Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind thehouse of founder John Warnock.
Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'server -- thus, the name Apache.
Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three monthslate in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.
Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol',a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders,Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.
Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the webfrom a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - theprogramming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.
HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether thecompany they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so theyhad to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The LotusPosition' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of TranscendentalMeditation (by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).
Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted toMICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' wasremoved later on.
Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his companystarted manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the timewas called Victrola.
ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project wascalled Oracle (acronym for: One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison)
Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it andhad to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linuxhad an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone !
SAP - "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBMemployees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects"
SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for StanfordUniversity Network.
Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (asit was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root 'xer' means dry.
Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver'sTravels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the namebecause they considered themselves yahoos.
January 16, 2006
Juz wat did he say??
British treasury chief Gordon Brown said on 14th Jan. ’06 that Britons should be more patriotic and openly celebrate their nation’s history, achievements and culture. “Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the US Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter,” said Brown, the heir-apparent to PM Tony Blair in a speech to the Labour Party’s Fabian Society.
Ahem, Dude…that’s what happens when your country’s history comprises ONLY of going around colonising the world and trying to bring as large a no. as possible underneath the Crown. Well, when almost every nation around the world has an Independence Day to be proud of, you guys lose out on one (and a VERY important day) reason to celebrate!! Poor guys!!
Maybe, just maybe, the scenario would’ve been slightly different if the Brits wouldn’t have gone around the world trampling already happy/ self-sufficient/ independent civilisations.
Well, simply put, it’s a classic case of, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”
Celebrate! Celebrate!!
Ahem, Dude…that’s what happens when your country’s history comprises ONLY of going around colonising the world and trying to bring as large a no. as possible underneath the Crown. Well, when almost every nation around the world has an Independence Day to be proud of, you guys lose out on one (and a VERY important day) reason to celebrate!! Poor guys!!
Maybe, just maybe, the scenario would’ve been slightly different if the Brits wouldn’t have gone around the world trampling already happy/ self-sufficient/ independent civilisations.
Well, simply put, it’s a classic case of, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”
Celebrate! Celebrate!!
January 7, 2006
Watch out!
One of the not-so-important- but imperative nevertheless- things that I wanna do is… watch the following movies.
As you’ll see they r some of the best Hindi movies released in 2005.And I missed out on them due to various, but kinda similar, reasons. AND it wouldn’t be before March 2006 that I’ll start seeing them. So, it’s a long wait till then!!
Mentioned here r the films, followed by (in short), why I wanna watch them…
BLACK (for obvious reasons)
PAGE 3 (I love that notion)
PARINEETA (haven’t yet read the book. But, it’s ‘good’ cinema)
KYA KOOL HAIN HUM (I liked MASTI, n I wanna watch this one for being on the same lines, except for not featuring marriage in the plot.)
MEET THE FOCKERS (complete laugh riot!)
SALAAM NAMASTE (wanna see Preity n Ness- they aren’t together, of course!)
HANUMAN (for the fun of it)
MAIN, MERI PATNI AUR WOH (jlt!)
GARAM MASALA (to enjoy the experience)
NEAL N NIKKI (what’s the BIG deal!)
KALYUG (nice story plus, I wanna see Deepal)
BLUFFMASTER! (for the spunk of it)
A-N-D the movies I’ll make a beeline for in 2006 are…
RANG DE BASANTI (love the story!)
SAANWARIYA (what’s the story about?)
KRRISH (what happens next?)
KABHIE ALVIDA NA KEHNAA (hopefully, I can sit through!)
UMRAO JAAN (how beautiful will the Lady look?)
VIVAAH (should have the utility of HAHK)
CORPORATE (what’s the idea?)
As you’ll see they r some of the best Hindi movies released in 2005.And I missed out on them due to various, but kinda similar, reasons. AND it wouldn’t be before March 2006 that I’ll start seeing them. So, it’s a long wait till then!!
Mentioned here r the films, followed by (in short), why I wanna watch them…
BLACK (for obvious reasons)
PAGE 3 (I love that notion)
PARINEETA (haven’t yet read the book. But, it’s ‘good’ cinema)
KYA KOOL HAIN HUM (I liked MASTI, n I wanna watch this one for being on the same lines, except for not featuring marriage in the plot.)
MEET THE FOCKERS (complete laugh riot!)
SALAAM NAMASTE (wanna see Preity n Ness- they aren’t together, of course!)
HANUMAN (for the fun of it)
MAIN, MERI PATNI AUR WOH (jlt!)
GARAM MASALA (to enjoy the experience)
NEAL N NIKKI (what’s the BIG deal!)
KALYUG (nice story plus, I wanna see Deepal)
BLUFFMASTER! (for the spunk of it)
A-N-D the movies I’ll make a beeline for in 2006 are…
RANG DE BASANTI (love the story!)
SAANWARIYA (what’s the story about?)
KRRISH (what happens next?)
KABHIE ALVIDA NA KEHNAA (hopefully, I can sit through!)
