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Speaking at Georgia Tech's 172nd commencement address in September 1996, Brian G. Dyson, then Coca-Cola Enterprises president and CEO, said, Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air…. You name them—work, family, health, friends, and spirit—and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls—family, health, friends, and spirit— are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. src

Have you heard the beep sound from the Windows command window? If the command you execute has an error and if it throws bell characters, you get this sound. Muting your external sound devices doesn't really help as it is raised from the internal PC speaker. These are the common situations I have seen: prompt>jar -c filename prompt>mysql (without -b option) and then invalid command in the mysql prompt prompt>vim filename and then press invalid characters like q The beep sound is so annoying and loud enough to disturb the people in and around your cubicle. That would really embarrass the person. I am sure you prefer to disable it if you had already faced this awkward situation. Even otherwise you should consider disabling it (or do you think it is useful?) Just try this: prompt>net stop beep prompt>sc config beep start= disabled I hope you would try the alternatives with SysAdmin's guidance.

I am sure, if you love a thing, you wish to see the best of it. Don't you? Perhaps that is the secret of 'Chettinad' food's taste. People from that area enjoy the taste when they have their food. Their heart and mind are in it. It is hard to find a match when you get the Chettinad food served in a Banana leaf. Though many of my friends say that the "Vellai Paniyarm"/"Paal Paniyaram" is the special, I love the 'Kavun Arisi' sweet. When they get every ingredients right, for me, that tastes better than everything else. In my recent visit to Karaikudi, I got a chance to taste another scrumptious drink. It is a derivation from North Indian food (Not sure about it) and it is very famous in Madurai. In fact, the name is mentioned in the Tamil movie "Kadhal" - I had not noticed it. I wonder why they got the name "Jil Jil Jigar Thanda" for it, but believe me it is very delicious.

Once upon a time there was a fish. And just because it was a fish, it had lived all its life in the water and knew nothing whatever about anything else but water. And one day as it swam about in the lake where all its days had been spent, it happened to meet a turtle of its acquaintance who had just come back from a little excursion on the land. "Good day, Mr. Turtle!" said the fish. "I have not seen you for a long time. Where have you been?" "Oh", said the turtle, "I have just been for a trip on dry land." "On dry land!" exclaimed the fish. "What do you mean by on dry land? There is no dry land. I had never seen such a thing. Dry land is nothing." "Well," said the turtle good-naturedly. "If you want to think so, of course you may; there is no one who can hinder you. But that's where I've been, all the same." "Oh, come," said the fish. "Try to talk sense. Just tell me now what is this

I am using PSPad more than a year and I am really surprised with the power of this simple editor. Why don't you try this? It is for MS Windows users.

It is from the movie 'Minsara Kanavu' and the lyrics by 'Vairamuthu'. It may go like this: I asked, "What is the kind of the saree the girl who is going on the bullock cart is wearing?" and the reply is "colour of the rainbow". Sometimes the smell brought by the raindrops that falls on the soil takes me to the rainbow. There are so many songs that can stay in your heart forever and, perhaps, this is not(?) of that caliber yet these lines are very attractive to me as they raised some strange questions as soon as I listen to it. The actor puts in a question "What kind of the saree that the girl is wearing?" and the answer he got is "rainbow colour!". He is a blind and how does he know the colour of the rainbow?. He himself gives an answer - "The aroma spread by the fresh rain drops that falls on the earth takes him to the rainbow" He feels the majesty of rainbow in the form the fragrance of the earth. For him, the colour o

Have you ever taught your kid to cry? Right from the very moment of their life in this world they cry. Perhaps one of the things you try to unlearn throughout your life and never really succeed. So natural. Isn't? The tone, the style, the need, I bet kids (age below 4) are the masters of crying. It means so much to them. They cry if they are hungry. They cry if they are sleepy. They cry if they are scared. They cry if they want someone to take them. They cry if they are tired. They cry if they want to ... It is their language. I think the best of mothers and fathers are the one who can understand/predict and prepared for it. Sometimes they keep crying. You know there is something wrong but you can't get it. They know no language other than filling their eyes with tear. You have no remedy but to hold them tight and make them feel that you love and care them through your every breath. I would say that is an extremely painful moment for a mother. You wanted to go somewhere for a v

நீ வந்து பேசுகையில் பூக்களுக்கு வருத்தம்தான். காற்றிலேயே தேன் குடித்து திரும்பி விடுகின்றனவாம் தேனீக்கள்! src

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* Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance * The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. * Barack Obama in His Own Words. PublicAffairs * Renewing American Leadership * Barack Obama: What He Believes In – From His Own Works. * Barack Obama vs. John McCain – Side by Side Senate Voting Record for Easy Comparison

