Mouse cursor jumping

For a few days, I had this wierd issue of mouse jumping across paragraphs when typing something really fast. So if I'm typing on line 5 and the mouse pointer is on line 1, after a while the cursor jumps to line 1 and I find myself typing on line 1, thus spoiling what I already typed. Googling did not help much, as the control panel mouse settings differ from make to make. Here's what I did finally on my Dell Notebook Latitude E5400.

Control Panel -> Mouse -> Hardware -> Dell Touchpad -> Properties -> Advanced Settings -> Wheel Detection = Look for wheel and Uncheck "Fast Initialization".

Resolve to plan your year

The end of 2010 is near and with the rush of the holidays January will be here all too soon. Many of us will make a few New Year’s resolutions, and many of us will forget the resolutions not long after, illustrating that we’re all wonderfully human.  I think sometimes our poor luck with resolutions leads us to abandon planning and goal setting altogether – a mistake I’ve made too made times. I do better with a plan. It doesn’t always work out quite according to plan, and I don’t always hit my goals, but just having a plan seems to make a difference.

Sometime between now and the end of the year find a quiet corner and spend 2 hours thinking about what you want to accomplish next year. Reflect on what you’ve accomplished this year, how work is going, whether you’re spending enough time with family, and where you would like to be a year later. Dream a little, and write it all down. Think of it as a ‘State of You’ letter. Write down what you’d like to do and why and how and when. It’s not a contract, it’s not something you’ll read a year from now and cringe at - it’s about making you think about where you want to go.

So make your list, and yes, check it twice. Give yourself the gift of two hours to think about what you’d like to do next year, and I think you’ll find it to be more valuable than you might expect.

Happy Holidays,

Andy Warren from http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/71789

Art attack

 

I'm really bored tonight and this is what I came up with. An elderly Indian woman at a terminal traveling overseas for the first time leaving her husband behind.

Its easy to hate, but hard to love

Now I might run the risk of sounding like a guru, but this is what I got to experience recently and this was nothing less than a spiritual experience. It all started when my dear brother handed me this treasure which was lying at his home underutilized. It was a Stephen Covey quietly sitting on a shelf at his home. It was like this charismatic speaker who taught the world the right way to live was never allowed to speak there. Yes, I was handed the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". I will soon coax him into reading this book himself too, but that's another day.

So, this book opposes the cosmetic way of personality development that many books talk about. Covey professes that you cannot "influence people and make friends" without genuinely liking them. You will need to a drastic change internally in order to be able to change your personality externally. Its sort of a soul cleaning exercise that is necessary in order to achieve any kind of success. Otherwise, you may still achieve success but at the cost of others' happiness.

Getting back to the subject of this blog, now that I am reading some doctrines prescribed in the book and getting to practice them as suggested by Covey, I am increasingly able to love everyone around me. Its a pristine, unadulterated, unconditional love that doesn't expect anything in return. And the more I love, the more I realize how hard it is to love someone.

Hating is easy. Its easy to say "this guy is a bad manager. All he cares about is his own success." But it's hard to put yourself into his shoes and understand what pressure he undergoes and why he passes on some of it to his underlings. Its easy to say "my spouse doesn't love me anymore." Its hard to unconditionally give your best to her and make yourself likable to him or her. Its easy to put your ego first and get offended by a seemingly innocent remark. But its hard to take it sportively and understand the point. Its easy to blame the government for apathy. But its hard to be a good citizen and make a difference.

As humans, we take the path of least resistance and tend to hate. But whenever I feel the urge to do that, I direct myself to take the hard path instead. And once I take the path of love, only then I realize the blissful after-effects that come as a bonus. Mind will be filled with positive energy, which makes you tireless even after a hard day. Negative energy brings nothing but stress and exhaustion.

To end the blog post, let me quote from Star Wars - "May the (positive) force be with you..."

Learning From Best Bloggers

Source: http://bestblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/30/learning-from-best-bloggers

• Best Bloggers respect their readers. They don’t take you for granted. They respond to your comments. They keep their promises or tell you why they haven’t been able to. (For example: We tried to do a Blog-A-Day every day this December. But we went to too many parties to do one EVERY single day. Still, even falling short of the goal, we gave you more great blogs this month than we have in many months this year.)
• Best Bloggers hook you. They drawn you in from the first sentence. That can happen in as many ways as there are imaginations, but it never, ever means this sort of beginning: Sorry I haven’t blogged in so long, but I’ve been busy. Or Not much to say, but I don’t have anything else to do but blog. A Best Blogger has got something to say, and they make you want to hear it.
• Bloggers know how to use the tools at their disposal. Mostly, that means they’re good at the language in which they blog. Their writing is clear and sharp, they can punctuate, they proofread, and they sound like the smart people they are.
• Bloggers are generous. They know there’s room for everyone. They know that another great blog in no way diminishes them. They link to people they admire, regardless of whether that other blog is bigger or smaller than they are.
• Best Bloggers never stop learning. They read other blogs and learn from what they discover there. They read books — books that are so well written they feel compelled to try to do the same. They’re curious. They’re not afraid to say, I don’t understand that. They try new things. Maybe they’ll learn to podcast. Or take some pictures. Or try out a new template. Find out what CSS is.
• Bloggers know themselves. They don’t try to be other people. They know what they love, even if it’s a little odd, and their enthusiasm and affection for their subject animates their writing.
• Best Bloggers know they’re part of a community. They contribute to forums, help new folks out, welcome people to blogging.

