This is what, i got as a forwarded mail from one of my friend.
Nice read...
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From: Shankar, Gauri
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:24 PM
Subject: The Steve Jobs Question - by Robin Sharma
I've been hearing a lot about Apple CEO Steve Jobs lately - his winning ways with the iPod, his transformation of Apple, his achievements with film studio Pixar. He's a pretty interesting guy, from what I can gather. Brilliant. Driven. Passionate. He's also a philosopher.
Jobs spent some formative time in India. He studied with sages. He visited meditation retreats. He pondered life's big questions. Speaking of questions, I've heard there's one in particular that he asks himself every time he faces a big decision or choice point in his life: “what would I do if this was the last night of my life?” I love it.
No one on their deathbed ever regretted the risks that they took. The place of least security is in the security zone. To live a big life, it's essential that you take calculated risks - often. Without daring, there can be no winning. Steve Jobs met his wife that way. He was giving a speech at a university and spotted her in the audience. He met her after the event and wanted to take her to dinner - but he had a business meeting. As he walked to his car, he asked himself: “if this was the last night of my life, what would I do?” He ran back to the auditorium and found her. They've been together ever since.
This is a great time to reflect. You are leaving one year and welcoming in another. Go deep. Reflect on what To Dos you have not done because fear got in the way. Think about how quickly life is passing and what needs to get done so you feel you played your best game as a human being. And then walk out into the world - and shine. We'll all be better off once you do.
“iCon”, the new biography on Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Apple sold 18 million iPods in 2005). It's a superb read. Gives you an inside glimpse of the thinking, behavior and life of a modern day business genius. Love him or not, the guy's a true visionary.
With Regards,
Gauri Shankar
Monday, April 03, 2006
Puzzle - 2
Here comes another puzzle.
Card trick without the trick!!
This is a card trick without the trick. There is no sleight of hand, no tricks up my sleeve, no magic whatsoever. It’s all done with logic, yet it will amaze most people. Joel and I are working together as a team to do the trick. Babak will be the culprit.
I ask babak to pick 5 cards out of a deck. He can pick any five cards, he can shuffle the deck 7 times, and it really doesn't matter. He honestly picks out 5 cards that I cannot see. He hands the five cards to me (Joel can't see any of this). I look at the cards and I pick 1 card out and give it back to Babak. I then arrange the other four cards in a special way, and give those 4 cards all face down, and in a neat pile, to Joel. Joel looks at the 4 cards I gave him, and says out loud which card babak is holding
(Suit and number). I did not convey any information to Joel other than the way i ordered the 4 cards, (all face down, aligned in line with one another) so how did I encode babak's card using that method?
Solutions are welcomed. (plz don’t use google !!! )
Card trick without the trick!!
This is a card trick without the trick. There is no sleight of hand, no tricks up my sleeve, no magic whatsoever. It’s all done with logic, yet it will amaze most people. Joel and I are working together as a team to do the trick. Babak will be the culprit.
I ask babak to pick 5 cards out of a deck. He can pick any five cards, he can shuffle the deck 7 times, and it really doesn't matter. He honestly picks out 5 cards that I cannot see. He hands the five cards to me (Joel can't see any of this). I look at the cards and I pick 1 card out and give it back to Babak. I then arrange the other four cards in a special way, and give those 4 cards all face down, and in a neat pile, to Joel. Joel looks at the 4 cards I gave him, and says out loud which card babak is holding
(Suit and number). I did not convey any information to Joel other than the way i ordered the 4 cards, (all face down, aligned in line with one another) so how did I encode babak's card using that method?
Solutions are welcomed. (plz don’t use google !!! )
Friday, March 31, 2006
Google Vs MS
Hey!!! Here is a small video from New.com (Notice their complete url www.news.com.com )
Watch what Bill has to say about Google Vs MS
Bill Gates on Google
Watch what Bill has to say about Google Vs MS
Bill Gates on Google
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Atlas Framework
Atlas is really kool stuff. I just downloaded a video from Atlas site and gone thru it once. It does not give much details (as its only a small video for duration of around 15 min). But what all it demonstrates in this small video is just great. All know, AJAX has done tremendous improvements in user experience as far as web applications are concerned. (Gmail is one of the very good examples) Now here comes Atlas framework to make life easy for developers writing AJAX based applications. Using Atlas, you can very easily create different groups (update panels actually in terms of atlas terminology) for your page controls by using simple tags and now when you click on any control in that groups, whole of the page wont post back, rather it just controls belonging to the same update panel would refresh providing user a very rich UI experience.
I remember the day, when I was creating my own calendar control in javascript to save postback at least when user selects any date on my page (cause calendar server control provided by ASP.NET causes a postback for whole of the page for every single click). Now it’s too easy to handle it. Just put your calendar or any other server control in separate update panel so that for any change in calendar it wont post back complete page, rather only the calendar part of it would get redrawn asynchronously. This is really awesome.
A very important thing to look for is grouping of different control on your page. I mean, if any of your control is not in the update panel causing post back, in that case even if you change values for that control from any event, it would not be updated on UI. It would update value for the control internally, but as only controls related to panel causing postback are redrawn so UI would keep on showing old value for that control.
I remember the day, when I was creating my own calendar control in javascript to save postback at least when user selects any date on my page (cause calendar server control provided by ASP.NET causes a postback for whole of the page for every single click). Now it’s too easy to handle it. Just put your calendar or any other server control in separate update panel so that for any change in calendar it wont post back complete page, rather only the calendar part of it would get redrawn asynchronously. This is really awesome.
A very important thing to look for is grouping of different control on your page. I mean, if any of your control is not in the update panel causing post back, in that case even if you change values for that control from any event, it would not be updated on UI. It would update value for the control internally, but as only controls related to panel causing postback are redrawn so UI would keep on showing old value for that control.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Live.com services
I found two things very interesting, which i would like to explore other than quite a lot of other stuff.
One, WebParts in ASP 2.0 (for which i have started with sample application today) and second is ATLAS Framework (explore and come up with some useful gadgets for live.com. BTW second news of the day also provides a lot of motivation for doing so :) )
Microsoft reaches out to developers with Live
Business Opportunity for Building Applications with Windows Live and MSN Messenger
Why is anyone still using Internet Explorer?
One, WebParts in ASP 2.0 (for which i have started with sample application today) and second is ATLAS Framework (explore and come up with some useful gadgets for live.com. BTW second news of the day also provides a lot of motivation for doing so :) )
Microsoft reaches out to developers with Live
Business Opportunity for Building Applications with Windows Live and MSN Messenger
Why is anyone still using Internet Explorer?
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Fabulous weekend
This weekend, it was awesome. By Friday evening, 7 of my friends joined us on our room. So including 4 of us roommates, we were 11 ready for fun filled weekend. Friday night it was whole lot of gossip session whole of the night. Two of my friends had interview with some company the next day, so keeping that in mind we decided to sleep for some time at around 6 in the morning. It was just 9:30 when I heard some of friend’s voice and at 10:00 we were all back with our next chat session. This went on for almost two days and nights.
Some of the highlights were…
• Birthday bumps to Amy
• Engagement bumps to Mangal
• Google bumps to dhawan
• Gullu’s new girlfriend
Some of the highlights were…
• Birthday bumps to Amy
• Engagement bumps to Mangal
• Google bumps to dhawan
• Gullu’s new girlfriend
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