30 Nov
I couldn’t resist sharing this gem:
30 Nov
In commonwealth countries, people use “learnt” for past tense and past participle for learn. Here’s an explanation from AskOxford on this matter:
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/learnt
What is the difference between ‘learnt’ and ‘learned’?
* Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English.
* There are a number of verbs of this type (burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, spoil etc.).
* They are all irregular verbs, and this is a part of their irregularity.
The *prescriptive* answer is:
“learned” should used in phrases such as “a learned professor”, in which case it is pronounced with two syllables.
“learnt” should be used in phrases like “I learnt a valuable lesson today”.
The *descriptive* answer in British English is:
“learned” is used in phrases such as “a learned professor”, in which case it is pronounced with two syllables.
Either “learnt” or “learned” are used interchangably in phrases like “I learnt a valuable lesson today”.
The *descriptive* answer in American English is:
There is no such word as “learnt”. Use “learned” always.
Learned and learnt are basically the same. They are both used as the past tense form and past participle of “learned”.
Google search for both the words results in:
* EDU(USA) sites : I learned/learnt 3,860,000/158,000 I have learned/learnt 8,350,000/171,000 learned man/learnt man 2,970,000/59,900
* UK sites : I learned/learnt 1,600,000/1,950,000 I have learned/learnt 3,940,000/1,720,000 learned man/learnt man 1,730,000/763,000
What the results tell are:
1. American speakers mostly use “learned” for the past and the verbal past participle, while “learned” and “learnt” share roughly equal among British speakers.
2. “Learnt” is used as an adjectival past participle in neither American English nor British English.
Linguistic specialists suggest them to be used in the following ways:
LEARN is the present tense, and the conjugated form of the verb “to learn”.
It can be converted to the past tense in the following ways:
I LEARNED lots of things along the way. The main verb is “learned”.
LEARNT is the “past participle” in the following sentences. (Past participles are used in conjunction with other verbs).
I have learnt not to be prejudiced towards Americans or people of other nationalities. (creziauk!)
I had learnt my lesson on peer pressure, the hard way.
To summarize, both learned and learnt are alternative spellings of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn.
Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English.
In addition, there are a number of verbs of the type -ed ~ -t:
burned, burnt
dreamed, dreamt
kneeled, knelt
leaned, leant
leaped, leapt
spelled, spelt
spilled, spilt
spoiled, spoilt
All are irregular verbs.
24 Nov
Most of you might already be aware of the paradigm shift problem in ajax apps in terms of the browser back button not working out of the box.
The problem and some of the generic solutions to it is described in more detail in the following articles. Suffice is to say that by integrating ergonomic display features such as back and forward navigation, we can make it simpler and more intuitive for the end user to immerse into the richer internet applications (RIA) that we can now create:
Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps
AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons, Advanced Example
Fixing the back button that AJAX broke
AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons
How to build a cross-browser history management system
Now here’s Microsoft’s effort in solving the problem with the help of ASP.NET AJAX library:
Enable Back button support in ASP.NET AJAX web sites – This is a server-centric solution that gets translated into client side history management code.
Managing browser history from client script
ASP.NET AJAX History Part 2: Client-Side
AJAX History and ASP.NET AJAX Preview 3
Client History Points in ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions
The link below is a Yahoo Developer Network effort in attending the issue:
YUI 2: Browser History Manager
Now onto the implementations by my most favorite JavaScript library (I would love to call it a Framework someday soon!) jQuery. There are tons of jQuery plugins that do this. All but one of them below uses address mangling technique in the form of page.aspx#5 to solve the problem. There are pros and cons for both the techniques as explicitly assigning mangled address like that helps in bookmarking. Whereas, if you don’t want to show the values you want to store in the history to the user, then hidden iframe technique below comes in handy:
jQuery BBQ: Back Button & Query Library
History/Remote – jQuery plugin solution for hijaxing links and enabling history
Restoring conventional page navigation to your javascript application with jQuery history plugin
jQuery History Plugin – Uses hidden iframe technique so that the address is not mangled with hash.
jQuery Address – Deep linking plugin – Supports Deep linking
21 Nov
A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
A visual illustration of how the entire global financial crisis or credit crunch started in a flow chart manner. Things can’t be expressed any easier!
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
Video illustration of the global credit crisis. This is a two part series.
Golden Parachutes: How the Bankers Went Down
Excellent depiction of how the bankers and in essence the entire banking system went down.
