Dec 22, 2011
Aug 8, 2011
"Mr. Bean" crashes his million dollar sports car outside london
British comedian Rowan Atkinson, best known for his role in Mr. Bean, was injured today after crashing his $1 million McLaren F1 in a small town outside London.
The pricey auto -- one of only 65 in existence -- spun out of control and caught fire after crashing into a tree.
The actor reportedly walked away with only cuts and bruises; he was hospitalized overnight with a shoulder injury.
Atkinson bought the McLaren after the success of 1998's Mr. Bean.
The F1 is one of the fastest sports cars out there, reaching top speeds of 230mph.
(By : sources )
Jun 16, 2011
Useful information :: History of " # " key
The Symbol on the “Pound” or “Number” Key (#) on a Telephone is Also Called Anosted: 15 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT
1966, 1500 series phone model from Bell Labs. One of the earliest with the now ubiquitous "*" and "#" symbols
Today I found out the symbol on the “pound” or “number” key (#) is also called an “octothorpe”.
The origins of this term date back to the 1960s and 1970s in Bell Labs with the first documented place this word showed up being in a U.S. patent filed by Bell Labs in 1973. The exact etymology of this word isn’t known as the two “eye witness” accounts are contradictory. However, what is known is that it was a term engineers at Bell Labs started using as early as the 1960s when Bell Labs was working on interfacing techniques between computers and telephones.
It was during this time that Bell Labs came up with the now ubiquitous “touch tone dialing”, which added two additional keys to handsets, the “*” key and the “#” key. It is clear the “octo” part was thought up because of the eight points on the symbol. The origins of the “thorpe” (sometimes written “thorp”) are not so clear.
Ralph Carlsen of Bell Labs wrote a memorandum on this symbol upon his retirement in 1995 where he states that Don Macpherson came up with the name when he went out to instruct their first client of the new telephone system, the Mayo Clinic. He thought Bell Labs needed an unambiguous name for the # symbol, which had many names, so came up with “octothorpe”. The latter “thorpe” was in reference to the incredible Native American athlete “Jim Thorpe”, who at the time was trying to get his 1912 Olympic medals returned after having them stripped away due to the fact that he once had accepted money for playing a sport (baseball), previous to those Olympics. Macpherson at this time was part of the group that was trying to get Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic medals returned.
Douglas a Kerr of Bell Labs stated in 2006 that the term was invented by C Schaak and Herbert T Uthlaut and it was originally “octatherp”, which was more or less a joke term between the two. This seems less plausible than the previous story. Why would they say “octa” instead of “octo” and why would it have been changed relatively quickly after its creation to “octothorpe” in the first patent that references the term? Nevertheless, Kerr was there, so perhaps it’s true or perhaps not as Ralph Carlson was there too.
Given that the word circulated around Bell Labs for about 10 years before appearing in text, it’s also possible it was invented by Don Macpherson, as Ralph Carlson said, and that C Schaak and Herbert T Uthlaut mocked the term calling it “octatherp” as a joke, as Douglass Kerr said.
Bonus Factoids:
- Jim Thorpe eventually had his Olympic medals returned in 1983… 30 years after his death.
- In the U.S. patent in 1973 where “octothorpe” first appears, the asterisk (*) was referred to as a “sextile”.
- The # is often called the pound symbol in the United States as it is often used with numbers related to weight. Originally “lb.” was used for this same meaning. Later, printers designed a font containing a special symbol of “lb” with a line through the verticals so that the “l” wouldn’t be mistaken as a one (℔, Unicode character U+2114). Eventually, this changed to the more familiar and easier to type on a standard keyboard “#” symbol.
- Another common name for the # symbol in the United States is “number”. In these two cases (pound and number), if the symbol precedes a number, as in #2, it is traditionally read as “number”. If the symbol follows the number, it is traditionally read as “pound”.
- Yet another accepted name for the # symbol is “hash”, which is a popular one in the UK. It is also the generally accepted name for the symbol when referring to computer programming usage (often used as a comment sign, particularly in scripting languages).
- An international standards body officially named the # symbol “square” in 1989. This is why the British Post Office and British Telecom call the symbol a square, instead of the more common British name for it of “hash”.
- The # symbol is also commonly called a “sharp” in such places as Japan and others. In many places, this is as a result of the similarity to the musical sharp symbol (♯).
- In Malaysia, the # symbol is commonly called a “hex”.
- The * and # were originally selected to go on a standard telephone pad in 1961. Link Rice and Jack Soderberg at Bell Labs toured the country trying to find out what possible telephone/computer interactions might come up and what would be the best symbols to use for those. Eventually, they settled on the * and the # as those keys were available on standard typewriter keyboards.
