Friday, July 10, 2009
Tips and quotes
TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY
1. Take tests - Why do we push things into memory. Because, we would like to recall it when the need arises. How do you know you will be able to recall when you need it? Simple, Take tests periodically and makes repeated attempts in recalling. Regular recall improves memory.
2. Take breaks - If you have 3.5 hours to read, break it into 4 parts: 45 minutes followed by a 5 to 10 minute break. Studies indicate that you can't concentrate for more than 45 minutes.
3. Sleep on it - What you review immediately before going to sleep is what your brain will most quickly and efficiently file away. So review just before sleep.
4. Relax -The Thinking Brain functions best when you are relaxed and free from stress.
5. Reading habits - Read out loud; don't bother if it disturbs others at home. Walk while you read; don't bother if it disturbs your others at home.
6. Draw charts. Write and rewrite key ideas and formula.
7. Use flash cards - Flash cards facilitate constant review and instantly help to check output. Rules, principles, formulae should all go into it.
8. Revision - You should revise shortly after the learning period. At first, say within 10 minutes after learning and then, again, within the next 24 hours. The reason: when you finish learning, the brain has not had enough time to organise and store everything. It needs a few minutes to store, organise and integrate the data. Studies show that 82% of what you learn today can be forgotten in 24 hours if you do not make a special effort to remember it.
9. Interest is the mother of attention and attention is the mother of memory.
10. The best way to remember is to repeat; and the best way to repeat is to “teach” some one else.
11. If exhaustion or drowsiness comes on frequently, take some phosphate tonic, preferably kali phos 6x or 12x prescribed by homoeopaths.
QUOTATIONS
F Sit like a rock and work like a clock.
F Count your life by friends not by years.
F Necessity is the mother of invention.
F There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant.
F Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and few to be chewed and digested.
F Do good to your friend to keep him, to your enemy to gain him.
F The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention.
F Respect your enemies for their good qualities.
F Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear.
F Do not think so much on others faults, that you forget your own faults.
F There is keen competition at the bottom but there is always vacancy at the top.
F Give to the world the best that you have and the best will come back to you.
F If you have 50 friends - It is not enough but If you have one enemy - It is too much.
F Winners make it happen and losers let it happen.
F Doubters do not win and Winners do not doubt.
1. Take tests - Why do we push things into memory. Because, we would like to recall it when the need arises. How do you know you will be able to recall when you need it? Simple, Take tests periodically and makes repeated attempts in recalling. Regular recall improves memory.
2. Take breaks - If you have 3.5 hours to read, break it into 4 parts: 45 minutes followed by a 5 to 10 minute break. Studies indicate that you can't concentrate for more than 45 minutes.
3. Sleep on it - What you review immediately before going to sleep is what your brain will most quickly and efficiently file away. So review just before sleep.
4. Relax -The Thinking Brain functions best when you are relaxed and free from stress.
5. Reading habits - Read out loud; don't bother if it disturbs others at home. Walk while you read; don't bother if it disturbs your others at home.
6. Draw charts. Write and rewrite key ideas and formula.
7. Use flash cards - Flash cards facilitate constant review and instantly help to check output. Rules, principles, formulae should all go into it.
8. Revision - You should revise shortly after the learning period. At first, say within 10 minutes after learning and then, again, within the next 24 hours. The reason: when you finish learning, the brain has not had enough time to organise and store everything. It needs a few minutes to store, organise and integrate the data. Studies show that 82% of what you learn today can be forgotten in 24 hours if you do not make a special effort to remember it.
9. Interest is the mother of attention and attention is the mother of memory.
10. The best way to remember is to repeat; and the best way to repeat is to “teach” some one else.
11. If exhaustion or drowsiness comes on frequently, take some phosphate tonic, preferably kali phos 6x or 12x prescribed by homoeopaths.
QUOTATIONS
F Sit like a rock and work like a clock.
F Count your life by friends not by years.
F Necessity is the mother of invention.
F There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant.
F Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and few to be chewed and digested.
F Do good to your friend to keep him, to your enemy to gain him.
F The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention.
F Respect your enemies for their good qualities.
F Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear.
F Do not think so much on others faults, that you forget your own faults.
F There is keen competition at the bottom but there is always vacancy at the top.
