Saturday 26 December 2015

The Legend of Christmas

        



             Hello and welcome back to my blog! With the Christmas Season currently going on, sharing below  a short video on the legendary story behind Christmas, which I found on You Tube.



Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ahead!







Thanks for reading and watching!

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References:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDXORaBRTc
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wv-JIpAjks


Wednesday 23 December 2015

A Letter from the Digital Santa Claus


                 With Christmas just around the corner, it is time to look forward to the visit of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.



                      Presenting a letter from the Digital Santa Claus to modern day children below: 



    
   
       


My Dear Children,
                                Ho Ho Ho! It is that time of the year again! I know that most of you already have your wish lists ready and are looking forward to my visit to your homes! But, how have you been this year? Have you been good or naughty? Do not want to answer that? Never mind! I have my ways!

                                Do you know where my headquarters are?  My Official Headquarters are at North Pole!  There are two servers named the Naughty and Nice Servers. The Naughty Server houses all the details about children who have been naughty this year. Similarly, the Nice Server houses all details about children who have been nice this year.  There are respective databases for the two categories of children!  Your first naughty act of the year gets yours account created in the Naughty domain and subsequent naughty acts are just added to this account. Similarly, your first Nice act gets your account created in the Nice domain and subsequent nice acts are just added o this account. For every nice act, you are entitled to one gift card. You can use the gift card to get a gift online at my website. You can choose to download music, games and/or movies from my website. For goodies that you need to be delivered at your doorstep on Christmas Eve, you could choose Home Delivery, in which case I will deliver them at your doorstep, riding on my sleigh with my reindeers, just like old times!  I will, of course, take care to ride my sleigh within the speeding restrictions of your country! And do not forget to keep your chimneys clean! I may still choose to visit your homes through the chimney (if you have one), though this may appear to be archaic to you!  Also, I will fill the stockings of Nice children with the gifts that they wish for, on Christmas Eve! But this is a privileged service  or should I say a ‘Special Offer’ in modern times, exclusively for Nice children! So, remember to hang your stockings before Christmas Eve! All naughty children will find their stockings filled with coal! So you better be nice and well-behaved! 

                                Feel free to communicate with me through emails, faxes and letters! I do go through every single letter, email and fax sent to me! So do not worry! If it is possible to handle all requests online, then I will most likely work from home, on my laptop, this festive season. For those requests that require handling at my official North Pole Headquarters, my team of Elves will take care of them. Just have a look at my chief team of Elves below.

Santa's Chief Team of Elves

                                          Each elf on my team has a smart phone with suitable apps to help him in his responsibilities and day-to-day activities.

                                 My workshop or toy factory has state of the art infrastructure to come up with the latest and most innovative toys and games for the children of the digital age.  Here is how my workshop used to look in the olden days.



                                           Now my workshop looks something like this: 


     
   

                                   This year, every toy from Santa’s workshop will have a complimentary Elfie of the Elf who worked and created the toy. Also, every Christmas gift will come with a complimentary Santa Selfie free! But, do not forget! Terms and Conditions Apply! Only nice children get to enjoy these gifts! So be good and nice children!





                                  I may also text messages to children who have been truly adorable! So look out for my festive messages.




                                I may also post videos of my travels on Christmas Eve on my channel,on You Tube! Do not forget to check out! I have also heard that nowadays, there are trackers to track me like the Google Santa Tracker and the Official NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) Santa Tracker! There are apps to track me, I hear! So I leave it to you to track me if you can!

NORAD TRACKS SANTA

Google Santa Tracker

                                            By the way, I have a million friends on Facebook and a million followers on Twitter and the number is growing every year. Of course, you must be aware of my aliases. I am also known as Father Christmas, Santy, Kris Kringle, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick and simply Santa! So look out for any of these names signed on your Christmas Goodies this year!

                                 Only a few hours to go before my departure! You never know when I shall visit your home on Christmas Eve! I am blogging this letter so that it reaches millions of you at a time, instead of writing to each of you separately!  After all, I am the Smart Santa of the Digital Age! Merry Christmas !

Yours Affectionately,

Saint Nicholas (Santa)  



















References:








Wednesday 16 December 2015

Who Invented What?