- In the U.S.-English layout of a standard keyboard, the # symbol appears on the same key as the number 3. On the UK-English keyboard, the character above the number 3 is the £. Americans call both of these symbols by the term “pound”, but the English never call “#” by “pound” for obvious reasons.
- Microsoft’s programming language C♯ (pronounced C-sharp) is often mispronounced “C hash” or “C pound”. The confusion comes from the fact that the symbol following the C is supposed to be the musical sharp symbol (♯). But given the # symbols prevalence in various programming languages, most programmers assume it was meant to be the “hash” symbol, until corrected.
- In scripting languages where a # is followed by a ! (as in #!), this is known as a “shabang” (sometimes spelled “sh-bang” or “shebang”) and is typically used to tell the operating system what program to use to run some script. The former name of “shabang” is thought to have come from the contractions “SHArp bang” or “haSH bang”; another popular theory is that it comes from the fact that the default shell “sh” is usually invoked with “shebang”, hence “sh-bang” and eventually “shabang”. The latter “bang” name for the exclamation point is traditional Unix jargon.
- In Chess notation, the # symbol placed after a move indicates a checkmate. This replaced the more traditional ‡ symbol.
- The compound tone generated on a phone by pressing the # key is a mixing of 941 Hz and 1477 Hz.
- The two horizontal lines in the sharp symbol ♯ are optional in musical notation, but required in the # symbol.
Sources:
Mail courtesy : sanskriti patel sanskriti_patel@yahoo.comApr 24, 2011
Superb quotes by great Personalities
1)Shakespeare....
"Never Play With The Feelings Of Others
Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose
The Person For A Life Time".
2)Napoleon....
"The World Suffers A Lot. Not Because Of The Violence Of Bad
People,But Because Of The Silence Of Good People!"
3)Einstein....
"I Am Thankful To All Those Who Said No To Me
It's Because Of Them I Did It Myself.."
4)Abraham Lincoln....
"If Friendship Is Your Weakest Point Then You Are The Strongest Person
In The World"
5)Shakespeare....
"Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow!
But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It".
6)William Arthur....
"Opportunities Are Like Sunrises,
If You Wait Too Long You Can Miss Them".
7)Hitler....
"When You Are In The Light, Everything
Follows You,But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow
Doesn't Follow You."
8)Shakespeare....
"Coin Always Makes Sound But The Currency
Notes Are Always Silent. So When Your Value Increases,Keep Yourself
Calm And Silent"
9)Dr Abdul Kalaam....
"It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone"
"Never Play With The Feelings Of Others
Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose
The Person For A Life Time".
2)Napoleon....
"The World Suffers A Lot. Not Because Of The Violence Of Bad
People,But Because Of The Silence Of Good People!"
3)Einstein....
"I Am Thankful To All Those Who Said No To Me
It's Because Of Them I Did It Myself.."
4)Abraham Lincoln....
"If Friendship Is Your Weakest Point Then You Are The Strongest Person
In The World"
5)Shakespeare....
"Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow!
But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It".
6)William Arthur....
"Opportunities Are Like Sunrises,
If You Wait Too Long You Can Miss Them".
7)Hitler....
"When You Are In The Light, Everything
Follows You,But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow
Doesn't Follow You."
8)Shakespeare....
"Coin Always Makes Sound But The Currency
Notes Are Always Silent. So When Your Value Increases,Keep Yourself
Calm And Silent"
9)Dr Abdul Kalaam....
"It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone"
Mar 20, 2011
facebook addiction :: this is hilarious
If you are on Facebook, I am sure you will find this hilarious
The 76-year-old woman walked down the hallway of Clearview Addictions Clinic, searching for the right department. She passed signs for the "Heroin Addiction Department (HAD)," the "Smoking Addiction Department (SAD)" and the "Bingo Addiction Department (BAD)." Then she spotted the department she was looking for: "Facebook Addiction Department (FAD)."
It was the busiest department in the clinic, with about three dozen people filling the waiting room, most of them staring blankly into their Blackberries and iPhones. A middle-aged man with unkempt hair was pacing the room, muttering,"I need to milk my cows. I need to milk my cows."
A twenty-something man was prone on the floor, his face buried in his hands, while a curly-haired woman comforted him.
"Don't worry. It'll be all right."
"I just don't understand it. I thought my update was LOL-worthy, but none of my friends even clicked the 'like' button."
"How long has it been?"
"Almost five minutes. That's like five months in the real world."
The 76-year-old woman waited until her name was called, then followed the receptionist into the office of Alfred Zulu, Facebook Addiction Counselor.
"Please have a seat, Edna," he said with a warm smile. "And tell me how it all started."
