Being SK

Another classic case. This time it is an Indian Chess player who I feel has done it in style, even if it was cheating. He was caught and banned for ten years. Here is the link

Cheers!!!

If you are a person who depends on web forums a great deal for your technical queries, then this link is for you. It tells a lot on how to ask questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer.

Here is a sample
“…
Stupid: Where can I find out stuff about the Foonly Flurbamatic?
This question just begs for ‘STFW‘ as a reply.

Smart: I used Google to try to find “Foonly Flurbamatic 2600” on the Web, but I got no useful hits. Can I get a pointer to programming information on this device?
This one has already STFWed, and sounds like he might have a real problem.
…”
It also has some tips on how to interpret answers. Lengthy one, but worth a read.

Cheers!!!

Microsoft lists 100 reasons why once you’ve seen it, you’ll say WOW!!

“Just because a marketer says something is amazing, exciting or just plain WOW doesn’t mean it is” – Seth Godin

Mmm lets wait and watch.

Cheers!!!

Spider-Man 70% Green Lantern 65% Superman 60% Hulk 55% Supergirl 51% Robin 45% Wonder Woman 41% The Flash 40% Iron Man 35% Catwoman 25% Batman 25%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Got it via The Hulk Shyam

Cheers!!!

A forward mail I got…

If we are not going in the direction that will ultimately lead us to our goals, one of the problems may be the questions that we ask ourselves. It may be time to reframe some of the questions. Here are a few examples:

Original question: What am I getting?
Reframed question: What am I becoming?

Original question: Why is this happening to me?
Reframed question: What can I learn from this?

Original question: Why can’t he/she understand me?
Reframed question: How can I communicate so that he/she can understand me?

Original question: How can I get to the next position so that I am better?
Reframed question: How can I become better so that I get to the next position?

Original question: Why should I be proud of working for my company?
Reframed question: Why should my company be proud of me working for them?

Original question: How can I find a cool company to work for?
Reframed question: How can a cool company find me to work for them?

Original question: How can I get this task done?
Reframed question: What is the right configuration of resources to get this done in the most optimum fashion?

A fwd mail I got…
Ever noticed how deleting one word after the other in a sentence can lead to a nice story?

Here’s an example:
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Oh John please don’t touch me at all…!

Oh John please don’t touch me at…!

Oh John please don’t touch…!

Oh John please don’t…!

Oh John please…!

Oh John..!

Ohhh……!!!!!!!!!!

Devil’s Advocate (n) – One who argues against a popular cause or position, not as a committed opponent but simply to make people discuss and consider it in more detail.

I became a big fan of Karan Thapar after he starts to play the role of Devil’s Advocate. Every sunday I eagerly waits to watch the programme in CNN-IBN (usually airs @ 8:30 pm). A class program in which he interviews top-notch personalities (politicians, more-often-than-not ) on burning issues. I just love the way he makes fool of the interviewee. He always started asking simple questions and pull contradictory words from their mouth. He makes them really uncomfartable on their stands by asking embarrassing questions augmented with pukka proof. Everytime I watch the programme, I couldn’t help myself from correlating it with the famous interview scene in the film Mudhalvan.

Last week it was finance minister P.Chidambaram, talks on what basis the ruling government proposes reservation for OBCs in higher education. Really a good one. Click here to read the full interview. Three weeks back it was HRD minister Arjun Singh on the same topic and was undoubtedly the famous one of the series. Arjun Singh was all at sea on it. Click here to read the full interview and just know how stupid our ministers can be.

Karan Thapar surely knows the art of interviewing and he rocks!!!

Cheers!!!

“Take a risk. All life is a risk”

Last saturday, I took a big risk along with two of my mates. No, no skydiving, no rock climbing, and no downhill skiing. We went to a theatre and watched Perarasu’s magnum opus(!) ‘Thirupaachi’ Painful two-and-half hours in life.

Vowed that,  will never do something stupid in the name of risk-taking hereafter. Cheers!!!

This is the best story i have heard of, defining politics….

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, “What are Politics?”

Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way:

#1. I’m the head of the family, so call me The Prime minister.
#2. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.
#3. We’re here to take care of your needs, so we’ll call you the People.
#4. The nanny, we’ll consider her the Working Class.
#5. And your baby brother, we’ll call him the Future.

Now think about that and see if it makes sense.”

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parent’s room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.”

The father says, “Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.”

The little boy replies, “The Prime minister is screwing the Working Class, while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep s%*t.”

“It really surprises me – you are so consistent and I’m not”- Sachin Tendulkar, on his 33rd birthday, thanks mediapersons for their unwavering love and affection.

oops, what else he can say with the current form he is in. One can feel the pain in his words, his quest for runs. Am sure he will come back with a bang. (So will my ‘Thalai‘ Sourav). Just wait and see!!

Cheers!!