Invest in Gold Without Getting Scammed
What glitter isn’t always gold. Investing in gold and other precious metals is one of the best ways to maintain your footing in an otherwise unstable economy. But while gold, silver, platinum (and their lesser known cousins ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, and iridium) have maintained their status as solid investments, you need to be wary of unscrupulous dealers and the many scams they perpetrate on unsuspecting investors …
The rebirth of the infographic
Complex data-based images are all the rage now. Are infographics worth your time? As data and graphic design tools become more widely available, the infographic is becoming the trendy way to display complex data sets to readers …
5 Tips For Building Effective Infographics
Infographics (short for Information Graphics) are part design, part data visualization. Like generic data visualization tools such as charts and graphs, infographics typically represent some data in a way that a viewer can quickly understand. But infographics are customized specifically to the data, topic, and audience – each infographic is essentially a creative work that gets a point across.
By pairing your infographic with software, you can allow people to interact with the visualization and explore the concepts, giving a more powerful and immediate ability to understand the point you are making.
Inspired by the visualizations that we regularly see in Good Magazine, Wired, and New York Times, we created some sample interactive infographics. Take a look at obesity trends in America, or explore the job roles that go into creating a web site.
Creating a slick infographic needs a bit more effort than is needed to fire up a generic charting or graphing tool. But the extra work can really pay off, making your visualization stand out from the crowd.
And to help you out, the above is a compiled list of handy tips for creating effective infographics …
The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual
Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative. Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated all aspects of the modern world …
The infographics weblog above is a running collection of links to infographics found on the web through my own research and the submissions of many individuals.
Often more powerful than words or imagery alone, infographics utilize visual elements of design and words to convey a message in such a way that context, meaning and understanding are trancended to the observer in a manner not previously experienced. The observer becomes enlighted, having learned from the visual feast and is motivated to seek out more knowledge in this medium. They can present a wealth of information without intimidating you. Or sometimes they intimidate you, but make the digesting of the information much more bearable …
Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser’s job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the “View source” tab somewhere in your browser’s menu.
HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. This blogger has written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and there are some screenshots of websites from that.
Visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices
Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.
Data Visualization and Infographics Resources
Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information …
Here you will find Tips & Techniques, Vocabulary, Templates, Images, and other resources for your Presentations.
Some great tips and advices for mastering the art of speaking.
Just enter a website and get a detailed report for Compression status i.e. Compressed (gzip), Original size, Compressed size, Savings in bytes, Percentage saved by compression, Transfer speed improvement etc.
Experts Announce Agreement on the 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors – And How to Fix Them
Title says it all. This is a followup on the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime.
Explained: ASP.NET Formula for Reducing Contention
The formula for reducing contention can give you a good empirical start for tuning the ASP.NET thread pool. Consider using the Microsoft product group-recommended settings if the following conditions are true:
Breaking Down ‘Data Silos’ – The Open Data Protocol (OData)
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol for querying and updating data. OData applies web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to information from a variety of applications, services, and stores. This protocol emerged organically based on the experiences implementing AtomPub clients and servers in a variety of products over the past several years. OData is being used to expose and access information from a variety of sources, including but not limited to relational databases, file systems, content management systems, and traditional web sites. Microsoft has released OData under the Open Specification Promise (OSP) to allow anyone to freely interoperate with OData implementations. We intend on working with the community to move the features of OData into future version of AtomPub or other appropriate standards.
OData is consistent with the way the web works. OData makes a deep commitment to URIs as a means to identify resources (just like the web). OData commits to an HTTP-centric protocol with a uniform interface for interacting with those resources (again, just like the web). OData builds on the conventions over HTTP popularized by AtomPub, which have simplified the process of sharing data, content and information across independently developed systems. OData defines additional conventions that implementations may optionally implement to support basic query and schema information to be exchanged. To simplify integration with HTML and JavaScript clients, OData defines an optional JSON representation of the protocol that complements the XML-based AtomPub format …
Iframe related JavaScript Development:
Cross-Domain Communication with IFrames
Resizing an iframe according to its contents
Hack your brain – How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn’t it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it’s easy to fling open the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic understanding of how the mind works.
The first thing to know is that the mind isn’t a mirror, or even a passive observer of reality. Much of what we think of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that we end up perceiving what we know isn’t real – tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like hallucinations. Perhaps we hear the voice of someone who is no longer alive, or feel as if our nose is suddenly 3 feet long …
20 Nov
When hard core topics from economics such as Inflation, Deflation and Stagflation prop up in a discussion thread, things start to get blurry for the uninitiated.
It’s almost head scratching time when basic questions like these beat you to death:
What is Deflation and How Can it Be Prevented? Is printing money going to solve this?
