I think this very well deserves to be a post!!

I have been intimated in the comments either for having been given an award or tagged. Some samples are below.

Shalini’s Award -> http://blogsofraghs.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/yet-another-book-in-lucky-draw/#comments

Pria’s Tag -> http://blogsofraghs.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/excellent-joke-on-hr-manager/#comments

I am sure neither me nor the individuals can easily track the post and its url now. Not just to divert the responsbility but a sincere request. As i could not immediately take it up by then, now i feel something is lacking!

I would definitely thank you for having considered me :P, but it would indeed be of much help if the individuals just take a little effort to just paste the corresponding URL as well :).

Hope you agree with me. If you are game, kindly follow the same henceforth!

Dear All…..

    Pls  pass on this information to your friends / neighbors… whose children are studying in the Stateboards.

 

    I think sometimes we are indirectly helping to someone like this.  Now the Tamil Nadu State board books are online in PDF and downloadable. From Std 1 to Std 12. All subjects…

  Any GOOD hearted person can print this material & handover to some Poor people.

   

   http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/Default.htm

  This one another good link you can have a look at : TDIL - Technology Development for Indian Languages -> http://www.ildc.gov.in/index.aspx

Courtesy: Thanks to my friends for sharing this information through email! :) 

A boss wondered why one of his most valued employees had phoned in sick one day.                                                               

Having an urgent problem with one of the main computers, he dialled the employee’s home phone number and was greeted with a child’s whisper.       

                                                                            

 ”Hello?”                                                                   

                                                                            

 ”Is your daddy home?” he asked.                                            

                                                                            

 ”Yes,” whispered the small voice.                                          

                                                                            

 ”May I talk with him?”                                                     

                                                                            

 The child whispered, “No.”                                                 

                                                                            

 Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, “Is your Mummy there?”                                                                                                                                          

 ”Yes.”                                                                     

                                                                            

 ”May I talk with her?”                                                     

                                                                            

 Again the small voice whispered, “No.”                                     

                                                                            

 Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked,  ”Is anybody else there?”                                           

                                                                            

 ”Yes,” whispered the child, “a policeman.”                                 

                                                                            

 Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee’s home, the boss asked,  ”May I speak with the policeman?”                                  

                                                                            

 ”No, he’s busy”, whispered the child.                                      

                                                                            

 ”Busy doing what?”                                                         

                                                                            

 ”Talking to Mummy and Daddy and the Fireman,” came the whispered answer.   

                                                                            

 Growing more worried as he heard what sounded like a helicopter through the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, “What is that noise?”           

                                                                            

 ”A hello-copper” answered the whispering voice.                            

                                                                            

 ”What is going on there?” demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive.

 Again, whispering, the child answered, “The search team just landed the hello-copper.”                                                                                                                                         

 Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the boss asked, “What are they searching for?”                                                                                                                                        

 Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle:           

                                                                

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 ”ME.”

Courtesy: Thanks to my colleague Sreejith Menon for sharing this through an email

Hello Techies

 This is one good news for the tech savvies.. today only got to know this link in JavaRanch. This is about the free e-books given every day based on the random selection out of all participants registered in manning.com a well known publisher..  They are mostly into Java, J2EE, XML related books - just fyi.

  For more info, visit this url: http://www.manning.com/free/

 All what you need to do is, just enter your first name and email address. Thats all!

  Note: This happens only from April 17 to 30, 2008! so rush up… If you are a lucky winner, just share the glad news with me here

A gentleman was once visiting a temple under construction.
In the temple premises, he saw a sculptor making an idol of God.
Suddenly he saw, just a few meters away, another identical idol was lying.
Surprised he asked the sculptor, do you need two statutes of the same idol. No said the sculptor.
We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.
The gentleman examined the statue.
No apparent damage was visible.
Where the damage is asked the gentleman.
There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.
Where are you going to keep the idol after it is done?
The sculptor replied that it will be installed on a pillar 20 feet high.
When the idol will be 20 feet away from the eyes of the beholder, who is going to know that there is scratch on the nose? The gentleman asked.

The sculptor looked at the gentleman, smiled and said, “The God knows it and I know it “.
The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not.
Excellence is a drive from Inside not Outside.

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I believe you must have well agreed with it. Is nt it?

