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Masud Rana

2007-10-07T19:49:00.000-07:00

Those who are thrilled to read the story of "Masud Rana" like me may find the following article interesting:
Article on Masud rana

Multi color dropdownlist using C#

2007-06-27T00:49:00.000-07:00

Below is the link of one of my articles published in Codeproject. You can take a look at it.

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/csMultiColorDropDownList.asp

Export large data from Gridview and Datareader to an Excel file using C#

2007-06-21T10:41:00.000-07:00

This article may be helpful to export large data to an excel file using C# :

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ExportDataToExcelUsingCS.asp

Enjoy life

2007-05-09T04:32:00.000-07:00

Interesting quiz

2007-05-04T23:36:00.000-07:00

Questions:

Which is the first novel ever written on typewriter?
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Can you tell their names?
which is the shortest complete sentence in the English language?
What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
Who are the first couple to be shown in bed together on TV?
What is the average number of people airborne over the US any given hour?

Answers:

Tom Sawyer
Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs-Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
"I am"
No theme song
Obsession
One thousand
They all are invented by woman
He was allergic to carrots
Fred and Wilma Flintstone
61,000

Did you know?

2007-05-04T22:50:00.000-07:00

Coca-cola was originally green
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than US treasury
The youngest pope was 11 years old
In scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled "Gentlemen only ladies forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered in to the language.
In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the king gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.* (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.

The white kid

2007-04-30T11:15:00.001-07:00

A professor is sent to darkest Africa to
live with a primitive tribe.

He spends years with them, teaching them reading,
writing, math and science.

One day the wife of the tribe's chief
gives birth to a white child.

The tribe is shocked, and the chief pulls the
professor aside and says,
"Look here! You're the only white man we've
ever seen and this woman gives
birth to a white child. It doesn't take a
genius to figure out what happened!

The professor replied, "No, Chief. You're mistaken.
What you have here is a natural occurrence,
what we in the civilized world call
an albino! Look at that field over there.
All of the sheep are white except for one black one.
Nature does this on occasion."

The chief was silent for a moment, then said,
"Tell you what. You don't say
anything more about that sheep and I won't
say anything more about that white child."

Tambourine Man

2007-04-29T11:49:00.000-07:00

"Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow"

Quote

2007-04-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

You see things; and you say, why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

Dead man walking

2007-04-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

He swivels his head
Tears his eyes from the screen
As his past puts him back
in Atlantic City
There's not even a demon
in Heaven or Hell
Is it all just human disguise
As I walk down the aisle

And I'm gone gone gone
Now I'm older than movies
Let me dance away
Now I'm wiser than dreams
Let me fly fly fly
While I'm touching tomorrow
And I know who's there
When silhouettes fall

And I'm gone
Like I'm dancing on angels
And I'm gone through a crack in the past
Like a dead man walking
Like a dead man walking

Two young men dancing under the lamplight
Shaking their sex and their bones
And the boys that we were
An alien nation in therapy
Sliding naked and new
Like a bad tempered child
On a rain slicked street

And I'm gone gone gone
And I'm older than movies
Oh let me dance dance dance
Now I'm wiser than dreams
Let me fly fly fly
While I'm touching tomorrow
And I know who's there
When silhouettes fall

And I'm gone
And I'm gone, like I'm dancing on angels
And I'm gone, through the crack in the past
Like a dead man walking
Like a dead man walking
Like a dead man
Like a dead man walking

And I'm gone gone gone
Let me dance dance dance
And I'm gone gone gone
Let me dance dance dance
And I'm gone, like
I'm dancing on angels
And I'm gone, through a crack in the past
Like a dead man walking
Like a dead man walking

by DAVID BOWIE

Submit your site to search engine

2007-04-28T10:36:00.000-07:00

Click at the following links to submit your website to the search engines. It should take 7 to 30 days. But better late than never :-)

A Really Bad Day

2007-04-28T10:20:00.002-07:00

There was this guy at a bar, just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half of an hour.
Then, this big trouble-making truck driver steps next to him, takes the drink from the guy, and just drinks it all down. The poor man starts crying. The truck driver says, "Come on man, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy you another drink. I just can't stand to see a man cry."
"No, it's not that. This day is the worst of my life. First, I fall asleep, and I go late to my office. My boss, outrageous, fires me. When I leave the building, to my car, I found out it was stolen. The police said that they can do nothing. I get a cab to return home, and when I leave it, I remember I left my wallet and credit cards there. The cab driver just drives away."
"I go home, and when I get there, I find my wife in bed with the gardener. I leave home, and come to this bar. And just when I was thinking about putting an end to my life, you show up and drink my poison."

