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I can't...

noreply@blogger.com (Shivam4v) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:43:00 +0000

I can't give solutions to all of your life's problems,

But I can listen to you and together we will search for an answer.I can't keep your feet from stumbling,

I can only offer my hand that you may grasp it and not fall.
I can't keep your heart from breaking or hurting,

But I can cry with you and help you smile again
I can't promise you happiness always,

But I can only share with you what life offers and be your FRIEND FOREVER.

A Women's day dedication

noreply@blogger.com (Shivam4v) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:20:00 +0000

I might be posting this a bit late, but this was what I wrote on Women's day, dedicated to all the Women in my life, especially my Mummy :)

SOME SAY SHE'S WRONG...

some say she's wrong..
I say she's strong

Some say she does hurries
I say she just worries

Birthgiver and second to none
When you're down she is the only one.

She is a best friend, sister and soulmate
The one you shouldn't try n' checkmate

Rough as a rock or smooth as silk
Pulling apart her only will.

All in the glamour and the red
Noone saw that a tear she has shed.

To all those that she considers dear
When it matters, she won't fear.

She doesn't seem to be given a chance
When what she wants is to have a stance.

Just look into her eyes, she wants to share,
Adore the damsel and give her some care.

THANK YOU!

Thoughts of Change

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:21:00 +0000

- Go on that trip. Don’t postpone it.
- Say those words. Don’t let the moment pass.
- Do what you have to, even at society’s scorn.
- Write poetry.
- Love deeply.
- Walk barefoot.
- Dance with wild abandon.
- Cry at the movies.
- Take care of yourself. Don’t wait for someone to take care of you.
Go for the win.

Source and Copyright: http://www.bspcn.com/2011/12/05/thoughts-of-change/

Newton's Forgotten Laws

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:27:00 +0000

Laws Which Newton Forgot To State
LAW OF QUEUE: If you change your queue, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
LAW OF TELEPHONE: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.
LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
LAW OF WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
BATH THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone u know increases when u r with sum1 u don't want to b seen with : P

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:13:00 +0000

Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:26 PM PDT

Written by wired
Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., passed away Wednesday.
A visionary inventor and entrepreneur, it would be impossible to overstate Steve Jobs’ impact on technology and how we use it. Apple’s mercurial, mysterious leader did more than reshape his entire industry: he completely changed how we interact with technology. He made gadgets easy to use, gorgeous to behold and essential to own. He made things we absolutely wanted, long before we even knew we wanted them. Jobs’ utter dedication to how people think, touch, feel and interact with machines dictated even the smallest detail of the computers Apple built and the software it wrote.
Jobs was born in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 1955, and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. He was a techie from a young age, often sitting in on lectures at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto while attending Homestead High School in Cupertino. He eventually landed a summer job there, working alongside Steve Wozniak.
Jobs enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Ore. in 1972, but dropped out after six months – he later said he “didn’t see the value in it.” He eventually returned home to California. He got a job at Atari, renewed his friendship with Wozniak and started hanging out with the Homebrew Computer Club. After trekking to India in 1974 — a trip he, like so many others, made to find enlightenment – Jobs returned home and looked up Woz.
The two of them launched Apple in 1976. Their first project, the Apple I, wasn’t much to look at — just an assembled circuit board. Anyone who bought it had to add the case and keyboard. But it was enough for Jobs to convince Mike Markkula, a semi-retired Intel engineer and product marketing manager, that personal computing was the future. Markkula invested $250,000 in the fledgling enterprise.
The Apple I begat the Apple II in 1977. It was the first successful mass-market computer, and easy to use, too. That would become a hallmark of Apple under Jobs.
The Apple II had a huge impact on the tech business, but cheaper alternatives, like the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20, quickly eroded Apple’s market share. IBM’s open PC platform eventually won out over Apple’s closed approach, and the die was cast. The PC dominated the market.
Still, Apple was by any measure a success. By the time Jobs was 25 in 1980, he was worth more than $100 million. Not that it mattered to him.
“It wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money,” he once said.
Apple once again shook up the industry with the Macintosh, announced in 1984 with a now-iconic Super Bowl ad challenging IBM. The Mac was a revolutionary step forward for personal computing — the first mass market computer to use a mouse-driven, user-friendly graphical interface. It was influenced by – critics would argue lifted from — technology Jobs saw a few years earlier at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. It irreversibly changed how we interact with computers.
But then Jobs fell from grace. One year after the Mac’s introduction, Jobs was fired in a power struggle with CEO John Sculley. Jobs was devastated. He felt he’d let those who came before him – pioneers like David Packard and Bob Noyce – down, and he wanted to apologize.
“It was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the Valley,” he admitted in a 2005 speech.
But Jobs realized he loved what he did, and wanted to keep doing it. So he founded NeXT, a computer company, and a computer animation outfit that he renamed Pixar. As for Apple, it faltered in his absence. The company’s stock plummeted 68 percent, pushing Apple to the brink of bankruptcy.
But in 1996, Apple purchased NeXT and Jobs returned to the company he founded. It wasn’t long before he was once again back at the helm, and Apple’s ascent began.
One of Jobs’ first moves was to make peace with arch-rival Microsoft. That led to a $150 million investment from Microsoft, breathing new life into the moribund Apple. Jobs was once again firmly in control, and this time he would make sure he didn’t lose it.
He ran Apple with a firm hand, enforcing a policy of secrecy, while instilling an unrivaled dedication to design and an unwavering commitment to quality. These things mattered so deeply to Jobs that he became a micromanager, one said to have put as much thought into the boxes holding Apple’s products as the products themselves.
Apple’s incredible string of hits started with the iMac and continued with iTunes and the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and 2010’s iPad. There were some misses along the way – Mobile Me and Apple TV – but Jobs, working with lieutenants like Tim Cook, made Apple one of the biggest companies in the world.
Jobs had always been the public face of Apple, but he began retreating from the spotlight in 2004 when doctors diagnosed him with pancreatic cancer. It was a rare form of the disease, one that could be treated, and Jobs survived. His health, though, continued to deteriorate. His liver failed in 2009, and Jobs took a six-month medical leave. He returned, but was rarely seen. He announced he was resigning as CEO in August, and Tim Cook replaced him as the head the company.
At a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Jobs shared the philosophy that drove him.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life,” Jobs said. “Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

