Who Coined The Names Of Top Companies ?

Mercedes :

This was actually financier's daughter's name.

Yahoo :
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
Compaq :

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel :

The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland Research Laboratory.

Xerox :
The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.
Sun Microsystems :
Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.
Sony :
From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SAP :
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.
Red Hat :
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!
Oracle :
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).
Motorola :
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
Microsoft :
It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Lotus :
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or 'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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.
Hewlett Packard :
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Hotmail :
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings.
Google :
The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google
Cisco :
The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.
Apple :
Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
Apache :
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache.
Tomcat :

The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C :

Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).
C++ :

Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU :

A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humor associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java :

Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.
LG :

Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

Linux :

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 Lemmke 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' parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling) .
Mozilla :

When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.

Unix :

When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS.They needed the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS.It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.

3M :

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper.

Adobe :
The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Our PM's Resume - Worth A Glance

EDUCATION /Qualification:

Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics
Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1 952;
Stood first in MA Economics
Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1954;
Wright's Prize for distinguished performance at
St John's College, Cambridge , 1955 and 1957;
Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge,1957;
DPhil (Oxford), DLitt (Honoris Causa);
PhD thesis on India's export competitiveness

OCCUPATION /Teaching Experience:

Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics, 1957-59;Reader, Economics, 1959-63;
Professor, Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1963-65;
Professor, International Trade, Delhi School of Economics,University of Delhi, 1969-71;
Honorary professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi, 1976 and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,1996 and Civil Servant

Working Experience/ POSITIONS :

1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry of foreign trade
1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry of finance
1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India;
Director, Industrial Development Bank of India;
Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, Asian Development Bank;
Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD
Nov 1976 - Apr 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (Department of economic affairs);
Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission;
Member, finance, Space Commission
Apr 1980 - Sep 15, 1982: Member-secretary, Planning Commission
1980-83: Chairman, India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee
Sep 16, 1982 - Jan 14, 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank of India
1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of governors, International Monetary Fund
1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister
1985: President, Indian Economic Association
January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
August 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990: Secretary-general and commissioner, south commission, Geneva
December 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991: Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs
March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991: Chairman, UGC
June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996: Union finance minister
October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket
June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance
August 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha
June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance
August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules
Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges
2000 onwards: Member, executive committee, Indian parliamentary group
June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee

BOOKS:

India's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth -Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 1964;
Also published a large number of articles in various economic journals.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge, 1956
Padma Vibhushan, 1987
Euro money Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;
Asia money Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

1966: Economic Affairs Officer
1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, UNCTAD
1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International Monetary Reform
1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings
1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting
1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting
1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus
1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna

RECREATION:

Gymkhana Club, New Delhi; Life Member, India International Centre, New Delhi

Name: Dr Manmohan Singh
DOB: September 26, 1932
Place of Birth: Gah (West Punjab)
Father: S. Gurmukh Singh
Mother: Mrs Amrit Kaur
Married on: September 14, 1958
Wife: Mrs Gursharan Kaur
Children: Three daughters

Greg's Damning E-Mail On Ganguly

Here is Greg's mail...please do read it, u will come to know how cheap Ganguly is...

Due to comments made by Mr Sourav Ganguly during the press conference following his innings in the recently completed Test match in Bulawayo and the subsequent media speculation I would like to make my position clear on two points.

1. At no stage did I ask Mr Ganguly to step down from the captaincy of the Indian team and;

2. At no stage have I threatened to resign my position as Indian team coach.Mr Ganguly came to me following the recently completed tri-series of one-day matches here in Zimbabwe and asked me to tell him honestly where he stood as a player in my view. I told him that I thought he was struggling as a player and that it was affecting his ability to lead the team effectively and that the pressure of captaincy was affecting his ability to play to his potential. I also told him that his state of mind was fragile and it showed in the way that he made decisions on and off the field in relation to the team, especially team selection. A number of times during the tri-series the tour selectors had chosen a team and announced it to the group only for Sourav to change his mind on the morning of the game and want to change the team. On at least one occasion he did change the team and on the morning of the final I had to talk him out of making another last-minute change that I believe would have destroyed team morale and damaged the mental state of the individuals concerned. I also told Sourav that his nervous state was affecting the team in other ways as he was prone to panic during pressure situations in games and that his nervous demeanour was putting undue pressure on the rest of the team. His nervous pacing ofthe rooms during our batting in the final plus his desire to change the batting order during our innings in the final had also contributed to nervousness in the players waiting to go in to bat. His reluctance to bat first in games I suggested was also giving wrong signals to the team and the opposition and his nervousness at the crease facing bowlers like Shane Bond from NZ was also affecting morale in the dressing room.