                        Hello and welcome back to my blog! Let me just remind you a little about my previous post titled ‘Ingenuity Personified – A Collage of Futuristic Luminaries’. If you recollect, I presented a collage of some ingenious inventors and innovators in the post! I do not really know, if you could identify all of them. If you could, that is great and congratulations! If not, never mind! Are you wondering, why? Well, simply because, in this post I not only reveal all the legendary inventors and innovators who were part of the collage in the preceding post, but also map them to some of their truly remarkable inventions  
   

                        This is probably the Inventor-Invention Matrix! Okay, here is how I have designed the matrix!  The matrix is a 14*14 matrix encompassing 14 rows of Inventors and 14 columns of Inventions. Every Inventor is mapped to his respective Invention with a 1 in the matrix indicating that the particular inventor has in fact invented the invention. For other inventions, not associated with him (i.e., the inventor), the value is a 0 in the matrix. Following this logic and presenting the Invention-Inventor Matrix below:

The Inventor-Invention Matrix:


Note: The pink-colored cells contain 1s indicating that the Inventor along the row invented/innovated the Invention (Innovation) along the column.

The Inventor-Invention Mapping:
                       
In case, you could not comprehend the above Inventor-Invention Matrix, it  translates to the following matched pairs of pictures of Inventor-Invention:

Note: Some misalignment in columns may be noted due to difference in sizes of images.  This is regretted.


Now, that we understand with certainty, who invented what, it is time to conclude this post!  

Conclusion:

            I would like to conclude this post with some noteworthy quotes by some of the innovators above        


  1. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again. Only this time more wisely. - Henry Ford
  2. Many life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Alva Edison
  3. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to be a man of value.  - Albert Einstein
  4. Creativity is just connecting things.  - Steve Jobs
  5. It is fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. - Bill Gates
Hope, you found this post innovative as well as informative!   
                                                               
Thanks for reading!

If you ‘like’ it, ‘share’ it!

References:
  1. https://pixabay.com/en/thomas-alva-edison-inventor-1922-67763/
  2. http://energy.gov/articles/top-11-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla
  3. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/styles/borealis_article_hero_respondlarge/public/tesla_portrait_0.jpeg?itok=H4Z4z6rL
  4. https://pixabay.com/en/alexander-graham-bell-scientist-402095/
  5. https://pixabay.com/en/benjamin-franklin-1767-writer-62846/
  6. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Babbage
  7. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/57/6157-004-E85B80AE.jpg
  8. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/James_Watt.aspx
  9. http://images.encyclopedia.com/utility/image.aspx?id=2796677&imagetype=Manual&height=300&width=300
  10. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Fleming
  11. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/11/115211-004-C122A5B1.jpg
  12. https://pixabay.com/en/henry-ford-portrait-man-suit-tie-63113/
  13. http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Logie-Baird
  14. http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Logie-Baird/images-videos/John-Logie-Baird/96579
  15. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/isaac-newton-facts-physicist_n_4058836.html?ir=India&adsSiteOverride=in
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Tuesday 8 December 2015

Ingenuity Personified - A Collage of Futuristic Luminaries


                 Greetings! Great to be blogging again! In this post, I present to my readers a collage of some of the most ingenious inventors and innovators of all time! These legends have probably, carved the path for innovation in their respective fields and distinguished themselves through their talent and perseverance in their chosen areas of work. 



                     How many of these luminaries can you identify without looking through the references below? Leave your answers in the comments section and do not forget to check out my next post! 

Thanks for reading!

References:

  1. https://pixabay.com/en/thomas-alva-edison-inventor-1922-67763/
  2. http://energy.gov/articles/top-11-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla
  3. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/styles/borealis_article_hero_respondlarge/public/tesla_portrait_0.jpeg?itok=H4Z4z6rL
  4. https://pixabay.com/en/alexander-graham-bell-scientist-402095/
  5. https://pixabay.com/en/benjamin-franklin-1767-writer-62846/
  6. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Babbage
  7. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/57/6157-004-E85B80AE.jpg
  8. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/James_Watt.aspx
  9. http://images.encyclopedia.com/utility/image.aspx?id=2796677&imagetype=Manual&height=300&width=300
  10. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Fleming
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  12. https://pixabay.com/en/henry-ford-portrait-man-suit-tie-63113/
  13. http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Logie-Baird
  14. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/94/76294-004-68184ECD.jpg
  15. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/isaac-newton-facts-physicist_n_4058836.html?ir=India&adsSiteOverride=in
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  17. https://pixabay.com/en/einstein-albert-classroom-645461/
  18. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Bernhard-Nobel
  19. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/43/135743-004-BA989848.jpg
  20. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11628710/When-Stephen-Fry-met-Jony-Ive-the-self-confessed-fanboi-meets-Apples-newly-promoted-chief-design-officer.html
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  22. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/bill-gates/9812672/Bill-Gates-interview-I-have-no-use-for-money.-This-is-Gods-work.html
  23. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02456/bill-gates_2456191b.jpg