"Well, it's all my grandson's fault. He sent me an invitation to join Facebook. I had never heard of Facebook before, but I thought it was something for me, because I usually have my face in a book."
"How soon were you hooked?"
"Faster than you can say 'create a profile.' I found myself on Facebook at least eight times each day -- and more times at night. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night to check it, just in case there was an update from one of my new friends in India . My husband didn't like that. He said that friendship is a precious thing and should never be outsourced."
"What do you like most about Facebook?"
"It makes me feel like I have a life. In the real world, I have only five or six friends, but on Facebook, I have 674. I'm even friends with Juan Carlos Montoya."
"Who's he?"
"I don't know, but he's got 4,000 friends, so he must be famous."
"Facebook has helped you make some connections, I see."
"Oh yes. I've even connected with some of the gals from high school -- I still call them 'gals.' I hadn't heard from some of them in ages, so it was exciting to look at their profiles and figure out who's retired, who's still working, and who's had some work done. I love browsing their photos and reading their updates. I know where they've been on vacation, which movies they've watched, and whether they hang their toilet paper over or under. I've also been playing a game with some of them."
"Let me guess. Farmville?"
"No, Mafia Wars. I'm a Hitman. No one messes with Edna."
"Wouldn't you rather meet some of your friends in person?"
"No, not really. It's so much easier on Facebook. We don't need to gussy ourselves up. We don't need to take baths or wear perfume or use mouthwash. That's the best thing about Facebook -- you can't smell anyone. Everyone is attractive, because everyone has picked a good profile pic. One of the gals is using a profile pic that was taken, I'm pretty certain, during the Eisenhower Administration. "
"What pic are you using?"
"Well, I spent five hours searching for a profile pic, but couldn't find one I really liked. So I decided to visit the local beauty salon."
"To make yourself look prettier?"
"No, to take a pic of one of the young ladies there. That's what I'm using."
"Didn't your friends notice that you look different?"
"Some of them did, but I just told them I've been doing lots of yoga."
"When did you realize that your Facebooking might be a problem?"
"I realized it last Sunday night, when I was on Facebook and saw a message on my wall from my husband: 'I moved out of the house five days ago. Just thought you should know.'"
"What did you do?"
"What else? I unfriended him of course!"
The 76-year-old woman walked down the hallway of Clearview Addictions Clinic, searching for the right department. She passed signs for the "Heroin Addiction Department (HAD)," the "Smoking Addiction Department (SAD)" and the "Bingo Addiction Department (BAD)." Then she spotted the department she was looking for: "Facebook Addiction Department (FAD)."
It was the busiest department in the clinic, with about three dozen people filling the waiting room, most of them staring blankly into their Blackberries and iPhones. A middle-aged man with unkempt hair was pacing the room, muttering,"I need to milk my cows. I need to milk my cows."
A twenty-something man was prone on the floor, his face buried in his hands, while a curly-haired woman comforted him.
"Don't worry. It'll be all right."
"I just don't understand it. I thought my update was LOL-worthy, but none of my friends even clicked the 'like' button."
"How long has it been?"
"Almost five minutes. That's like five months in the real world."
The 76-year-old woman waited until her name was called, then followed the receptionist into the office of Alfred Zulu, Facebook Addiction Counselor.
"Please have a seat, Edna," he said with a warm smile. "And tell me how it all started."
"Well, it's all my grandson's fault. He sent me an invitation to join Facebook. I had never heard of Facebook before, but I thought it was something for me, because I usually have my face in a book."
"How soon were you hooked?"
"Faster than you can say 'create a profile.' I found myself on Facebook at least eight times each day -- and more times at night. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night to check it, just in case there was an update from one of my new friends in India . My husband didn't like that. He said that friendship is a precious thing and should never be outsourced."
"What do you like most about Facebook?"
"It makes me feel like I have a life. In the real world, I have only five or six friends, but on Facebook, I have 674. I'm even friends with Juan Carlos Montoya."
"Who's he?"
"I don't know, but he's got 4,000 friends, so he must be famous."
"Facebook has helped you make some connections, I see."
"Oh yes. I've even connected with some of the gals from high school -- I still call them 'gals.' I hadn't heard from some of them in ages, so it was exciting to look at their profiles and figure out who's retired, who's still working, and who's had some work done. I love browsing their photos and reading their updates. I know where they've been on vacation, which movies they've watched, and whether they hang their toilet paper over or under. I've also been playing a game with some of them."
"Let me guess. Farmville?"
"No, Mafia Wars. I'm a Hitman. No one messes with Edna."
"Wouldn't you rather meet some of your friends in person?"
