tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84579815461777953902011-11-28T06:31:53.541+05:30Shoot Square means "Deal fairly and honestly". This colloquial term uses shoot in the sense of "deal with" & square in the sense of "honest". That's the motive of this blog - to deal honestly with my own thoughts & opnions. This is the place where I will write my candid perception of the world & the things around me!Oodly Appropriatenoreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457981546177795390.post-86175059932539879352010-04-29T11:37:00.002+05:302010-04-29T11:54:59.325+05:30

From Evernote: WitchCraft and Golf In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf.

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From Evernote: Ten signs you may be addicted to FarmVille Clipped from: http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=183788#post2164011 You MIGHT have an FarmVille addiction if: 1. You have a full-blown panic attack when your crop reaches 33% and you realize you forgot to plant one square in the middle. 2. You keep trying to harvest your buildings. 3. You

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for sale : nice parachute, never opened, once used, slightly stained !

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You came like spring,And lit my soul on fire. When the birds began to sing, You came and inspired. When the flowers began to bloom, With the smell of spring in the air.You took away the gloom,And taught me how to care.I'll never be the same,You breathed new life into me.I'm so glad you came,A True Friend You'll Always Be.

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Extract from my 10 year older seminar on Expert Systems - an Artificial Intelligence Technology. I won 1st Prize in 3rd year symposium. Then, later I continued & extended the same as my final year compulsory seminar. Just Blogging it to my blog. What is AI ?In all science fiction movies, we see machines talking and acting like a real human!Well , That's not really a fiction, coz such machine

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Complete Process List of PM processes (PMBOK v3) with their knowledge area and process groups.S.No.Name Of ProcessKnowledge AreaProcess Group1Develop Project Charter ProcessIntegrationInitiation2Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement ProcessIntegrationInitiation3Develop Project Management Plan ProcessIntegrationPlanning4Direct and Manage Project Execution ProcessIntegrationExecution5Monitor

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Earned Value Management is nice technique to gauge the performance of a project Here is one for Earned Value Technique used to calculate performance of project at any given point of time. Key Definitions: Planned Value (PV) or Budgeted Cost Of Work Scheduled (BCWS): Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or WBS component. Earned

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There is thin line between self-respect and ego. What I feel is self-respect for me , may be perceived by other as an ego. If something hurts my self-respect, I definitely feel anger. But if I exhibit my anger, other will perceive it as an ego. What exactly distinguish self-respect from an ego ? Probably everybody will call their ego as their self-respect. And other's self-respect as ego.

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"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."

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"Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. "

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Technology is dominated by two types of people:- Those who understand what they do not manage.- Those who manage what they do not understand.

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Children are natural mimic who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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"Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. "

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Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.

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"An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys."

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"Its not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer. "

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

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Those who can -- do.Those who can't -- teach.Those who cannot teach -- manage.

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It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them. :-)

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"If practice makes perfect, how do you explain the way taxi drivers drives ?"

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Acquaintance are persons whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are.

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Why I search the "meaning of life" ?May be I want more than what I need and non-accomplishment make me think about the abstract things.The key is to get satisfied with what I get. But it's not possible!The more I get , the more I want.Thirst for more is never ending...But life has an end. It will end one day.Sooner or Later , Death will win over more.Till then just try to get whatever I want...

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When a woman is really listening to you, ask yourself "What does she want ?"When a man is really listening to you, ask yourself "What has he done ?"

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Only two words have ever accomplished anything in a business meeting. Those words are: meeting adjourned.

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"No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager to(a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c)believe it happened according to his own pet theory."

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

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The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

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If three or more same looking persons are telling you that you are drunk, then you are definitely drunk!

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If a straight line graph is required as a result of experiment's observation, obtain only two data points in experiment.

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"If you wish to make an improved product, you must already be engaged in making an inferior one." :-))

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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."

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"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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Theory is when everything is known and nothing works. Practice is when everything works and nobody knows why. In IT industry, theory and practice are united: nothing works and nobody knows why.

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"Pity your boss. The poor guy has to get up early to see who comes in late. "

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"Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure."

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"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." :-))

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May be life doesn't have any meaning.May be It is just a one of the probability condition in the universe that occurred.But even then, it hold meaning for us , because we are the one which experience it , live it !"Life is meaningful or not" this answer for this question can be written by our actions.There are many paths .. each will lead to new destinations... new experiences...new ways...But

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We often feel that the reality around us is an illusion.It seems that it has been wrapped around us to hide something real with some greater meaning.What is reality ?Reality is what our mind show us after interpreting the signals from sensory organs.Then , why we get feeling of illusion ?May be because along with five sensory organs , mind also interprets lots on its own.May be from the sixth

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Drinking and Calculus don't go together... Thats why they say.. "don't drink and derive " :-)

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"It is unadvisable to work on a client's requirements or walk on water until both are frozen..."

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Crash programs/courses fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

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"The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing."

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"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it. "

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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons in this world are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

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I can picture in my mind a world without war. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it !

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We spend the first twelve months of our children lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

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Interview with Love!I waited for a long time to meet him. He was finally coming. I sat at the table rolling the pencil through my fingers and rapping an ancient melody on my paper pad. Then the door opened and he walked in. He was nothing like I expected. Of medium height and slight build , but it was as though the joys of the world followed him through the door. His eyes reflected what seemed

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Here an article on how to win an argument ?You can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. It's really easy. You don't think so!Well , then simply read following rules and follow them and then you see what i mean. Drink Liquor:Suppose you're at a party and some hotshot intellectual is expounding on the economy of Peru , a subject you know nothing about. If you're drinking some

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Most Beautiful Flower.The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read,Beneath the long,straggly branches of an old willow tree. Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown, For the world was intent on dragging me down.And if that weren't enough to ruin my day, A young boy out of breath approached me,all tired from play. He stood right before me with his head tilted down, And said with great

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Veg.SizzlerIngredientsCarrot 1large Potato 1Onion 1Cauliflower few floretsFrench beans fewTomato red one2 Coriander leavesfresh Capsicum green red 2Pineapple 2 slicesApple 2 piecesOil 2 tbsp.Salt to tasteBlack Salt 1 tbsp.Tomato Ketchup 2-3 tbsp.Red Chili Powder 1/2 tsp.Method:First wash all veg. nicely in chill water.Cut carrot, potato, french beans, cauliflower, all in legnth wise, now boil

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Traditional wisdom says that when you discover you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.But In today's world there are other strategies.You can change riders.You can get a committee to study the dead horse.You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses.You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse.You can harness several dead horses together.But after you've tried

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World of researches is always comes up with some tit-bits which is either too implicit or absolutely ridiculous but now scientifically proven.Some research says drinking milk is good, other says it's bad. Some research proves that we should be vegetarian while other proves point in favor of non-vegetarianism.The best part of research is to prove anything as long as researcher can get its

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Subsequently essentials posts from my following blogs will be moved to my new blog "Shoot Square" (http://shootsquare.blogspot.com)1. Plain Speak - Shoot Square (http://shootsquare.blogspot.com)2. Weltanschauung (http://lifeasitappear.blogspot.com)I will not move everything from those blog and will keep only selected blogs.Obviously in doing so, I will lose all the earlier comments on those

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Posting stuff on blogs is not new to me. In past, I have maintained many blogs although not regularly and religiously. But still why there is need of new blog?I started with one single blog. Later, I moved to multiple blogs to make my blogs content specific. In doing so, I lost the basic motive of blog writing that blogs are meant to express range of thoughts which may not correlate each other.

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