Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2008

Work/Life Balance

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

Windows: Disable beep on error

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.

Chettinad - Kavun Arisi sweet

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.

The Fish and the Turtle

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

colour of the RAINBOW

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