F Give to the world the best that you have and the best will come back to you.
F If you have 50 friends - It is not enough but If you have one enemy - It is too much.
F Winners make it happen and losers let it happen.
F Doubters do not win and Winners do not doubt.
Notepad-Dairy-- just for change....try it for me
Hi All,
I am going to share one more wonderful trick with u all ...
There is a simple feature in Notepad that can make it work like a
personal diary for you. Here is how to go about it:
1. Firstly open a blank Notepad file.
2. Now write .LOG as the first line in the file, and then press enter.
And save the file and close it.
3. Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and
time has been appended (put) at the end and the cursor is in the next
line.
4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.
5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process that is it
appends the date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor
below it.
This way you can keep track of all your entries, you can easily maintain
what you wrote when. This can work very much like a personal diary.
I am going to share one more wonderful trick with u all ...
There is a simple feature in Notepad that can make it work like a
personal diary for you. Here is how to go about it:
1. Firstly open a blank Notepad file.
2. Now write .LOG as the first line in the file, and then press enter.
And save the file and close it.
3. Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and
time has been appended (put) at the end and the cursor is in the next
line.
4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.
5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process that is it
appends the date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor
below it.
This way you can keep track of all your entries, you can easily maintain
what you wrote when. This can work very much like a personal diary.
Golden Rules for Career Success
ü Business is made up of ambiguous victories and nebulous defeats. Claim them all as victories.
ü Keep track of what you do; someone is sure to ask.
ü Be comfortable around senior managers, or learn to fake it.
ü Never bring your boss a problem without some solution.
ü You are getting paid to think, not to whine.
ü Long hours don’t mean anything; results count, not effort.
ü Write down ideas; they get lost, like good pens.
ü Always arrive at work 30 minutes before your boss.
ü Help other people network for jobs. You never know when your turn will come.
ü Don’t take days off sick—unless you are.
ü Assume no one can/will keep a secret.
ü Know when you do your best—morning, night, under pressure, relaxed; schedule and prioritize your work accordingly.
ü Treat everyone who works in the organization with respect and dignity, whether it be the cleaner or the managing director. Don’t ever be patronizing.
ü Never appear stressed in front of a client, a customer or your boss. Take a deep breath and ask yourself: In the course of human events, how important is this?
ü If you get the entrepreneurial urge, visit someone who has his own business. It may cure you.
ü Acknowledging someone else’s contribution will repay you doubly.
ü Career planning is an oxymoron. The most exciting opportunities tend to be unplanned.
ü Always choose to do what you’ll remember ten years from now.
ü The size of your office is not as important as the size of your pay cheque.
ü Understand what finished work looks like and deliver your work only when it is finished.
ü The person who spends all of his or her time is not hard-working; he or she is boring.
ü Know how to write business letters—including thank-you notes as well as proposals.
ü Never confuse a memo with reality. Most memos from the top are political fantasy.
ü Eliminate guilt. Don’t fiddle expenses, taxes or benefits, and don’t cheat colleagues.
ü Reorganizations mean that someone will lose his or her job. Get on the committee that will make the recommendations.
ü Job security does not exist. Always have an answer to the question, “What would I do if I lost my job tomorrow?”
ü Go to the company Christmas party. Don’t get drunk at the company Christmas party.
ü Avoid working at weekends. Work longer during the week if you have to.
ü The most successful people in business are interesting. Sometimes you’ll be on a winning streak and everything will click; take maximum advantage. When the opposite is true, hold steady and wait it out.
ü Never in your life say, “It’s not my job.” Be loyal to your career, your interests and yourself.
ü Understand the skills and abilities that set you apart. Use them whenever you have an opportunity.
ü People remember the end of the project. As they say in boxing, “Always finish stronger than you start.”
==XXX==
Thank You,
ü Keep track of what you do; someone is sure to ask.
ü Be comfortable around senior managers, or learn to fake it.
ü Never bring your boss a problem without some solution.
ü You are getting paid to think, not to whine.
ü Long hours don’t mean anything; results count, not effort.
ü Write down ideas; they get lost, like good pens.
ü Always arrive at work 30 minutes before your boss.
ü Help other people network for jobs. You never know when your turn will come.
ü Don’t take days off sick—unless you are.
ü Assume no one can/will keep a secret.