On the basis of this and other observations and comments from players in the squad about the unsettling effect Sourav was having on the group Isuggested to Sourav that he should consider stepping down from the captaincy at the end of the tour in the interests of the team and in his own best interests if he wanted to prolong his playing career. I told him of my own experiences toward the end of my career and cited other players such as Border, Taylor and Steve Waugh, all of whom struggled with batting form toward the end of their tenure as Australian captain.We discussed other issues in relation to captaincy and the time and effort it took that was eating into his mental reserves and making it difficult to prepare properly for batting in games. He commented that he had enjoyed being free of those responsibilities in the time that he was in Sri Lanka following his ban from international cricket and that he would consider my suggestion.I also raised the matter of selection for the first Test with Sourav and asked him where he thought he should bat. He said 'number 5'. I told him that he might like to consider opening in the Test as the middle order was going to be a tight battle with Kaif and Yuvraj demanding selection.Sourav asked me if I was serious. I said it was something to be considered, but it had to be his decision. The following day Sourav batted in the match against Zimbabwe 'A' teamin the game in Mutare. I am not sure of the exact timing of events because I was in the nets with other players when Sourav went in to bat,but the new ball had either just been taken or was imminent when I saw Sourav walking from the field holding his right arm. I assumed he had been hit and made my way to the players' area where Sourav was receiving treatment from the team physiotherapist, John Gloster. When I enquired as to what had happened Sourav said he had felt a clickin his elbow as he played a ball through the leg side and that he thought he should have it investigated. Sourav had complained of pain tohis elbow at various stages of the one-day series, but he had resisted having any comprehensive investigation done and, from my observation,had been spasmodic in his treatment habits, often not using ice-packs for the arm that had been prepared for him by John Gloster. I suggested,as had John Gloster, that we get some further tests done immediately.Sourav rejected these suggestions and said he would be 'fine'. When Iqueried what he meant by 'fine' he said he would be fit for the Testmatch. I then queried why then was it necessary to be off the field now.He said that he was just taking 'precautions'.Rather than make a scene with other players and officials in thevicinity I decided to leave the matter and observe what Sourav would dofrom that point on. After the loss of Kaif, Yuvraj and Karthik to the new ball, Sourav returned to the crease with the ball now around 20overs old. He struggled for runs against a modest attack and eventually threw his wicket away trying to hit one of the spinners over the legside.The next day I enquired with a number of the players as to what they had thought of Sourav's retirement. The universal response was that it was'just Sourav' as they recounted a list of times when Sourav had suffered from mystery injuries that usually disappeared as quickly as they hadcome. This disturbed me because it confirmed for me that he was in a fragile state of mind and it was affecting the mental state of other members of the squad.When we arrived in Bulawayo I decided I needed to ask Sourav if he had over-played the injury to avoid the danger period of the new ball as it had appeared to me and others within the touring party that he had protected himself at the expense of others. He denied the suggestion and asked why he would do that against such a modest attack. I said that he was the only one who could answer that question.I was so concerned about the affect that Sourav's actions were having on the team that I decided I could not wait until selection meeting that evening to inform him that I had serious doubts about picking him forthe first Test.I explained that, in my view, I felt we had to pick Kaif and Yuvraj following their good form in the one-day series and that Sehwag,Gambhir, Laxman and Dravid had to play. He said that his record was better than Kaif and Yuvraj and that they had not proved themselves in Test cricket. I countered with the argument that they had to be given achance to prove themselves on a consistent basis or we would never know.I also said that their form demanded that they be selected now.Sourav asked me whether I thought he should be captain of the team. Isaid that I had serious doubts that he was in the right frame of mind to do it. He asked me if I thought he should step down. I said that it wasnot my decision to make, that only he could make that decision, but ifhe did make that decision he had to do it in the right manner or it would have even more detrimental effects than if he didn't stand down. I said that now was not the time to make the decision but that we should discuss it at the selection meeting to be held later in the day.Sourav then said that if I didn't want him to be captain that he would inform Rahul Dravid that was going to stand down. I reiterated that itwas not my decision to make but he should give it due consideration under the circumstances but not to do it hastily. At that point Sourav went to Rahul and the two of them conferred briefly and then Sourav left the field and entered the dressing room. At that stage I joined thestart of the training session.A short time later Mr Chowdhary came on to the field and informed me that Sourav had told him that I did not want him as captain and that Sourav wanted to leave Zimbabwe immediately if he wasn't playing. I then joined Mr Chowdhary and Rahul Dravid in the dressing room where we agreed that this was not the outcome that any of us wanted and that the ramifications would not be in the best interests of the team.We then spent some time with Sourav and eventually convinced him that he should stay on as captain for the two Tests and then consider his future. In my view it was not an ideal solution but it was better than the alternative of him leaving on a bad note. I believe he has earned the right to leave in a fitting manner. We all agreed that this was a matter that should stay between us and should not, under any circumstances, be discussed with the media.The matter remained quiet until the press conference after the game whena journalist asked Sourav if he had been asked to step down before theTest. Sourav replied that he had but he did not want to elaborate and make an issue of it. I was then called to the press conference where Iwas asked if I knew anything of Sourav being asked to step down before the game. I replied that a number of issues had been raised regarding selection but as they were selection matters I did not wish to make any further comment.Apart from a brief interview on ESPN before which I emphasized that Idid not wish to discuss the issue because it was a selection matter Ihave resisted all other media approaches on the matter.Since then various reports have surfaced that I had threatened to resign. I do not know where that rumour has come from because I have spoken to no one in regard to this because I have no intention ofresigning. I assume that some sections of the media, being starved of information, have made up their own stories.At the completion of the Test match I was approached by VVS Laxman witha complaint that Sourav had approached him on the eve of the Test sayingthat I had told Sourav that I did not want Laxman in the team for Testmatches. I denied that I had made such a remark to Sourav, or anybody else for that matter, as, on the contrary, I saw Laxman as an integral part of the team. He asked how Sourav could have said what he did. I said that the only way we could go to the bottom of the matter was to speak to Sourav and have him repeat the allegation in front of me.I arranged for a meeting with the two of them that afternoon. The meeting took place just after 6pm in my room at the Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo. I told Sourav that Laxman had come to me complaining that Sourav had made some comments to Laxman prior to the Test. I asked Sourav if he would care to repeat the comment in my presence. Sourav then rambled on about how I had told him that I did not see a place forLaxman in one-day cricket, something that I had discussed with Sourav and the selection panel and about which I had spoken to Laxman at theend of the Sri Lankan tour.Sourav mentioned nothing about the alleged conversation regarding Laxman and Test cricket even when I pushed him on it later in the discussion.As we had to leave for a team function we ended the conversation without Sourav adequately explaining his comments to Laxman.Again, this is not an isolated incident because I have had other playerscome to me regarding comments that Sourav had made to them that purports to be comments from me to Sourav about the particular player. In each case the comments that Sourav has passed on to the individual are figments of Sourav's imagination. One can only assume that he does it to unnerve the individual who, in each case, has been a middle order batsman.Sourav has missed the point of my discussions with him on this matter.It has less to do with his form than it does with his attitude toward the team. Everything he does is designed to maximise his chance of success and is usually detrimental to someone else's chances. Despite meeting with him in Mumbai after his appointment as captain andspeaking with him about these matters and his reluctance to do thepreparation and training that is expected of everyone else in the squad he continues to set a bad example.Greg King's training reports continue to show Sourav as the person who does the least fitness and training work based on the criterion that has been developed by the support staff to monitor the work load of all the players.We have also developed parameters of batting, bowling, fielding and captaincy that we believe embodies the 'Commitment to Excellence' theme that I espoused at my interview and Sourav falls well below the acceptable level in all areas. I will be pleased to present this documentation when I meet with the special committee in Mumbai later this month.I can assure you sir that all my actions in this matter, and all others since my appointment, have been with the aim of improving the team performance toward developing a team that will represent India with distinctions in Test match and one-day cricket.As I said to you during our meeting in Colombo, I have serious reservations about the attitude of some players and about Sourav and his ability to take this team to a new high, and none of the things he has done since his reappointment has caused me to change my view. In fact,it has only served to confirm that it is time for him to move on and let someone else build their team toward the 2007 World Cup.This team has been made to be fearful and distrusting by the rumourmongering and deceit that is Sourav's modus operandi of divide and rule.Certain players have been treated with favour, all of them bowlers,while others have been shunted up and down the order or left out of theteam to suit Sourav's whims. John Wright obviously allowed this to go on to the detriment of theteam. I am not prepared to sit back and allow this to continue or we will get the same results we have been seeing for some time now.It is time that all players were treated with fairness and equity and that good behaviours and attitudes are rewarded at the selection table rather than punished.I can assure you of my very best intentions.

