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Badrinath Quote

You can't be successful if you lack one of these: Luck & Talent. Right? "For god's sake, allow me to fail" Badrinath said. "If I am unable to prove my worth at the international arena, I will never say anything and be a fringe player all my life. But I deserve one chance" "Even today I was there in front of the TV, with my wife, waiting for the team to be announced. I was numb when they finished reading the names" Badrinath told the Times of India. "I'm lost, I don't know where to go from here" More: http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/slvind/content/story/364138.html Kovil Pillai P.

Quotes

Added on Sep 26, 2008 All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. --- Greg Arnold Added on Sep 26, 2008 If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --- Albert Einstein Added on Sep 09, 2008 If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. --- Mary Kay Ash Added on Sep 02, 2008 Show class, have pride and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. --- Paul Bryant, Football coach Added on Sep 02, 2008 Let your heart soar as high as it can - refuse to be average. --- A.W. Tozer Added on Sep 02, 2008 If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --- Albert Einstein Kovil Pillai P. *

Yahoo! vs Google Search

Enter !mail email-address in the search box and what would be your reaction if you get an email compose window as a result? Try Yahoo!Search to feel it. I had taken a pledge to try not using Google for any real purpose for one month, including the search that I use too often. I decided to try Yahoo!Search instead of considering any other alternatives. Yahoo!Search home page is as simple and as plain as Google search home page. Yet I find it very alien. In fact, for the first two days, as soon as I entered into Yahoo!Search page I felt I had landed up in a wrong place. Of course, no wonder, as I am using Google search since my college days. Yahoo!Search Homepage While entering keywords I found a greyish blue line appearing below the text box. Too ugly? Bug? --- It is an auto suggestion list without data. Yahoo!Search Auto-suggestion Auto-suggestion is useful too! I had the DOB of Olympics 2008 participants and I wanted to calculate the age. I thought I need the DATEDIFF function to ge