How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

2007-04-28T10:20:00.001-07:00

This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot ... But you can't!!!
1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!
I told you so, there's nothing you can do about it. Pass this on to your friends... They won't be able to do it either... Even mind over matter won't work.

Must see movies: My top 25

2007-04-27T12:14:00.000-07:00

01. Forrest Gump
02. Rain Man
03. Schindler's List
04. Life Is Beautiful
05. Savior
06. The Professional
07. The shawshank redemption
08. The Truman Show
09. Dead Man Walking
10. Legends Of the fall
11. Serendipity
12. American Beauty
13. In the bedroom
14. Life as a house
15. A beautiful mind
16. The patriot
17. City of angels
18. Gandhi
19. Scent of a woman
20. The green mile
21. Pay it forward
22. Cinema Paradiso
23. Dead poets society
24. Mr. and Mr. Iyer
25. Good will hunting

Math genius

2007-04-27T09:25:00.001-07:00

Prayer

2007-04-27T09:24:00.001-07:00

A lady approaches a priest and tells him, “Father, I have a problem. I have these two talking female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing. They keep saying “Hi, we’re hot. Do you want a date?”

“That’s terrible!” the priest exclaimed. “But I do have a solution to your problem. Bring your two parrots over to my house and I will put them with my two male talking parrots to whom I have taught to pray and read the bible.

My parrots will then teach your parrots to stop saying that terrible phrase, and your female parrots will learn to pray and worship.”

So the next day, the lady brings her female parrots to the priest’s house.

The priest’s two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage. The lady puts her female talking parrots in with the male talking Parrots, and the female parrots say, “Hi, we’re hot. Do you want a date?”

One male parrot looks over at the other male parrot and screams, “Put your Bible away Idiot, our prayers have been answered!!!!!!!”

Dating etiquttes

2007-04-27T09:20:00.001-07:00

During class, a teacher trying to teach good manners asks the students, one by one, “Michael, if you were on a date having dinner with a nice young lady, how would you tell her that you have to go to the bathroom?” she asked. “Just a minute, I have to go piss.”

The teacher replied, “That would be rude and impolite! What about you Sam, how would you say it?”

“I am sorry, but I really need to go to the bathroom, I’ll be right back.”

The teacher responded, “That’s better, but it’s still not very nice to say the word bathroom at the table. And you Johnny, are you able to use your intelligence for once and show your good manners?”

“I would say: Darling, may I please be excused for a moment, I have to shake hands with a very dear friend of mine whom I hope you’ll get to meet after dinner.”

Be careful

2007-04-27T09:12:00.000-07:00

Girl to her boyfriend: One kiss and I’ll be yours forever.

The guy replies: Thanks for the warning.

A good one:Smile

2007-04-27T09:09:00.000-07:00

A man was sitting reading his paper when his wife hit him round the head with a frying pan.

“What was that for?” the man asked. The wife replied “That was for the piece of paper with the name Jenny on it that I found in your pants pocket”.

The man said “When I was at the races last week, Jenny was the name of the horse I bet on”

The wife apologized and went on with the housework.

Three days later the man is watching TV when his wife bashes him on the head with an even bigger frying pan, knocking him unconscious.

Upon re-gaining consciousness the man asked why she had hit again . .. ….

“Your horse called up”

Is Hell exothermic or endothermic ?

2007-04-27T08:56:00.001-07:00

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, “It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,” and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct……leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting “Oh my God.”

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY “A”

How business is done

2007-04-27T08:49:00.000-07:00

Father: I want you to marry a girl of my choice

Son: “I will choose my own bride!”

Father: “But the girl is Bill Gates’s daughter.”

Son: “Well, in that case…ok”

Next Father approaches Bill Gates.

Father: “I have a husband for your daughter.”

Bill Gates: “But my daughter is too young to marry!”

Father: “But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank.”