Yours sincerely,

Greg Chappell

IITs - Seeds Of The Next Silicon Valley

At the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in Kharagpur, near Kolkata, a small team of engineers is beavering away on what they hope will prove a killer competitor to the BlackBerry.
At IIT Bombay, an earth sciences professor is about to launch a company that will tap the vapor of geothermal springs to drive turbines, generators, and power stations -- the first company to do so in India.
Across the country, at IIT Madras, students and professors have spun off a startup that's working on a no-frills network computer aimed at the Asian corporate and government markets that will sell for just $100.
"We dream of building billion-dollar-product companies here," says Ashok Jhunjhunwala, an electrical engineering professor at IIT Madras. "We believe we have laid the foundation for them."
No one knows how many of these products will take off. But the odds are that some of the fledgling companies will make real money. Dozens of such projects are now taking shape at India's elite IITs.
In the same way that Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped spawn Silicon Valley and Route 128 in the 1970s and '80s, Indian institutions are encouraging professors and students with business ideas to take the plunge. The schools are providing initial office space, labs, and seed money to "incubate" startup companies.
Some are also building tech parks to attract companies willing to collaborate. Since India began opening its economy in the early 1990s, the six (recently expanded to seven) IITs have created some 50 new companies. The pace has accelerated in the last three years.
That's a big change from the early days. When they were conceived in the 1950s, the IITs churned out top-notch engineers to meet an almost insatiable appetite from the country's steel, construction, power, chemical, defense, and textile industries.
The schools so excelled at the task that they became a world-famous source of engineers, particularly for the US But actual involvement by the schools in startups was almost nonexistent. Now students and professors alike are busy trying to become entrepreneurs in commercially applicable areas where IITs are strong, such as telecom, microelectronics, computer sciences and software, heat transfer and, of late, biochemistry and biotechnology.
The big challenge is finding funding. IIT Kanpur, for example, has a budget of just $1.15 million to sprinkle around a half dozen projects. IIT Madras has teamed up with institutions such as ICICI Bank Ltd., State Bank of India, and other local state-run sources to raise up to $230,000 for each of its 16 companies.
And IIT Kharagpur is creating its own fund. "We have plans for a $230 million venture fund that we will raise from our alumni, investors, financial institutions, and the government," says Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, dean of sponsored research and industrial consultancy at IIT Kharagpur.
All these efforts are necessary because Indian startups aren't much on the radar screens of American venture capitalists, who invested only $240 million in Indian companies last year. They invested $20.4 billion in the US.
Funds are rarely available for companies that don't have a track record of sales and customers. For example, Midas Communications Technologies Ltd., an IIT Madras spin-off that makes broadband and wireless telecom equipment, finally raised $10 million from American venture capitalists Argonaut Private Equity in July, 2004, seven years after it was founded.
Midas' sales are expected to top $104 million this year, 50% higher than 2004. Its success is a boon for IIT Madras, where the electrical engineering department helped develop the technology for Midas products. Midas and other licensees of the technology paid the IIT $3.5 million in royalties last year.
Of course, applied research and business incubation at India's top technology institutes remain a far cry from their US peers. But dozens of IIT spin-offs are a start. If India's software and tech stars can start to attract more venture funding, the breakthroughs of the future may come just as much from Mumbai and Chennai as Silicon Valley and Boston.

Great Ways To Propose - No Assurances Though !

Got It as a Forwarded E-Mail...

1. (Walk up behind girl and point fingers shaped like gun into her back)
You're under arrest!
(For what?)For stealing my heart

2. Hi, My name is Chance, Do I have one?

3. Are your legs tired?
( Girl: Why?)
Because you have been running through my mind all day!

4. I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?

5. Can you give me directions to your heart?
I've seemed to have lost myself in your eyes.

6. (Take a look at the tag on the girls shirt, jacket, etc.);
She would say ; What are doing& respond,Oh, just checking to see if you were made in Heaven.
7. (Pick up a flower and walk over to girl.)
I was just showing this flower how beautiful you are.

