today this little debate played in my mind whether form matters or content.i guess with innovative marketing in this cuthroatworld , both this factors go a long way to sustain a product in the fray in this commercial market. this thought occured while i was browsing through the pages of PC pro in the British council library regarding the computing equivalent of form as something like an i mac or windows ME !!!. and content as a OS like LINUX .
well dats all for the day as my mouth is all set for gorging pizzas at PIZZA CORNER in a couple of hours.

Question 1 :
"Dedicated to the second best advertising agency in the whole world ; Whoever they might be." Name the book.

And the answer is ... Positioning - Al Ries and Jack Trout.




Question 2 :
What is " Bill Gates tax " ?

And the answer is ... The amount of money out of the price of a new personal computer that goes to Mic-rosoft in the form of operating system licensing fees and other charges.




Question 3 :
Two of the current management jargons in vogue are FIB & FIPB . What do they stand for ?

And the answer is ... Fire In Belly -for young managers ; Fire In Pot Belly - for fat , middle-aged ma-nagers.




Question 4 :
Which product has/had the punchline " men are from mars , woman are just down to earth " ?

And the answer is ... Femina.




Question 5 :
The first clone of Apple II computer appeared in 1979. What was its name ?

And the answer is ... Orange.




Question 6 :
What could have been Neon , Lyric , Pepper or Silk ?

And the answer is ... Java.




Question 7 :
On whose tombstone would you find the inscription : " Here lies a man ; Who knew how to enlist ; in his service; Better men than himself " .

And the answer is ... Andrew Carnegie.




Question 8 :
When Steve Wozniak was 18 yrs old , he used to sell illegal devices that allowed free long distance phone calls. This was at a place called Homebrew Computer Club . To whom did he make his first free phone call ?

And the answer is ... To the Pope at Vatican.




Question 9 :
In IT world who or what is 'NOISE' ?

And the answer is ... The adversaries and enemies of Microsoft: Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun, and Everyo-ne else.




Question 10 :
The first U.S. coin to bear the words "United States of America," was a penny piece made in 1727. There was plain spoken motto inscribed on it . What was the inscription ?

And the answer is ... Mind Your Own Business.

the heat seems to have subsided finally in chennai ( only for a couple of days) , as its not going above 35 .
well WI take on india today , i just hope india beats this WI side 5-0 TO COME HOME WITH A RESPECTFUL FACE .
here's some trivia, india's 2 costliest films to date are both being screened at cannes , K3G (unofficial entry) and devdas(official)

What prize does the United Nations award for fair play in sports?
The Pierre de Coubertin Prize

Who was the first Asian athlete to leap over 8 metres in the long jump.He did it at the 1974 Teheran Asian Games.
.TC Yohannan(father of cricketer Tinu)

This words was derived from Greek.It was used for the first leaf glued to any manuscript with an index/list of contents on it.Literally it meant 'First Glue'.Which word?
.Protocol

I wish I locate an igloo at baazee.com , to trade my position in chennai with the cool-environs of Antarctica or the alps ,as the mercury dips to unmanageable levels to compete with Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, to go on to prove that Chennai can do better !!!
So I hardly have any appointments outside in this blazing sun, resigning myself to sleeping, reading and idiot-box¡¦ing ( watching TV). I have set upon myself a few quizzical tasks and at the same time master strousstrups invention ( c++) .
I currently am contemplating on a short getaway to ooty to beat the heat , but I guess I would have to miss KNPH on setmax at 9 pm and a couple of deciding onedayers on june 1st and 2nd. India with its current form does not inspire me so much to watch them especially after their meek surrender early this morning ( 237/7 chasing 408).
My collections of quiz questions are going bananas with the amount I have collected over a period of time(!!!!). so all¡¦s well before july for my sharpening my quizzical instincts .
Saw an e-group of quiz foundation in india having operations mainly in Chennai , so waiting to see if they have accepted my application for a member.
Here are questions for this biweekly quiz

Q -1 Disderi, a Parisian, invented a four lens camera and patented it in 1854. What idea did he struck upon to popularise his portraits and photographs of the bearers made on the four lens camera ?