Bill Gates: “Ah, in that case…ok”

Finally Father goes to see the president of the World Bank.

Father: “I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president.”

President: “But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!”

Father: “But this young man is Bill Gates’s son-in-law.”

President: “Ah, in that case…ok”

This is how business is done!!

Moral: Even If you have nothing, you can get anything. But your attitude should be positive

Tech support calls

2007-04-27T08:39:00.000-07:00

A woman customer called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer.

Tech support: Are you running it under windows?

Customer: “No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his printer is working fine.”

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Tech support: How may I help you?
Customer: I’m writing my first e-mail.

Tech support: OK, and what seems to be the problem?
Customer: Well, I have the letter ‘a’ in the address, but how do I get the circle around it?

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Customer: I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screen saver on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears.

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Tech support: What anti-virus program do you use?
Customer: Netscape.

Tech support: That’s not an anti-virus program.
Customer : Oh, sorry…Internet Explorer.

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Customer: I can’t get on the Internet.

Tech support: Are you sure you used the right password?

Customer: Yes, I’m sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Tech support: Can you tell me what the password was?

Customer: Five stars.

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Tech support: Your password is the small letter “a” as in apple, a capital letter V as in Victor, the number 7.

Customer: Is that 7 in capital letters?

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Customer: Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can’t print. Every time I try, it says ‘Can’t find printer’. I’ve even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says he can’t find it…

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Tech support: Good day. How may I help you?
Male customer: Hello… I can’t print.

Tech support: Would you click on “start” for me and…
Customer: Listen pal; don’t start getting technical on me! I’m not Bill Gates.

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Tech support: What kind of computer do you have?

Female customer: A white one…

Tech support: Click on the ‘my computer’ icon on to the left of the screen.
Customer: Your left or my left?

Software Companies in Bangladesh

2007-04-27T08:16:00.000-07:00

Here is a partial list from different sources. Following includes outsourcing companies, offshore development houses and onshore development houses.

20-20 Technologies Bangladesh Ltd.
ATI limited
Bangladesh Internet Press Limited
Bangladesh Engineeirng & Technological Services
BASE Limited
bGlobal Sourcing
BJIT Ltd
Bording Vista
Code71
Color Experts International (CEI)
Computer Ease Limited
Double Barrel Design Consultancy
Data Soft systems Bangladesh Limited
Data Tank Solutions Limited
Daud Information Technology Limited
Desme Bangladesh
Documenta TM LTD
Doha Tech
eDicte Tech Solutions Limited
ePaymentSoft Solutions
eGeneration Limited
ENOSIS SOLUTIONS
ERP systems Ltd
EVOKNOW
Genuity Systems Ltd
Grameen software limited
Graphics Associates
IT MagNet
Improsys
The Jaxara IT Limited
Jobs Outsourcing
Kernel BD Corporation
KAZ software Ltd
Leadsoft Bangladesh ltd.
M & H Informatics (BD) Ltd
MAMTech Limited
MAOS
Millennium Information Solutions ltd
Newage Infotech Services Limited
Nilavo Technologies
Onirban- Orion Technologies
PageFlakes
PyxisNet Limited
Quantumcloud
Rave Systems
ReliSource Technologies Ltd
Right Brain Solution
SG Research and development Pvt Ltd.(Chittagong)
Softedge Limited
Soft Home
Software People
Somewhere in...
South Tech Limited
Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd
Spinnovation Ltd.
Star Computer Systems Ltd
Stitel Outsourcing Ltd
Sumcynet Ltd(Summit IT)
Supreme Data Solutions Ltd
Synesis IT
Systech Digital Limited
Tech Ants Ltd
Technohaven Company Ltd
The Decode Limited
Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited
Uniqa Software & Systems Ltd
United IT global Net Ltd
Upload Your Self
Visual Magic Corporation
Vonair Inc
Win-Win Infosys Ltd
Winux Systems limited

Please give me some more feedback about the software companies in Bangladesh.

Some advantages of using Mozilla browser

2007-02-20T21:51:00.000-08:00

Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers launched by Mozilla. It is becoming more and more popular over the years against its competitors like I.E. and opera for its simplicity and different advantages. To name a few are:

1. Tabbed browsing

It lets one display more than one site in a window using multiple tabs. One can open a new tab by selecting Navigator Tab from the “New” submenu of the “File “menu (or press Ctrl+T). One can also open a link in a new tab by using the right-click menu.