8. Is it hot in here or is it just you?

9. Walk up to a girl and say:
Are you from Greece?
She answers.
Oh, I thought all the goddesses were from Greece...

10. I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek,and & die on your lips.

11. Did you know they changed the alphabet?
They put U and I together.

12. Are you lost?
Bcoz it's so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.

13. Do you believe in love at first sight,or do I have to walk by you again?

14. What's that in your eye? Oh...it's a sparkle.

15. Do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes.

16. You can forget about going to heaven because it's a sin to look that good.

17. If I had eleven roses and you, I'd have a dozen.

Mobile Phone Tips

1) Hidden Battery power Imagine your cell battery is very low, u r expecting an important call and u don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when u charge your cell next time.

2) Locked the keys in the car? Your car has remote keys? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, call someone on your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car,you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!"

3) Emergency number The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly ...this number 112 can be dialed even while the keypad is locked. Try it out.

Microsoft Word Oops

This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
At Microsoft the whole team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself...Open Microsoft Word and type=rand (200,99)and then press ENTER..

Interesting Sardar Jokes II

Ek dost ne sardar se poocha "yaar tu hamesha foreign channel kyon dekhta rehta."
Sardar "yaar kuch bijli unki bhi kharcha hone do."

High-tech sardar inventions:
Waterproof towel
Solar powered torch
Book on how to read
Pedal powered wheel chair.

Why did sardar cut the sides of the capsule before taking it?
Guess what
To avoid side effect!!!

Man:sardarji where were u born?
Sardarji: punjab.
Man: which part.
Sardar: oye part part kya kar raha hai, whole body is born in punjab".

Lawyer to sardar: Gita pe haath laga kar kaho ke
Sardar :yeh kya, sita pe haath lagaya to court mebulaiya. ab fir gita pe haath.

Ek teacher ne sardar se puchha "akal badhi ya bhais "
Sardar bola "sir pehle date of birth to batao".

Why was sardarji writing the exam near the door
bcoz it was an entranceexam.

Banta's son:dad there is some one on the door 2 collect donationsfor a swimming pool.
Banta: give him a glass of water.

Santa:I am a proud sardar, my son is in medical college.
Banta: really what is he studying?
Santa: he is not studying they r studying him.

IAS Interview Questions - Interesting

IAS i.e. UPSC Exam 1998 Interview Question and the Answer given by candidates
..........Oh sorry!! IAS Officers now

Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)

Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand.(UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs, He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple?
A: The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper)

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Dinner.

Q. What happened when wheel was invented?
A: It caused a revolution.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A: Liquid (UPSC 33Rank)

Q: what is the opposite of Nag panchmi?
A: Nag did not punch me

Some Facts And Figures

The backbone of a camel is perfectly straight.
The windows in an empty house will never frost no matter how low the temperature is.
There are 47 different types of headaches.
Jahangir, the Mughal Emperor, owned the largest collection of gems.
An average scalp has 100,000 hairs.. There is no soda in soda-water.
No two zebras are striped alike.
The horn of the rhinoceros is not bone, it is hairs.
An ostrich egg is big enough to make an omelette for 12 people.
There are 8600 kinds of birds.
A human being drinks 27 tons of water a year.
A butterfly should warm its body up to 81*F before flying.
In the New York zoo there is a tortoise who is 80 years old and weighs 175 kilos.
The biggest cell is the egg of an ostrich.
In Asia, Sri Lanka is called the "eye donor".
Pakistan ,India and Burma got independence in the same year, that is, 1947.
One common cell has 1.5 volts.
A whale can swim for three months without eating.
There are about 15,000 kinds of roses.
Human blood is six times thicker than water.
There are about 1,000 different religions in the world.
The most common animal on the earth is a sea-worm.
Their number is estimated to be around 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Google Failure Or US Failure

Try out the following steps and see what happens...!

You will have to then ask one question. Whether its a GOOGLE Failure or a US Failure?
1. Go to www.google.com
2. Type "failure" (without double quotes) in the search text box.
3. Press "I'm Feeling Lucky" button just next to "Google Search" button.
4. See what happens. Find it out yourself and laugh a lot. (Do not worry, its not going to harm your computer.)
5. Share it with your friends and relatives before GOOGLE fixes this bug.
7. Enjoy...

