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Confused of That vs. Which & Will vs. Shall etc.,

chaks — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:13:45 +0000

Should i use “Will or Shall”? Should i go for “That or Which”? Too many questions…
DailyBlog network site started and managing a site DailyWritingTips to answer all these questions. You can also post your questions to get the answers from them. Here is a sample question from their site

When proofreading a peer’s article on the solar system, I realized that she, and I, are unsure of the proper use of “that” and “which” in a sentence. Below is two examples of the same sentence, one using “that” and the other “which.”

“To our knowledge, it is the only body in the solar system which currently sustains life, although several other bodies are under investigation.”

“To our knowledge, it is the only body in the solar system that currently sustains life, although several other bodies are under investigation.”

Which is the correct sentence, and what is the general rule of thumb?

Look at their site for the answers in the gramner section and get updated about many more questions like above.

US economy slowdown- The Impact on indian Software

chaks — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:08:11 +0000

I was into stock market for the last 2 years and doing trading on BSE and NSE through my broker HDFC Securities. Overall i was on good profits until January 2008. Suddenly i observed that in a 15 days span my profits are gone down to 40%. I came out of stock market by selling all the holdings and booked the remaining profits. Then only i realized the fact that USA’s economy is in worst phase and it it going to hit the Indian economy too.

I also receiving some news related to IT slowdown in India and companies are terminating employees to reduce their costs. The company which i was working right now has a good strength and i heard that it did not terminated any employees even in year 2000-2001. During 2000 i used to work for another company and was one of the victim for pick slip. But very recently my company has terminated around 400 employees in their Hyderabad branch. Who will be the next??

If US is not going recover soon, i believe it is going to affect India too in a worse way, especially the IT industry because most of our IT customers are from USA. I used to believe our central minister Mr. Chidambaram’s statements about Indian economy and >9% GDP growth. It seems very silly to me now. Isn’t it?

Fire Fox-3 Beta – Support for Telugu language

chaks — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:32:32 +0000

ఈ రోజే కొత్త FireFox-3 Beta version ని download చేసుకుని testing మొదలు పెట్టాను. ఇంకా అన్ని features ని పరిశీలించనప్పటికీ, ముఖ్యమైన తేడా, నాకు నచ్చినది ఏమిటంటే, కొత్త వెర్షన్ లో తెలుగు భాషని కూడా చక్కగా చదవవచ్చు. ఇంతకు ముందు అన్ని site లకు ForeFox-2 వాడుతున్నప్పటికీ, తెలుగు సైట్ లకు మటుకు IE ని వాడవలసి వచ్చేది. తేడా ని మీరు కింద చూడవచ్చు. మీరు రెండు version లను కావాలంటే install చేసుకోవచ్చు. మీరు ఇప్పటికే FireFox 2 ని వాడుతూవుండి, దానిలో చాలా Add-ons కనుక వుంటే, FireFox 3 beta మొదటకొంచెం trouble ఇస్తుంది. ఎన్నిAddons వుంటే అన్ని సార్లు మీరు proxy యొక్క user id/ password ఇవ్వవలసి వుంటుంది. ఈ issu, FireFox 3 final version లో పోవచ్చు.

FireFox 2 తో

FireFox 3 తో

HDFC Securities changing its trading interface?

chaks — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:56:02 +0000

As everybody these days, i am also into the share market business since one year using HDFCSec trading platform. When i opened the 3-in-1 account with HDFC, it was just supporting trading in NSE, nothing else. Now it supports most of the things except Mutual Fund trading. The interface of this trading system was not so elegant and the software used was php for information and JSP for trading. Now seems to be like they are in the process of changing their user interface and the software also. The new platform using .NET it seems and the interface is looking good. The main page looks similar to Reliance’s money trading site. The charting is better than old charts. Seems like both version (php/.NET) of the trading platform are available, and defaultly it will goto php version of the site. You can access this site at http://hdfcsec.com/Investor.aspx

Update: As of now only information related to market is available in the new version and the trading is still refering old site.

Likely a WordPress issue!

chaks — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:43:40 +0000

WordPress seems having some issue while commenting to other blogs and updating the options of your own blog. This weird behaviour i observed today while commenting on Seejay’s blog. Some time back i saw seejay’s blog and trying to post a comment after logging into my account. As i already logged in, it shown me only the message box while replying to that post. You should provide the name, email, website, message (website is optional) only if you are not logged in to wordpress. Obviously anybody expect their blogsite to be displayed/linked while replying to the posts. It didn’t happend in this case. You can see the screen shot below. Probaly the first reply in this image is posted without logging in, the second reply of mine is posted after loggin-in. Is this an issue??? I think i have to do log-out while replying to posts, So silly :( .

Few days back i was trying to save some of my settings in Options tab. First time it is saving properly, but from second time (URL: updated=true) onwards then updates are not reflecting properly. Sometimes you can see the message “Options saved” message, but the changes won’t shown in the screen. Sometimes eventhough it is showing pre updated data initially, after some time if you refresh then it will show updated data. So strange… I don’t whether i am only facing this issue…

Round border in wordpress posts

chaks — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:37:47 +0000

My First Rounded Border

Round Cornered borders (like this post’s border) is always looks nicer and it is a first choice to not only me but also many web designers. We can use round corners in two ways. one is using tables which is a old fashioned, and another approach is using style sheets (CSS). I wanted to use CSS for this post but wordpress has restricted the use of certain style tags. If some body wanted to use external CSS they should pay a little amount to wordpress. At present i am not interested to upgrade my account as i am not that much proficient in CSS. So i decided to go ahead with tables and images. Using CSS it is possible to create a round cornered table without using a single image. These are the images used to build this table: Top Left, Top Right, Top Middle and a Transparent Spacer. All these images are made as transparent so that they can give same round effect irrespective of the page background color. The HTML Code is…===================================================

tr>td colspan=”3″ style=”background-color: #779eff” height=”3″>/tr>/table>

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The drawback of this table approach is the huge html code instead of the actual text. Using style sheet languag, we can separate the layout format with actual text. So if you are proficient in CSS and want to use style sheets then go ahead and upgrade your account by paying little amount to wordpress.

I created these images using Paint.NET and it is my first test on image creation. There are some other round types are applied to other pages of my blog. But those images are grabbed from internet.

	HEADING
	BODY CONTENT

Blood “O” matic

chaks — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:31:53 +0000

I personally saw in some cases and heard a lot of similar cases where a patient is struggling for life due to the shortage of same group blood. In many cases the blood banks or hospitals might have other group of blood except the one you needed. For that you will end up searching a lot for the same blood group. I regularly gets emails from my internal emailing system of my company, requesting employees for the required blood group. My company is having around 10000+ employees in bangalore (india), so some body with kind heart would donate the blood if it suits. In many cases it won’t happen because of below reasons.
* The person is not ready to donate.
* The person might have already donated in the last 2 months
* The same blood group is not available.
According to “newscientist” the last scenario may not occur in future. The scientists in University of Copenhagen in Denmark found a way to convert the blood groups to a universal blood group “O”. As we know that “O” group would suite to everybody irrespective of our own blood group. Very interesting innovation, i think these guys certainly deserve for a “nobel” kind of prize.