ü Know when you do your best—morning, night, under pressure, relaxed; schedule and prioritize your work accordingly.
ü Treat everyone who works in the organization with respect and dignity, whether it be the cleaner or the managing director. Don’t ever be patronizing.
ü Never appear stressed in front of a client, a customer or your boss. Take a deep breath and ask yourself: In the course of human events, how important is this?
ü If you get the entrepreneurial urge, visit someone who has his own business. It may cure you.
ü Acknowledging someone else’s contribution will repay you doubly.
ü Career planning is an oxymoron. The most exciting opportunities tend to be unplanned.
ü Always choose to do what you’ll remember ten years from now.
ü The size of your office is not as important as the size of your pay cheque.
ü Understand what finished work looks like and deliver your work only when it is finished.
ü The person who spends all of his or her time is not hard-working; he or she is boring.
ü Know how to write business letters—including thank-you notes as well as proposals.
ü Never confuse a memo with reality. Most memos from the top are political fantasy.
ü Eliminate guilt. Don’t fiddle expenses, taxes or benefits, and don’t cheat colleagues.
ü Reorganizations mean that someone will lose his or her job. Get on the committee that will make the recommendations.
ü Job security does not exist. Always have an answer to the question, “What would I do if I lost my job tomorrow?”
ü Go to the company Christmas party. Don’t get drunk at the company Christmas party.
ü Avoid working at weekends. Work longer during the week if you have to.
ü The most successful people in business are interesting. Sometimes you’ll be on a winning streak and everything will click; take maximum advantage. When the opposite is true, hold steady and wait it out.
ü Never in your life say, “It’s not my job.” Be loyal to your career, your interests and yourself.
ü Understand the skills and abilities that set you apart. Use them whenever you have an opportunity.
ü People remember the end of the project. As they say in boxing, “Always finish stronger than you start.”
==XXX==
Thank You,
Cloud computing help reduce costs
25 Jun 2009, 0316 hrs IST, Kalyan Parbat, ET Bureau
The possibility of reducing both capital and operating costs by migrating reams of data from private machines to the internet cloud is turning out to be a thrilling value proposition for companies, says Pritwis Mukherjee, who teaches systems-oriented management courses at IIT Kharagpur and Praxis Business School in Kolkata.
A former PwC India executive director, who also headed IBM India's eastern operations, Dr Mukherjee has given enthusiasts a rare peek into the cerebral realm of cloud computing in his new book, Business Information Systems. Excerpts from his freewheeling chat.
What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is less pure technology and more about how companies can harness a powerful technology to cut costs and lift efficiency. In a cloud computing scenario, a company can actually move its core data and the programs that operate on such data from private machines such as desktops, PCs or corporate servers to machines owned by vendors.
Who are the leading cloud computing vendors in India?
Nearly every vendor from Oracle, IBM to Microsoft offers a service in this emerging area, but the two I encourage my students to try out are Zoho and Google. You simply have to register on their websites and start building an application. Even a non-programmer can build and deploy a Zoho cloud computing application in less than an hour.
How does it work and what does it cost?
Many of us are already into cloud computing without being aware. When you host a website or use Gmail or Hotmail, you are using a server owned and operated by a vendor. And your data — in this case, your web pages or email — is resident on the vendors' machines. Actually, your data is somewhere in the internet "cloud". Most vendors today charge by actual usage.
How can a company benefit from cloud computing?
Well, it helps reduce costs, both capital and operating, through economies of scale. To use an analogy, it is like replacing the electricity generator in your home by plugging into electricity supply. When a vendor supports a hundred customers with his bank of servers and support staff, the cost to each individual customer goes down.
Can you share a cloud computing sequence from a new user's perspective?
It's very simple really. Consider Google Docs, as an alternative to Microsoft Office. On the Google Docs website, the browser will show a screen that is similar to that in a traditional word-processor or a spreadsheet. You can create and edit documents or populate a spreadsheet with data and formulae but when you finally save your data, it goes and sits, not on your hard disk but on Google servers — and you can access this data later from any other machine that is connected to the net.
In case of business applications, if you have an ERP server you can of course have it located at vendor premises, but you could also build your own applications and have it hosted on the web. Effectively, it reduces a company's capital cost of owning a server and more importantly, the operating cost of running it and supporting it. All a user does is pay a usage-based fee to access data on the cloud computing platform.
