Unquestionably…The Master
By I Said It on October 14, 2010
A double hundred and the record of being the only person to cross 14000 runs in the longer version of the game, during the first innings. An elegant fifty ensuring that India demolishes the Aussies, in the second inning. A record of 49 centuries in test, and that of 46 centuries in the one day […]
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The Rag Picker’s Dream
By I Said It on October 10, 2010
At first, he didn’t mind the barking dogs. It was a daily affair. He had somehow gotten used to it. The dogs didn’t insult him, because they were just the lesser intelligent species. It was the humans whose regular insults, and rejections were the hindrance to his normal life. He was looked upon as an […]
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Convert File to PDF
By I Said It on October 6, 2010
Many a times, we need to save lots of data from the webpage to our local drive. A person, well versed with computers, will find it easier to save the entire webpage as a .HTM file or in .html format. A novice would use the copy-paste method, to word document or text document. The disadvantage […]
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How to Use RSS
By I Said It on October 5, 2010
RSS, an abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication, us used to publish frequently updated publications like blogs or news items. The RSS feed, as it is normally called contains published text as excerpts or full text along with meta data like publish date, author etc. The benefits to the publisher by RSS are that they can […]
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PAN Card Scam??
By I Said It on October 2, 2010
The media is ablaze with the news of the scams that have been unearthed during the organisation of the common wealth games. It was a front page subject for a leading news paper, whose ethics are being questioned, for more than 2 weeks. We never had such a coverage of any other large scam, except […]
Posted in The Funny Side | Tagged CWG, PAN Card, SCAM | 4 Responses
Rajni the Robot
By I Said It on October 1, 2010
Rajnikant’s new film, enthiran, the robot movie, is out for public today. Though, I am not a big fan of Rajni, as he is popularly called, I know that an entire state in India, worships him like God. He is the hearthrobe of Tamilnadu, and his die hard fans never miss the first day first […]
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Ajmal in Trouble
By I Said It on September 28, 2010
Our neighbour’s beloved, and the hero of their country, Ajmal Kasab, was caught on video while assaulting jail staff. My oh my!! Ajmal is in biiiiiiiiggggg trouble.!!!!! Oh! By the way, what was the ongoing case against him?
Posted in The Funny Side | Tagged ajmal kasab | 1 Response
Create Rupee Symbol Shortcut in MS-Word
By I Said It on September 27, 2010
In one of my previous post, I had explained how you can incorporate the rupee symbol using the rupee foradian true type font. A very simple process, and I guess, you have the rupee symbol mapped to the ~ key by now. But using the rupee symbol in our day-to-day work can be very tedious, […]
Posted in Tech Bytes | Tagged rupee font, rupee symbol, rupee symbol in microsoft word, Shortcut to rupee symbol | 1 Response
Got a Writer in You? Write & Earn
By I Said It on September 27, 2010
Do you think you have that knack for writing, but didn’t have any motivation to go ahead? Here’s something that might be a booster. I always felt that I should be writing something. Lots of thoughts in my mind. Few ideas. But never took out some time to pen it down. Then a gradual introduction […]
Posted in Life, Tech Bytes | Tagged learn by writing, reward for writing, writing | 1 Response
A Shippie’s Diet
By I Said It on September 25, 2010
The regular readers of this blog know that I was a shippie until very recently. Shippie is a term used for a person who work on ship. I worked in the capacity of a marine engineer on five different ships. Following is not my resume. It explains to you the food habits on a normal […]
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