Then I came upon two gems to unravel some of the mystery. Have a look at the infographic representation:
7 Nov
As we all know, a Post-Mortem helps us learn why a patient has died. A Pre-Mortem explores why a project might die in the future. Rather than conducting a project post-mortem, after a project has died, why not conduct an imaginary project pre-mortem at the start of the project? Here’s how Gary Klein describes the approach in September’s ‘Harvard Business Review’.
“I find it works well at the end of an open space after the planning process is complete. It injects an additional level of realism into the plans.” – source
“Research conducted in 1989 by Deborah J. Mitchell, of the Wharton
School; Jay Russo, of Cornell; and Nancy Pennington, of the University
of Colorado, found that prospective hindsight — imagining that an
event has already occurred — increases the ability to correctly
identify reasons for future outcomes by 30%.”
7 Oct
I know people with lot more intelligence than me have talked about the alchemy of happiness before. But my efforts are just to touch upon the thorny issues between faith & reason so that it’s easier to find the alchemy of happiness. Hence, the title of the article.
God is ultimate concern. If we remove ultimate concern from our lives or our search, we have to find substitutes. This is human nature. We will find substitutes to fill that hollow space within man because man is essentially a hollow being. So how can we reconcile faith with reason? After all, are faith and reason compatible? Should faith be based on reason? Does faith support or hinder reason? Can reasonable faith be possible?
These are the kind of questions that arise in ours and for which we are looking at answers from every source we can crack.
There is a saying, ‘Whether we are awake or we are asleep, 2 plus 2 will always equal 4′. What’s your take on this?
According to Wikipedia,
From at least the days of the Greek Philosophers, the relationship between faith and reason has been hotly debated. Plato argued that knowledge is simply memory of the eternal. Aristotle set up rules by which knowledge could be discovered by reason.
Rationalists point out that many people hold irrational beliefs, for many reasons. There may be evolutionary causes for irrational beliefs — irrational beliefs may increase our ability to survive and reproduce. Or, according to Pascal’s Wager, it may be to our advantage to have faith, because faith may promise infinite rewards, while the rewards of reason are necessarily finite.
Believers in faith — for example those who believe salvation is possible through faith alone — point out that everyone holds beliefs arrived at by faith, not reason. The belief that the universe is a sensible place and that our minds allow us to arrive at correct conclusions about it, is a belief we hold through faith.
Beliefs held “by faith” may be seen existing in a number of relationships to rationality:
* Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from others. Accordingly, faith is seen as essential to and inseparable from rationality.
* Faith as addressing issues beyond the scope of rationality: In this view, faith is seen as covering issues that science and rationality are inherently incapable of addressing, but that are nevertheless entirely real. Accordingly, faith is seen as complementing rationality, by providing answers to questions that would otherwise be unanswerable.
* Faith as contradicting rationality: In this view, faith is seen as those views that one holds despite evidence and reason to the contrary. Accordingly, faith is seen as pernicious with respect to rationality, as it interferes with our ability to think, and rationality is seen as the enemy of faith, since it interferes with our ability to believe.
According to David H. Rogstad,
Agnostic theoretical physicist and popular author, Paul Davies, is more candid than most in admitting the role that a theistic worldview plays in science (as cited here):
“People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature—the laws of physics—are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they come from; at least they do not do so in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least part comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.”
In the end, we must answer the question posed by Ken Samples, “Is it more reasonable to believe that the universe came into existence from nothing by nothing or that, as the scripture says, ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’?”
Here are few links covering both angles:
Based on Pascal’s Wager or Pascal’s Gambit,
Pascal’s Wager (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Pascal’s Wager about God
Argument from Pascal’s Wager by Peter Kreeft
Pascal’s Wager: Is it safer to believe in God even if there is no proof that one exists?
Based on Atheism:
Atheist’s Wager by Wikipedia
Atheist’s Wager
Apologia Atheos: Pascal’s wager refuted
Epilogue:The Rejection of Pascal’s Wager
Pascal’s Wager by the Internet Infidels
It would be enlightening for me & others, to say the least, if my readers shed a little more light on the topic.
1 Oct
The Champions League Twenty20 2009 tournament is finally set to start on the 8th of October, 2009 at 14:30 GMT.
I have earlier blogged about Announcing new league on Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket for ICC Champions Trophy 2009 and also suggested a few tips on playing the game through Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket Tips for Twenty20 Worldcup 2009.
