Cyber Drop

Is the below statement correct?

Mr.X is married with two daughters

I initially though it is incorrect but a bit of Grammar Rules clears that YES, it’s correct!

How?

As per the English Grammar, the verb phrase is to be married to. With the noun, you have the option of using with or to.

Examples

Mr.X has a happy marriage with/to his friend’s cousin. (Marriage is the noun here.)

S.No	Statement	Meaning
1	Mr.X is married with his two daughters	Mr.X is the husband of two daughters (the statement does not clarify whose daughters are they)
2	Mr.X is married with two daughters	Mr.X is married and living with his two daughters (the statement does not clarify who is the wife of Mr.X)
3	Mr.X is married to two daughters	Same meaning as statement 1

All that glitters is not gold

Similarly, not everything that sounds correct is correct. For example, how many times have you seen people using these phrases?

• “I can’t able to do it”, - Can’t itself shows the inability. What is the word “able” doing there?
• “This looks much more better”, - Better itself is a comparative degree, do we really need a “more”?
• “Did you went to office today?”  - Should we be using past tense verbs for a sentence beginning with “Did”?
• We have less cars for sale now than last month – Less or Fewer??
• Many more happy returns of the day – This is very common. I myself use it at times. MORE should not be preceded by MANY.
• “… and many more features” – same as above
• These all are useless – ALL is not at all needed there. This is because of the mother tongue influence. (In Tamil we say, Iwai anaithum. Similarly in Hindi, “Ye sab”)
• I am having two daughters – Should it not be “I have two daughters”?

These are widely used these days and are 100 percent incorrect! Just because everyone is using and it sounds correct, it does not mean it is correct! Let’s try to correct ourselves :)

You might feel this article boring and vague if you do not know what are RSS, Atom.XML, Feeds, etc.

Very recently I thought of starting a lyrics website just to make $$$ out of it. It is not tough to create a website, promoting it or even making it rank top. What makes it hard is the content creation. Any website involves a lot of work on the content filling part. I can not sit and write all the lyrics letter by letter for all the songs out there. I rather can copy and paste from other sites which has the lyrics but then for how long? Everyone is busy these days so am I. I would go and read something instead of wasting my time in CTRL+C & CTRL+V. I then was wondering… could there be any script which reads data from other sites and write it automatically in my site. That is when I came across this Feed Parsing concept.

 

 

This is nothing new to the RSS world, but to me. I am glad that I got to know this at least by now. I have been reading the whole night about it and got to know what it is. I have not experienced it yet and I don’t know how it works either. I need to spend another week on it to know how it works. I then shall write you all a detailed article with appropriate script snippets.

Interested ones can read these:

Anatomy of RSS Feeds – Get started here if you are new to Feeds

Universal Feed Parser

XML Parser Functions

Magpie RSS

Download this – It parses RSS & Atom feeds in Python

Ruby Feed Parser

These will keep me occupied for some weeks J

It really seems cool and any scripting enthusiast (PHP/Ruby/Python) will love to explore this.

I wanted to wish one of my dearest friends on her birthday through a poem and I definitely wanted it to be hilarious Lol and this what I dedicated her :)

You are old enough and look like a mice;
With age your brains grow bigger only in size.
Well, I wish for you a long, long life,
So your brain can grow bigger and stop causing strife.

And although we often disagree,
There’s a strong hope that I can see,
For it’s birthday time; a year has passed;
Your brain is getting bigger fast.

Hmm, how old are you now?
yeah yeah, I remember it all now!
So it's your fortieth birthday;
Four decades have gone and passed.
They say when you get older,
Time goes twice as fast.

On this day you blow the candles out;
On this day the gifts pile high;
For one day a year you’re the special kid;
"This is really great," you sigh.

"One birthday a year is really fun;
I want two!" you say.
You can’t? because you are becoming
a grandma on your way!

HAHAHA :)

Friends,

For the last 2-3 weeks I tried a lot to find a reputed and renowned University where I can do my M.Phil via distance education system. NO LUCK!

