An insight at random rantings

Sunday, 26 September 2010

What's Your Reading Speed?

  • The average person in business reads no faster than people did 100 years ago.
  • The average reading speed is 200 – 250 words a minute in non-technical material – roughly 2 minutes per page.
  • In technical material, the average reading rate is approx 50 – 75 words a minute – roughly 5 – 6 minutes per page.
  • Total information is doubling every 9 months.
  • Therefore we have to process information faster and faster just to maintain our existing knowledge level.
  • 360 000 new titles are published each year in the English language alone.
  • However, the average American college graduate only reads 5 books in his/her post-college lifetime.
  • We therefore end up knowing more and more about less, and less and less about just about everything else.
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Measurement

Units of Measurements suck!!! I mean who even thought of them? Centimetres, meters, hectometre, decameter...kilo? Nothing, nothing I say, will ever make me remember or even recall these stupid conversions. Ok maybe 'King Harry's Died Mother Did Not Cry Much' would be a little helpful but even that knowledge of mine got corrupted. Thanks to my friend she dusted the rust and I could recall (even she needs to thank me as I instigated her memory).

I seriously haven't the foggiest to how to even estimate the subject in estimation. They really need to scrap this from the school syllabus. It is absolutely of no use at least for me. I hope they become obsolete soon.

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Google Chrome



Google Chrome! I Love You! 

Bring Me to Life

The longest vacation spent in India. Two months and a week. I am sitting in my room, Double Agent Shell Pink working beside a window. The weather out is cloudy and beautiful! Might rain in awhile but the calmness outside and inside is soothing. I love the gray clouds specially in the mornings. The possibility of an impending rain keeps me occupied through out the day.

I love you gray clouds. Hang in there for me. Shield away the sunbeams. Shield away sharp thought. Bring me to life.