அழகான சிறிய ஹைக்கூ கவிதை கேட்டார்கள் அம்மா என்றேன் கேட்பது அம்மாவாக இருந்திருந்தால் அதை விட சிறியதாக சொல்லிருப்பேன் நீ என்று. src

I got this as an email forward: Though it is very long it is worth reading, especially at this time as we here a lot about huge rise and fall in the land value and shares. Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating around. 1) There were 3 citizens living on this island country. A owned the land. B and C each owned 1 dollar. 2) B decided to purchase the land from A for 1 dollar. So, now A and C own 1 dollar each while B owned a piece of land that is worth 1 dollar. * The net asset of the country now = 3 dollars. 3) Now C thought that since there is only one piece of land in the country, and land is non producible asset, its value must definitely go up. So, he borrowed 1 dollar from A, and together with his own 1 dollar, he bought the land from B for 2 dollars. * A has a loan to C of 1 dollar, so his net asset is 1 dollar. * B sold hi

I have seen the "seed" be used in many places as an analogy to bring life, full potential from nothingness. The following one is quite different and interesting. It is taken to show when and why you could drop your ego. You take a seed and cut it in any direction. Can you find the beautiful flowers, feel the fragrance? No. And you know nothing can come without the seed. Well, the realisation requires a multiphase transition from the seed. Even for a man to realise his infinite potential, he has to go through many phases. One such phase is where he drops his ego, similar to the seed dropping its outer shell. The shell has to protect the seed to an extent. Neither the wind nor the sun should be allowed to kill the seed. If that happens, the seed dies without unleashing the greenery it bears - trees would only be seed's dream. So it can no longer be allowed to protect the seed when it is a perfect time to drop it, on a wet land. The seed has to drop the shell to bring forth

Why can't Java access modifiers be applied at the object level? Jay shares his insight on his blog Is this a violation of information hiding? The fact: Java objects can see the private variables and methods of an object of the same type. The private keyword is class-private, not object-private

பிரிந்தென்னை சிலுவையில் அறைந்துபோனாய் உயிர்த்தெழுகின்றன உன் ஞாபகங்கள்... http://www.nilaraseeganonline.com/2008/03/1.html

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To be completed I no longer seem to be afraid of the firecrackers on the street.

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Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz (Author), Dori Jones Yang (Author) Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove Made in Japan by Akio Morita

நெஞ்சுக்குள் பெய்திடும் மாமழை நீருக்குள் மூழ்கிடும் தாமரை சட்டென்று மாறுது வானிலை பெண்ணே உன் மேல் பிழை நில்லாமல் வீசிடும் பேரலை நெஞ்சுக்குள் நீந்திடும் காலலை பொன்வண்ணம் சூடிடும் காரிகை பெண்ணே உன் காஞ்சலை ஓம் ஷாந்தி ஷாந்தி ஓ ஷாந்தி என் உயிரை உயிரை நீ ஏந்தி ஏன் சென்றாய் சென்றாய் எனை தாண்டி இனி நீதான் எந்தன் அந்தாதி (நெஞ்சுக்குள்..) ஏதோ ஒன்று என்னை ஈர்க்க மூக்கின் நுனி மர்மம் சேர்க்க கள்ளத்தன்ம் ஏதும் இல்லா புன்னகையோ போகும்மில்லா நீ நின்ற இடமென்றால் விலையேறி போகாதோ நீ செல்லும் வழியெல்லாம் பனிக்கட்டி ஆகாதோ என்னோடு வா வீடு வரைக்கும் என் வீட்டை பார் என்னை பிடிக்கும் இவள் யாரோ யாரோ தெரியாதே இவள் பின்னால் நெஞ்சே போகாதே இது பொய்யோ மெய்யோ தெரியாதே இவள் பின்னால் நெஞ்சே போகாதே போகாதே.. (நெஞ்சுக்குள்...) தூக்கங்களை தூக்கிச் சென்றாள் தூக்கி சென்றாள்.. ஏக்கங்களை தூவிச் சென்றாள் உன்னை தாண்டி போகும் போது போகும் போது.. வீசும் காற்றின் வீச்சிலே நில்லென்று நீ சொன்னால் என் காதல் நகராதே நீ சூடும் பூவெல்லாம் ஒரு போதும் உதிராதே காதல் எனை கேட்கவில்லை கேட்காதது காதில் இல்லா என் ஜீவன் ஜீவன் நீதானே என தோன்றும் நே

You can't be successful if you lack one of these: Luck & Talent. Right? "For god's sake, allow me to fail" Badrinath said. "If I am unable to prove my worth at the international arena, I will never say anything and be a fringe player all my life. But I deserve one chance" "Even today I was there in front of the TV, with my wife, waiting for the team to be announced. I was numb when they finished reading the names" Badrinath told the Times of India. "I'm lost, I don't know where to go from here" More: http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/slvind/content/story/364138.html Kovil Pillai P.

