10 reasons to visit Armenia

Discover the most ancient, mysterious and at the same time a modern country! 10  reasons to visit Armenia: 1. MOUNT ARARAT and lake Sevan To see the most beautiful mountain in the world – biblical Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in the world from its base (not sea level), where the Noah’s ark landed after…

Serendipity Happens…

Here are some quotes from my favorite movie – like to remember from time to time.. Jonathan Trager, prominent television producer for ESPN, died last night from complications of losing his soul mate and his fiancee. He was 35 years old. Soft-spoken and obsessive, Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic. But, in…

Tech words from our daily life

There are plenty of words we use in our daily life, no one asked how did they come up with these words and why we use them on daily basis. Lately I did some research on technical words we use. Really knowing the reason behind every term makes you see these words in a different…

Bluetooth

Harald Bluetooth Gormsson (Old Norse: Haraldr blátǫnn Gormsson, Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen) (probably born c. 935) was a King of Denmark and Norway. He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. He died in 985 or 986 having ruled as King of Denmark from c. 958 and King of Norway…

What does “GOOGLE” mean?

I don’t remember how life was before Google. During school time,  the hardest homework was to do some research. I used to look in the encyclopedia and ask dummy questions to come out with 500-word paragraph. But that was history.. Google changed our life and gave us an answer to every question, no matter how silly it…

Smart Phones Named After FRUITS

I still didn’t get it why they insist on naming the smart phones fruit names. Life was much easier when Apples, Blackberries, Mangoes were only fruits. I tried to find out the real reason behind the names, and here what i got: Why Apples are called Apples? In 1976 , Steve Jobs  and Steve Wozniak wanted to start…

Why its called a “bug” in your program

A “bug” in a computer program or system is a common term used to describe an error, flaw or a mistake that produces wrong results… Usually bugs arise from mistakes and error made by people in their program’s source code. But the question remains, why it is called a bug? In 1947, computers used relays…

Why ASP Cookies are called Cookies ?

Have you ever wondered why we use the term “Cookies” in ASP ? Well that question didn’t pop up into my mind until one of my students asked me why do we call them like that? When I checked for the history of cookies, nothing was clear enough about the origin of this name. But…

Google Map Interesting Step to follow

Google Maps directions can be cool if we follow them step by step, Go to Google Maps . and click “Get Directions” above left link. Type Taiwan as the first location and China as the 2nd location…. Scroll down and read STEP 23 of the directions. Now if you type Tokyo, Japan as first location, and China as the second location Read…