Many people have told me that 10 years back Bangalore used to be a beautiful city and the migration into the city due to the software boom has destroyed it.
Source (dead link – http://www.ibnlive.com/cfs/blog/51707/1901)
on balancing act
Alongside the hike letter, Infosys has also asked its employees to sign a non-compete agreement letter saying they will not join any customer or competitor for a period of six months after their job termination at Infosys. The competition has been specified – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Accenture, IBM Global Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Wipro.
(dead link) Source (http://rtard.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/just-another-softwhore-engg/)
on making memorization easy
Teach the hardest fact of all:
7×6=42!!!!!!!!! Make a big glittery sign for this. Do
whatever is necessary to make kids aware of this fact.
– Tips for learning the multiplication tables
on fast calc
Remembering 9’s
What’s 9 x 7 ? Use the 9-method! Hold out all 10 fingers, and lower the 7th finger. There are 6 fingers to the left and 3 fingers on the right.
The answer is 63!