S/w Engg Prob: Font problem

There are times when you need to use ListView in your tool to display things. And also you may need all the strings being displayed, should be properly formatted in display i.e all the columns of the strings should be proper.

Tip: use “Courier New” font for display. The default is “Microsoft Sans Serif”.

This way all the rendering in the listview shall be proper and good to “see”.

Mitrata

This was the simBly the funniest incident happened to me in recent time.

It was this weekend “Sunday” when I and my friend were wandering in search of a flat for him and his to be wife. We drifted for around 6 hours, searching for one and finally finalized one of the selections. We were damn tired and thought that we should have dinner at my place and then he should go. For dinner we thought, why don’t we catch up with some movie? Both of us hadn’t watched Dostana and we weren’t in the mood to watch the pirated movie and instead thought of buying an original CD. We went to the “Total Mall” near my place to buy the CD. There instead of just buying the CD we bought a VIP skybag for him, and then when we searched for the CD it was no-where to be found. We inquired and got to know that they don’t keep the movie cd’s with them.

Well then that was it. And we thought maybe we can skip the movie thing and probably just have dinner and let it go. So after paying the bill, we were coming down and then we spotted the “Music World” shop. For those who don’t know, it’s a shop which has lots of cd’s and books available. Well we thought maybe this was our chance to get a hold of the CD. We entered the shop with all our luggage and with whole hearted anticipation of finally getting the glimpse of the movie, holding the “Sacred CD” (pun intended). But we didn’t find it.

And then!!!!!

We asked the shop-keeper: “Do you have Dostana?”.

And,,,,

He just smiled, with the tinkle in his eyes of seeing the real Dostana with his own eyes.  

Innovation the Japanese way!

We do need simple solutions but they've got to be ingenious too. The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste of stale fish.   To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.            So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem?  Here's what they did:  The Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they added a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are active and challenged. Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired & dull, so we need a Shark in our life to keep us awake and moving? Basically in our lives Sharks are new challenges to keep us active and taste better...            Sometimes it could be your BOSS!            The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more you enjoy a challenge .