Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Google doodles celebrate Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday and Leap Year
Today Google is celebrating Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday. It's a day which rarely comes into the calender, Google has doodled with two-in-one rare doodle that commemorates not only the leap year day but also it's a 220th birth of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.
This year is leap year and today is leap day and both are associated with frogs, the leaping amphibians, so today Goolge doodle has a number of frog on it's logo, all four of them.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy which was then part of the Papal States. His father, Giuseppe, was a horn player and inspector of slaughterhouses. His mother, Anna, was a singer and a baker's daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the age of six he was playing the triangle in his father's musical group.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini's was the famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville, one of the most performed operas. Of the four frogs in the scene, one is at the piano and the soprano is the only one leaping. The barber frog is Figaro and the frog getting a shave is Count Almaviva (Characters created by French playright Pierre Beaumarchais and The Barber of Seville is one of the three Figaro plays penned by him).
Google doodle of Gioachino Rossini leap year is the third leap year doodle in Google's history. Before that the previous two were put up in 2004 and 2008. And before that there was no Google doodle in the year 2000.
This year is leap year and today is leap day and both are associated with frogs, the leaping amphibians, so today Goolge doodle has a number of frog on it's logo, all four of them.
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| Google doodles celebrate Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday and Leap Year |
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy which was then part of the Papal States. His father, Giuseppe, was a horn player and inspector of slaughterhouses. His mother, Anna, was a singer and a baker's daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the age of six he was playing the triangle in his father's musical group.
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Gioachino Antonio Rossini's was the famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville, one of the most performed operas. Of the four frogs in the scene, one is at the piano and the soprano is the only one leaping. The barber frog is Figaro and the frog getting a shave is Count Almaviva (Characters created by French playright Pierre Beaumarchais and The Barber of Seville is one of the three Figaro plays penned by him).
Google doodle of Gioachino Rossini leap year is the third leap year doodle in Google's history. Before that the previous two were put up in 2004 and 2008. And before that there was no Google doodle in the year 2000.
If I am not wrong this is the 1314th Google doodle since the first ever on for the Burning Man Festival back on August 30, 1998.
A leap year is the year which contain one additional day, its because of keeping the calender year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track.
Code to determine Leap Year
Algorithm
Pseudocode to determine whether a year is a leap year or not in either the Gregorian calendar since 1582 or in the proleptic Gregorian calendar before 1582:
if year modulo 4 is 0 then if year modulo 100 is 0 then if year modulo 400 is 0 then is_leap_year else not_leap_year else is_leap_year else not_leap_year
or as a boolean expressionis_leap_year = ( year modulo 4 is 0 ) and ( ( year modulo 100 is not 0 ) or ( year modulo 400 is 0 ) )
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
It was a day of Cricket and for Cricket Lovers !!
No one even thought in the early morning when Sri Lanka was batting that India will fight back and at the end Cricket will win. At the early begining of the match the way SriLankan Players(especially Dilshan and Sangakkara) were batting, it was looking like India has given up. But who knows Cricket is a FUNNY game. you can’t predict anything in Cricket. The way Indians played(especially KOHLI), they kept themself alive for the finals.
I don’t think this tournament can come in any better way, at the halfway stage, Sri Lanka would have felt they had one foot in the final, having left the India bowlers deflated after a dominating performance with the bat. And they would have been right to think that way, the Indian batting having shown little promise in the series and the team on the brink of elimination.
But Virat Kohli put a master peice of strokemaking, Kohli’s innings made a mockery of an imposing score, kept India’s finals hopes alive and left Sri Lanka having to beat Australia for a third time in the tournament to knock India out.
Hope for Reaching in Final is still Alive.. here how it possible..
Now India and SL both is having same 15 points, in this case if Sl is loosing the match against Australia then this is the way two best team is goign to decide.
In the event of teams finishing on equal points, the right to play in the final match or series will be determined as follows:
•The team with the most number of wins
•If still equal, the team with the most number of wins over the other team(s) who are equal on points and have the same number of wins
•If still equal, the team with the highest number of bonus points
•If still equal, the team with the highest net run rate
In a match declared as no result, run rate is not applicable.
So comming Friday Cheers for Australia and Hope for the best for Indian Cricket.
I don’t think this tournament can come in any better way, at the halfway stage, Sri Lanka would have felt they had one foot in the final, having left the India bowlers deflated after a dominating performance with the bat. And they would have been right to think that way, the Indian batting having shown little promise in the series and the team on the brink of elimination.
