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A French teacher was explaining to her college class that in French, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. House is feminine “la maison.” Pencil is masculine “le crayon.” A student asked, “What gender is computer ?” Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups male and female - and asked them to decide for themselves whether “computer” should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for their recommendation. The men’s group decided that “computer” should definitely be of the feminine gender (la computer) because: 1.. No one but their creator understands their internal logic; 2.. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else; 3.. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review; and 4.. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your pay cheque on accessories for it. The w...

A "Mallu" female (from the heart of Kerala) went for a job interview for the post of a SECRETARY. When the manager saw the Mallu's colourful attire and gold and well oiled uncombed jet black hair, his mind was screaming "NOT THIS WOMAN." Nevertheless, he still had to entertain the Mallu. So he told her "If you could form a sentence using the words that I give you, then may be I will give you a chance. The words are GREEN, PINK, YELLOW, BLUE, WHITE, PURPLE and BLACK." The enthusiastic Mallu lady thought for a while and said : I hear the phone GREEN GREEN GREEN, then I go and PINK up the phone, I say YELLOW......BLUE's that? WHITE did you say? Aiye, Wrong number ........Don't PURPLELY disturb people and don't call BLACK, ok? Thank you." The Manager fainted.......

James Bond Style : The character James Bond has a peculiar style of introducing himself by saying first Bond, then followed by great smile & finally James Bond. His style is absolutely killing but he doesn't know the consequences when he meets our great south indian guy. When Bond meets a Hyderabad guy James Bond : "My name's Bond...(smiles and then says).... James Bond." James Bond: "And you?" Telugu Guy : "I am Sai... Venkata Sai... Siva Venkata Sai... Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai....Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai... Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai..... Sitaramanjaneyulu Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai.... Bommiraju Sitaramanjaneyulu Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai.... James Bond faints!!!

1. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose. 2. What if there were no hypothetical questions? 3. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? 4. Is there another word for synonym? 5. What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? 6. If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? 7. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? 8. If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked? 9. Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? 10. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? 11. How do they get deer to cross the road only at those yellow road signs? 12. One nice thing about egotists: they don’t talk about other people. 13. How is it possible to have a civil war? 14. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? 15. Can a...

Can 2=1 be true? What about Magic Squares? For some truly mind games, just check out some links below. http://mindgames.us.mensa.org/ http://hive-mind.com/mindgames/ http://www.queendom.com/tests/testscontrol.htm?t=3 Let me know if you have some great puzzle or trivia and would like to share with us.

Videoblogging is the next generation of posting ideas and products over the internet. Everybody knows about textblogging. Now they use videos for a better way of expression. This form of communication may entail a lot of resources, but it is all worth it. If pictures say a thousand words, videoblogging exceeds that by far. A videoblog requires larger disk spaces on websites, a faster server, and a whole new set of programs to support it. Videoblogs can be fed through RSS. This is technology of syndicating your website to other RSS aggregators. Videoblogging works with people on the internet expressing their selves. Now if you put this on a business prospective, you are up to a lot of benefits. Think of it as a powerful tool in making showing your prospective customers your line of products or your services. It’s just like showing a commercial all for free. And if you videoblog through RSS, then most probably you are getting your target market. People like to see what they are going to ...

RSS is technology - a simple software program - that allows you to access web and blog content automatically. The acronym's most popular translation is "Really Simple Syndication. Once your browser or computer has an RSS reader on board, you can subscribe to any number of RSS "feeds." A feed is simply a way in which a reader may subscribe to website content - most commonly blogs or news sites. A news site, for example, may list their latest headlines or entire articles in their feed every time a new article is published. A blog would publish this feed as a series of recent posts. Feeds are published by millions of publishers, from small individuals to large organizations like Newsweek. The value of a feed is that it brings the most current site content to you in a format that is easily scanned; further, you are spared the task of visiting each source site each day. This is typically done through the use of what is called an 'aggregator' or 'feed reader...

