DID YOU KNOW following facts about COUNTING in English language?

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99.
(Letter ‘d’ comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999.
(Letter ‘a’ comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999.
(Letter ‘b’ comes for the first time in Billion)

And Letter …

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I was initially impressed with the way Postie works and jumped onto it to install & configure it for this site. Well, I followed the instructions and did everything to install it correctly. It worked well, but I then stumbled upon a major challenge: how to configure it to suit my requirements?

I first thought of using my Yahoo email id (because the server details were readily available). I provided my personal Yahoo email (which I use frequently) for testing …

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<< Another SPAM EXAMPLE

Here is one example of such a online spam. When you click on this authentic-looking link, you would be taken to some strange spamming site…

Please SPREAD the word. Note that YAHOO and any other email service provider (like Hotmail, Rediff) WILL NEVER contact you with this type of information. DO NOT encourage spam and DO NOT click on any link in an unknown email… If you do so, you may lose all your precious data to …

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I have recently penned down a few pointers that will help all of us to achieve what we dream with relatively less pains. Note that these are based on my own experience…

While Pune & Mumbai (in Maharashtra) were down with SWINE FLU, I, my wife, and a few friends decided to make a trip to the ever-green KONKAN to enjoy the long and much-deserved weekend. You know, I always wanted to drive in the beautiful roads in Konkan and experience the beauty of nature all by myself. I have travelled there by train but there is a different pleasure in driving than going by rail…We simply loved this great trip. It …

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Yes, it is true and 100% autherized. ReviveYourLife (RYL) is giving out a free ASUS EEE laptop to celebrate its grand success in the blogging sphere.

The grand prize to be won is ASUS Eee notebook PC with Intel Celeron processor | 1GB DDR2 | 160GB | 8.9″ widescreen | Webcam | Windows XP Home.

In order to participate, simple subscribe to RYL’s feeds. To score more, you may also blog about this contest, link back from blogroll, etc. etc. Interested? Good. …

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<< continued from PART 4 of this series…

I have recently penned down a few pointers that will help all of us to achieve what we dream with relatively less pains. Note that these are based on my own experience…

>> How to achieve your dreams series continued…