"No, not really. It's so much easier on Facebook. We don't need to gussy ourselves up. We don't need to take baths or wear perfume or use mouthwash. That's the best thing about Facebook -- you can't smell anyone. Everyone is attractive, because everyone has picked a good profile pic. One of the gals is using a profile pic that was taken, I'm pretty certain, during the Eisenhower Administration. "
"What pic are you using?"
"Well, I spent five hours searching for a profile pic, but couldn't find one I really liked. So I decided to visit the local beauty salon."
"To make yourself look prettier?"
"No, to take a pic of one of the young ladies there. That's what I'm using."
"Didn't your friends notice that you look different?"
"Some of them did, but I just told them I've been doing lots of yoga."
"When did you realize that your Facebooking might be a problem?"
"I realized it last Sunday night, when I was on Facebook and saw a message on my wall from my husband: 'I moved out of the house five days ago. Just thought you should know.'"
"What did you do?"
"What else? I unfriended him of course!"
Feb 28, 2011
Youngest World Cup cricket player
Ironically Nitish Kumar opened the batting with John Davison, who is the oldest player of the tournament at the age of 40 years.
A useful allrounder, Nitish Kumar played in all but one of Canada Canada in a first-class match when he played in an ICC Intercontinental Cup fixture against Kenya in August 2009, and then subsequently became the second youngest ODI player in February 2010 at the age of 15 years 273 days - only eclipsed by Pakistan
Jan 18, 2011
Indian cricket team for world cup 2011
The cricket world cup 2011 is just 32 days away and the cricket fever has already raising up in the Indian subcontinents. The 15 member Indian cricket squad is announced for this prestigious tournament and here is a compilation of statistics of all these 15 cricketers as on date.
Ravichandran Ashwin
Piyush Chawla
Virat Kohli
Yusuf Pathan
Praveen Kumar
Munaf Patel
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Ashish Nehra
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Zaheer Khan
Harbhajan Singh
Virender Sehwag
Yuvraj Singh
Sachin Tendulkar
The batting statistics of the Indian cricket team
| Name | Age | Matches | Runs | Average | High Score | 100s | 50s | Catches / Stumping |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 37 | 444 | 17629 | 44.97 | 200* | 46 | 93 | 134/0 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 29 | 262 | 7653 | 36.97 | 139 | 12 | 45 | 79/0 |
| Virender Sehwag | 32 | 228 | 7380 | 34.64 | 146 | 13 | 36 | 84/0 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 30 | 214 | 1086 | 12.93 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 62/0 |
| Zaheer Khan | 32 | 179 | 725 | 12.5 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 36/0 |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | 29 | 174 | 5796 | 49.97 | 183* | 7 | 37 | 170/55 |
| Ashish Nehra | 31 | 115 | 134 | 5.83 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 17/0 |
| Suresh Raina | 24 | 108 | 2571 | 35.71 | 116* | 3 | 16 | 45/0 |
| Gautam Gambhir | 29 | 105 | 3680 | 40.43 | 150* | 9 | 21 | 32/0 |
| Munaf Patel | 27 | 51 | 69 | 7.67 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 08/0 |
| Praveen Kumar | 24 | 48 | 225 | 13.23 | 54* | 0 | 1 | 11/0 |
| Yusuf Pathan | 28 | 42 | 528 | 29.33 | 123* | 1 | 2 | 14/0 |
| Virat Kohli | 22 | 42 | 1555 | 45.74 | 118 | 4 | 11 | 16/0 |
| Piyush Chawla | 22 | 21 | 28 | 5.6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 09/0 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 24 | 7 | 38 | 19 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 01/0 |
The bowling statistics of the Indian cricket team
| Name | Overs bowled | Wickets | Average | 5 wickets / innings | Best bowling |
| Harbhajan Singh | 1865 | 244 | 32.94 | 3 | 5/31 |
| Zaheer Khan | 1499 | 248 | 29.67 | 1 | 5/42 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 1336 | 154 | 44.26 | 2 | 5/32 |
| Ashish Nehra | 921 | 153 | 31.32 | 2 | 6/23 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 708 | 89 | 40.16 | 0 | 4/06 |
| Virender Sehwag | 705 | 92 | 40.39 | 0 | 4/06 |
| Munaf Patel | 377 | 60 | 29.82 | 0 | 4/29 |
| Praveen Kumar | 377 | 57 | 33.57 | 0 | 4/31 |
| Piyush Chawla | 183 | 28 | 32.53 | 0 | 4/23 |
| Yusuf Pathan | 174 | 29 | 34.07 | 0 | 3/49 |
| Suresh Raina | 72 | 7 | 54.86 | 0 | 1/13 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 66 | 14 | 23.21 | 0 | 3/24 |
| Virat Kohli | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | 2 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1/14 |
| Gautam Gambhir | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
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