I would like to thank my friend Varadharajan R for sharing this through an email.

nowadays i have been ‘realizing’ many proverbs i would say. well, i may post those experiences in a separate blog!

this is an infamous proverb we might have been coming across since our childhood during several occasions and we happened to hear from many people around as well. ‘everything happens for good‘ - this might make us feel irritated and like adding fuel to fire when we are ‘in’ the circle! yes, i mean it.

when we say it to others, it may not matter but only when we ‘experience’, it will give a totally different shape.

Today i got a call from office saying that the filesystem reached its 100% in Production. Despite being a holiday, it does not matter when you are on a production support :). You have to be available on 24*7 basis as per norms. Well, i just told the network admin (aka system admin) to move the heapdumps, javacore files (they are the files which the Java process writes into the filesystem when the running java process reaches out of memory) to the external hard drive so that we can get some space. but even after that, there was no luck :(.

I came to office and i did the usual work around. I stopped the application server and cleaned up the temporary files as well by archiving the log files. And moved those archived files to the external hard drive. still no luck :(. It was stubborn and showing 99% :).

Had been thinking what would be the cause and somehow started into the tuning, troubleshooting documents. In the middle, thought of bringing the server up. But to my surprise, the server was not getting started and it was showing some errors in the linux console. After some attempts, thought of killing the process as usual and while doing so, by mistake i killed a different process named ‘EmailService‘ which was on top when i searched for the ‘java’ processes running at present in the system. Usually there won’t be any other services than our regular application server process and the corresponding node agent. Till now i have not seen this EmailService and it was not attracting me too. So i went ahead in killing the process and then i found out the mistake when verifying after deletion.

In the middle, i just checked for the memory usage, it went again upto 100%. Wondering what might be happening!

Thought i have done a mistake and have to get it corrected, searched for the process or its corresponding scheduler (cronjob in linux which is similar to the batch file in windows to automate tasks) for starting the EmailService. There we found so many core dumps generated in the EmailScheduler :). Lucky are we! After taking backup of those core dumps and deleting them, we got 24% free space and the disk usage was 76% !!

When asked the colleague about the issue during the startup of EmailService, he told one more infomation that this email service would be generating some pdfs as well. After some usual searches, we found out in a subdirectory there were some 7600+ pdfs silently sitting and occupying minimum of 1.1 MB each. Few of them had around 2MB size and very few had 20 MBs.. So altogether we got some 700 MB+ space in disk.

Had the ‘EmailService’ not been deleted accidentally, we would have ended up somewhere else. Atleast we would have wasted some more time when dealing with the ‘Production issue’.

Overall, we should not panic about the issues rather we should welcome! — is that what i feel now! wat say?

Well, there is no need to explain the 4 words series.. any1 wud easily get it.

Its the recent blog entry of ‘Robin Sharma‘, a great author of so many excellent books like ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari‘, ‘The Greatness Guide‘ etc., Though i have been getting the updates from his blogs, this one triggered me to blog it immediately.

Just with Robin Sharma’s permission (:)), copy-pasting the content here. Anyways, the original URL is here -> http://www.robinsharma.com/life_coach_ic_blog_416.htm

Here You go..

The smallest of actions is so much better/braver/smarter than the biggest of intentions. Leadership is all about making good things happen. About getting great things done. About the translation of beautiful ideas into brilliant results.

We live in an interesting world. Too much overpromise and underdelivery. But world-class leaders/businesspeople/ human beings are different. Remarkably so.

They talk less. And do more. They are masterful at execution. They are acutely focused. On creating value. On what’s most important. On birthing their best into the world.

Have any of you seen or experienced a little controversy in this regard? If so, let me know! I am curious to know the facts falling on the other branch of the tree!

Though its been sometime i blogged, today this news really insisted me to do so..

Picture Courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36742145@N00/18202462/

Originally known as ‘S Rangarajan‘, this multi-faceted, eminent personality is well known in the fields of science, literature etc.,  He has never failed to leave his imprints in his works irrespective of the field.  He has got an excellent place in the tamil cinema industry as well in the form of script writer.. very sweet and marking dialogues can definitely make him remembered. Recently he wrote scripts for ‘Sivaji - The Boss’.

 i really could not believe the news when i just saw my colleague was reading the news in hindu.com website today..

“Writer sujatha has passed away yesterday (wednesday) at his age of 72″ 

it took me a minute to realize.. but what to do? reality! hm.. the human life has to come to an end..  my deep condolences to his family members and prayers for his soul to rest in peace.

