Sunday, November 21, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Curiosity killed a cat......
Curiosity killed a cat is a proverb used to warn against being too curious lest one come to harm. Curiosity killed the cat recalls a story in which "the cat" was killed because he was too curious and followed "curiosity" too far.Cats are curious animals that like to investigate, but their curiosity can take them places where they might get hurt.Cats are notoriously curious animals. They enjoy peering into every nook and cranny and exploring. Much of this dates back thousands of years when they would search for safe places to make a 'den'. The instinct is still with them to this day. Naturally they could explore something that is dangerous, such as a live electric cable, that could kill them. Traditionally cats have nine lives and as they get into many scrapes that could kill them and escape it is an understandable mis-conception. However cats do get killed through their curiosity, many get locked in garden sheds or garages when exploring and die of starvation so in those cases curiosity really did kill the cat. The antithesis is 'but satisfaction brought it back.' I suppose if an exploring cat found what it was looking for and satisfied it's curiosity it would then retreat from the danger and not lose it's life.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Facemash to facebook......
Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004. Facebook has more than 500 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Face book allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. Face book was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote Face mash, the predecessor to Face book, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. The site represented a Harvard University version of Hot or Not, according to the Harvard Crimson. According to The Harvard Crimson, Face mash "used photos compiled from the online face books of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".
Jst watch it
He didn't have much choice but to sell. It was summer 2006, a little more than two years after Mark Zuckerberg had created Face book in his Harvard dorm room as a way for him and his friends to better connect with schoolmates. In the intervening years, he'd raised $37.7 million from venture capitalists and transformed his modest Web site into a certified social phenomenon. College kids across the nation clamoured for access, which Zuckerberg doled out, school by school. By mid-2006, about 7 million users, most of them college students, had a Face book account.
The origins of Face book have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004.
Then called "thefacebook.com," the site was an instant hit. Now, six years later, the site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 400 million people a month.
The controversy surrounding Face book began quickly. A week after he launched the site in 2004, Mark was accused by three Harvard seniors of having stolen the idea from them.
This allegation soon bloomed into a full-fledged lawsuit, as a competing company founded by the Harvard seniors sued Mark and Face book for theft and fraud, starting a legal odyssey that continues to this day.
URL: http://www.truveo.com/job-hunting-with-social-networks/id/3677789112
On 11th of October 2010, mah hubby told m de story dat hw face book created!!!!!!
Well he narrated;;;;;;;; I created
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
THREE MAGICAL WORDZZZZZ
Love….life….laughter
One letter 3 magical wordzzzzz
Suddenly came into mah life
Life…One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Love…We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Most individuals stand in the way of reaching their potential. As a noun, the word ‘potential’ means something that is capable of being but is not yet in existence. So if you ask an acorn seed what its potential is, its answer would likely be “I have the potential of becoming a mighty oak tree”. Likewise, a bud on a rose plant may say, “I have the potential of becoming a beautiful and fragrant rose flower.”
The acorn seed and the rose bud already contain within them all that is required for them to realise their individual potential—that’s a guarantee. And what’s also guaranteed is that neither can become something else, even if they want to. So the acorn seed can’t grow up to become a mango tree, however hard it tries. The rose bud cannot bloom into a lily, even if it works diligently towards it.
You and I too have built-in potential to be as great as possible. But I can’t be great in the same way as you. And you can’t be great in the way I can be. Most of us miss this rather simple truth. This is most evident in the case of raising children.
Somehow parents fail to see that each child is different, with a built-in potential unique to him or her. One child has the potential to be a painter, another has the makings of a dancer, yet another has the competence to be a scientist… the possibilities are unlimited.
Yet, parents find it difficult to let their children simply be and instead keep trying to make them into something that they feel is right for the child—not without disastrous results, of course. For example, a potential painter who ends up studying medicine winds up being neither a good painter nor a good doctor—he becomes a potential nervous wreck.
It’s not just parents who display such behaviour. More often, individuals themselves miss their potential in the longing to become something they are not, because that’s the ‘in thing’ or because there’s more money, more power or more fame there. Seldom do they ask if that’s what will help them reach their highest potential.
Nature teaches us that left to its own, every acorn seed will become an oak tree, and every rose bud will become a rose flower—provided it is nourished and its process of reaching its potential is not hampered.
Left to your own, and provided you stop interfering in the process, you too will reach your magnificent potential—it’s in your nature. All you need is to get out of your way.
The acorn seed and the rose bud already contain within them all that is required for them to realise their individual potential—that’s a guarantee. And what’s also guaranteed is that neither can become something else, even if they want to. So the acorn seed can’t grow up to become a mango tree, however hard it tries. The rose bud cannot bloom into a lily, even if it works diligently towards it.
You and I too have built-in potential to be as great as possible. But I can’t be great in the same way as you. And you can’t be great in the way I can be. Most of us miss this rather simple truth. This is most evident in the case of raising children.
Somehow parents fail to see that each child is different, with a built-in potential unique to him or her. One child has the potential to be a painter, another has the makings of a dancer, yet another has the competence to be a scientist… the possibilities are unlimited.
Yet, parents find it difficult to let their children simply be and instead keep trying to make them into something that they feel is right for the child—not without disastrous results, of course. For example, a potential painter who ends up studying medicine winds up being neither a good painter nor a good doctor—he becomes a potential nervous wreck.
It’s not just parents who display such behaviour. More often, individuals themselves miss their potential in the longing to become something they are not, because that’s the ‘in thing’ or because there’s more money, more power or more fame there. Seldom do they ask if that’s what will help them reach their highest potential.
Nature teaches us that left to its own, every acorn seed will become an oak tree, and every rose bud will become a rose flower—provided it is nourished and its process of reaching its potential is not hampered.
Left to your own, and provided you stop interfering in the process, you too will reach your magnificent potential—it’s in your nature. All you need is to get out of your way.
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