What counts...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:58:00 +0000

Leave all the worries

leave all the tension

earn some happiness

forget about the pension

what you do would always follow

don't regret what you couldn't

what you did was what you should

what you didn't you shouldn't

who you have in life

are the ones you deserve

because life does give you back

what you give, like a resounding curve

so, have fun as long as you can

enjoy yourself and others

because in the end

what counts is not the regrets that you made, but the successes that follow!

Have a great day!

A 98 year old woman's letter to her bank

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:39:00 +0000

A 98 year old woman's letter to her bank

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my Pension, an arrangement, which, I admit, has been in place for only thirty eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, but when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become. From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person. My mortgage and loan payments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank by cheque, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate. Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope.

Please find attached an Application Contact Status which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Solicitor, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof. In due course, I will issue your employee with PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press buttons as follows:

To make an appointment to see me.
To query a missing payment.
To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
To leave a message on my computer (a password to access my computer is required. A password will be communicated to you at a later date to the Authorized Contact.)
To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through to 8.
To make a general complaint or inquiry, the contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.

May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous, New Year.

Your Humble Client

Why do Tea particles keep rising to the surface while making Tea?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:14:00 +0000

Ever wondered about this simple thing, while you're making Tea?
Those tiny Tea particles that give you that immensely refreshing taste, while these get cooked while you are preparing Tea for yourself or others, (well, that doesn't require you to be making Tea yourself thought :P, still...), you might have seen those little pieces rising above to the surface as if they're coming up to catch a breath of fresh air and then deep dive again, or as they say in those cartoon movies, they take heat, get themselves burnt and rise up in pain!
But that's not what happens here, that might happen in a cartoon movie though!
The scientific reason to this small action lies in a simple one letter word which connects us to the theory of Energy-Transfer
It says Energy can be transferred from one body to the other by 3 means

Conduction
Radiation
Convection -- This is the one we're interested in!

The simple reason is Convection!

WikiPedia says,

Convection is the movement of molecules within fluids (i.e. liquids, gases) and rheids. It cannot take place in solids, since neither bulk current flows nor significant diffusion can take place in solids.

Convection is one of the major modes of heat transfer and mass transfer. Convective heat and mass transfer take place through both diffusion – the random Brownian motion of individual particles in the fluid – and by advection, in which matter or heat is transported by the larger-scale motion of currents in the fluid. In the context of heat and mass transfer, the term "convection" is used to refer to the sum of advective and diffusive transfer.

Convection Current inside the cooking vessel.
Note the flow of the particles.
It is the same that the Tea particles follow

Due to Convection, the particles that take up heat from the bottom, become lighter and start coming up to the surface. These particles then transfer their energy to other particles. Then these particles after transferring their energy become heavier, again go down and again pick up heat. This leads to a continuous flow of the liquid particles up and down in a circle sort. How and in which manner this circle goes about depends on the heat variation and generally starts from the bottom center to outwards and then up again, where these lose energy and then get down to the top center and then back to the bottom.

Another picture from our daily life would illustrate how these particles flow. This is a general picture that we always see when cooking

Observe that the flow is radially inwards

So, the next time you go and make Tea (or maybe, even just observe it), just keep in mind this very word --

CONVECTION

Have a Nice Day!

(Do Comment if You Liked, and share the knowledge)

Expressions...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:47:00 +0000

"A blind man was begging on side of Newyork street with a board written
"I am blind please help me"
Once a guy passing dat side saw him. He took his board and wrote something on his board & from that day he started getting heavy collections.
Many people started giving money 2 him.
Can u guess what he wrote?
He wrote,
"Today is a beautiful day but I can't see it.."
Message: The way of EXPRESSION changes every thing.