Q-2 Which Indian film-maker has a production company named " Stability is a Curse " ?
( clue- think IBM)

Q -3 At the age of nine , BBC hailed him as a child prodigy . He has won awards galore including a UNICEF special award and UN peace medal for the song " Run For Your Life " , which he wrote , composed and performed for the famine victims in Ethiopia a decade ago . He even has a graduate degree in journalism . Identify the person
( as a clue try connecting A famous song in ANAMICA , salil ankola, govinda, and aditi govitrikar)

the answers

Ans 1 „» the idea of visiting card

Ans 2 „» well if u have got the blues out of ur mind it is the guy who produced HYDERABAD BLUES AND ROCKFORD¡XNAGESH KUKOONOR

ANS 3„» . quite a ¡¥heavy clue¡¦ , well if u haven¡¦t cracked it , it is ADNAN SAMI , the worlds fastest keyboard player, who did the number ¡¨kabhie to nazar milao¡¨ along with the above mentioned names . ANAMICA had a famous song ¡§meri bheegi bheegi see¡¨ which connects to ¡§bheegi bheegi raton mein¡¨ from adnans album.

hmmmmmmm.........

yesterday was a field day , with me roaming all over spencer and as my luck would have it it took me 2.5 hrs to reach home (finally at 9:30pm)) after literally pushing for the proverbial inch space in the train betweem mambalam and guindy.
here are some questions which will have u stumped
try thinking hard
. Chandravarman, the son of the Moon God and Hemavathi, was believed
to have founded which dynasty?

The Answer is ... Chandela.

"Keep Young Mentally" was very first article in which magazine?

The Answer is ... Reader's Digest.

. The earthen cups in which tea is served at wayside stations in the
North are called what?

The Answer is ... Khullar.

What is the in-house magazine of SPICMACAY called?

The Answer is ... EYE. In the American film industry what kind of a movie is known as a
`sleeper'?

The Answer is ... A low budget movie which becomes a big grosser,
like `The Blair Witch Project'.

There is a worldwide movement known as "critical mass" which has
come to India also, like in Pune. What is it about?

The Answer is ... Cycling in cities

. This was a deal struck by an Iyengar with an Iyer way back in the
1880s. What deal?

The Answer is ... The sale of the newspaper "Hindu".

. What is the name given by ghazal singer Hariharan given to his
style of singing? (try connecting it to nagesh kukoonor and cyberabad ! !)

The Answer is ... Urdu Blues.

well i am back after just watchin NA TUM JANO NA HUM first day first show in melody theatre. the movie i felt was very well made and would be received well by the audience unlike AAP MUJHE........... ( shit!!! that was a horrible movie). so currently life seems to be revolving around "khana -peena -sona -movies". probably after the test match against WI i will start seriously for any study preparation( should i ?????????/) .
well i guess the lady behind me at the british council libray here wants me to go as my alloted time of 30 mins is getting over.
who came for gnyaan here? well i came here to beat the summer heat ( 42 here in chennai). so its bye from the QUIZZARD OF OZ"

5/3/2002 5:30:07 PM | kartik kannan iyer]
Well 6 gone and one to go as far as my exams are concerned. at this point my state of mind is not very positive as I see that I have literally jeopardized my chances of getting 85+ in this semester due to my¡¨ disorganization¡¨ , but in the bargain , the performance this time is definitely better than 3rd sem ( forgetful memories) as all exams have decently and comprehensively passed the corridor of uncertainty which was plaguing me last time. I guess my marks would linger around 75 -80 in overall and I would be doubly happy if i could sneak in 80 but all that is subject to the internals put for me by the gang of ruffians and rascals( ¡§collective noun for the teachers in my department¡¨). I guess a little more organized and well directed efforts would see me bail out of trouble . BBC mastermind quiz was quite easy in the sense that I answered around 20 right out of 50 , but I guess I could have answered more if I had brushed up on my general knowledge. I guess I have to take stock comparing myself with the top fellow students all across our nation( may sound a bit far-fetched now, buts dats reality) contemporaries as to where I stand in excellence in activities like mock interviews, QUIZZING OF COURSE, programming and debugging contests and of course the 4 big exams that I wil be sitting down soon after 2003 World cup.( GRE,GMAT,TOEFL,CAT). All that and more in this 1 month of holidays sitting in this city( Chennai of course) of 3 seasons¡Xhot , hotter, hottest . from now onward my site will feature a quote, anecdote and a small quiz .so lets get started to end my diary!!!!