Nathuram Godse's Defense Speech In Court

"Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone. I openly joined anti-caste movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social and religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession. I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus,Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the company of each other. I have read the speeches and writings of Dadabhai Nairoji, Vivekanand, Gokhale,Tilak, along with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some prominent countries like England, France, America and' Russia. Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar andGandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done. All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well being of all India, one fifth of human race. This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and programme, which alone, I came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan,my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well. Since the year 1920, that is,after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji's influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violence, which heparaded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or enlightened person could object to those slogans.In fact there is nothing new or original in them. They are implicit in every constitutional public movement.But it is nothing but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life from day to day. In fact, honour, duty and love of one's own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force.I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In theRamayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita. [In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter wason the side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action. In more recent history,it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India. It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive AfzalKhan, failing which he would have lost his own life.In condemning history's towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed hisself-conceit. He was, paradoxical, as it may appear, aviolent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever for the freedom they brought to them. The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should bebrought to an end immediately. Gandhi had done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and wellbeing of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way. Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had tobe content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitivevision, or it had to carry on without him. He alone was the Judge of everyone and everything; he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement;no other could know the technique of that movement. Healone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold disaster and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma's infallibility. 'ASatyagrahi can never fail' was his formula fordeclaring his own infallibility and nobody excepthimself knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause.These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupledwith a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless workand lofty character made Gandhi formidable andirresistible. Many people thought that his politicswere irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with, as he liked. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure after failure, disaster after disaster. Gandhi's pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India. It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his career in India,Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is called Hindustani. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a mere dialect;it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue and crossbreed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma's sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India. His blind followers, of course, supported him and the so-called hybrid language began to be used.The charm and purity of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus. From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League begana massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, LordWavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Actof 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi's infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as hecould not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten.King Log was followed by King Stork. The Congress,which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism,secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point ofthe bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territorybecame foreign land to us from August 15, 1947. LordMountbatten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing overpower was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mountbatten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls 'freedom' and'peaceful transfer of power'. The Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called 'freedom won by them with sacrifice' - whose sacrifice?When top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country - which we consider a deity of worship - my mind was filled with direful anger. One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or theMuslims concerned. Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims inPakistan, there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death.It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the MuslimLeague hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty in as much as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of,all crumbled before Jinnah's iron will and proved tobe powerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined, and the onlything I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost all my honour,even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan. People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building. After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision in the matter, butI did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say that my shots were fired atthe person whose policy and action had brought rackand ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towards anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present government owing to their policy, which was unfairly favourable towards the Muslims.But at the same time I could clearly see that thepolicy was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi. I have to say with great regret that Prime Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preachings and deeds areat times at variances with each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and out ofseason, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi's persistent policy of appeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court to accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled against it on all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value there of someday in future."

- NATHURAM GODSE

Alzheimers' Eye Test

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...





HOW MANY ? .................. 3?



WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.

READ IT AGAIN !

The reasoning behind is further down. The brain cannot process "OF". Incredible or what? Go back and look again!! Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare.

Year 2038 Bug

Starting at GMT 03:14:07, Tuesday, January 19, 2038,It is expected to see lots of systems around the world breaking magnificently satellites falling out of orbit, massive power outages (like the 2003 NorthAmerican black out), hospital life support system failures, phone system interruptions, banking errors,etc. One second after this critical second, many of these systems will have wildly inaccurate date settings, producing all kinds of unpredictable consequences. In short, many of the dire predictions for the year 2000 are much more likely to actually occur in the year 2038! Consider the year 2000 just a dry run. In case you think we can sit on this issue for another 30 years before addressing it, consider that reports of temporal echoes of the 2038 problem are already starting to appear in future date calculations for mortgages and vital statistics!In the first month of the year 2038 C.E. many computers will encounter a date-related bug in their operating systems and/or in the applications they run.This can result in incorrect and wildly inaccurate dates being reported by the operating system and/or applications. The effect of this bug is hard to predict, because many applications are not prepared for the resulting "skip" in reported time anywhere from 1901 to a "broken record" repeat of the reported time at the second the bug occurs. Also, may makesome small adjustment to the actual time the bug expresses itself. This bug to cause serious problems on many platforms, especially Unix and Unix-like platforms, because these systems will "run out oftime".

What causes it?

Time_t is a data type used by C and C++ programs to represent dates and times internally. (Windows programmers out there might also recognize it as the basis for the CTime and CTimeSpan classes in MFC.)time_t is actually just an integer, a whole number,that counts the number of seconds since January 1,1970 at 12:00 AM Greenwich Mean Time. A time_t value of 0 would be 12:00:00 AM (exactly midnight)1-Jan-1970, a time_t value of 1 would be 12:00:01 AM(one second after midnig ht) 1-Jan-1970, etc..some example times and their exact time_trepresentations:

Date & time time_t representation

1-Jan-1970, 12:00:00 AM GMT 0

1-Jan-1970, 12:01:00 AM GMT 60

1-Jan-1970, 01:00:00 AM GMT 3 600

2-Jan-1970, 12:00:00 AM GMT 86 400

1-Jan-1971, 12:00:00 AM GMT 31 536 000

1-Jan-1972, 12:00:00 AM GMT 63 072 000

1-Jan-2038, 12:00:00 AM GMT 2 145 916 800

19-Jan-2038, 03:14:07 AM GMT 2 147 483 647

By the year 2038, the time_t representation for the current time will be over 2 140 000 000. And that's the problem. A modern 32-bit computer stores a "signed integer" data type, such as time_t, in 32 bits. The first of these bits is used for the positive/negative sign of the integer, while the remaining 31 bits are used to store the number itself.The highest number these 31 data bits can store worksout to exactly 2 147 483 647. A time_t value of this exact number, 2 147 483 647, represents January 19,2038, at 7 seconds past 3:14 AM Greenwich Mean Time.So, at 3:14:07 AM GMT on that fateful day, everytime_t used in a 32-bit C or C++ program will reach its upper limit.

One second later, on 19-January-2038 at 3:14:08 AMGMT, disaster strikes. When a signed integer reaches its maximum value and then gets incremented, it wraps around to its lowest possible negative value. This means a 32-bit signed integer, such as a time_t, set to its maximum value of 2 147 483 647 and then incremented by 1, will become -2 147 483 648. Note that "-" sign at the beginning of this large number. Atime_t value of -2 147 483 648 would represent December 13, 1901 at 8:45:52 PM GMT.So, if all goes normally, 19-January-2038 will suddenly become 13-December-1901 in every time_t across the globe, and every date calculation based on this figure will go haywire. And it gets worse. Most of the support functions that use the time_t data type cannot handle negative time_t values at all. They simply fail and return an error code.

Wanna try It :

Note: This is just for FYI only, Please try this at ur own risk.

This is true and if you do this then your network based applications will not work.

The Year 2038 ProblemTriaging steps...

1. login to yahoo messenger

2. send instant message to anyone - fine itsworking...

3. now, change your system date to 19-Jan-2038,03:14:07 AM or above

4. Confirm weather your date is changed

5. again send instant message to anyone...Your YM crashes...

