In the news, an extremely muscular toddler has been discovered, the cause being a "double mutation" - News Item.
No, the kid's name is not "Bam-Bam."
A ragged individual stranded for months on a small desert island in the middle of the Pacific one day noticed a bottle lying in the sand with a piece of paper in it. Rushing to the bottle, he pulled out the cork and with shaking hands withdrew the message. "Due to lack of maintenance," he read, "we regretfully have found it necessary to cancel your e-mail account."
Clean Laffs
"China plans to send its first woman into orbit by 2010, but the country, which prides itself as an equal-opportunity society, does not plan to let her sit in the driver's seat, state media said Monday." - News Item
Evev though they're in space, they're still concerned about women drivers.
Research commissioned by Yahoo finds that the average British PC has nine 'sick days' per year, two more than the average for workers. News item.
"The flesh is willing, but the system is weak."
"A sign of internet addiction"
from Carl Howard
How Companies got their names:
Adobe -> This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers > It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
CISCO -> It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq -> This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
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Corel -> The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
Google -> The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.
Hotmail -> Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard -> Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett- Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
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Intel -> Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Microsoft -> Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro- Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola -> Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE -> Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
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Sony -> It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN -> Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo! -> The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
from topgreetings.com
In the news, the US Army is to issue a new uniform "with a digital camouflauge pattern" - News item
The soldiers are probably more interested in the "no shine boots."
The start of the new school term always brings out the most interesting questions for computer consultants on campus. The predominant questions this term pertain to "getting into" E-mail and how to access the "Information Highway".
An obviously distraught student came into the consulting office yesterday complaining that his E-mail wasn't working; his attempts to get tickets for an on-campus concert kept resulting in returned mail.
He showed me the mail address he was attempting to reach- I asked him where he obtained such an unusual mail address.
He replied, "The sign told me, 'begins@7:30 P.M.'"
from Clean Laffs
"It's almost Halloween, you have no costume, and AOL keeps sending you those disks - What do you do?."
from topgreetings.com
"How to loose a geek in 10 seconds"
by "Shadowdreamer"
"Having tried everything else to fix Microsoft's bugs, Gates tries faith healing."
from Freaking News
In the news, the Chineese government banned the sale of the computer game "Hearts of Iron." - News Item
"It has set up a censorship committee to monitor games following the banning of a Swedish game called Hearts of Iron, which portrayed Manchuria, Tibet and Xinjiang as independent nations. ... A previous Norwegian game, Project IGI2: Covert Strike, incensed officials for its portrayal of the Chinese army."
"The committee is charged with banning content that "could threaten national unity", said the state press. 'Online games with content threatening state security, damaging the nation's glory, disturbing social order ... will also be prohibited,' said a Chinese Ministry of Culture statement carried by the official Xinhua news agency."
Guess we can always send them "Pong."
"Now that Google's stock is coming out, they asked President Bush if he had ever Googled, he said, 'Every morning with Listerine.'"
Jay Leno - from Clean Laffs
from topgreetings.com
