Merry Christmas with Victoria's Secret Angels

Supermodels Candice Swanepoel, Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes, Alessandra Ambrosio, Lily Aldridge, Lindsay Ellingson and Erin Heatherton have fun decking the halls and putting their own spin on a Christmas classic in this adorable video for Holiday 2012.



Is it fare for a model to sing?I mean super model.

But for you to sing, here is the lyrics..

Deck the hall with boughs of holly,

Fa la la la la la la la la.

'Tis the season to be jolly,

Fa la la la la la la la la.

Don we now our gay apparel

Troll the ancient Christmas carol,

Fa la la la la la la la la.

See the blazing yule before us,

Fa la la la la la la la la.

Strike the harp and join the chorus.

Fa la la la la la la la la.

Follow me in merry measure,

While I tell of Christmas treasure,

Fa la la la la la la la la.

Fast away the old year passes,

Fa la la la la la la la la.

Hail the new, ye lads and lasses!

Fa la la la la la la la la.

Sing we joyous all together,

Heedless of the wind and weather,

Fa la la la la la la la la.

Speed change on AVAYA voice mail system

Today I was checking the other features of AVAYA aura voice mail box system and came across the play back speed option which is really interesting.

You are free to change the play back speed of any recorded voice in your inbox, which probably help the listener in to skim  through the unread messages.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The author of  the book 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'
Stephen Covey died today.

The 7 Habits

Independence or Self-Mastery
The First Three Habits surround moving from dependence to independence (i.e., self mastery):

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Take initiative in life by realizing that your decisions (and how they align with life's principles) are the primary determining factor for effectiveness in your life. Take responsibility for your choices and the consequences that follow.

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Self-discover and clarify your deeply important character values and life goals. Envision the ideal characteristics for each of your various roles and relationships in life.

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Prioritize, plan, and execute your week's tasks based on importance rather than urgency. Evaluate whether your efforts exemplify your desired character values, propel you toward goals, and enrich the roles and relationships that were elaborated in Habit 2.

Interdependence

The next three have to do with Interdependence (i.e., working with others):

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Genuinely strive for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and respect people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten his way.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

Use empathic listening to be genuinely influenced by a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to being influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, respect, and positive problem solving.

Habit 6: Synergize

Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals no one person could have done alone. Get the best performance out of a group of people through encouraging meaningful contribution, and modeling inspirational and supportive leadership.

Self Renewal

The Last habit relates to self-rejuvenation:

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes on exercise for physical renewal, prayer (mediation, yoga, etc.) and good reading for mental renewal. It also mentions service to the society for spiritual renewal.


more

https://www.stephencovey.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Covey

RIP: Stephen Covey

VB script to generate string from A to Z

I just thought to share a bit of code which generate AAA, AAB, AAC.. ABA... ZZZ.
I wrote this today for a data sample project.

This code will fill the column A in an Microsoft Excel sheet , if it run as macro.

Cheers

i = 0
For X3 = 1 To 26
For X2 = 1 To 26
For X1 = 1 To 26
i = i + 1
Range("A" & i).Select
out = Chr(X3 + 64) & Chr(X2 + 64) & Chr(X1 + 64)
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = out
Next
Next
Next

Welcome to 'Space'

Professor Colless joins the University after a long and highly-distinguished career in astronomy, most recently as Director of the Australian Astronomical Observatory. He has published more than 230 articles which have notched up nearly 15,000 citations. Four of his papers are in the 1000 most-cited astronomy papers of all time, and since 2007 Professor Colless himself has been ranked in the top 250 most-cited researchers in space sciences in the previous 25 years.

His awards include the Professor MK Vainu Bappu Gold Medal in 1994, being a finalist in the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research in 2001 and 2002, receiving the Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award in 2007 and being made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2009 for his work on galaxy structure and evolution.


One of Australia’s foremost astronomers, Professor Matthew Colless, has today been announced as the new Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at The Australian National University.

Israel, Do you mean Palestine

What will you get when you search on Google for 'Israel', yes a bunch of links which talk about the country Israel. But in an Arab fashion the result is different.

Israel, Do you mean Palestine. But here in the fashion text google, the leading search engine used to indicate the world of politicians, but just a search engine.

Two academics from ANU to the Royal Society of London

Two Australian National University academics are today been elected to the Royal Society of London, the longest standing scientific academy in the world.