European English

The European Commission has just announced an agreement where by English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in thelanguag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w"with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reilsensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis andevrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vuntedin ze forst plas.If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

Orkut Profile Of A Software Engineer

About me:

I think I am changing the world, but I am not. I think I am contributing to the Indian economy, but I guess I am not. I think I love my work, but I do not. I think I hate all people who made me earn my engineering degree, and I do. I think I am living, but and most importantly, I am LOOKING for someone!! Ok...I won't be funny anymore. I am a cool guy with a zeal to enjoy life (If you know me - "Just stop laughing!!")

Relationship status: what?

Birthday: The day my PL is about to fire me

Age: 10111

Here for: web browsing in company hours

Children: can't be (hey, don't get me wrong here!!)

Ethnicity: Programmer

Languages I speak: Java, C/C++, 010101110101

Religion: I get holidays on all religious festivals, so I love all religions.

Political view: the guy sitting beside me is a pig!!

Humor: weekly

Fashion: Ask my company HR. Btw, I like jeans, t-shirt and a cross-bag.
Smoking: The second greatest pleasure on the earth
Drinking: The first is this.
Living:

Cummon, this is a stupid one. How can this be asked to a software engineer?

Believe me, I am living!!

Hometown: My company (Oh God! Please bring my appraiser to this page)

Webpage: http://naukri.com, http://jobsahead.com

Passions:

searching for the cheapest pub around, cursing my company, looking for another company, remembering my good old college days, worrying about my future

Sports: quake, CS (Counter Strike), computer chess

Activities: Are you crazy?

Books:

"How to lose weight in 20 days?", "How to live a happy life?", "101 ways to attract a girl", "Java Unleashed", "C++ at your footsteps", Others censored

Music: Metallica, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, ACDC, and anything depressing

Tv shows: can't afford one

Cuisines: Bread Butter, Maggi, anything available within 200 metres of home

Astonishing Facts

1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD:
Praetertranssubstantiationalistically --> has 37 letters.

2) BOOK WITHOUT LETTER ' e':
GADSBY , written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with ' e ' in it

3) WORD WITHOUT VOWEL :
RHYTHM

4) BRAIN:
Organ of body which has no sensation when cut .

5) CROCODILE:
Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating .

6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS:
B Bee
C Sea
G Zee
I Eye
Q Queue
R Are
S Yes
T Tea
U You
Y Why

Fascinating Wildlife :

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tounge.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

What Are They :

1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say 'DADDY':
LIPS
2) What goes up & never comes down:
AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:
CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you:
FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:
ROAD
6) You can never wet it:
SHADOW
7) What belongs to to You, but used by your friends more often you do:
YOUR NAME

In 24 Hours Average Human :

1) HEART beats 1 ,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times

Love Letter From A Famous Mathematician

My Dear Love,

Yesterday, I was passing by your rectangular house in trigonometric lane. There I saw you with your cute circular face, conical nose and spherical eyes, standing in your triangular garden.Before seeing you my heart was a null set, but when a vector of magnitude (likeness) from your eyes at a deviation of theta radians made a tangent to my heart, it differentiated.
My love for you is a quadratic equation with real roots, which only you can solve by making good binary relation with me.The cosine of my love for you extends to infinity.

I promise that I should not resolve you into partial functions but if I do so, you can integrate me by applying the limits from zero to infinity.You are as essential to me as an element of a set. The geometry of my life revolves around your acute personality.My love, if you do not meet me at parabola restaurant on date 10 at sunset, when the sun is making an angle of 160 degrees, my heart would be like a solved polynomial of degree 10. With love from your higher order derivatives of maxima and minima, of an unknown function.

Yours ever loving,
Pythagoras

Black Robbers - Surprise Ending

David Letterman's take on this ..And it's a true story...

On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine. She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room. But first she wanted to stash the quarters in her room. "I'll be right back and we'll go to eat,"shetold her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the elevator.
As she was about to walk into the elevator she noticed two menalready aboard. Both were black. One of them was tall...very tall...an intimidating figure. The woman froze.Her first thought was: These two are going to rob me.
Her next thought was: Don't be a bigot, they look like perfectly nice gentlemen. But racial stereotypes are powerful, and fear immobilized her. She stood and stared at the two men. She felt anxious, flustered and ashamed. She hoped they didn't read her mind but Gosh, they had to know what she was thinking!!! Her hesitation about joining them in the elevator was all too obvious now. Her face was flushed. She couldn't just stand there, so with a mighty effort of will she picked up one foot and stepped forward and followed with the other foot and was on the elevator.
Avoiding eye contact, she turned around stiffly and faced the elevator doors as they closed. A second passed, and the another second, and then another. Her fear increased! The elevator didn't move. Panic consumed her.
My God, she thought, I'm trapped and about to be robbed! Her heart plummeted. Perspiration poured from every pore. Then one of the men said, "Hit the floor." Instinct told her to do what they told her. The bucket of quarters flew upwards as she threw out her arms and collapsed on the elevator floor. A shower of coins rained down on her. Take my money and spare me, she prayed. More seconds passed.
She heard one of the men say politely, "Ma'am, if you'll just tell us what floor you're going to, we'll push the button." The one who said it had a little trouble getting the words out. He was trying mightily to hold in a belly laugh. The woman lifted her head and looked up at the two men. They reached down to help her up. Confused, she struggled to her feet. "When I told my friend here to hit the floor," said the average sized one, "I meant that he should hit the
elevator button for our floor. I didn't mean for you to hit the floor, ma'am." He spoke genially. He bit his lip. It was obvious he was having a hard time not laughing.
The woman thought: My God, what a spectacle I've made of myself. She was humiliated to speak. She wanted to blurt out an apology, but words failed her. How do you apologize to two perfectly respectable gentlemen for behaving as though they were going to rob you? She didn't know what to say. The three of them gathered up the strewn quarters and refilled her bucket.
When the elevator arrived at her floor they then insisted on walking her to her room. She seemed a little unsteady on her feet, and they were afraid she might not make it down the corridor. At her door they bid her a good evening. As she slipped into her room she could hear them roaring with laughter as they walked back to the elevator. The woman brushed herself off. She pulled herself together and went downstairs for dinner with her husband. The next morning flowers were delivered to her room - a dozen roses. Attached to EACH rose
was a crisp one hundred dollar bill. The card said:"Thanks for the best laugh we've had in years."