 I am one among the huge fans he had earned. I am sure his soul will rest in peace definitely as he would have done all his duties perfectly. he was the classmate of our ex President APJ Abdul kalaam.

 there were many excellent stories, short stories, articles written  by him..  he became famous through the tamil weekly magazine ‘Ananda Vikatan’ and his recent contribution to the article ‘Kattradhum Pettradhum’ was a feather to the crown. They were actually collected and released as a series of 3 books. His ‘one minute stories’ - in the name of  ’si si kathaigal’ were also very remarkable.

whenever i see him in the photographs, i always spend sometime in listening to his eyes.. which has got a real magic power which i feel so great when experiencing..

You will definitely be remembered for your contributions and footprints you have left with us….

To get to know more about this news, you may please go through any of the links..

http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2008/feb/28sujatha.htm

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb282008/national2008022854650.asp?section=updatenews

Missing you dear sujatha sir……

I bet you can’t stop laughing.. It is a practical joke!

Proceed here….

Courtesy: Thanks to my friend Meera for sharing this through an email

One day while walking down the street a highly successful Human Resources Manager was tragically hit by a bus and she died. Her soul arrived up in heaven where she was met at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter himself.

“Welcome to Heaven,” said St. Peter. “Before you get settled in though, it seems we have a problem. You see, strangely enough, we’ve never once had a Human Resources Manager make it this far and we’re not really sure what to do with you.”

“No problem, just let me in,” said the woman.

“Well, I’d like to, but I have higher orders. What we’re going to do is let you have a day in Hell and a day in Heaven and then you can choose whichever one you want to spend an eternity in.”

“Actually, I think I’ve made up my mind, I prefer to stay in Heaven”, said the woman

“Sorry, we have rules…”

And with that St. Peter put the executive in an elevator and it went down-down-down to hell.

The doors opened and she found herself stepping out onto the putting green of a beautiful golf course. In the distance was a country club and standing in front of her were all her friends - fellow executives that she had worked with and they were well dressed in evening owns and cheering for her. They ran up and kissed her on both cheeks and they talked about old times. They played an excellent round of golf and at night went to the country club where she enjoyed an excellent steak and lobster dinner.

She met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy (kind of cute) and she had a great time telling jokes and dancing. She was having such a good time that before she knew it, it was time to leave. Everybody shook her hand and waved goodbye as she got on the elevator.

The elevator went up-up-up and opened back up at the Pearly Gates and found St. Peter waiting for her.

“Now it’s time to spend a day in heaven,” he said. So she spent the next 24 hours lounging around on clouds and playing the harp and singing. She had great time and before she knew it her 24 hours were up and St. Peter came and got her.

“So, you’ve spent a day in hell and you’ve spent a day in heaven. Now you must choose your eternity,”

The woman paused for a second and then replied, “Well, I never thought I’d say this, I mean, Heaven has been really great and all, but I think I had a better time in Hell.”

So St. Peter escorted her to the elevator and again she went down-down-down back to Hell.

When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth. She saw her friends were dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage and putting it in sacks.

The Devil came up to her and put his arm around her.

“I don’t understand,” stammered the woman, “yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a country club and we ate lobster and we danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland of garbage and all my friends look miserable.”

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Yesterday we were recruiting you, Today you are an employee.

This is the second time i got a chance to know about the persistence of so called ‘luck’ I was selected as lucky draw winner in JavaRanch forum’s Book Promotion offer on 14Dec2007 and the book was ‘Java Programming Cookbook‘ by Herbert Schildt.  The previous one was blogged here

Moreover I felt very happy for getting a chance to interact with the author(s) directly in the forum. I believe people from Computer Science/ Information Technology background might have definitely come across Herbert Schild’s famous books like ‘The Complete Reference C’, C++, Java etc., That was like adding honey to the icecream

I have got the book dispatched today (13Jan2008) to the Bahrain address and happy to share the news with you all here [as usual by the time i blog its 14Jan08 :(]

As usual the snapshot of the forum thread which declares the winners here below.

The thread is accessible here for the Java Programming Cookbook Winners!

The other threads where Herbert Schildt is welcomed is here and one of my queries to the author is here.

The snapshot of my welcome message to Herbert Schildt is below..

Cheers!!!