Check your Gen. Knowledge!

Even if u answer **five** questions its great...Feel proud...

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 withVengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from internationalcricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country(other than Vatican )?
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?


HERE ARE THE ANSWERS

1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XMLor its acronym Ajax ..
2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is Indian's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.
10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea ..
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSRas it was known during the cold war)
13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George WashingtonThomas JeffersonTheodore Rooseveltand Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..
17. Polo.

NOTE: resource taken from an email attachement.

Wants to be popular?

You enter in a fast food restaurant; a waiter immediately approaches you with a smile, and walks you to the table of your choice. Within couple of minutes 2-3 more waiters come to your table to ask if you need anything. All the time there, you get special attention and care... Why? coz you pay them more tip than other customers do :).

In past I had discussion about loyalties and being a positive thinker by nature, I always thought that true loyalties/respect can not be bought. Now with the passage of time, I've realize there is no concept of purity in this world, everyone has a price tag attached to his loyalties and friendship. It's all about at what price he is willing to sell himself. No matter who is he and what he do, you can buy loyalties, make friends, win hearts, change opinions, bring change in society... meaning you can have anything if you've enough courage/money to get it...

China to lead global Internet traffic... Prospect of web hosting?

The latest statistical figures released by the state-owned China Internet Network Information Center reveals that China is due to surpass the United States as the nation with the most Internet users, some time this year.

The figure reported by the Chinese government institution was a 53 percent jump from 137 million Chinese Internet users reported at this time last year. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: China says number of Internet users rises to 210 million, could overtake US this year

- “Currently China’s online population is about 50 million less than that of the United States and is the world’s second-largest,” the agency, also known as CNNIC, said on its Web site. “CNNIC forecasts that (China) will become the largest online country in 2008,” it said.

- The U.S. Census Bureau said last year that about 218 million of the country’s 310 million people used the Internet.

- China promotes Internet use for education and business but tries to block the public from seeing material deemed pornographic or that opposes communist rule.

This latest figure only consolidates the fact that China is a very ripe market for web hosting. With a population of 1,323,128,240 [over 1.3 billion], China currently ranks as the most populous country in the world with the USA coming 3rd after India. China’s current population is 19.83% of the world’s total population whilst that of the USA is 4.55%. Economists are predicting that China and India would be the world’s next super-powers in as soon as ten years time, going by the strong annual economic growth the two countries have been marking over the years.

Having realised all the above-stated points, many of the leading dot-com companies have opened shop in China to reap from the economic windfall: Google, Paypal, ebay, Microsoft, Yahoo etc
Now, China is not exactly a virgin market if the figures by WebHosting.info are anything to go by. Chinese web hosts share 2,735,314 domains amongst themselves whilst Chinese ICANN-accredited registrars have registered 3,275,345 generic domain names.

China stands at 5th position; followed by US, Germany, UK, Canada on country-wise highest number of registered domains. Six out of top ten countries are from non-english speaking regions and for most of global web hosting companies / control panels, it leave them with little chances in domestic penetration unless they localize their services/product or partner with some regional distributor.

The point is simple: web hosting firms in other parts of the world that can target a section of their marketing website at the Chinese population stand to reap economic benefits from China’s fast-growing Internet population. A website with a Chinese language version would be a first step though its important to point that many educated Chinese individuals can handle the English language fairly well.

Note: Major source taken from David's blog in WebHostingSearch.

Kasey Chambers - she is good

I am not a huge fan of country music but sometimes it really inspires my wit. Just got the chance to listen Kasey Chambers music today on Youtube and I was ecstatic :) Simple music is put into wonderful composition and her heavy-toned voice was going with every line of her lyrics. Though she might have not made any big records but I'm sure, she has many of silent admirers like me.

Here are few of her singles:

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCictKFIIoo&feature=related
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUggrlX_Kk&feature=related
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5jWvEwlHfQ&feature=related