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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Guide to hiring women

A very interesting article. Tells you about the psychology and characteristics of woman kind in workplace. Also gives tips on managing women at the work place.

A read for every manager who deals with women, I guess.

http://www.feministing.com/archives/017848.html

Monday, September 28, 2009

Resume & CV

I was recently told that a CV is different from a resume. The CV is longer and more detailed than a resume. But the top search results say that in some countries CVs are called resumes.

Now I am in a confusion. I have a resume but dont know what a CV should look like.

People's priority indicator

Well, I was at it again. I went to google and typed "how to" and back came the response.

Two months ago, "how to write a resume", was the first in the list as mentioned here previously.

http://ajitjagan.blogspot.com/2009/07/understanding-economys-priorities.html

I guess people are back to wanting to make babies again.

Now that I am searching this pretty regularly, I am thinking of a fancy name I can give to this indicator. I can then report the monthly state of affairs and can observe the lastest trends in people's priorities. It may give some clue as to what people are upto these days.

Thinking it cross sectionally, maybe it can work as a crude indicator to predict the number of children born in the next year or so.

Having some hopes that one day, this will be refered to something like the long skirt theory, the leading lipstick indicator.

@readers: please suggest an appropriate/wacky name with/without including my name in the indicator :)

p.s: The search is for google.co.in..... You may get different results if you are in another domain/country.

Get rich soon

I had identified this amazing opportunity a few years ago to get rich quick.

The problem was I am/was not in US or Europe.

Let me get to the point: The easiest way to get (filthy)rich quick is to sue. Sue someone, some company, some institution, something.

Sometimes you have to be in the right situation in the right place to be the victim. But if you already want to get rich quick, you can start searching/looking out for possible victimisations and make yourself a victim and then cry foul and sue.

The processes in the developed countries are pretty efficient and you can make plenty of money in a short period of time.

Just look what one guy has done:

He has sued Bank of America for 1784 billion trillion dollars, that is 1 followed by 21 zeros. The world's GDP in 2008 was merely $60 trillion.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5057180.cms

I think I am just not in the right place to get rich soon.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

The naked truth

Here is an online chat between my foreign french friend(a girl) and an Indian friend(a guy who knows french) on campus:

Guy: how was your Mandu trip?

Gal:was in mandu today

im f***ing nacke

nacked

Guy: isnt it spelt naked ? lol as in nue in French

Gal: euh i dont know

.....

well u got it

lol

Guy: but y wud one get naked in Mandu ?! I thot it was a hill station lol

Gal: go to hell

Guy: ok im totally confused by Mandu u mean the place Mandu right haha ?

Gal: ya

lol

Guy: so thrs water thr ?

Gal: naked = tired

Gal: who did u guys go with ?

rotfl !

how the f*** is naked = tired haha hilarious we have to chat more lol

Insight: the gal didnt know how to pronounce the word "knackered" which actually means "very tired"

Durga puja stories

There is a durga puja in the campus with a wonderful idols of the goddess, the demon and the picture of Shiva. My foreign friend from France asked the Indian friend "what is the relationship between Durga and Shiva?"

Indian friend: "Initially they were husband and wife"

Foreign friend interupts: "they broke up then?"

Well, it will take him some time to understand that weddings and marriages of gods and goddesses are much more complicated than simple humans. God/goddess disintegrate, vow to become the husband's wife again in another reincarnation and stuff....

Saturday, September 26, 2009

A good hedge

Crazy as it sounds, alcohol may one day be given to people with brain injuries to help them recover.

The idea has arisen from a study of 38,000 people with head injuries, which found that those with alcohol in their blood were more likely to survive. For every 100 people who died when stone-cold sober, only 88 died with ethanol – the kind of alcohol in drinks – in their veins.

"The finding raises the intriguing possibility that administering ethanol to patients with brain injuries may improve outcome," conclude the investigators.

Lead researcher Ali Salim of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said he hoped a trial could be mounted, but more information is needed first. "We need a better understanding of the exact mechanism, the appropriate dose and specific timing of treatment before we can embark on clinical trials," he told New Scientist.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17820-bash-your-head-you-need-a-stiff-drink.html