But Virat Kohli put a master peice of strokemaking, Kohli’s innings made a mockery of an imposing score, kept India’s finals hopes alive and left Sri Lanka having to beat Australia for a third time in the tournament to knock India out.
Hope for Reaching in Final is still Alive.. here how it possible..
Now India and SL both is having same 15 points, in this case if Sl is loosing the match against Australia then this is the way two best team is goign to decide.
In the event of teams finishing on equal points, the right to play in the final match or series will be determined as follows:
•The team with the most number of wins
•If still equal, the team with the most number of wins over the other team(s) who are equal on points and have the same number of wins
•If still equal, the team with the highest number of bonus points
•If still equal, the team with the highest net run rate
In a match declared as no result, run rate is not applicable.
So comming Friday Cheers for Australia and Hope for the best for Indian Cricket.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Do You Want to Access Your Blogspot Blog ?
Access You blogspot.com blog rite here right now in OFFICE....
Old URL:- http://your-blog-address.blogspot.com
New URL:- http://your-blog-address.blogspot.in
Wait.. wait....Would not you like to know that how and why this change?
Friday, January 6, 2012
I Don't Expect You Soon to Love Me
I don't expect
you soon to love me,
Nor are my own feelings clear.
Passion is the ornate entrance
To a world we crave and fear.
We cannot know where this will take us,
Nor whether we will ride for long,
But pleasure is the overture
That flows into the larger song.
So come with me with open mind
And heart, and we the time will prove
With laughter and with joy unfettered,
And, perhaps, someday with love.
Nor are my own feelings clear.
Passion is the ornate entrance
To a world we crave and fear.
We cannot know where this will take us,
Nor whether we will ride for long,
But pleasure is the overture
That flows into the larger song.
So come with me with open mind
And heart, and we the time will prove
With laughter and with joy unfettered,
And, perhaps, someday with love.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Want to raise your web traffic? Go public!
When we think about a company going public, we think of companies
raising money to fund expansion, or ringing the bell at the New York
Stock Exchange, or analysts discussing the prospects for the company on
CNBC. We don’t often think of going public as a way to build brand
awareness and drive web traffic.
Linkedin shows that going public could be a powerful driver of web traffic, as this chart from Compete PRO shows:
When i think about any companies going to be in public , i think of companies ringing the bell at New York Stock Exchange.
Generally, we don't ever think to going public because we think to make a brand awareness and drive web traffic. we hav a example of Linkdin , it went public on May 19th and the way it increased unique visitor from 15 million to 19 million was really fantastic.
LinkedIn went public on May 19, 2011
– almost immediately after that, they began to see an explosion in
their web traffic. While prior to going public, their traffic held at an
average of around 15 million unique visitors per month, as soon as they
went public, they broke out to over 19 million unique visitors. Today,
they have over 25 million unique visitors – a huge increase. Given that
they have not engaged in a ton of broad brand awareness marketing
initiatives (think Superbowl commercial), it would seem that going public, by itself, may have been a major traffic driver.
Sources:- www.compete.com
Monday, December 12, 2011
The Ten Top Business Trends for the New Future
- Business and technology have fused into one system, one conversation, and one strategy, for one world. This is central to understanding the New Future.
- Innovations are about new business models, enterprise and marketplace collaboration, new leadership and knowledge engineering.
- Knowledge engineering, the formation and networking of knowledge-that which creates results, is the true asset of the 21st century.
- The capture and analysis of customer information about product/service use, needs, wants, desires and behavior is mission-critical to the enterprise.
- The integration of customer touch points across all channels is essential to future success. Watch out for the breakdowns.
- The capacity of an organization to understand the key trends that will shape the future of technology, customers, society and the marketplace will determine the survival of the enterprise.
- More disruptions are coming in the form of emerging markets, electronic exchanges, security breeches, and changing customer demographics.
- Human capital, the value of talent will be the most valuable resource in the 21st century.
- Entirely new industries will be formed by innovations yet to be brought to market. Look for the health enhancement, interactive TV nanotech, and on-demand supply chains to emerge.
- The New Future will need New Leaders that are aware of how to attract talent, manage innovation, set high visions and execute profitably. There is a new paradigm about leadership that is emerging.
Source:- http://www.globalfuturist.com/about-igf/top-ten-trends.html
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