Why the people in Sales move their hands so much?

I had noticed this for long that the salesmen usually move their hands a lot. Making imaginary worlds with in their sign language, repeating with their hands what they will be saying anyway. Was just reading something and I realized it's not just the selling that gets helped with moving hands:

Seinfeld ...gave me an example. “I had a joke: ‘Marriage is a bit of a chess game, except the board is made of flowing water and the pieces are made of smoke,’ ” he said. “This is a good joke, I love it, I’ve spent years on it. There’s a little hitch: ‘The board is made of flowing water.’ I’d always lose the audience there. Flowing water? What does he mean? And repeating ‘made of’ was hurting things. So how can I say ‘the board is made of flowing water’ without saying ‘made of’? A very small problem, but I could hear the confusion....


“So,” he continued, “I was obsessed with figuring that out. The way I figure it out is I try different things, night after night, and I’ll stumble into it at some point, or not. If I love the joke, I’ll wait. If it takes me three years, I’ll wait.” Finally, in late August, during a performance, the cricket cage snapped into place. “The breakthrough was doing this”— Seinfeld traced a square in the air with his fingers, drawing the board. “Now I can just say, ‘The board is flowing water,’ and do this, and they get it. A board that was made of flowing water was too much data. Here, I’m doing some of the work for you. So now I’m starting to get applause on it, after years of work. They don’t think about it. They just laugh.”

So that is why. The customer shouldn't have to put too much effort on it. They should just be able to laugh/ agree/... get sold.

Exchanging foreign currency in Chennai

My experience with banks, regarding online foreign currency transfer, is that they take away about 1 or even 2 Rs/ Euro as part of their commission. And worst part is that you don't have any control or predictability over this.

Compared to that my experience with face-to-face money exchange with authorized dealers has been very good. My only experience is with Camera City in Chennai, and they give very good rate.

My experience is that they give

    -10 Paise/ Euro compared to rates available on XE.com, when you take INR in cash;
    +10 Paise/Euro compared to the XE.com rate when you take INR via cheque

You go there with your foreign currency, and your passport. And they give you INR along with receipt.

                          54, Cathedral Road, (Opp Hotel Chola), 
                          Chennai, 
                          Tamil Nadu-600 086 
                          India.

                         +(91)-(44) - 28110467 / 28110468 / 329 51 309 / 329 52 309

                         +(91)-9840425733

                         http://www.cameraciti.com/contact-us.aspx

Of course, if you must exchange money Online, I put my experience in the other post

Google Services That Don't Work on Chrome

It's very normal that certain Google services don't work as intended on IE. We even get message on IE6 that the user should shift to a modern browser, Chrome touted as one major example of those modern browsers.

But of late I am coming across Google services that are not working on Chrome but are working flawlessly on new versions of IE. Coming from a giant like Google, I find it disappointing. And also bit surprising, the front-end specific coding and very rigorous browser-testing is a standard procedure in Cognizant, I would expect Google would at least test their services on their own browser.

I am huge fan of Google. In fact among my friends I am mocked that I keep pushing for G+ usage, even on my FB stream. I hope they notice these problems and correct ASAP.

- Latitude.google.com: On Chrome the page doesn't load properly, so you can't even see the basic content. On IE it works perfectly.
- Alerts.google.com: When you try to modify an entry, or create a new entry; on Chrome you can only update the main search-term. The details like frequency etc. are not editable. On IE it works perfectly.

Renting house in Netherlands

There are several agencies that can help in this. In the past years, as I talked to several friends who were also looking for houses to rent, I found one site specially good- http://www.pararius.nl. Unlike site of individual agencies, this site presents houses from several agencies in a single place and then after short-listing the houses, you can contact the agencies directly.

One more tip from my friend Agor, I pasting as it is from one email of his-

...To be sure that you are renting the place from the real owners please check www.kadaster.nl. They charge you 2.95 euros for providing the information about the real owner based on the address details.

I want to tell you this because one of my friend rented an apartment via the marktplaats and the guy who rented the apartment told him that he is the owner. He had even registered in town hall for the apartment thinking that town hall will do all the verification but after 1.5 months when the real owner showed up, he realized the scam. He lost two months deposit to this scammer.

The scammer is the ex-tenant who stayed in the apartment. I hope to warn you all about scams like this when you rent a apartment directly and Kadaster will help you to find the real owner.

  

1)Click www.kadaster.nl

2) Select Particulier

3)Select producten en diensten

4)Select Kadastraal Bericht Eigendom

5)Select nu kopen

6)Enter the postcode and house no of the apartment you wish to verify

7)Select Kadastraal bericht eigendom

8)Click Naar Winkelwegen and pay through online

9)PDF will be opened with all the details

Fast typing on iPad

1) Alternate versions of a character become available if you keep it pressed. For example, if you keep A pressed, then you will see options for Ã, Ä, Å etc.

