Schedule regular time off to pursue your hobbies and leisure interests.
85. Aim to experience something new everyday.
86. Maintain high expectations, and people will live up to them.
87. Persuade others of your case using facts, not emotions.
88. Take an interest in what others are trying to achieve.
89. Hearing is not the same as listening. Learn to listen.
90. Make sure you define objectives clearly when you delegate a task.
91. Reserve some time for the task that you only can do.
92. Keep a checklist to help you monitor the progress of tasks that you have delegated to others.
93. Reward good work generously, and chastise in moderation.
94. Set precise and realistic deadlines for tasks that you delegate.
95. Try not to allow colleagues to distract you with unimportant issues.
96. Hold meetings in colleagues’ offices, so you can leave when you need to.
97. Set aside special times when your office is open to all.
98. Visit colleagues only when you have more than one issue to discuss.
99. Be aware of your boss’s working patterns, and try to adapt to them.
100. Ask about your boss’s home life-it will help to build up a relationship.
101. Remember that time is perfectly democratic. Nobody has more or less of it than you.

go Live

Well,what to say .. i thought that i’ll not write these silly blogs anymore but actually WordPress solved my long long awaited problem. I was searching for a javascript that is used to post some data to the site without switching to the new page. I was totally oblivious of this technology which even google used to make somewhat live experience to user. For all those who dont know ,the technology is termed as AJAX ie Asynchronous JavaScript And XML which is used to post data in background without changing the page and hence don’t require you to do download the same HTML again n again .. kewl na ..
In all, last sem and this sem I’ve learnt too much .. I shud rather say this was the time when I grasped many of the latest and happening technologies.I am proud of myself
enuf show off now coming back to normal life i’ve decided to use only wordpress to post and not blogspot . may be i switch to blogspot if they are wise enuf to provide some good features like this.
I m loving hacking..

Finally .. an end to a long long search

ooof!! finally i got what i wanted from so long.. WordPress ruulz in providing blogger service i must say that .. I still can’t figure out why is blogspot not providing full featured blog service ?? may be it would buy wordpress after some time First of all i wanted the categorized way of blogging which i guess only wordpress has .. though i can also setup pivot blog on my iiit students account but i think there’s no point blogging on that server when we have wordpress .. I don’t understand why are they not letting in the users to register and instead sending invitations after sometime like wat gmail does

Well , I am writing my blog after so long time .. but the fruit was worth waiting .. ahh! kewl I still have one exam to go now on 15th.. haven started preparing … hehe ..
2day i spent whole day in laziness .. nothing to do except watching Apprentice or some other TV show .. I donno but I m getting hooked to these shows which i never expected .. And one thing more .. for the first time in Hyderabad I m experiencing such a cold weather . arnd 12 deg minimum .. but I love this weather . actually u can say that I am made for this weather only .. n so I m missing my place very much

I m just waiting for that one exam to end up fast though I havent started studying for it .. blah~ .. As like previous sems .. this sem too ended too fast .. now i can start counting days when we’ll be leaving this place .

Some kewl links :

30 Movies that you should watch b4 30
Man’s love stand between the animal’s life and death

Well this is just a trailor .. I’ll definitely write some kewl creations from my side .. this job is getting hot signing off bbye ..

PS: Almost over with Apprentice Season 2.. if u haven watch them .. watch them fast
Will be soon starting Lost series
just bug me to get wordpress.com account .. may be i can help ..