Professor Brian Schmidt of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor Hugh O’Neill, Associate Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences, are among 44 scientists from around the globe who have been honoured by the Society for their contribution to science.

Professor Schmidt was elected for his part in the discovery that the Universe is expanding at an accelerated rate; this work was also recognised with a Nobel Prize last year.

The Society elected Professor O’Neill for his contribution to the field of geology. Professor O’Neill’s work includes research into the chemical composition of the Earth and how the Earth differs from other possible planetary compositions, the origin of the Earth-Moon system, and how melting in the Earth’s mantle relates to global tectonics and Earth history.

Links

Professor Brian Schmidt
Professor Hugh O'Neill

Find out others here

The Facebook messenger to chat from your desktop

 

This is not the first application from facebook which is running out of the browser, even though it says Messenger, its covers the other main features from your fb account, notification messages and friend request.

 

The 'docking' function is really cool. Like the 'always on top' in other application this docking will enable the messager window always on left, so the other running application will fill and work on the rest of your screen. But still the user may need an 'always on top' behavior where the actual chat window - which pops out when you click over your friend - goes behind the other application. Also this program will show a pop-up notification when your friends 'Like' and 'comment' your posts.

Mobile Device Application

I did a small analysis about available technologies and possibilities related to the Mobile application development, and the available options are..

1. Apple iOS application
2. Google Android application
3. jQuery Mobile with HTML (Web page)
4. Standard web development using CSS3 and HTML5 (Web Page)

Requirements – Apple iOS development

1. Apple developer licence - basically cost $100 per year to host the application with App Store – This may be not needed if we are planning to run the application without apple server ( I have to confirm on the possibility of this)
2. Mac OS machine (iMac or Mac Book) to develop the XCODE.
3. This works only in Apple Mobile devices

Requirements –Android

1. PC with android SDK is needed to develop on this platform – this can be done in-house.
2. Android also need a developer license for developing applications and hosting on the Android Market ( This may be not needed if we are planning to run the application without Android Market , I have to confirm on the possibility of this)
3. This only works in Android powered mobile devices.

Requirement – Option 3 and 4

1. The tools and computer what we have are enough to develop mobile web pages using CSS and HTML. Basically these are web pages behave like touch response application.
2. This will work in any smart phones/devices.

Conclusion
Native mobile application (apple or android) seems to be stable than a web page act like a mobile application. But the easiest and quickest method is to go for a mobile friendly web page.

Opening a Bank account

It was a friday on the 5th of 2010, I have been to Commonwealth bank of Australia to open an account for my self.

Does it need to have yellow as the main colour for a bank which acts the national bank in each country?
This is the third time I am facing it. Now it is ‘Commonwealth bank of Australia’. It is not national bank anyway, but it looks like.

To open a savings account they requested on my passport. An the lady who was handling my request was polite, her granddaughter’s was really pritty in the gymnastic session photos was decorating her grandma's work place. She said that my Debit Card will be delivered to the postal address after commenting about the big letters (AUSTRALIA) of my t-shirt.

I placed sum amount of money into my account as an initial deposit, and collected the temporary password for the internet banking. They gave me two letters for my employers to transfer my salary to my account where I haven't a Job. Ha.. Ha..

http://www.commbank.com.au/
http://netbank.com.au/

I felt I am so lucky

I got up in the morning - my first wake up in Australia - and looked out through the window, I saw a land full of trees has grown taller, and the sun rays was measuring the height of them. I felt I am so lucky – what else you need in the life of a human being.

It is a pleasure to be a part of them, But I took my digital SLR and shot them down.

The truth is every body is lucky, it might take some time to release that, period.

I haven’t done much in my first day of Australia except eating and sleeping. 

Dream it, it will happen

Exactly two years ago, my flight hit the ground quickly from eight thousand feets over the sky, seems it took only half a minute, then it ran on the runway was proportional. These wild things happened within a minute. In the next second i have landed in Brisbane.

Australia has seven states as main land territories. Brisbane is the state capital of Queens Land, of cause the largest city too. It is also the third most populated city in Australia.

Australia was my dream land from some known days nevertheless it took such a long days to happen. I had a successfull carrier in my country, even though I wish to move out. My first choice was Australia and it was the second too.

My father use to say ‘dream it, it will happen’. I belive that is true.