Monday, December 1, 2008

Some Tips And Tricks

Recently I came across a problem with my gmail in firefox. It didnt load all the features i.e my chat was disabled. To solve this, I went to Gmail Lab settings in gmail, randomly enabled and disabled some features.
Next time when I logged in, the problem was gone. I could chat again :)

Phrase Translation

It has been long known...............I haven't bothered to check the references
It is known..........................I believe
It is believed.......................I think
It is generally believed.............My collegues and I think
There has been some discussion.......Nobody agrees with me
It can be shown......................Take my word for it
It is proven.........................It agrees with something mathematical
Of great theoretical importance......I find it interesting
Of great practical importance........This justifies my employment
Of great historical importance.......This ought to make me famous
Some samples were chosen for study...The others didn't make sense
Typical results are shown............The best results are shown
Correct within order of magnitude....Wrong
The values were obtained empirically.The values were obtained by accident
The results are inconclusive.........The results seem to disprove my hypothesis
Additional work is required..........Someone else can work out the details
It might be argued that..............I have a good answer to this objection
The investigations proved rewarding..My grant has been renewed

Thursday, June 26, 2008

1984 - DoubleThink

The following the paragraph I liked from the book "1984" by Goerge Orwell.

Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the
ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word “doublethink” involved the use of doublethink

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Reflections

Many Spiritual Gurus and Swamis will tell us to observe our breath in order to stay in present moment. One method which i would like to suggest is to observe the different kinds of light, especially reflection ,coming to your retina. Its really a good method.Reflections from steel utensils, glass, water spilt on the floor,mobile phones, anything and everything that reflects light. Someones face maybe.Light reflected from someones specs.