Added on Sep 26, 2008 All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. --- Greg Arnold Added on Sep 26, 2008 If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --- Albert Einstein Added on Sep 09, 2008 If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. --- Mary Kay Ash Added on Sep 02, 2008 Show class, have pride and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. --- Paul Bryant, Football coach Added on Sep 02, 2008 Let your heart soar as high as it can - refuse to be average. --- A.W. Tozer Added on Sep 02, 2008 If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --- Albert Einstein Kovil Pillai P. *

Enter !mail email-address in the search box and what would be your reaction if you get an email compose window as a result? Try Yahoo!Search to feel it. I had taken a pledge to try not using Google for any real purpose for one month, including the search that I use too often. I decided to try Yahoo!Search instead of considering any other alternatives. Yahoo!Search home page is as simple and as plain as Google search home page. Yet I find it very alien. In fact, for the first two days, as soon as I entered into Yahoo!Search page I felt I had landed up in a wrong place. Of course, no wonder, as I am using Google search since my college days. Yahoo!Search Homepage While entering keywords I found a greyish blue line appearing below the text box. Too ugly? Bug? --- It is an auto suggestion list without data. Yahoo!Search Auto-suggestion Auto-suggestion is useful too! I had the DOB of Olympics 2008 participants and I wanted to calculate the age. I thought I need the DATEDIFF function to ge

A group of IIM-A alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups. Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold

If it is "Aadi", the fourth Tamil month - if you count from "Chitirai", the thing I associate with it is "Kool" - those old days are crystal clear like many other wonderful moments of school days. The grandma story is: While Jamadhakni rishi, a devotee of Lord Shiva, was burnt, Renuka Devi - his wife also leaped upon the funeral pyre. Since the rain God, Varuna, drenched the fire with heavy rain, she was just burnt but alive. The people around there made her lay on a plantain leaf, neem leaves and gave her tender coconut, Kool - a porridge, butter milk, etc. In fact, it works scientifically too. I mean, these food items are good for everyone in this month. "Aadi" begins with a season shift after the three hot months of summer. The season change creates a lot of 'heat' related diseases. The remedy for common disease like chickenpox, smallpox is the food consists of tender coconut... It is Aadi 30 today (Aug 14, 2008) and it got two more da

It was auto primetime (time when people rush to get autos and taxies rather than waiting for the bus, not just because it is late but because everyone else is leaving, and the fear, they might be left alone in the night) at Vijayanagar bus terminus and I was waiting for the bus, knowing that the bus would surely come within maximum of 20 minutes. It is such wonderful feeling to stay relaxed in the midst of disarray. Of course, thank God for the 'flexitime', both at home and in the office. Three buses came in succession: 21L, 10G and M45E. I was looking for 5A, M21 or some 51s. Before I turn my attention back to the crowded auto, I felt, I saw something I was waiting for. It took few seconds, perhaps such an unmatched complex queuing system, for my mind to pick the scene from what it had seen a second before. The word 'Tambaram' - exactly the thing I wanted. Why did I take those few extra seconds to notice it? I realise, it is because, the bus is new in this route, at le

You could get the latest live analysis of Beijing: Olympics 2008 here Live Olympics Dashboard - Beijing Olympics, 2008 Kovil Pillai P.

Do you allow a LKG kid to take your mobile phone and use it? I do. She is matured enough to talk over the phone to anyone she knows. And she is 'matured' enough to talk to her friend without actually dialing (simply because she doesn't know how to unlock). Since she holds the mobile safely, I am not afraid to give it to her. Taking a photo is very simple with my mobile. You just have to nudge the camera cover down and get it opened, press the center button on the navigation panel. She loves to take photos, probably she prefer watching the image in front of the camera moving on the screen and enjoys the click sound. I am happy as long as she could move some of the 'objects' so that it comes under the camera, without disturbing me. Last week, I got a polite SMS from one of my friends: "May I know the reason, why you called me so early in the morning?" I was bit surprised because I didn't call him. I checked the dialed number and his number was there. Wel

Can't think of starting my day without MorningCoffee . I have listed the rest of my favourite Firefox extensions below: FlashGot + DownThemAll! Wonderful combination to download web page content - quick and easy. MR Tech Toolkit Should I say"META" extension? Firebug How could you miss this, especially if your work involves CSS and JS? HttpFox You might be using LiveHTTPHeaders . Organize Status Bar I always prefer simple browser interface. Clean up those icons placed on the status bar. Stylish Take control and be stylish. Tiny Menu I prefer simple menu interface. BlockSite I hate if the Ad is too big to my taste. I block it. Kovil Pillai P.