At A Glance: ASP.net vs. PHP by Ian Wilson In the world of web development, the choice of which development language to use commonly comes down to two popular choices. Web applications, specifically those relying on back end databases, are typically being created using either Microsoft's ASP.Net language, or the Open Source alternative language of PHP. Reasons why one might choose one over the other can include: The cost of development tools, or availability of such tools, or even ones comfort level with the Open Source initiative. The goal of this article is to provide some perspective on reasons why one might choose one over the other. Active Server Pages or ASP has long been an option for creating dynamic web content. Active Server Pages facilitates the ability to use databases such as Access or SQL just to name a few, to create dynamic, feature rich websites. The work going on behind the scenes in serving up the dynamic content is being done at the server level by the Active S...

The lifeblood of any website/ecommerce business is traffic, and every webmaster knows the best type of traffic is natural, organic search engine traffic. There are two very important reasons for this: (1) it is extremely targeted, and (2) It is FREE! The hard part is getting top ranking for your sites keywords... or is it? The purpose of this article is to provide a few simple, effective, and most important, search engine friendly strategies to help boost your websites' ranking and ultimately your traffic. 1. We will start with the Meta Tags. I know you have already heard of, and are probably currently using meta tags on your site. This is great. I just want to make sure you are using them effectively. We will only go over 2 tags: the "title" tag, and the "description" tag. We will not go over the "keywords" tag, as the major search engines have placed less and less weight on this one, and some would argue this tag has no weight at all. I still use thi...

Today, i recieved an SMS Puzzle from a friend. Try to solve this, if u can. I am a 7 letter city. My 234 letter is a bird. 61 is cool. 1274 is a part of the face. 4713 is way of saying good. 4 equal to 5. i knw u r a genius, so reply!

Don't be afraid to pick up the phone! The telephone interview is by far becoming more and more popular. Many job hunters still get that adrenalin rush even with the phone interviews. But following the tips and advice in this article will help you master the phone interview and get you to the next step - the face to face interview. Often, the first step in the hiring process is the telephone interview. Companies and the recruiters they employ use the telephone interview to develop a pool of candidates to look at closer, and to pare down the number of applicants for a job opening. The advantages to the company are: the cost is less. the list of questions can be standardized. the interview can be delegated to a lower level (cheaper) employee. it can be done quickly The aims on both sides of the telephone are limited. The caller wants a selection of qualified candidates, and the process screens out many candidates. If the call is a straightforward screening call, the caller will likel...

by: Jason Fortner Sharepoint 2007 is in Beta 2 now and is projected to be released at the beginning of the year but now is the time to start looking at the new features that SharePoint 2007 and WSS V3.0 will contain. Below are some of the highlights of the new features that SharePoint 2007 and WSS V3.0 will contain. Site columns provide a central, reusable model for column definition. When you create a site column, each list that uses this column has the same definition, and you do not have to do the tedious work of reproducing the column in each list. Additionally, site columns provide you with the simplicity of a single maintenance point. For instance, you can create a status site column, which may contain multiple choices of an enterprise's specific statuses, and implement the column in dozens of project master lists across the site collection. If you add a new status, you can modify the site column instead of having to modify each list that contains a status column. Content typ...

Building website traffic is a key challenge for websites. In our "Effective Websites" seminars, attendees invariably ask how toincrease the number of visitors to their website. Boxcar of visitors? The only time you may want huge numbers of random site visitors is if you're in the business of selling ad banners. Even then,banner ads are harder to sell with fewer "click-throughs" (percentage of people who actually click on an ad) than everbefore. Otherwise, if your site is designed for garnering prospects and sales leads, you are better off working toward fewer, but MORE QUALIFIED visitors to your site. Why spend time and money getting the world to come to your doorstep, if they're not goodcandidates to buy from you? Targeted Traffic Better! So, it's not just any old traffic, but RELEVANT traffic that makes all the difference in online marketing success.How to get those targeted visitors to your site? Here is a suggestion to get started : With your next...

Yahoo has launched Yahoo Pipes which allows one to create custom feeds. Yahoo Pipes: ''Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant. '' Website: http://pipes.yahoo.com/ Documentation: http://pipes.yahoo.com/docs/ Feel free to create one yourself or browse pipes created by others.