QUOTABLE QUOTES
1 if you want to be beautiful spend a minute before the mirror, 5 minutes before tour soul and 15 minutes before god.
2 We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open , and we spend whole of our lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature
LETS GET QUIZZICAL

1 Name the first Indian actress who featured on TIME magazine's cover.

. Japan hosted the first Olympic Games in Asia on Oct 1, 1964. What did they introduce to commemorate the event?
Answers„³
1 no its not Malaika arora !!! it was parveen babi( she was india¡¦s answer to Pamela Anderson!!!)
2 the bullet train
so I sign off on a quizzing note . I guess many of us would have loved peeping into the daily lives and routines of the famous ( say bill gates,sachin¡K¡K)
here is a wonderful opportunity to take a peep into the life of 1 to- be ¡Vgreat person!!!!(who else , but me!!!!!!!!!!!!!). try visiting this site thrice a week to see my crap on cyberspace .

pamela anderson is all over chennai ( i mean it's so "hot" ). i definitely would like to seek respite from this weather , retiring into the cool confines of a hill station somewhere . but for now its just studying ................. the exams i have done so far have not been bad , but if i am to improve my percentage i ought to finish portions more quickly and not keep them for the last minute(nuthin new ). micro procc,ds,oops and toc to follow , somethin like walsh,ambrose,dillon,black,prasadto follow like the tailenders . these subjects r scoring subjects , but must never take them lightly (just as in the proverb--PARTHAL PUNAI PAYINTHAL PULI),
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Well 6 gone and one to go as far as my exams are concerned. at this point my state of mind is not very positive as I see that I have literally jeopardized my chances of getting 85+ in this semester due to my¡¨ disorganization¡¨ , but in the bargain , the performance this time is definitely better than 3rd sem ( forgetful memories) as all exams have decently and comprehensively passed the corridor of uncertainty which was plaguing me last time. I guess my marks would linger around 75 -80 in overall and I would be doubly happy if i could sneak in 80 but all that is subject to the internals put for me by the gang of ruffians and rascals( ¡§collective noun for the teachers in my department¡¨). I guess a little more organized and well directed efforts would see me bail out of trouble . BBC mastermind quiz was quite easy in the sense that I answered around 20 right out of 50 , but I guess I could have answered more if I had brushed up on my general knowledge. I guess I have to take stock comparing myself with the top fellow students all across our nation( may sound a bit far-fetched now, buts dats reality) contemporaries as to where I stand in excellence in activities like mock interviews, QUIZZING OF COURSE, programming and debugging contests and of course the 4 big exams that I wil be sitting down soon after 2003 World cup.( GRE,GMAT,TOEFL,CAT). All that and more in this 1 month of holidays sitting in this city( Chennai of course) of 3 seasons¡Xhot , hotter, hottest . from now onward my site will feature a quote, anecdote and a small quiz .so lets get started to end my diary!!!!

QUOTABLE QUOTES
1 if you want to be beautiful spend a minute before the mirror, 5 minutes before tour soul and 15 minutes before god.
2 We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open , and we spend whole of our lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature
LETS GET QUIZZICAL

1 Name the first Indian actress who featured on TIME magazine's cover.

. Japan hosted the first Olympic Games in Asia on Oct 1, 1964. What did they introduce to commemorate the event?
Answers„³
1 no its not Malaika arora !!! it was parveen babi( she was india¡¦s answer to Pamela Anderson!!!)
2 the bullet train
so I sign off on a quizzing note . I guess many of us would have loved peeping into the daily lives and routines of the famous ( say bill gates,sachin¡K¡K)
here is a wonderful opportunity to take a peep into the life of 1 to- be ¡Vgreat person!!!!(who else , but me!!!!!!!!!!!!!). try visiting this site thrice a week to see my crap on cyberspace .