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The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and its not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar?

Why not? Because we don’t have a web of data. Because data is controlled by applications, and each application keeps it to itself.

The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for interchange of data, where on the original Web we only had interchange of documents. Also it is about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing more

Hello
This blog area was empty from a long time period. So i m posting some facts and figures abt sutta and daroo.But let me first ask u a question…..
When we came to NIMC only two persons were indulged in these activities(Me and Waldia,, Mishra was also there but he was not a chain smoker ).And now there is a long list (WHY ????).

Total expenditure on hard drinks till now (observed by Sid and Me)
Avg money goes on drinks in one week in our block = 250 Rs (beer,rum,whiskey,vodka)So Total expenditure in these 2 1/2 years on hard drinks=250 * 128 (weeks) = 32,000 Rs ONLY

Now its turn of sutta
Avg persons in our batch who smokes for whole month=4
Avg money goes on sutta per person in a month=400 Rs ( New boys spends less )
So Avg money expenditure on sutta per month in our block= 1600 Rs
hence total money expenditure in 2 1/2 years = 1600 * 30 months = 48,000 Rs ONLY

Total expenditure on hard drinks and sutta in 2 1/2 years =32000+48000 = 80,000 Rs ONLY

And if this continues by the same rate ,then by the end of our MCA,Sum will be = 96,100 Rs ONLY

Now can u believe this 96,100 Rs on hard drinks and sutta.

CAUTION
Smoking and Drinking are injurious to your Dad’s wallet.

OSLO, Norway - Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.

Through Yunus’s efforts and those of the bank he founded, poor people around the world, especially women, have been able to buy cows, a few chickens or the cell phone they desperately needed to get ahead.

The 65-year-old economist said he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million award money to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor. The rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh, he said.

( this is derived from a guest blog I wrote for Shaunak)

Here is something that worries me, yesterday I spotted this store next to Ozone in Aundh…its called Bonsaii or something…apprently its a lifestyle/luxury store for… hold your breath…KIDS!!!….aged between 6 n 13!!!!

I doubt if I could spell luxury correctly till I was 12 . The point I am trying to make is that I have started feeling a generation gap with kids barely six years younger than me. I think for many many reasons their lives are getting totally devoid of any imagination what so ever. I remember us as kids, when seven stones, a rubber ball and some open ground could keep us entertained for hours. When we barely had to bother with books after school hours ( I barely bothered with school books even during school hours), lessons of life were learnt over numerous rounds of hopskotch,dodgeball, tree climbing, gola eating and jumping into puddles of rain. Basically anything that made you go home with a bleeding knee/elbow, a new pet , an interesting rock or even Diarrhoea was an evening well spent…ok I pushed it with the Diarrhoea but i guess you get my point.

From another point of view, I think this is the coolest marketing gimmick ever…I am sure most of the young 12 yr old guys shopping at Bonsaii right now will grow up to be…ahem ahem …metrosexual men!!! I am quite certain all of this comes out from the same factory and is a part of a larger conspiracy thats aimed at enlarging the consumer base for cosmetics ( eg. ‘Fair and Handsome’, the hoardings for which read ” Hey Man, do you wear bangles?” ,”Then why do use a girls Fairness Cream?”. I can now visualise Sunny paji in his next flick scream out ” Maine bhi koi choodiyan nahi peheni hai, mai toh fair and handsome lagaanewalon mein hu!!”)

But the word ‘metrosexual’ was the greatest tragedy of our times, initially I never understood why such hype was created around men who were having sex in(or maybe with) trains, the ‘mile high club’ I think might just deserve some of the hype…but trains!?!??!….Hell no. I am quite sure that this trend hardly spread beyond a square kilometer area in cuffe parade and square meter areas in Andheri and Bandra, but you see, these metrosexual men were changing their haircuts/haircolors, clothes n noses so fast, and being photographed so frequently, we thought there were a lot more of them than the actual number.

Though I do believe in grooming, I have studied in an engineering college, where the concept of a deodarant ( or even a bath) hadnt quite caught on, but there needs to be a line drawn between deo and lip balm! And we need to draw this line asap before life becomes more difficult for a lot of pretty young things who will now have to compete with men when it comes to (previously women dominated domains such as) fairness, glossy lips and cleavage display.

But the word metrosexual is a little outmoded now, we now even have ubersexual men, retrosexual men and I am hoping a few heterosexual men have survived as well. Although, one very interesting question does remain unanswered, why do advertisers need such fancy new terms for only men, why dont we have any terms like “metrosexual women” so to speak?

I guess its because they dont need to be very imaginitive to convince a woman to pay an amount equal to her rent to buy a new lipstick, she might just pay double for the new L’oreal Glam Shine Holographic Lipstick ( kindly do not ask what a holographic lipstick is).

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked,

“How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter.

It depends on how long you try to hold it.

If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm.

If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance.

In each case, it’s the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”

He continued,

And that’s the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry them.

When we’re refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. So, before you go home from work, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it home.
You can pick it up tomorrow.

Take a break from the weight of your burdens. You can always pick it back up when your refreshed. If your faith is in God, let Him strengthen and refresh you - just let Go and Let God!

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Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue

* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them

* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

* Drive carefully. It’s not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.

* If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won’t have a leg to stand on.

* Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

* Since it’s the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

* The second mouse gets the cheese.

* When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

* We could learn a lot from crayons…
Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today…

Rec’d by email, with slight edits to share … I especially like this one:

* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

It is the one, I could use the most!

NotDeceived