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Parkinson Hofstadter Douglas
Parkinson's Law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account."
Douglas Deadlines: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
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sarfarosh
Presyn likhne ki tammanna abb humare dil main hai
Dekhna hai jor kitna apni research work main hain
-- PhD lene ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai by Sushant Sharma
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flash from the past
I have an OLD National PE-301 fully manual flash. I usually use it with my OLD Pentax K1000 film SLR. I recently tried it out with my Olympus E-510 DSLR and it worked perfectly!
This flash is so old that there is hardly any mention of it on the Internet. It was made in 1976, no wonder!! The flash is older than meOf course, I need to set my camera ( Read more... ) -
of travel and gadgets
Quick updates from my side:
I'll be traveling to the US soon for a conference. First trip to the US and third trip outside India (and counting!).
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Ever wondered why the asterisk is the wildcard character for zero or more characters?
Hint: It is the answer to everything. You just have to know how to asc the question ( Read more... ) -
professionally silly
The following is quoted from a credit card payment alert email. The quoting is verbatim, except for masking out the numbers.
The pymt date for your card **************** is **-**-**.The TotalDue isRs????.?? and Minimum Rs???.??.Pls send the pymt early to avoid chrgs.
SMS speak has infested even the strictly professional interaction. What kind of a ( Read more... ) -
flickr upgrade weirdness
I finally decided to take the plunge and get a Flickr pro account for myself. Clicked through their upgrade procedure till the point where it says "Ok! I am ready to pay". Clicking on that took me to the familiar Yahoo "password verification" page. Entered my password and submitted... only to be redirected back to the same page ( Read more... )