How safe is it to put company data on third-party servers?
One must choose a reliable vendor, and more importantly, make sure the data is not getting locked into any proprietary format. As long as the data is in an SQL compliant database, you always have the option of unloading your data and using it elsewhere.
In India, companies are yet to seriously get going with cloud computing as many are clueless on how to exactly to go about it. Besides, at the vendor level too, there's little clarity on how to guide new convert.
Are there any regulatory issues?
In general, no. But the fact that data is resident on machines located beyond the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies has been an issue with Canadian medical records. In India, we have had cases and now have the laws in place to deal with "cybercrimes" such as hacking of websites, defamation and incitement to violence, threats and harassment, defrauding gullible people with false claims of prizes and credit card fraud.
Cloud computing does not fall into any of these categories. Moreover, the IT Act of 2000 encourages electronic commerce by recognising digital signatures and allows maintenance of electronic records
The possibility of reducing both capital and operating costs by migrating reams of data from private machines to the internet cloud is turning out to be a thrilling value proposition for companies, says Pritwis Mukherjee, who teaches systems-oriented management courses at IIT Kharagpur and Praxis Business School in Kolkata.
A former PwC India executive director, who also headed IBM India's eastern operations, Dr Mukherjee has given enthusiasts a rare peek into the cerebral realm of cloud computing in his new book, Business Information Systems. Excerpts from his freewheeling chat.
What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is less pure technology and more about how companies can harness a powerful technology to cut costs and lift efficiency. In a cloud computing scenario, a company can actually move its core data and the programs that operate on such data from private machines such as desktops, PCs or corporate servers to machines owned by vendors.
Who are the leading cloud computing vendors in India?
Nearly every vendor from Oracle, IBM to Microsoft offers a service in this emerging area, but the two I encourage my students to try out are Zoho and Google. You simply have to register on their websites and start building an application. Even a non-programmer can build and deploy a Zoho cloud computing application in less than an hour.
How does it work and what does it cost?
Many of us are already into cloud computing without being aware. When you host a website or use Gmail or Hotmail, you are using a server owned and operated by a vendor. And your data — in this case, your web pages or email — is resident on the vendors' machines. Actually, your data is somewhere in the internet "cloud". Most vendors today charge by actual usage.
How can a company benefit from cloud computing?
Well, it helps reduce costs, both capital and operating, through economies of scale. To use an analogy, it is like replacing the electricity generator in your home by plugging into electricity supply. When a vendor supports a hundred customers with his bank of servers and support staff, the cost to each individual customer goes down.
Can you share a cloud computing sequence from a new user's perspective?
It's very simple really. Consider Google Docs, as an alternative to Microsoft Office. On the Google Docs website, the browser will show a screen that is similar to that in a traditional word-processor or a spreadsheet. You can create and edit documents or populate a spreadsheet with data and formulae but when you finally save your data, it goes and sits, not on your hard disk but on Google servers — and you can access this data later from any other machine that is connected to the net.
In case of business applications, if you have an ERP server you can of course have it located at vendor premises, but you could also build your own applications and have it hosted on the web. Effectively, it reduces a company's capital cost of owning a server and more importantly, the operating cost of running it and supporting it. All a user does is pay a usage-based fee to access data on the cloud computing platform.
How safe is it to put company data on third-party servers?
One must choose a reliable vendor, and more importantly, make sure the data is not getting locked into any proprietary format. As long as the data is in an SQL compliant database, you always have the option of unloading your data and using it elsewhere.
In India, companies are yet to seriously get going with cloud computing as many are clueless on how to exactly to go about it. Besides, at the vendor level too, there's little clarity on how to guide new convert.
Are there any regulatory issues?
In general, no. But the fact that data is resident on machines located beyond the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies has been an issue with Canadian medical records. In India, we have had cases and now have the laws in place to deal with "cybercrimes" such as hacking of websites, defamation and incitement to violence, threats and harassment, defrauding gullible people with false claims of prizes and credit card fraud.
Cloud computing does not fall into any of these categories. Moreover, the IT Act of 2000 encourages electronic commerce by recognising digital signatures and allows maintenance of electronic records
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