• Most Zambians don’t live to see their 40th birthday.
• On the probability of not reaching 40 graph, the top 34 countries are all African.
• In Botswana, more than one in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS.
• More than half of all doctors in Finland are female
• You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory.
• The eight most developed countries all speak Germanic languages.
• 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
• 41% world’s poor people live in India.
• The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
• The United States has the world’s highest number of McDonald’s restaurants per capita.
• Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
• Libya is the only country with a single-coloured flag.
• Libya’s full name is the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
• Australians are the most likely to join charities, educational organizations, environmental groups, professional organizations, sports groups and unions. But only three percent join political parties.
• Canadians drink more fruit juice than the citizens of any other nation - more than one litre each, every week.

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Mein udas raasta hon sham ka,
mujhe aahaton ki talaash hai,
ye sitaray hain sub bujhy bujhy,
mujhe jugnu’on ki talaash hai,
Har khushi hai mujh se khafa khafa,
Mujhe zindagi ki talaash hai,
Meri pyaas mein wo talab nahi,
mujhe tishnagi ki talaash hai,
EK hajoom sa hai rawan dawan,
mujhe doston ki talaash hai,
Meri zindagi bus ek raasta,
Mujhe manzilon ki talaash hai,
Najaany kya hai jo kho gaya,
Mujhe shayad apni hi talaash hai

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Michael Jackson dead after cardiac arrest, the King of pop was 50 years old.

details here

The king of pop music completed his days of life in this world. He spent 50 years in this journey of world and he is gone now, far far away from his fans….

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Sony Ericsson have officially announced their flagship touchscreen cellphone, the Satio. Formerly known as the Idou, the Sony Ericsson Satio features a 3.5-inch 16:9 widescreen resistive touchscreen, quadband GSM and UMTS, together with GPS and WiFi. There’s also a 12.1-megapixel camera with autofocus, face-detection, geotagging, an image stabilizer and Xenon flash.

Sony Ericsson Satio

The Sony Ericsson Satio at a glance

Satio
Camera

12.1 megapixel camera
Up to 12x digital zoom
Auto focus
BestPic™
Face detection
Geo tagging of photos
Image stabilizer
Photo feeds
Photo fix
Send to web
Red-eye reduction
Smile detection
Touch focus
Video light
Video recording
Xenon flash
Music

Sony Ericsson Satio

Album art
Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
Media player
Music tones (MP3/AAC)
PlayNow™
TrackID™
Web

WebKit web browser
Bookmarks
Web feeds

Communication

Call list
Speakerphone
Vibrating alert
Video calling

Messaging

Conversations
Email
Exchange ActiveSync™
Handwriting recognition
Instant messaging
On-screen QWERTY keyboard
Picture messaging (MMS)
Predictive text input
Sound recorder
Text messaging (SMS)

Design

Auto rotate
Gesture control
Media
Picture wallpaper
S60 5th edition Symbian™ OS
Touchscreen
Wallpaper animation

Entertainment

HD and 3D games
Facebook™ application
FM radio with RDS
Java
Video streaming
Video viewing
YouTube™

Connectivity

Bluetooth™ technology
Modem
PictBridge
Synchronisation
TV out
USB mass storage
USB support
In-built WiFi™

Organizer

Alarm clock
Calculator
Calendar
Contacts
Document readers
Document editors
Flight mode
Notes
Tasks

Location-based services

A-GPS
Google Maps™
Turn-by-turn navigation
Accessories

In-Box:

Satio
Battery
Battery Charger
8GB Memory card
USB cable
Media manager
Colour-matched stereo portable handsfree
User guide

Optional:

Video Viewing Stand IM920
Facts and Figures

Size: 112 x 55 x 13.3 mm
Weight: 126 grams
Colours: Black, Silver and Bordeaux
Main screen: 16,777,216 colour nHD TFT
16:9 widescreen
Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels
Size: 3.5 inches
Phone memory: 128 MB
Memory Card Support: SanDisk microSD™
Availability and versions

Networks:

Satio

GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
UMTS HSDPA 2100
Satio(a)

GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
UMTS HSPA 850/1900/2100
Available in selected markets from early Q4 2009.

Legal

1) Facts and features may vary depending on local variant.

2) Talk and standby times are affected by network preferences, type of SIM card, connected accessories and various activities e.g. games. Kit contents and color options may differ from market to market. The full range of accessories may not be available in every market.

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while I was working in Classic ASP, I had to update the URL’s of many pages. The main challenge was to redirect your search engines cached url’s without loosing your search engine page ranks.

So, couple of options over there like

302 - temporary redirect, your page remains serving through the old urls at the backend while showing the public other new better formated URL. To achieve this 302 - what i used is ISAPI ReWrite. Its an excellent tool which actually help in writing rewrite rules and gives very helpful editor for writing and testing as well.

