Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Re: “20 Things that Happen in 1 Minute” Graphic

anj

via Sociological Images by gwen on 1/30/10

p.j. sent me this graphic that shows a number of things that happen in 1 minute. She found it at a website that gives insurance quotes, oddly enough, but in general the sources don't appear to me to be ones that would be prone to industry-friendly bias:

NOTE: Readers are making some really interesting points about the representations here in the comments, so check 'em out.

(View original at http://contexts.org/socimages)


 
 

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Saari umr hum ......

 
A friend forwarded this mail to me....and I just had to share it with the world.

 
Saari umr hum
coding main mar gaye
Ek pal to ab humein jeene do
jeene do
 
Saari umr hum
coding main mar gaye
Ek pal to ab humein jeene do
jeene do
 
Na na na….Na na na….Na na na….Na na nana na….
 
Give me some flight
Give me some train
Give me another chance
I wanna go home once again
 
Give me some flight
Give me some train
Give me another chance
I wanna go home once again
 
Kandhon ko laptop
Ke bojh ne jhukaya
 
Client se jhoot bolna tho khud
Manager ne sikhaya
 
CRR4 rating laaoge to chhuti, varna kismat futi
Code kar kar ke pada Ungaliyon pe
JAVA, PHP, ORACLE aur MySQL ka chaala
 
Is Project ne to sala poora..
Poora bheja pakka daala
 
Career to gaya
GF bhi gayi
Ek pal to ab humein
jeene do jeene do
 
Career to gaya
GF bhi gayi
Ek pal to ab humein
jeene do jeene do
 
Saari umru hum
coding main jee liye
Ek pal to ab humein jeene do
jeene do
Na na na….Na na na….Na na na….Na na nana na….
Give me some flight
Give me some train
Give me another chance
I wanna go home once again

Give me some flight
Give me some train
Give me another chance
I wanna go home once again
Na na na….Na na na….Na na na….Na na nana na….
Na na na….Na na na….Na na na….Na na nana na….

 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Fwd: Coffee makes you dance around like a goat!

 
 
 

via Geek In Disguise by stevecla01 on 1/23/10

coffee

Hence why I'm cutting down my intake these days Smile I am actually cutting down a lot on my afternoon & evening caffeine and woe does it make a difference to the quality of sleep I get. I know that's obvious but I'm just a bit slow on this stuff

via theoatmeal.com




 
 
 



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Ranjith Ravindran

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Fwd: Rules for Writing Well (Iain D Campbell)



 

 
 

via Reformation21 Blog on 1/11/10

some basic rule's of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to:


26 Golden Rules for Writing Well


1.Don't abbrev.

2.Check to see if you any words out.

3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.

4.About sentence fragments.

5.When dangling, don't use participles.

6.Don't use no double negatives.

7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

8.Just between you and I, case is important.

9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.

10.Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.

11.Its important to use apostrophe's right.

12.It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.

13.Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

14.Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop

15.Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.

16.In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.

17.Watch out for irregular verbs that have creeped into our language.

18.Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

19.Avoid unnecessary redundancy.

20.A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

21.Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.

22.A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.

23.Avoid cliches like the plague.

24.1 final thing is to never start a sentence with a number.

25.Always check your work for accuracy and completeness.