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The greatest fool of the world!

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Website

Hurray!
I shall post on the website and perhaps only create link shere with titles. I think that will be a better organization...

Life Quote

I made friends with a boy who collected strange creatures, and once he invited me over to see his snake. He said it was in the closet. Then he opened the closet door, soved me into the darkness, slammed the door shut, and told me I was in the dark alone with the snake. I wasn't, thank goodness, but I was sure scared to death. I learned that what seems funny to the strong can be cruel and humiliating to the weak.

-- Bill Clinton in 'My Life'

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

My internet connection is down

Time and again, whenever my internet is down, and thank goodness that is only five times a year on an average, I am reminded of how crippled I am… The wiki and Google revolution have made themselves so central in the quest of knowledge that I turn to the internet for each minute matter; be it looking up phrases/ meanings on answers.com/ free dictionaries, or googling a term in the texts, or writing t0 friends looking for answers, or be it for news, discussions and banking needs.
All that we require daily is facilitate by the web, and my, what a dependence that is!

What I couldn’t do:

  1. Look up the Greek alphabet.
  2. Discuss with professor and friends a doubt.
  3. Check on the news.
  4. Get myself a image of ‘Google’ and ‘wiki’!

Before I can fill in the fifth, I’m back online… Thank goodness!

Monday, June 29, 2009

ELU

Henceforth, I shall form some sentences using new words, nay, words whose meanings I have come to grasp. Each such post will be titled ELU standing for English Language Usage.

Here’s the first…

growl (verb)
One can hear the aircraft engines (Boeings) growling right up to Hiranandani, Powai, which is at least 3 kms away from the airport (along a line)!

Experiments with the Windows Live Writer

Seems easy enough to use… Trying out the features…

Commonplace Rank
Name 3

P4040005

My preferred search engine...

Books, Academic

  • Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyszig
  • Calculus by Thomas & Finney
  • Calculus by Tom M Apostol
  • Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson
  • Concepts of Physcis by H C Verma
  • Introdcution to Electrodynamics by David J Griffiths
  • Introduction to Elementary Particles by David J Griffiths
  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J Griffiths
  • Modern Quantum Mechanics by J J Sakurai
  • Physics by Resnick, Halliday and Krane
  • Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R Shankar
  • The Feynman Lectures in Physics by Feynman, Sands & Leighton
  • Topology by James Munkres

Books, Short Stories, Other

  • After The Dance by Leo Tolstoy
  • Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
  • E=mc^2 by David Bodanis
  • Garfield by Jim Davis
  • Mahabharata