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How to play the guitar
CORGAN: So how did you get from playing your first open G chord to playing “Eruption”?
VAN HALEN: Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7 P.M. to party and get laid, and when he’d come back at 3 A.M., I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years-I still do that. [Source]
e-learning 2.0 – how Web technologies are shaping education
Written by Steve O’Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is a two-part series in which Steve will explore how Web technologies are being used in education. Read on!
This should sweep you off your feet
” Lal Beni, who perhaps never went to school and works as a sweeper in National Thermal Power Corporation, draws an annual package of Rs 8,68,146. One Safal Ram working as a helper in the company enjoys a handsome package of Rs 8,98,369 per annum, according to the annual report of the Corporation. ” [via Economic Times]
A mess called ClearCase
“…this tool, or should I say pack of tools, is one of the worst nightmares most complex tools I have come across in a usability sense.” [Read on!]
Microsoft Announces Its Own iPod Competitor
Look here. Yaaawnnnnnnn!
When falling lifts you
I don’t understand us. I mean yeah I sympathize with the poor kid who fell into a well and had to go through a horrible 60 hour ordeal before he could breathe easy. I felt sorry for the kid, honestly. But I don’t understand why the media went berserk with this story. We are such suckers for melodrama and they exploited it? Probably. So you know what to do to get the PM’s attention now, don’t you? No? Fall into a well machaan.
Defining Irony
http://spdk.blogspot.com/ (that won’t work, I know. So try this.)“To disperse information about recent findings and criminal cases, the police department of Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district last month started a blog — www.spdk.blogspot.com.” [Link]Hmm.
To the moon and back
“Indian ISPs don’t have the technology to block individual name servers — say a particular blog hosted on Blogspot. So they had no choice but to block the root servers of major blogging networks — blogspot, geocities and typepad,” said a senior official in the IT Ministry. A senior official from an ISP confirmed this.[Link]
And we want to go to the moon.
Quake triggers tsunami on Indonesia’s Java, at least 5 killed
A powerful earthquake sent a two-meter (yard) high tsunami crashinginto a beach resort on Indonesia’s Java island Monday, killing at leastfive people and damaging hotels and houses. Indonesian President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono confirmed the casualties in a radio broadcast. [Link]
Serial Blasts in Mumbai
Read more on Mumbai HelpNo clear number is emerging as yet on the casualities. And, it looks like a terrorist strike. No official word is out on it though. Rajdeep Sardesai takes this opportunity to sing praises on his channel CNN-IBN. Bangalore too is put on red alert.