Why girls talk so much?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:07:00 +0000

Guys have always been wondering about this very thing about a girl's characteristic. The characteristic of being utterly talkative.
Recently, I came across an excellent response to why she's telking about her toothpaste, why she wants you tn know how her friend got her new sandals, the yellow flower on her new top...and all the blah blah that guys 'think is useless' stuff.
Let's get into why people talk, and how the two genders infer 'T.A.L.K.'
Talking is a way of communication. Everyone knows how important is to communicate, and that too both ways! Not just listening or talking. Effective communication occurs when words flow both ways, and not just superficially, but deep either into the hearts (emotion talks) or into the brains (decisive/brainy talks) or both!!!
Talking about HE and SHE, keeping suspense about the latter, when HE talks, whatever he talks is about opinions, discussions, experiences. Guys would usually discuss matters, gather opinions, argument, share experiences and get to worthwhile conclusions.
All those of you gals out there, don't take that as a negative. Its not that you don't talk worthwhile, but its that a female communication is different!
Now here's the main course!
When a Girl talks, she isn't concerned about the fact that her talks would lead to conclusions or not, what she longs for while communicating is nothing but the communication itself! She just wants to share her things and what happens and surrounds her. What things pleases her and that you "ought" to be knowing (as SHE would take it to be). It doesn't matter if all that she talks about makes sense or not. Not even that it should increase anybody's knowledge or experiences. What really matters to her when talking is just that she talks and has a conversation, which seems to be the most important. She wants you to just talk to her, and nothing else. A girl wouldn't want to be judged, (or misjudged anyway!), but that she has a pleasant time. And well, when she connects it all, its just too good for her and for the other person as well. Moreover, she talks so much, wants you to listen just because she wants to share her life with the person that she is talking to. (Of course, you might think yourself lucky, if you're the lucky one to have her secrets as well! That's good going :P)
So, you see. What she's saying isn't supposed to be overheard and boring talks. If you take interest positively, a girl's talking can really have really positive implications.
So, next time, don't just HEAR, but LISTEN to her!
Have a Nice Day!

Coming or Going? Or Gone Wented Gone'd?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:49:00 +0000

It's about time I thought about doing things in utter team work. To start with, the thing that struck my mind to write this pretty short column was to go to the college tomorrow or not. And while I still don't consider myself so good at English Grammar, still I like to enquire why would things go one way and not the other!
So, I was here, typing out a message to my 'bundle' of friends asking if they'll be joining me at the college tomorrow!
The point at which I was stuck was the key line of the message. I had two options, and for somebody normal, it wouldn't seem like a big thing to write any of the either or to see the difference between the two for being so simple yet so complicated in senses! (Call me paranormal or out of senses or crazy if you want that).
The two lines were: A. Are you coming to the college tomorrow? B. Are you going to the college tomorrow?
Caught up with any difference? Must have noticed just the change of the two words, 'going' and 'coming'. That isn't just word-play, but has a lot to deal with conveying meanings that may influence the reciever of the message that may influence his/her choice, in ways ranging from no changes to drastic ones. Ok, not so dramatic, but well between a yes or no.
In the case that i had to deal with, writing 'Are you coming to the college' would directly imply that I planned to come and that you either come or if you don't, I'm gonna pursue you to.
While on the other side, writing 'Are you going...' implies that I am reluctant to go and I would certainly wish that even you do the same.
So, the change of that simple word would result in the opposite message being conveyed. Such things are and have been critical in communication.
Wonder how small things have quite an impact! :)

Why do we say "TouchWood"

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:39:00 +0000

We say good things, we say bad things. What matters are the better things that we say.
Even you might have said a very good thing once, might be when you compliment something or just casually (who needs a special time to say a good thing!). And while you're at it, you might have used the word "touch wood".
Ever thought what this simple 2 word phrase meant when used in the context?
The word Touch Wood has been in use in mainly India, UK, Ireland and Australia. While other parts of the world use the phrase "Knock on Wood".
Actually, in older days, people used to have a belief that Gods dwell in trees. So, touching a tree was like having God's hand on them, protecting them from bad omens etc. So, when somebody would say something that would boast or just say something, it was and is believed that the evil would start to eye them. Then, touching a tree or 'wood' would ward off the evil! That's how Touchwood literally means the act of touching wood.
Now that you why, Touchwood!

Why are guitar tunes so hypnotic?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:17:00 +0000

Why are guitar tunes so hypnotic?

You must have heard many songs with guitar being played, either solo all along the song, or paired with a whole lot of instruments. And most of the time, we get into the mood, no matter how we feel at the moment! Moreover, guitar tunes, as i term them to be, from my side, to be, hypnotic i.e. They have a particular rhythm and pattern sometimes that differentiates those award winning songs from those that, well, don't win anything!
Is it the property of being a stringed instrument that it has to do with or that guitar has so many rhythms that it can blend with any lyrics when played properly.
Guitar has another splendid property to be played standalone with songs. Only a few other instruments have this property!