Blootics

This Year’s “NOT MY JOB” Award!

And the winner is…

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England will play New Zealand and Kenya in the group stages of the World Cup in the Caribbean in 2007. The defending champions Australia will face South Africa, while second-ranked Sri Lanka are grouped with India and Bangladesh. West Indies and Pakistan should be the crunch match in the final group. The draw was based on world rankings, although Australia, England, India and West Indies had already been pre-seeded into separate groups in July 2004 because of logistical concerns: those countries have the largest amounts of fans likely to travel to watch matches. The World Cup will involve 16 teams for the first time, which includes the 11 teams with one-day international status. The remaining five teams will be decided by the ICC Trophy to be held in Ireland later this year: the top five will be rewarded with a place at the World Cup. The 16 teams at the World Cup will be split into four groups of four for a round robin first stage. The top two teams will progress to the Super Eights stage, a round which has been expanded from what was the Super Sixes. Groups and rankings (in brackets)

Groups and rankings (in brackets)

Group 1 -
Australia (1)
South Africa (5)
Two ICC Trophy qualifiers

Group 2 -
Sri Lanka (2)
India (8)
Bangladesh (11)
ICC Trophy qualifier

Group 3 -
New Zealand (3)
England (7)
Kenya (10)
ICC Trophy qualifier

Group 4 -
Pakistan (4)
West Indies (6)
Zimbabwe (9)

A disappointed salesman of Pepsi (cold drink) returns from his Middle
East assignment. A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the
Arabs?” The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East,
I was very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as Pepsi is
virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn’t know to speak
Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters… First
poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand… totally exhausted
and panting. Second, the man is drinking our Pepsi and Third, our man
is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the
place” “That should have worked,” said the friend. The salesman
replied, “Well, not only did I not speak Arabic, I also didn’t realize
that Arabs read from right to left…”

Driving Styles …

One hand on steering wheel, one hand out of window.
- Sydney

One hand on steering wheel, one hand on horn
- Japan

One hand on steering wheel, one hand on newspaper, foot solidly on accelerator…
- Boston

Both hands on steering wheel, eyes shut, both feet on brake, quivering in terror
- New York

Both hands in air, gesturing, both feet on accelerator, head turned to talk to someone in back seat
- Italy

One hand on horn,
one hand on holding gear,
one ear listening to loud music,
one ear on cell phone,
one foot on accelerator,
one foot on clutch,
nothing on break,
eyes on females in next car,
- Welcome to INDIA!

http://www.sun.com/training/certification/java/beta_scbcd.xml

Are you a developer who is responsible for designing and implementing applications using Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0? If so, this is your opportunity to get involved in the creation of the Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD) 5.0 exam!!!!!
» Beta Dates: December 8, 2006 – January 2, 2007
» Registration Start Date: November 24, 2006

How our people try to talk with gals in ORKUT? Amazing post by vavaasangam

Just check it out. This might be a old one. But even Bill gates has no answer for our Questions!

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere in Windows named as “con”

This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole
Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!

Try it out yourself…

Will this happen in Windows next release Vista too?