Archive for July 2007

Tough decisions…

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.
The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track [...]

I-T Dept not accepting returns below taxable limits

Strange are the ways of Income Tax Department, Delhi. The Finance Minister wishes to have more and more Income Tax Returns being filed. But Delhi Offices of I-T Dept do not accept income tax returns if the total income is below taxable limits. In the Income Tax Act, nowhere there is such a provision…
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Quote of the Day (18th Jul’07)

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh

10 things you should know about Microsoft Expression Web

Microsoft recently released Expression Web, which replaces the venerable FrontPage HTML editor and Web site design tool. Expression Web has come a long way from its FrontPage roots, but it still maintains much of the ease of use that allowed FrontPage to be used by so many new Web content creators. Here?s a look at [...]

Quote of the Day (17th Jul’07)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Can tiny Zoho beat Microsoft and Google in online office apps?

I had found (zoho) this very interesting and useful service due which offers almost complete office tools online. That too free of charge.
Zoho offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration. Zoho’s online office tools include a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation tool, hosted wiki, notebook, CRM [...]

Quote of the Day (16th Jul’07)

Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
- Wernher von Braun

Corporate World Lingos (and its real life meanings)

1) For your information, please. (FYI)
Meaning: I don’t know what to do with this, so please keep it.
2) Noted and returned.
Meaning: I don’t know what to do with this, so please keep it little while.
3) Review and comment.
Meaning: Do the dirty work so that I can forward it.
4) Action please.
Meaning: Get yourself involved for me. [...]

Quote of the Day (15th Jul’07)

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- Honore de Balzac

Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky?

I was just going through my feed reader when I found one feed having the above title. At that very moment I realized that Friday the 13th just passed. I can’t recall any of the bad thing happend to me in that day.
Still…. curiosity kills the cat. So I just open the link given in [...]