Epic! The response to the question by Miss teen South Carolina during a recent beauty pagent was epic! I saw the video a few days ago and couldn’t help but laugh. Perhaps not at the girl (she is quite good looking! perhaps beauty and brains don’t really go together, though I have seen enough pretty [...]
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mysql – identifying number of duplicates in a table
So my little query adventures with mySQL continues. Here’s another unique problem: There are duplicates in the table as there is no field that was setup as primary index. So how do we know how many do we have? Well assume that the duplicate values happen on the “Phone Number” of the client. Here’s the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »ki puchhde ho haal fakeeraaN da!
A masterpiece in my opinion by Shiv Kumar Batalvi! Such sadness in there and such a beautiful Ghazal in Punjabi. ki puchhde ho haal fakeeraaN da, saaDaa nadiyaaN vichhRe neeraaN da saaDaa hunj di jooN ne aayaaN da, saaDaa dil jaleyaa dil-geeraaN da eh jaandeyaaN kuj shoKh jahe, rangaaN da hi naaN tasveeraaN hai jad [...]
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oh this ghazal can so easily make you think about time gone by. you can just read the words, listen to them in the voice of many Ghazal singers who sang this…. and then just get lost… wo jo ham meiN tum meiN qaraar thaa, tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho vahii yaanii vaadaa [...]
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[...]that to be too conscious is an illness[...] This is part of one of the quotes that is always displayed on my blog. I was just online today, looking at my blog and seeing how inactive it had been lately and I read this quote and I realized how true these words are. I frequently [...]
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