There are two games running for this tournament in Cricinfo:
1. Champions League Pick’em for match result prediction game.
2. Champions League for player performance prediction game.
So guys start building your teams for the game soon. Here are few important pointers from the Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket game site itself regarding the Champions League game.
Some points to note
Transfers: Unlimited transfers are allowed only until 14:30 GMT on Oct 8, 2009. Thereafter, you have got 20 transfers available till the group matches get over on Oct 20, 2009. This will be followed by a period of ‘unlimited transfers’ till the first semi-final starts at 14:30 GMT on Oct 21, 2009. For a detailed look at the match and cut-off timings, please refer to the matches covered page.
Cut-off timelines for transfers: Teams (including the Trump Player) are ‘locked’ at the cut-off time for every match. Any changes made to your team after the cut-off time come into effect only from the next cut-off onwards.
Score Updates: Scores will be updated shortly after the end of every day’s play. Next Match Scheduled at: 08-Oct-2009 14:30 GMT Update Your Team Latest by: 08-Oct-2009 14:30 GMT
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24 Sep
I have been looking for the ultimate collection of the most useful and common jQuery code snippets for JavaScript over the web for quite some time now. But the world’s not a perfect place and I haven’t come across ‘the’ place where one would get all the information regarding jQuery be it for DOM manipulation and traversal functions, selectors, cheat sheets or performance improvement for JavaScript code which are written through jQuery. Hence this is my small endeavor to put together the most popular and talked about jQuery link collections across the web.
Here you would find links which are related to improve web site performance for your jQuery driven sites as well as helpful guides & tutorials with jQuery code snippets in them which you can basically copy-paste onto your web applications. The main goal was to focus on links which provide enough examples with jQuery code for the most common web development cases.
While this is not the ultimate collection for the most popular jQuery plugins, I have included the most re-tweeted ones through my twitter account search section. Please feel free to add links related to this particular category as well in the comments. I am sure it would be useful to the readers.
Here goes the compilation in no particular order:
Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips
jQuery Tips and Tricks– Stack Overflow
jQuery Useful and Handy Tips and Tricks
20 Top jQuery tips & tricks for jQuery programmers
5 easy tips on how to improve code performance with huge data sets in jQuery
50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1
8 Fantastic jQuery Tutorials for Designers
jQuery Tutorials for Designers
Top 3 jQuery Tips for Beginners
7 Really Useful Tips For Better jQuery Code
jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Miscellaneous
A Couple of Quick jQuery Tips: Alternating Gray Rows in a Table, Highlight Table Row Mouseover
10 Tips for Writing Better jQuery Code
6 fast jQuery Tips: More basic Snippets
6 more jQuery Tips: Text Searching, Page Load Time and Others
6 quick jQuery tips: Text manipulation, timers and elements
8 awesome JQuery tips and tricks
Useful and Handy jQuery Tips and Tricks
10 Advance jQuery Scripts to take Your Website to the Next Level
jQuery for Beginners: Selectors, Hierarchies and Attributes, Oh My!
20 jQuery Tutorials And Plugins To Impress Your Friends
25+ jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements
6 jQuery snippets you can use to manipulate select inputs
40 Exceptional jQuery Interface Techniques and Tutorials
95+ Exceptionally Useful jQuery Plugins, Tutorials and Cheat Sheets
10 Really Helpful Traversing Functions in jQuery
55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection
38 jQuery And CSS Drop Down Multi Level Menu Solutions
51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript
37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins
10 incredible JQuery navigation menus
Starting With jQuery – Validation Plug-in
bassistance.de » jQuery plugin: Validation
A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess
jQuery plugin to style scrollbars (cross-browser compatible)
jScrollPane: cross-browser jQuery plugin to replace browsers default vertical scrollbars
Jquery Vertical Slide (Dropdown) Navigation
Animated Scrolling with jQuery 1.2
jQuery Patch: Animate CSS Rotation and Scale
jQuery – Loading Partial Content
jQuery – Using Slider as a Scrollbar
Animated Page Scroll with jQuery
jQuery’s Passes Itself As An Argument To The “Ready” Event Callback
Viewing jQuery DOM Event Bindings With FireBug
jQuery’s Filter() Method Can Take A Callback Function For Advanced Filtering
A Graphical Explanation Of Javascript Closures In A jQuery Context
Load Content While Scrolling With jQuery
Implementing infinite scrolling with jQuery
jQuery Smooth Div Scroll by Thomas Kahn
Up and Down slider using JQuery
10 best jQuery gallery and slider plugins
Step By Step To Create Content Slider using jFlow, A Minimalist jQuery Plugin
Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI
Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider
Create Featured Content Slider Using jQuery UI
Update: jQuery UI 1.7 Slider from a Select Element
Build a Content Slider with jQuery
Easy Slider Plugin from jQuery UI
13 Super Useful jQuery Content Slider Scripts and Tutorials
Master CheckBox in GridView header
jQuery TOOLS / Scrollable – Scroll your HTML with eye candy
CSS/JS Hack – Vertical Scrollbars. On the… left.
