Vijay For Victory

Are you tired at work and want to take a nap? Also don’t want to go out of your desk?

You can can have this ‘Chin absorbing chair’ to have a nap at your office desk.

This innovative product is from Japan (as usual ) and worth £354 approx. You can buy it here

PowerPoint slides are the key for every business demonstration. Keeping the slides clear, self explanatory and interesting will give half of the success to the presenter.

There are lots of way to make the slides more presentable and a lots of tips available to achieve success. But what are the DON’Ts in PowerPoint presentation?

Don McMillan an Engineer, a Stand-Up Comedian gives some valuable tips on DON’Ts while presenting a PPT in a funny video.

Bonus video clip on Corporate Math

When I was going through my mail box, I found this forward mail which I received long back.

This mail is about the programmer’s reaction when something is not working. The list gave me a smile.

20. That’s weird.
19. It’s never done that before.
18. It worked yesterday.
17. How is that possible?
16. It must be a hardware problem.
15. What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?
14. There is something funky in your data. OR It’s a data problem, not a program problem.
13. I haven’t touched that module in weeks!
12. You must have the wrong version.
11. It’s just some unlucky coincidence.
10. I can’t test everything!
9. THIS can’t be the source of THAT.
8. It works, but it hasn’t been tested.
7. Somebody must have changed my code.
6. Did you check for a virus on your system?
5. Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
4. You can’t use that version on your system.
3. Why do you want to do it that way?
2. Where were you when the program blew up?

And the number one thing all Programmers say when their programs don’t work:

1. It works on my machine.

I too made a few comments that are in the above list

How about you?

Once upon a time the government with a ruling party XYZ, had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.

Ruling Party XYZ afraid that, someone may steal things over the night. So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Now they have got a new question. “How does the watchman do his job without instruction?”. So they created a Planning Department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

This lead them to raise one more question “How will we know that, the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?” So they created a Quality Control Department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.

When it comes to salary, they have got a new question “How are these people going to get paid?” So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer; and then hired two more people.

One more question added in the row “Who will be accountable for all of these people?” So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

After an year, they said “We have had this command in operation for one year and we are ,$10,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost.”

So they laid-off the watchman.

Does this story remind you something. Yes you are right, this is the current situation in IT industries.