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Iron Lady wanted to be part of Indian Civil Service

Behold, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher considered joining erstwhile Indian Civil Service and serve the country.

Margaret Thatcher Foundation, quoted Margaret Thatcher, popularly known as ‘The Iron Lady’, told an interviewer on Yorkshire Television in 1985, “I had an ambition as a child. I told you all the missionaries used to come and people used to come from India. I had an ambition. I wanted to be part of the Indian Civil Service, because our Civil Service was best in the world. Now, we were brought up that Britain was the best in the world because she had standards of honesty and integrity and law. The best in the world and in the Indian Civil Service was part of our Civil Service and it was to do things for the Indians and it was to help them.

As fate would have it, Thatcher did not join the ICS. However she became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

No more on combat duty, Prince Harry to battle Aids

Prince Harry will have a break from combat duty. Recently he was on combat duty in Helmand province of Afghanistan. Unfortunately he will not be able to return to the frontline in near future. According to a report in the Sun, British Army Chief General Sir Richard Dannat has again said “Prince Harry would not see active service soon. There may well be some point in the near future where it will be appropriate to deploy him somewhere- but that is not going to happen any time soon.”

Supporting the decision to send Prince Harry to Afghanistan, he said: “It was absolutely the right decision to send him. It reflected very well on the relationship between the royal family, the armed forces and the nation.”

Harry had been on a 48 hour flying visit to Lesotho. The Sun quoted an unnamed source as saying:” It had been unclear what he planned to do next. Harry decided to do something different and came up with the idea of heading a three- month mercy mission to the troubled kingdom in Africa

 Prince Harry will not be on a combat duty but will be battling Aids in Africa

Online identification reveals the character of the person

Researchers at the University of Leipzig in Germany carried out a study and found that in one liner email address may unfold your character of the creator of the unique online identification.

In their study, the researchers asked a panel of 100 students to guess the personalities of 600 adults simply by looking at their email addresses. The panel’s guesses were more or less exact with respect to qualities like openness, conscientiousness and narcissism.

According to lead researcher Mitja Back even the thinnest slice of communication via the worldwide web-the mere email address- contains valid information about the personality of its owner. The researcher’s findings showed that addresses that gave away personality    were often comprised of full stops, numbers or a name that was obviously not genuine. Level of accuracy was measured using lens model analysis.

So do think twice before you pick an email address as it speaks volumes about your character.

Keyboard users should be beware of bugs

‘Which’ computer magazine reported results of a research by a microbiologist that bugs including E coil and S aurous are found on your keyboards. Samples from 33 keyboards were examined by James Francis.

In a comparison made between a swabbed toilet seat and door handle from a London office and one of the keyboards, it was detected that the keyboard was five times dirtier than the toilet seat.

Francis said: “I haven’t seen a reading like that in a very long time- it was of the scale. It was interesting the risk of its user becoming ill.” Finally the keyboard, harboring of bacteria, almost 150 times the acceptable limit, was removed as a precautionary measure”

Do avoid eating at the desks as this is the main culprit for contamination, as the dropped crumbs lodge between keys resulting in fertile breeding ground for millions of bacteria. Another factor which contributes towards the bacterial growth is non washing of hands after using toilet.

Sarah Kidner, the editor of Which Computing said” Most people don’t give much thought to the grime that builds up on their PC, but if you don’t clean your computer, you might as well eat your lunch off the toilet.’

A survey revealed that merely 22 percent of the users clean their keyboards, while 27 percent their monitor on a monthly basis. While 20 percent said they never cleaned the mouse, one in 10 said they never cleaned the keyboard.

You can be a victim of head lice as headphones could ferry germs between people.

Heed to the maxim that prevention is better than cure and shut the computer down unplug it before gently dusting it with a soft lint-free cloth and wipe with an approved computer cleaning fluid.