Generally I don't play computer games but somehow I got addicted to Windows® Spider - card game, just finished 1000 wins at 40% success rate. Losing 12 games in a streak is very simple as you just have to keep losing but winning 8 games in a streak is never an easy job. I am glad I did it. 39% success, that is the lowest score so far. I don't think I will let it go below that as I am becoming an expert. Sometimes it really tests your patience, 4325 moves, surely more than an hour, I won't think of doing that again. You know, I play only "Difficulty: Four suits". It takes about an hour to finish four games and I have played over 2500 games, the realization hurts - the amount of time I have spent, especially after following lots of time management techniques. Kovil Pillai P.

"Indians are very good at playing spinners..." - It is a comment passed by one of the commentator during the Asia Cup 2008 final between India and Srilanka. I was laughing because he was referring to the current Indian ODI team. I don't think any of the players, including Yuvaraj, is capable of handling good spin bowling. I am so curious to see how our OLD people are going to play the Srilankan spinners, especially the new magic Mendis. It could be a wonderful fight as we are meeting the lions in their homeland. Dhoni has taken rest (Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that he couldn't read Mendis bowling). Can Dravid , Ganguly, Laxman and Sachin, Shewag - on his day, do it for India? Or Will Murali and Mendis prove that they are the best spin combination? Though I love to see Sangakkara scoring few centuries (if not double) I should admit that the Indian bowling attack is also not bad. This should be a good series to watch. P.S.: Sachin's quote: I do

If you had a bus travel experience in Chennai, you would be able to get what I am going to say! I don't generally look for a seat in the moderately crowded bus while coming to the office. I prefer standing (that is equally comfortable one for me) for about 40 minutes, in the fresh morning. I know there are lots of people who get annoyed if they don't get a seat as soon as they are in the bus. This is an unwritten(?) rule: You are the owner of it, if you are standing near the seat which is going to be freed. There are professional people who could break this rule if you give them a little bit of chance. The simplest trick is to give your lunch bag/etc., to the person who is seated. He takes care of your bag (of course, will return it!). It is a 'compulsory help' that one ought to do for his co-passenger. When he needs to get down from the bus, your bag books a seat for you. Whom should you give your belongings is where your professionalism shown. Another trick is to look

This post is not for you, if you can't understand Tamil without translation. I prefer to read Haiku sort of poems because they are * Short * Simple * Full of imagination * Worst case, tend to be a good joke I have read this poem (given below) recently. After reading the first four lines, I thought he is worried about the environment. After reading the next four lines, I felt, he is also concerned about the fellow people. And then he surprised my 'read ahead' mind with his next four lines, especially the last line because I was expecting something to show his 'social responsibility' but it was something else. What kind of person is he to have this kind of thought flow? Kovil Pillai P.

I took the photo yesterday (May 10, 2008). I was thinking why I did this, because I am taking coffee everyday from the pantry? What is special about this cup of coffee? Now I realise it is because of the book I am currently reading Pour Your Heart into It . Good one! Kovil Pillai P.

I am writing this - limiting myself to what I trust is our tradition and taking what I believe is the best of it. Thinking of the various relationships that exist in our lives, I tried to say what could be the best of relationship that I can get from a person belongs to the other sex. Without thinking anything I could easily restrict myself with just three: friend, wife, and mother. Though I thought it is unfair to ignore a friend, I prefer to escape by giving the neither pure nor fully poisoned culture of ours as a reason. It wasn't as tough as I had imagined - between wife and mother, I find I can easily choose wife as the best - especially when I see my life in its full length - And fortunately I have not asked "Whose love is the best?". My wife is the one who brought me back to the family life. Me: an average young man who believed and enjoyed the pleasures that are outside the family life and I hoped to continue that forever. I trusted no one as I trusted m

There could be too many, I am listing few of them. Of course, they are not as obvious as shown below, especially when they go multiple levels of method/function calls. Split: (Java) I should have read the docs properly. Code: String[] data = { "Phil;45678910;", "Alex;45678910;45678911"}; for(int i=0; i< datasplit =" data[i].split(" i="0;" datasplit =" data[i].split("> Parse Int: (JavaScript) Strange? The date component doesn't work properly for August and September. ( I used parseInt(monthField). Code: alert(parseInt("07")); // 7 alert(parseInt("08")); // 0 alert(parseInt("0xA")); //10 Thank God, I know number systems! Key Words: (JavaScript) The following script throws an error. Absolutely correct? Code: var ZDBExport = function() { this.export = function(arg1, arg2) { // do export } } And realised "export" is a keyword in javascript. It allows the signed script to export its properties