jqPrint: jQuery Plugin to print only contents of a specified element using jPrintArea plugin
Introduction to jQuery in ASP.Net and 10 Advantages to Choose jQuery
45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins
jQuery based Modal Popups / Windows / Dialogs:
jqModal- Minimalist Modaling with jQuery
SimpleModal Plugin by Eric Martin
boxy – Facebook-like dialog/overlay, with frills
jQuery AJAX Validation Contact Form with Modal + Slide-in Transition | The Blog of Joren Rapini
jQuery Plugin: choose component
More =>
15+ jQuery Popup Modal Dialog Plugins and Tutorials
jQuery Popup Dialog And Gallery Plugin Reviews
Simple jQuery Modal Window Tutorial
Modal Scripts | Modal Window | Modal Dialog | Modal Popup – DownloadJavascripts.com
19 jQuery Modal Boxes to improve your UI
How to create a stunning and smooth popup using jQuery
Building modal panels with jQuery
JQuery: Die 22 besten Modal – Fenster Plugins [German site but still has useful links]
Please do keep in mind that this can’t, in no way, be the perfect and most complete collection for all things related to jQuery. Despite the title of the article, it simply can’t be without your efforts. Hence, I would most sincerely urge my valued readers to feel free to post their favorite ones through the comment section. With a little bit of help from you mates, I am sure we can build ‘the ultimate collection’ which we have set forth on achieving. After all, in order to achieve big we need to dream big as well, no? So, please do contribute even if that means posting a single link which adds value to this collection of jQuery links. Only then will this post no longer be a misnomer. Keep this growing to infinity folks!
18 Sep
It’s fantasy cricket time once again as countries lock horns against countries in the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 scheduled to begin on the 22nd of September, 2009.
According to Wikipedia, the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament to be held in South Africa between 22 September and 5 October.
Earlier this year, I ran another league on the T20 World Cup that was held in England during the month of June. Here’s that posting for you to get up to speed with the game:
Announcing new league on Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket for T20 World Cup 2009
Cricinfo has just announced couple of games for the upcoming 8 team Champions Trophy tournament.
This is the most exciting game of the two as you need to pick the right players to play the tournament. You can create a maximum of two teams in this game. Do make sure you have both the teams ready come match day on the 22nd because that gives you some insurance against one of your teams not doing well. In that case, you can always fall back upon your second team. The key is to pick two different teams with different combination so as to maximize your chances of success. There are few rules regarding transfers for this game:
Unlimited transfers are allowed only until 12:30 GMT on Sep 22, 2009. Thereafter, you have got 12 transfers available till the group matches get over on Sep 30, 2009. This will be followed by a period of ‘unlimited transfers’ till the first semi-final that starts at 12:30 GMT on Oct 2, 2009. Thereafter there would be 4 transfers allowed for the Semi-finals and Final.
I have created a league named “Velvet Flair Champions Trophy” for this very game. Do join me and rest of the folks to lock horns amongst ourselves and see who has got the best cricket brain to match this contest. In order to join join my League on Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket for the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 you need to use this LPIN:
90293-6f5ee36548afe841
This is another game where you need to predict the winner or loser in each game. But you have to do this right before the tournament starts.
I have also created a league named “Velvet Flair’s CT Pick’em” for the Champions Trophy Pick’em game. Here’s the LPIN for the league:
90292-6f5ee48c48afe168
To join the leagues,
Step 1: Go to Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket
Step 2: Login with your Cricinfo ID (you will need to register if you do not have one)
Step 3: Create an entry for yourself (this step is optional if you already have one)
Step 4: Click on ‘Join a League’ on the Left Hand Navigation
Step 5: On the page which appears, select your entry, copy and paste the unique invitation code (LPIN) mentioned above
Step 6: You are now a member of the league – all set to play Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket
In order to get some tips on the game and get abreast with the nuances of this fantasy league do read my earlier blog post below for the Twenty20 Worldcup held in June 2009 in England:
Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket Tips for Twenty20 Worldcup 2009
And here are few important links you need to keep your eyes on:
Have fun playing!