2. Built-in Download Manager

There is no question that IE suffers from not having the ability to manage multiple file downloads. Those extra windows are annoying, even if they do auto-close when the download is done.

3. Can bookmark groups of pages (in tabs)

One can bookmark a set of pages and open them all at once in multiple tabs. To do this, choose “Bookmark This Group of Tabs” from the “Bookmarks” menu

4. Can set multiple pages as a home page.

One can set a group as home page, so multiple pages appear when one starts Mozilla. To set this, open the pages you wish in tabs, and then choose Use Current Group in the Navigator preferences panel.

5. Integrated Search Engine

Firefox uses Google and it gives extra features like searching and showing the Page Rank (PR) score of each visited site. Not a feature worth switching over.

6. Can pause downloads

In Mozilla, one cause pause downloads. Some people may find this useful during long downloads.

7. View Source

View the syntax colored source of a page, without having to view it in Notepad.

8. JavaScript Console

The console displays a log of errors that you can easily scroll through, or ignore if so desired.

9. JavaScript Console displays script warnings

The console separates warnings and errors. The warnings allow you to see obsolete script usage and so forth.

10. Less spyware:

The biggest advantage in using Firefox over I.E. is the fact that spyware does not get on your machine nearly as much. I.E. will attract at least 60% more spyware than Firefox. Spyware might not seem like a big deal but over time your machine will collect it like wax collects in your ears. It will slow your PC down and problems will begin from that point.

11. May have multiple versions installed at once

One can have as many different versions of Mozilla installed at once which is useful if you need to test on various versions.

12. Cross-platform

Mozilla is available for a number of different platforms. (8 to 12 depending on the exact version). It has the same features on all of them. IE only runs on Windows and Mac and supports quite a different set of features on each. Limited versions of IE for Unix platforms were available at one time, but are no longer available.

13. Smaller Download:

This will appeal to dialup users, but broadband users probably won’t care very much that Firefox is half the size of IE.

14. Right click menu to block images on webpage:

Again, a bonus for modem users or those who want to surf their favorite sites without ads and image free.

So, those who didn’t use firefox before can start using firefox now. You can visit http://tamalkuet. googlepages. com and click the “Get firefox with Google Toolbar for better browsing” option. You would love browsing through firefox. If you don’t like it then you can uninstall it easily. This is another supreme advantage of firefox!

Source: Internet

Dead Man Walking

2007-02-20T21:49:00.000-08:00

What does a single day mean to me?

1. To think at night that i have to wake up before 8:00 else i would be late at the office.

2. I am awake!I have to take my breakfast before 9:00 else i would be in trouble.

3. When i am out from my house i start thinking about the queue of my bus . At this time i wish it were a bit shorter.

4. Oh! I am at the queue, now! Why I am at the bottom?! why the bus is not coming? The clock is ticking over and office time is approaching.

5. I am at the bus! Huge traffic!! What can i do other than pray?!?

6. I am out of the bus. It's 9:57 AM. I have to reach within 10:00 AM. I am almost running.

7. I am behind my PC. Boss is asking questions. What is the status of the project ? Why are there so many bugs? How long should I take to finish the tasks? Why are we not following any process?

8. I am stuck. Have to take the help of internet. Oh God! It's not responding at all!

9. It's almost 8:00 PM. I am tired. I am busy. Have to finish last moment's work. But the "moment" seems an "era". Time is flying!

10. It's 9:00 PM. I am consumed. The tasks are not fully completed. But what can I do? I tried my best. I always try my best.

11. I am out of my office. What is the status of the queue of my bus, now?

12. I am at the queue. Why the bus isn't coming?

13. Why the traffic is so huge even at 9:30 PM!?!

14. It's 10:00 PM. Home , home , sweat home! Oh I have to wrap things up.

-------------------------- I have to sleep quickly else I would be late tomorrow.

------------------------------------------- There is no dreams in my eyes. I only pray for meeting deadlines. I only pray for reaching my destination in time. I dream that the queue of my bus would be a bit shorter...................... These are not dreams. These are not prayers......

I can't think, i can't meditate, i can't breathe, i don't have any dreams...I am dead.... A dead man walking......................