It was signed :

Eddie Murphy
Michael Jordan

Dictionary For Men

How to interpret Women and Survive :

Expression by women Meaning for Men
[1] Yes == No.
[2] No == Yes.
[3] May be == No.
[4] I'm sorry == You'll be sorry.
[5] We need == I want.
[6] It's your decision == My correct decision should be obvious by now.
[7] Do what you want == You'll pay for this later.
[8] We need to talk == I need to complain.
[9] Sure go ahead == I don't want you to.
[10] I'm not upset == Of course I'm upset, you moron.
[11] This kitchen is so inconvenient== I want a new house.
[12] I want new curtains == carpeting, furniture, and wallpaper.
[13] I heard a noise == I noticed you were almost asleep.
[14] Do you love me? == I'm going to ask for something expensive.
[15] How much do you love me? == I did something today you're going to hate.
[16] I'll be ready in a minute == Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV.
[17] You have to learn to == Just agree with me.Communicate
[18] Are you listening to me? == Too late, you're dead.
[19] Go get your beer == You won't get what you are asking for

Aati Kya Khandala ...!

Aati Kya Khandala: In different languages.

Hindi:
A Kya Bolti Tu A Kya Mai Bolu Sun Suna Ati Kya Khandala Kya karu Ake mai Khandala Are Ghumenge, nachenge, gayenge Aish karenge or kya ?
English :
Aye what do you say? Aye what should I say? Listen. Speak on. Coming to khandala? What should I do, coming to khandala? We'll roam, we'll loaf, we'll sing, we'll dance we"ll freak, baby,what else?
Sanskrit :
This is too good Aye balike, twam katham kathisyasi Aye balakah aham kim kathisyamh Shrinvasi! Shrunha Kim twam khandaalaa agchasyasi Aham kim kurwasyami khandaalayeh gamisyami, bhramisyami, nryuthyami, gaayami, maja karishma, kim karishyami?
Oriya :
Are kana kahuchu tu? Aye kana mu kahibi? Sunu Suna Aasuchu ki Khandala? Kana karibi? Aasiki mu khandala? Are buliba, nachiba, gaiba, Aish kariba aau kana?
Sambalpuri :
(Western Oriya local language.)
Are kaana karchu tui? Are kaana mui ar karmi? Sun Suna Aaibu kain khandala? Kaana ar karmi aasikina khandala? Are bulma, nachma, gaima, Aish karma ar kaana
Kannada :
Ye, Yen heltiya Ye, yen helabeku Kelu Helu Bartiya khadalakke Yen madli nan bandu Khandalakke Are Suttadona,Kuniyona, Maja Madona Matte yenu?
Punjabi :
A ! ke boldi tu; A ke mein bolan; Sunh Sunha Chaldi khandala Ki karaan ae ke mein khandala Are Ghoomenge, Turainge, Naachenge, Gaavenge, Mauj Karenge, Aur Ki ?
Gujarati :
Aye shun bole tu? Aye hun shun bolu? Sambhal Sambhlaav Aave chey su khandaalaa? Shun karu aaviine khandaalaa? Ghumshun, pharshun, naachshun, gaashun, majaa karshun, beeju shun?
Marathi :
Aye kaai tu mhantes? Aye kaai mi mhanhu? Aik Aikav Yetes kai khandaalaa? Kai karu yevon mi khandaalaa? Are ghumuyaa, phiruyaa, gavuyaa, nachuyaa, aish karuyaa, aankhin kai

Kashmiri :
Heey, kya chaakh wannan Heev, kya bhe wanneyyyy Booz Wanoo Pakha telle khandalaa; Kya karee weeteth bhe khandalaa Pherevhey, nachevhey, geevevhey, khevevhey, eesh karav, beyy kya?
Konkani :
Aye ! kitte sangta tu? Aye ! aao kite sangu? Saang Saangta Khandalaa yeta ghi? Khandalaa yevun kithe kharche? Bhovya, Phireya, Naachya, Gauya, maja korya, anikithe?
Bengali :
Ei ki bolis tui Ei ki ar boli Shon Shonaa Jabi ki khondalaa K! i kori giye khondalaa Are, ghurbo, phirbo, nachbo, gaibo, maja korbo ar ki?
Malayalam :
Aye yenna pariyunnu? Aye nyan yenna parayan? Keku Pariyu Varinno kh! andala? Yendu cheyam? Nyaan vannu Khandaala? Karangam, paadam, aadam, joli addikam,verendha?