I tried contacting Madras University & Annamalai University. They told me that they do not offer distance M.Phil. I also tried Alagappa University and they said that they do not even have a M.Phil course. IGNOU seems to have M.Phil only in Philosophy while I am looking for the stream Computer Science or Management either. I even tried some of the foreign universities like University of Phoenix and Capella University. They offer Doctorate course via distance mode but then they want the student to travel twice to the US for the dissertation and presentation purpose which is not feasible for me. Well, all I want is Dr. MS, MBA. I am more than happy to die anytime afterward haha I then found that, BITS Pilani offers "OFF-Campus PhD" program. Isn't that great? :) For the full time employees, this is a boon! HP Labs already has a tie up with BITS for this program. Check http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/bits-hplindia_phd/index.html

Courses Offered:

1. Biological Sciences
2. Bioengineering
3. Civil Engineering
4. Chemical Engineering
5. Chemistry
6. Computer Science & Information Systems
7. Economics and Finance
8. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
9. Humanistic Studies
10. Languages
11. Mathematics
12. Mechanical Engineering
13. Management
14. Pharmacy
15. Physics
16. Educational Innovation and Institutional Development

Eligibility:

A Master Degree from the respective field. For example, if you got a M.S in S/W Engineering you can go for PhD in Computer Science & Information Systems. If you have a MBA then you can go for PhD in Management.

Duration:

Any PhD is for 5 years, Don't you know that? :) If you have done M.Phil, then it is just 3 years, I guess. I might be wrong, you need to check with the respective universities!

Read more at http://discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/academics/doctoral.html.

I read this article in one of the forward e-mails and feel it is worth sharing. I always believed that C.V, Resume and Bio data are not one and the same. I knew that they were different and this mail content threw a bit more light on it :)

People use the words RESUME, C.V., and BIO-DATA interchangeably for the document highlighting skills, education, and experience that a candidate submits when applying for a job. On the surface level, all the three mean the same. However, there are intricate differences.

RESUME

Resume Is a French word meaning "summary", and true to the wordmeaning, signifies a summary of one's employment, education, and otherskills, used in applying for a new position. A resume seldom exceeds one side of an A4 sheet, and at the most two sides. They do not list out all the education and qualifications, but only highlight specific skills customized to target the job profile in question. A resume is usually broken into bullets and written in the third person to appear objective and formal. A good resume starts with a brief Summary of Qualifications, followed by Areas of Strength or Industry Expertise in keywords, followed by Professional Experience in reverse chronological order. Focus is on the most recent experiences, and prior experiences summarized. The content aims at providing the reader a balance of responsibilities and accomplishments for each position. After Work experience come Professional Affiliations, Computer Skills, and Education

C.V - CURRICULUM VITAE

C.V Is a Latin word meaning "course of life". Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) is therefore a regular or particular course of study pertaining to education and life. A C.V. is more detailed than a resume, usually 2 to 3 pages, but can run even longer as per the requirement. A C.V. generally lists out every skills, jobs, degrees, and professional affiliations the applicant has acquired, usually in chronological order. A C.V. displays general talent rather than specific skills for any specific positions.

BIO-DATA

Bio Data the short form for Biographical Data, is the old-fashioned terminology for Resume or C.V. The emphasis in a bio data is on personal particulars like date of birth, religion, sex, race, nationality, residence, martial status, and the like. Next comes a chronological listing of education and experience. The things normally found in a resume, that is specific skills for the job in question comes last, and are seldom included. Bio-data also includes applications made in specified formats as required by the company.

A resume is ideally suited when applying for middle and senior level positions, where experience and specific skills rather than education is important. A C.V., on the other hand is the preferred option for fresh graduates, people looking for a career change, and those applying for academic positions. The term bio-data is mostly used in India while applying to government jobs, or when applying for research grants and other situations where one has to submit descriptive essays.

Resumes present a summary of highlights and allow the prospective employer to scan through the document visually or electronically, to see if your skills match their available positions. A good resume can do that very effectively, while a C.V. cannot. A bio-data could still perform this role, specially if the format happens to be the one recommended by the employer.

Personal information such as age, sex, religion and others, and hobbies are never mentioned in a resume. Many people include such particulars in the C.V. However, this is neither required nor considered in the US market. A Bio-data, on the other hand always include such personal particular