Why Bill Gates decided to sell Microsoft ??
Letter from Banta Singh of Punjab to Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft
Subject: Problems with my new computer
Dear Mr. Bill Gates,
We have bought a computer for our home and we have found some problems,which I want to bring to your notice.
1. There is a button 'start' but there is no 'stop' button. We request you to check this.
2. We find there is 'Run' in the menu. One of my friend clicked 'run' he ran up to Amritsar! So, we request you to change that to 'sit', so that we can click that by sitting.
3. One doubt is whether any 're-scooter' is available in system? I find only 're-cycle', but I own a scooter at my home.
4. There is 'Find' button but it is not working properly. My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot trace the key with this ' find' button, but was unable to trace. Please rectify this problem.
5. My child learnt 'Microsoft word' now he wants to learn 'Microsoft
sentence', so when you will provide that?
6. I bought computer, CPU, mouse and keyboard, but there is only one icon
which shows 'MY Computer': when you will provide the remaining items?
7. It is surprising that windows says 'MY Pictures' but there is not even a single photo of mine. So when will you keep my photo in that.
8. There is 'MICROSOFT OFFICE' what about 'MICROSOFT HOME' since I use the PC at home only.
9. You provided 'My Recent Documents'. When you will provide 'My Past Documents'?
10. You provide 'My Network Places'. For God sake please do not provide 'My Secret Places'. I do not want to let my wife know where I go after my office hours.
Regards,Banta
Last one Mr Gates :
Sir, how is it that your name is Gates but u are selling WINDOWS?
Magnificent menus
What comes to mind as soonas one says the magic (especially to a housewife)words, "Eating out"? Lovely ambience, certainly, the smell of goodfood, definitely...but more than allthese, I think of one thing in therestaurant that is an essential adjunct to a good meal....the menucard. Menus vary from a laminatedsheet of paper (sometimes bearingtraces of the actual dishes on it!) listing the dishes quite unemotionally,to a fascinating, ornate piece of art.Very often, menu cards in the "better" restaurants resemble a photo album! Each dish is described in a veritable prose poem. Who would not like to try "gently simmered lentilsand a combination of ground ethnicspices in a tamarind sauce"...untilone found out that what was beingtalked about was the humble "sambar"? Sometimes it seems as if themenu has been written only for visiting foreigners,and not for the localpopulation. I am particularly irkedif I am sitting in Chennai and I aminformed that parathas are "Indianunleavened bread". "South Indianrice pancakes"...humph, can yourecognise the every-morning-smileat-you idlis in that description?Another reason for fancy descriptions is that the price factor can bebumped up quite a bit. Plainparathas cost perhaps ten rupees,but "Indian unleavened bread"would cost at least four times that! Ifmy rasam is "a combination of fragrant Indian herbs, spices and condiments in a tamarind sauce, tempered with mustard seeds in clarified butter" then I probablycant afford it. I sometimes thinkthey should have a separate menufor foreign tourists. I have yet toread,on any menu in Germany,a description of "German sausage"....oran explanation of meals in the UK like "Toad in the Hole". Why not let the foreigners discover our dishes for themselves,authentically,rather than the word Authentic written over a huge menu card? I’m most happy with what I call the "audio menu", which consists of sitting at the table and asking the waiter when he appears, "Bisiyaaga yenithey, swami?" and hearing the litany of available dishes, and choosing what appeals to me at that moment...none of the fancy menus will offer me a lovely "baitu" (which actually means one cup divided by two) coffee....or the crisp, terse menus written up on the walls of Darshinis!Menus of some of the fivestar hotels sometimes resemble a photo album