Telugu :
Aye, ainte chaepphuta vu Aye,ainte chaepala Vinu Chaeppu Wastava Khandala Yem Chesedhi? vacchi Khandala Thiruguthamu, eguruthamu, aadthaamu, paadthaamu,maja chesthamu inkemi?
Sindhi :
Aye cha thi c! haen tu? Aye Maan chaa chavan? Budh Budhai Acheti cha khandaalaa? Cha kandis achi maan khandaalaa? Are Ghumandasi, phirandasi, gayendasi, Nachandasi,aaish kan ! dasi, byo cha?
Magahi :
(BIHARI) A ki bolahin tu A kya boliyuow hum Sun Sunaow Aaimahi ki khandala Ki kariaow aake hum khandala Gumbai, Phirbai, naachai, gaayii, aish karbai aur ki
Assamese :
ey ki kua tumi? ey ki kom moi? sun suna ahibi ki khandala? ki korim aahi moi kahandalaa are ghurim,phirim,nasim,gaam,khub phurti korim aru ki?
Tamil :
Enna solre Ennatha solla mudalla kelu, sari sollu Kandala variya kandala poi enna panrathu Vera enna .oor suthuvom aaduvom paaduvom jalsa pannuvom

Foreign Languages :
German :
Was sagst du? Was soll ich sagen? Hor mal! Sag mal! Kommst Nach Khandala? Was machen wir in Khaldala? Wir gehen, spazieren, tanzen, singen, haben spaCx, was noch?
Spanish :
Tu que deceas? Yo que deseo? Oye Di me Vas a tu khandaalaa? Que haceo, yo voy en el khandaalaa? Viajamos, vagabundeamos, bailamos, cantamos, disfrutamos, si no.
Chinese :
Ain, Chon Zuan Ho? Ain, Chon Hee Zuano? Sui, Suion, Hyuan Chon Khandala? Chon Tsuani Hyui Hee Khandala? Chijuan, Kajuan, Marijuan, Siuan, Samshuan Tsuaniya Tsu Chon?
Russian :
Aeich, Kov Speache niv? Aeich, Kov miv Speache? Nuushev, Nuusheva, Comeva Kov Khandala? Kov Sheychev Comov miv Khandala? Rotiv, Rotrach, Balleva, Opereacha, Enjova Sheychevin, Kov Gobraich?
French :
Aye! qu'est-ceque tu dis? Aye! qu'est-ceque tu me vouler dire? Entendre Entendrez Est-ceque tu viens a la Khandala Qu'est-ceque je fais a aller a la Khandala ? Promenez, Allez, Dansez, Chantez a quelle?
Zambesi :
(African) Aye, Zwa To Zulu, Aye, Zwa Ze Zulu, Wahte, Kaso, Heliyo To Khandaalaa? Zwa Kumi, Helithe Khandaalaa?! Himala, Romala, Wahwahla, Infala, Kumaya Kumana, Ni

Taj Mahal - The Hidden Truth

If u dont believe the article below, and have faith upon BBC, please visit their website in this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A5220

Real History of "Taj Mahal"
It is proved Taj Mahal is not a burial of Mumtaj but an ancient temple of Lord Shiva. Sufficient proofs and website links are with this mail.

U can try this link (text and photo) before/after going through this mail: http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm

"The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal
built the Taj Mahal. It was built in 22 years (1631 to 1653) by 20,000 artisans
brought to India from all over the world! . Many people believe Ustad Isa of
Iran designed it." This is what your guide probably told you if you ever visited the Taj Mahal. This is the same story I read in my history book as a student.

NOW READ THIS.......

No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya). In the course of his research Oak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court chronicle, Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz's burial. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur stillretains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers.

For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried
in such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says
the term "Mahal" has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries
from Afghanisthan to Algeria. "The unusual explanation that the term Taj
Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.

Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he writes. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj Mahal, he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva's Palace. Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created by
court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists. Not a
single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the love story.

Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz's
death), describes the life of the city in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, also suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's time.

Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies
that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple rather
than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed
since Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to the public. Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples. Fearing political backlash, Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Prof. Oak's book withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition dire consequences. There is only one way to discredit or validate Oak's research.

The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal under
U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.

Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality.....
Hey please check this link ........it adds as a visual proof .........
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm

Interesting Sardar Jokes

Sardar: I have'nt slept all night in the train.
Friend: why?
Sardar: Got upper berth.
Friend: why did'nt you exchange the birth?
Sardar: oye, there was nobody to exchange in the lower berth...

A Teacher lecturing on population - In India after Every 10 second a woman gives birth to a kid.
A Sardar stands up- we must find & stop her!.

Sardar-why are all these people running?
Man- This is a race, the winner will get the cup.
Sardar-If only the winner will get the cup, why are others running?

Teacher: "I killed a person" convert this sentence into future tense.
Sardar: The future tense is "you will go to jail".

Sardar gets ready ,wears tie, coat ,goes out, climbs tree, sits on the branch regularly. A man asks why he does this. Sardar:"I've been promoted as branch manager."

Sardarji was filling up application form for a job. He was not sure as to what to be filled in column "Salary Expected". After much thought he wrote : Yes!

One sardarji professor asked a plumber to come to his college. you know Why?
Because he wanted to check where the question paper is leaking...

Sardar told his servant: Go and water the plants.
Servant: It"s already raining.
Sardar: So what? take an umbrella and go.

Sardar found the answer to the most difficult question ever - What came first, Chicken or egg?
O Yaar, what ever you order first will come first.

Sardar wins Rs. 20 crore from Rs. 20 lottery ticket. Dealer gave Rs. 11 crore after deducting tax.
Angry Sardar: "Give me Rs. 20 crore or else return my 20 Rs. back.!

Postman:- I had to come 5 miles to deliver you this packet
Sardar:- why did you come so far. Instead you could have posted it....

Sardar proposed to a Girl......Girl said 'I'm 1 year older to you'...........
Sardar said 'Oye no problem Soniye, I'll marry you NEXT YEAR.

Sardar's wish :when i die,i wanna die like my grandpa who died peacefulyin his sleep not screamin like all the passengers in the car he was driving..

Sardar at an Art Gallery: I suppose this horrible looking thing is what you call modern art ?
Art dealer: I beg your pardon sir, that's a mirror!

Sardar was writing something very slowly.
Friend asked:" Why are you writing so slowly?
Sardar: "I'm writing to my 6 yr old son, he can't read very fast.