Social media

I have some friends who don’t like Facebook or twitter (may be they even hate it). I told them to join several times but they avoided by giving many excuses. I think social media makes communication easier. I only have their phone numbers but sometimes I don’t want to...

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Silent Treatment

We have a comedian at our workplace. One day, during the beginning of my carrier in this place, I asked him if I could check my e-mail from my work computer. He responded, “Go crazy, just keep the pants on”. I didn’t laugh, so he said it again. I just smiled and went...

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Chatting

Yesterday, I was waiting in line to get this year’s flu shot at my work. Two women ahead in the line were loudly expressing their personal opinions about other people they knew, what movies and movie stars they liked etc. It was quite annoying. Afterward many others...

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Making Money Using Laws

I am astonished to see that NY DMV fined me $130 ($50 fine + $80 Surcharge) for failing to show current insurance proof. I had both current and old insurance proofs in the same envelope because the new insurance proof comes long before the old one expires. By mistake,...

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National Pride vs. People’s Lives

More lives could have been saved but the Bangladeshi government reportedly refused to take assistance from some friendly countries in rescuing garment workers from collapsed “Rana Plaza” because of national pride. I am not sure where is the pride coming from. Other...

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Hiding GridView Columns

I desperately needed to hide/show some columns of my GridView since I was showing the same user control to different groups of users and they didn't need to see the same information. The columns’ property Visible takes Boolean value true/false but doesn't take the...

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National Pride vs. People’s Lives

More lives could have been saved but the Bangladeshi government reportedly refused to take assistance from some friendly countries in rescuing garment workers from collapsed “Rana Plaza” because of national pride. I am not sure where is the pride coming from. Other...

দলাদলি

দলাদলি এবং বিভক্তি নিয়ে বাংলাদেশী বা মুসলমানদের সম্পর্কে যা বলা হয় তা মনে হয় সত্যি নয় কারন এক ইহুদী লোকের কাছ থেকে আমি এই কৌতুকটা শুনেছি – দুই ইহুদী এক হলে নাকি তিন দল করে। দুইজন আলাদা আলাদাভাবে দুই দল এবং দুইজন একত্রে আর এক দল...

Library Time

I try to take the kids to a library once in a week to spend some times with the books and bring some books home, so they can read them during the next week. Hopefully, they will build a habit of going to the library on their own. May be one or both the kids will be...

Realization

It dawned on me – If there was no love there would be nothing…

Color of Validation Text

You may have noticed that the color of the validation text is black in framework 4.0. To make it red again I found the following solution but some users say that it doesn’t work always. <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <system.web>...

Making Money Using Laws

I am astonished to see that NY DMV fined me $130 ($50 fine + $80 Surcharge) for failing to show current insurance proof. I had both current and old insurance proofs in the same envelope because the new insurance proof comes long before the old one expires. By mistake,...

Silly Talk

When he was learning to speak instead of saying I went there my eldest son, Mahir, used to say I goed there. Inspired by his innocent mistake I created two more words tolded and sawed. For example, I tolded you to go to bed but I sawed you playing instead later. Then...