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Ask your computer to help you in household chores

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2 years ago
by Sai Prasad in

Does this title come as a surprise to you? But, yes ! computer can help you with some additional things too (apart from computing).

With a small program, you can make the cradle (baby rocker) of your baby swing, without your presence. Shocked? Well, do you recognize you PC has a CDROM and also a program can also open & close a CDROM drive? Continuous opening & closing of CDROM can help in your baby rocker’s harmonic motion.

Check this link for similar innovative ideas: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/linux_baby_rocker.html

Quotes I like :: Vol. II

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3 years ago
by Sai Prasad in
  • Footprints on the sands of time aren’t made by sitting down. – Proverb
  • Know how to listen & you’ll profit even from those who talk badly. – Plutarch
  • Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – GS Patton
  • If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. – John B. Gough
  • If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up! – Anonymous
  • Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don’t accuse the sun for partiality – Chinese proverb
  • They conquer who believe they can. – John Dryden

Quotes I like :: Vol. I

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3 years ago
by Sai Prasad in
  • Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. – Z Ziglar
  • In great attempts it is glorius even to fail. – Cassius Longinus
  • The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
  • Trying to forget someone you love is trying to remember someone you never met. – Angelina Jolie
  • Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Huxley
  • I don’t pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. – Brookes
  • Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. – Miguel de Cervante
  • A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. – W.Durant
  • The best way out of a difficulty is through it. – Robert Frost
  • Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try. – Edward Kelly
  • Happiness is nothing more than good health & a bad memory. – Albert Schweitzer
  • Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. – Anthony Robbins
  • Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. – J.Kozol
  • If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to reach at the second or even the third place. – Cicero
  • People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. – G.K.Chesterton
  • Millions said the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why. – Bernard M.Baruch
  • Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. – Mark Van Doren
  • The powers of mind are like rays of the sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine. – Swami Vivekananda
  • Always behave like a duck – Keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle with great vigor underneath. – Jacob Braude
  • The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. – Joseph Joubert
  • At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you’re fool than to open it and remove all their doubts. – James Sinclair
  • A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. – John F.Kennedy
  • Always forgive your enemies – Nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde
  • Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks and courage. – Charles Luckman
  • If you would not like to be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
  • A Ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for. – Albert Einstein
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