301 - this is a permanent redirect. to apply permanent redirect we can either use IIS or we can take help of headers. To get it done with IIS, open the web directory in IIS and right click on the file or folder which needs to be redirected (IIS redirect is helpful only if you have physical existence of the file which needs to be redirected). click on the properties and click on the redirect to a url ….. I think you are there

The second option for 301, headers one is very easy. just write this piece of code on top of your asp file

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status=”301 Moved Permanently”
Response.AddHeader “Location”,”http://www.new-url.com/”
%>

One common mistake, never ever try to add any other redirection below this. like if we will add Response.Redirect below this then 302 will be set instead of 301. the command used later will take effect. Response.Redirect is a 302 redirect.

To test the redirection, you can use HTTP Live Headers extension of firefox or you can test it here

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Why india lost the world cup

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Lessons from Pakistan T20 victory !!!!

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 _{A man went to police station for filing report for his missing wife:
Man:                I lost my wife (misty)
Inspector:        What is her height
Man;                I never noticed
Inspector:        Slim or healthy
Man:                Not slim can be healthy
Inspector:        Colour of eyes
Man:                Never noticed
Inspector:        Colour of hair
Man:                Changes according to season
Inspector:        What was she wearing
Man:                Saree/suit/ I don’t remember exactly
Inspector:        Was somebody with her ?????????
Man:                Yes my Labra dog (romeo),  tied with a golden chain, height 30 inches, healthy, blue eyes, blackish brown hair, his left foot thumb nail is slightly broken, he never barks, wearing a golden belt studded with blue balls, he likes non veg food, we eat together, we jog together & the man started crying
 
Inspector:  Lets search the dog first !!!!!!!!!!!!}

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During his speech in White House, John F. Kennedy,m the Former President of USA Said to Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto:

“You don’t know you are standing in the Greatest Building of America”.

Bhutto replied with smile on his face:

“You don’t know, The Greates Building of America is under my Feet…!”

Long Live Pakistan

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“Pakistan has world’s largest WiMAX network – Will America catch up?”, wonders TMCnet

The under construction Sheikh Zayed complex in Lahore

Doesn’t that headline just put a smile on your face? You’re not the only one. It’s great to see that the significant human effort augmented by billions of dollars invested in Pakistan’s IT infrastructure and skill-development are bearing tangible fruit. There are several areas where Pakistan is leading the pack already, and others where it is threatening to.

1. Pakistan is the most connected country in South Asia, with the highest teledensity
2. Pakistan’s communications costs are lower than any other country in the region
3. Pakistan has the world’s largest biometric database (NADRA); this system (not the data)  is now being provided to allied countries
4. Pakistan has the world’s largest WiMAX network
5. Pakistan has one of the world’s most aggressive Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) rollouts
6. Pakistan has one of the highest rates of cellular connectivity growth in the world (According to PTA 2007’s report the rate of growth in Pakistan’s mobile sector is fourth highest in the world)
7. Pakistan was the winner of the 2007 GSM industry association award
8. The US is importing UAVs designed and built in Pakistan to protect America’s borders
9. With WLL (CDMA), WiMAX, GSM and FTTH, Pakistan is pretty much leading the pack in terms of diversity and breadth of connectivity
10. According to Gartner, Pakistan is a “first category” offshoring location; this ranking has grown by leaps and bounds
11. Pakistani companies won several awards at Asia’s APICTA startup/innovation conference and were considered the most “interesting” and cutting edge in Asia
12. The world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional is a Pakistani and so if the world’s youngest Cisco CCNA professional
13. Pakistani students excelled in MIT’s global software talent competition
14. Citations of Pakistani scientific publications are rising sharply
15. Over two dozen Pakistani scientists are working on the Large Hadron Collider; the grandest experiment in the history of Physics

And I tire listing all of these out… there are so many more. The point is that the Pakistani IT industry is rapidly developing and this is most definitely an area where significant progress is being made, damning all the torpedoes and naysayers. Pretty exciting on its own, right? But progress  in IT doesn’t just mean progress in IT. It means a vibrant economy, better healthcare through Telemedicine, increased efficiency in government through record automation (e.g. land records project), a more effective defence, increased outreach for higher education and much more.

Technology is a transformational vehicle for our society. And we’re just now starting to see the impact. Many times, progress in specific areas will appear slow, but in part that is explained by the exponential curves normally associated with technology adoption. When you start small, high growth rates aren’t ‘visible on the ground’ for the first few months or years because the overall numbers remain small. But this changes when you hit the knee of the curve, at which point things are fundamentally transformed and are altered for ever.

In Pakistan, these transformations have occurred in many areas already, and will continue to occur in numerous others. Frankly, I just consider myself lucky to be around to watch the awesome progress unfold!

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