e-Nagar

May 19, 2010

Blog Tips

Filed under: education — Ankur Aggarwal @ 2:58 pm

A friend of mine wanted to know the html code to open a hyperlink (website link) in a new page so that the reader does not have to navigate away from the page. So here you go, however certain pop-up blockers might block it.

<a title=”test” href=”http://enagar.com” target=”_blank”>My Blog</a>
My Blog

Also you might find this useful to add a small table with columns in your posts.

no. col1 col2 Remarks
1.

<table style=”font-size: 10pt; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’; color: navy;” border=”1″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”1″ width=”700″>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>no.</th>
<th>col1</th>
<th>col2</th>
<th>Remarks</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

May 17, 2010

Hollywood and MBA

Filed under: review — Ankur Aggarwal @ 2:19 pm

Today at Livemint, I read an interesting article. The journalist tried to teach some of the Management lessons by analyzing the movie IronMan2.

I remember at IIM-L, one of the faculty members used to regularly use scenes from Mahabharata (an epic hindu book) to teach us certain aspects of Management, esp negotiation, soft skills and HR training. Another professor screened “12 Angry Men” during an exam. I guess these examples help a lot in reinforcing the faculty’s point of view and explain the students the real life application of the issue being discussed. I wonder how many other schools and colleges also take a similar approach.

May 7, 2010

Homemakers

Filed under: Humor — Ankur Aggarwal @ 12:38 pm

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers thrown all about the front yard. The door to the car was open, as was the front door to the house. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess.

A lamp had been knocked over, and a throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, Breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand lay piled up by the back door.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and other piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried that she might be ill, or worse!!

He found her lounging into the bedroom, still in her pajamas, reading a novel.

She smiled, looked up at him and asked how his day went. He looked at her bewildered and asked, “What happened here today?”

She again smiled and answered, “you know everyday when you come home from work and ask me what in the world did I do today?”

“Yes”, he replied reluctantly.

She answered, “We’ll, today I didn’t do it!!”

May 6, 2010

The Busiest Man

Filed under: Thoughts — Skabeesh @ 5:23 pm

Finally finished my MBA. Now I am at home doing absolutely nothing, waiting for my joining date, which is some time from now. I had decided to use the time productively, learn a language or get fitter or at least take a trip around. But then, finally decided to give it up for the lazy comfort and pampering at home…be a complete vella.

During these slow, sunny, idle days, I was having a conversation with one of my friends over coffee. Incidentally, he is as vella as yours truly. He struck up the following note –

“Can you guess who is the busiest man?”
“In India or around us?”
“In India, the world…whatever.”
“Umm…the waiter, the PM…or not, the police. Maybe the bellboy. Politicians, definitely politicians.”
“Nope, it’s the vella public.”
“I believe vella people are defined as jobless.”
“My point exactly. The person with no job is the busiest man.”
“Like the happiest man is the one without the shirt?”
“Huh? I can’t draw that analogy, but ok. The point being, the vella is someone whom everyone takes for granted. Hence, he is assigned the most time-consuming, non-productive, boring and frustrating jobs by everyone around him. It takes up his entire time, and at the end of the day, he has nothing to show.”
“For example?”
“Like…you doing nothing, get in line for the telephone bill, today is the last day. Or, go and receive relative xyz from the airport. Or to top it, drop your cousin for his tuition and then get the exam form for him from the bank across the city.”
“Nice, but do you know who is giving us the dirty looks and wants to get busy?”
“Who cares…ok, who?”
“The waiter. We have been here for over three hours over jus two cups of coffee. I think he is reaching his breaking point. Let’s go.”
“Ok. As it is I have some work to do.”
“What, actual work or the vella style?”
“What can I say; I am a really busy man.”

May 4, 2010

Linkedin as an investment tool

Filed under: Investing, review — Ankur Aggarwal @ 11:56 am

Today morning a friend of mine asked me to research a small financial services firm (with a market cap of about 200cr). The low PE and numbers looked attractive, but due to lack of any analyst/media reports or any details about the track record of the promoters/top management, I could not decide about this company. Finally I used Linkedin.com to find out the company profile, the professional qualifications of its key employees and found the website to be very useful.

I don’t know how many people use linkedin to investigate about the company they intend to invest in, but looks like in the services field I would be using it more often.

Have you also found any other investing use of social networking sites?

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