It's raining Deals

Man spends Rs.200 for a Rs.100 thing that he really wants. Woman spends Rs.100 for a Rs.200 thing that she doesn't need. And for those of you looking for the best deals on things that you really need, I suggest a couple of sites where it's raining deals - www.koovs.com, www.dealivore.com and www.snapdeal.com

How it works for customers?

• Take a look at their website.
• Check the discounts offered on various promos. These are usually services, like Food, wellness, medical benefits, adventure sports, etc.
• Make a payment on the website and carry the printout to the vendor.
• Avail of the service.

How it works for merchants?

• Gets them visibility from consumer base.
• Small profits from huge consumer base is as good as having huge profits from little consumer base.

I used Koovs.com once where I got a complete master health checkup worth 2000 bucks for about 500. See the below widget for today's deal.

Am I dead?

Here's a nice email forward that a nice friend sent me this morning -

It's another morning......... Again I have to go to the office.

Ohh!! this is me... I shouted, having a glance at my ‘photo’ in today's news paper.

But what the HELL is it doing in the death column??

Strange...

One second.......Let me think, last night when I was going to bed I had a severe pain in my chest, but I don't remember anything after that, I think I had a sound sleep.

It's morning now, ohh....... It's already 10:00 AM, where is my coffee?

I will be late for office and my boss will get a chance to irritate me..

Where is everyone...??? I screamed.

"I think there is a crowd outside my room, let me check." I said to myself.

So many people..... Not all of them crying......

But why are some of them crying....

WHAT IS THIS??? I’m lying there on the floor...

"I AM HERE" ....... I shouted!!! No one is listening.

"LOOK I AM NOT DEAD" .... I screamed once again!! No one is interested in me.

They all were looking at me on the bed.

I went back to my bed room. "Am I dead??" I asked myself...

Where is my wife, my children, my Mom, my Dad, my friends?

I found them in the next room, all of them were crying...still trying to console each other.

My wife was crying... she was really looking sad.

My little kid was not sure what happened, but he was crying just because his Mom was sad..

How can I go without saying to my kid that I really love him,

I really do care for him. ??

How can I go without saying to my wife that she is really the most beautiful and most caring wife in this world..??

How can I go without saying to my parents that I’m what I am ... just because of you??

How can I go without telling my friends that without them perhaps I would have done most of the wrong things in my life... thanks for being there always when I need them...and sorry for not being there when they really need me..

I can see a person standing in the corner and trying to hide his tears....

Oh.... he was once my best friend, but a small misunderstanding made us part, and we both have a strong enough ego to keep us disconnected.

I went there..... And offered him my hand, "Dear friend.... I just want to say sorry for everything, we are still best friends, please forgive me."

No response from other side, what the hell?? He is still preserving his ego, I am saying sorry... even then!!!

I really don't care for such people.

But one second...... It seems he is not able to see me!!!! He did not see my extended hand.

My goodness...... AM I REALLY DEAD???

I just sat down near ME; I was also feeling like crying...

"OH ALMIGHTY!!!! PLEASE JUST GIVE ME FEW MORE DAYS..."

I just want to make my wife, my parents; my friends realize how much I love them.....

My wife entered the room, she looks beautiful.

"YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL" I shouted.

She didn't hear my words, in fact she never heard these words because I never said this to her.

"GOD!!!!" I screamed... a little more time plzzzzz...

I cried...

One more chance please... to hug my child, to make my mom smile just once, to feel my dad proud of me at least for a moment, to say sorry to my friends for everything I have not given to them, and thanks for still being in my life....

Then I looked up and cried!!

I shouted.......

"GOD!!!! ONE MORE CHANCE PLEASE!!!!"

"You shouted in your sleep," said my wife as she gently woke me up. "Did you have a nightmare?"

I was sleeping....

Ohh that was just a dream....

My wife was there... she can hear me... This is the happiest moment of my life...

I hugged her and whispered....

"YOU ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND CARING WIFE IN THIS UNIVERSE..... I REALLY LOVE YOU, DEAR"

I can't understand the reason of the smile on her face with some tears in her eyes, still I’m happy....

"THANK YOU GOD FOR THIS SECOND CHANCE."

SO, now it's not late... Forget the egos, the Past... and express your love to others.......

Be friendly...

Keep smiling...... forever....It is another chance For you...

Please let us do things more sincerely...