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Monday, November 17th, 2008

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Introduction to Big “B”

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Full name: Amitabh Bachchan. His father Harivansh Rai Bachchan, a Hindi poet ,first wanted to name him Inquilab, meaning revolution, but later, he named him Amitabh, meaning, brilliance unlimited. Definitely he lived upto his name.

Birth place: Allahabad

Birth date: 11th October, 1942.

Zodiac sign: Libra

Amitabh Family

Education: Amitabh attended Allahabad’s Boys’ High School. Then one of his friends lured him to get admitted into Nainital’s Sherwood College. From there, he went to study at Kirori Mal College in Delhi University and earned a degree in science. He has double M.A degree.

Physique: Amitabh is six feet three inches tall. He has a slender body with lanky arms and legs. This is why directors were not interested to take him in the films. He has a deep baritone voice which made him very popular. He lent his voice as background narrator. The tragic thing is, before coming to the movies, Mr. Bachchan applied for a job in All India Radio but he was rejected for his voice.

Early life: Before joining movie, Mr. Bachchan used to work in a shipping company in Calcutta.

Debut movie: In 1969, he got his first break in Saat Hindustani directed by Khwaza Ahmed Abbas. The movie did not do well but his performance brought him his first National Film Award.

First successful movie: Zanjeer in 1973. In this movie, Jaya Bhaduri played the female lead role. The two eventually fell in love and got married that same year. The duo later appeared in many other movies: Abhimaan, Chupke Chupke, Mili, Sholay, Silsila and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.

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Interesting Recursive acronym

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

A recursive acronym (or occasionally recursive initialism, and sometimes recursive backronym) is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. Due to the nature of the English language, which would infinitely recurse left-recursive phrases, recursive abbreviations are circular definitions.

In computing, an early tradition in the hacker community (especially at MIT) was to choose acronyms and abbreviations that referred humorously to themselves or to other abbreviations. Perhaps the earliest example in this context, from about 1977 or 1978, is TINT (”TINT Is Not TECO”), an editor for MagicSix. This inspired the two MIT Lisp Machine editors called EINE (”EINE Is Not Emacs“) and ZWEI (”ZWEI Was EINE Initially”). These were followed by Richard Stallman’s GNU (GNU’s not UNIX.) Many examples include negatives, such as denials that the thing defined is or resembles something.

Below is some interesting self describing acronyms:

  • PHP — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (originally “Personal Home Page” tools, officially changed for PHP 3)[3]
  • PINE — PINE Is Not Elm, originally; PINE now officially stands for “Program for Internet News & E-mail”[4]
  • PNG — PNG’s Not GIF (graphics format, officially Portable Network Graphics)
  • NINJA - Ninja Is Not Just Air.
  • GNU — GNU’s Not Unix
  • Cygnus — Cygnus, Your GNU Support
  • RPM — RPM Package Manager (originally “Red Hat Package Manager”)
  • YAML — YAML Ain’t Markup Language (initially “Yet Another Markup Language”)
  • Zombie — Zombie-Oriented Machine-Being Interface Engine´

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