2) Effect of special keys such as Shift, Num-lock can be achieved in a single move if you press the key and then slide to the next key you would have otherwise pressed.
          press Shift key and in the same move slide to 'a' and it would be typed as A
          press Number key (Number keyboard will be shown) and in the same move slide to desired number, and that number will be typed.
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVRfs4VGh9Q&feature=related

3) Instead of putting a full-stop and then space, just press space-bar twice. That would take care of full-stop and space.

4) Usual MS-Office trick. Most often used word combinations, contractions, small-caps casing etc. will be automatically handled by the iPad.
        Type Im and it will become I'm,  theyre, and it will become they're.
        Type ipad and it will become iPad.

5) Pretty often the iPad will correct spellings or suggest the word based on initial few characters. Pressing space-bar on seeing such suggestions will type that complete word. You can also tap on the suggested word. Removing the suggestion is bit tricky- there is a little 'x' mark beside the suggested word, that should be tapped upon.

Sending money from Netherlands to India

Recently I noticed that ICICI Bank Money2India facility was not available from Netherlands. I understand few of my friends are using fake address of Germany to still make the transactions on Money2India. It works fine. But it would be better to simply use some legitimate way to transfer money to India. Such as sending money directly from your Dutch bank account.

I am putting these steps here specially for my friend Shashi (neither Tharoor, nor Kapoor; he is none other than Ranjan).

1) Login to ABN Amro Internet Banking. Choose Betalen à Buitenland overboeken

2) Enter BIC code as per your bank information.
             ICICINBBNRI for ICICI Bank.
             HDFCINBB for HDFC Bank
             SBININBB250 for SBI Jabalpur (others http://www.theswiftcodes.com/india-state-bank-of-india/)
             For other banks, you can find BIC through their customer care. Also the following link may help http://www.swift.com/bsl/

3) Enter

ICICI Bank account number in first field

Address of your own address (not of the bank branch) in the next field (click ‘+’ sign to bring extra rows)

Amount in ‘Bedrag’ field

Choose EUR as the currency code

Put some description in Omschriving field

Select ‘shared’ (gedeeld) as value in the ‘kosten’ dropdown

Click ok

4) Take next steps as usual.

Solving Rubic's Cube

Recently I learnt to solve Rubic Cube. Was good time pass all these days. My colleague Matthijs helped me a lot. Sharing my notes below.

I hope to put various pictures related to this on this page later on.

Solving Rubic’s Cube

Legend-

Corner piece that has 3 faces

Centre piece that has 1 face

Edge piece that has 2 faces

R right

L left

U Facing Up

B Back

F Facing you

D Downfacing

D would mean turn D clock-wise. D’ would mean turn D anti-clock-wise.

Algorithms
1) First layer.

Arrange yourself. No algorithm needed.

First make a cross. Edge pieces must match the adjasent centre pieces.
Then arrange corner pieces. Must match adjasent corner and centre pieces.

2) Second layer.

Only edges will need to be arranged, as centre is already supposed to be matched. So max 4 adjustments.

Bringing a bottom edge piece to left or right edge

To left edge DR’D’RFRD

To right edge D’RDR’...
Swapping 2 edge pieces
Perform Left or Right swap for the pieces to bring them to bottom layer. Then perfrom above algorithms.
3) Third layer
Make a cross of edge pieces
FRU’R’UF
Orienting edge pieces correctly
RUR’URU2R’

Permuting corner pieces

1) Swap 2 pairs of corner pieces

Top view

ABC

DEF

GHI

A--> C; G--> I. Also They are flipped.

Algorithm F [URU’R’]*3 F’

2) Rotating 3 corner prieces

Top view

ABC

DEF

GHI

A--> G, G--> C, C--> A, I remains same.

Algorithm URU’L’UR’U’L

2) The two corners to be swapped are in the front right top and the back right top positions

Swapping adjacent corners L U' R' U L' U' R U2

Swapping diagonal corners execute the adjacent corner swap algorithm twice

Orienting corner pieces

Top view

ABC

DEF

GHI

Orient I and then one other corner. It must be done with at least 2 corners.
Orient the cube such that GHI are top, front edge.
Algorithm FDF’D’FDF’D’, U (till another wrong corner pience is right-tip corner), and then DFD’F’DFD’F’

Twisting three corners anti-clockwise R' U' R U' R' U2 R U2
Twisting three corners clockwise R U R' U R U2 R' U2
Other combinations Do above twice or combine
Sites
http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/rubikscubesolution.html

http://www.rubiks.com/solving-center/3x3_guide/