UMRAO JAAN (how beautiful will the Lady look?)
VIVAAH (should have the utility of HAHK)
CORPORATE (what’s the idea?)
November 15, 2005
Chetan Bhagat 2
Nearly 2 weeks after Chetan Bhagat’s (the author of the –ahem-ahem!!- bestseller “Five Point Someone- What not to do at IIT) latest offering ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER hit the stores, I laid my hands on one.
As the title clearly suggests, the book records incidents taking place in a sequence, over the span of around 11.5 hours.
The back cover reads, “Welcome to one night @ the call center, another witty, dark novel from award-winning author of the nation bestseller Five Point Someone.”
a) WHICH awards did the author win???
b) The book isn’t all ‘that’ dark. Witty? A li’l bit. But ‘dark’, hmm…….anyone wanna define it?
It took me nearly 4 hours to devour the book. Yeap…in1 sitting, flat!! It didn’t hurt, BECAUSE, this book is kinda fast-moving. (The only other authors, whom I’d like to put in that category, are Shobhaa De n Farrukh Dhondy.)
The author’s pretty straight forward in whatever he wants to say. No beating around the bush!! Not short, but crisp for sure.
He’s actually put down the so-called pre-decided series of event prevalent in society. It just ended up as being corny. Everyone knows what he/she is gonna go through. What someone else has gone through. And what someone else will go through. Writing them down, was probably his way of alerting people who live in their own sweet world!!
Sample this, “ ‘…it’s the girl who always gets to choose. Men propose and women accept the proposal or, as in many cases reject it.’
It’s true. Girls go around rejecting men like it is their birthright. They have no idea how much it hurts us. I read that the reason for this is that the female of the species has to bear their offspring with a lot of effort. Hence they choose their mates carefully. Meanwhile, men dance around, spend cash, make them laugh, write stupid poems, anything to win them over. The only species where courting works in reverse is the sea horse. …I wished I were a sea horse. How hard can it be to carry a couple of eggs in a backpack?”
Well, the narrator is trying to be real. Not bad! But, I’m sure, there r far better reasons why women get to chose, n why it is not the reverse!!!!!!
Apart from the above, there are a few other instances, where the narrator gets real. Really real!
It gives u an insight into the hierarchy at a call center. And a brief idea about what all a call center agent MIGHT have to go through!
I’d recommend this book only if,
* u wanna follow up on what exactly happens??
* U JUST want to read this one, because u read the last one. And wanna be one of those, ‘ well-informed’ ones!!!!
* U think, it might help u, and lastly,
* U wanna do some time pass. As in, getting really bored? Okay with the idea of reading something, it might relax u? well the, GO AHEAD and grab a copy!
As the title clearly suggests, the book records incidents taking place in a sequence, over the span of around 11.5 hours.
The back cover reads, “Welcome to one night @ the call center, another witty, dark novel from award-winning author of the nation bestseller Five Point Someone.”
a) WHICH awards did the author win???
b) The book isn’t all ‘that’ dark. Witty? A li’l bit. But ‘dark’, hmm…….anyone wanna define it?
It took me nearly 4 hours to devour the book. Yeap…in1 sitting, flat!! It didn’t hurt, BECAUSE, this book is kinda fast-moving. (The only other authors, whom I’d like to put in that category, are Shobhaa De n Farrukh Dhondy.)
The author’s pretty straight forward in whatever he wants to say. No beating around the bush!! Not short, but crisp for sure.
He’s actually put down the so-called pre-decided series of event prevalent in society. It just ended up as being corny. Everyone knows what he/she is gonna go through. What someone else has gone through. And what someone else will go through. Writing them down, was probably his way of alerting people who live in their own sweet world!!
Sample this, “ ‘…it’s the girl who always gets to choose. Men propose and women accept the proposal or, as in many cases reject it.’
It’s true. Girls go around rejecting men like it is their birthright. They have no idea how much it hurts us. I read that the reason for this is that the female of the species has to bear their offspring with a lot of effort. Hence they choose their mates carefully. Meanwhile, men dance around, spend cash, make them laugh, write stupid poems, anything to win them over. The only species where courting works in reverse is the sea horse. …I wished I were a sea horse. How hard can it be to carry a couple of eggs in a backpack?”
Well, the narrator is trying to be real. Not bad! But, I’m sure, there r far better reasons why women get to chose, n why it is not the reverse!!!!!!
Apart from the above, there are a few other instances, where the narrator gets real. Really real!
It gives u an insight into the hierarchy at a call center. And a brief idea about what all a call center agent MIGHT have to go through!
I’d recommend this book only if,
* u wanna follow up on what exactly happens??
* U JUST want to read this one, because u read the last one. And wanna be one of those, ‘ well-informed’ ones!!!!
* U think, it might help u, and lastly,
* U wanna do some time pass. As in, getting really bored? Okay with the idea of reading something, it might relax u? well the, GO AHEAD and grab a copy!
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