Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Tides of Time

Once upon a time dere was a boy who sneaked out like a rat...he was too shy 2 talk 2 girls...dey teased him calling names...out of the many gorgeous girl,dere was a particular one...the boy & the girl went 2 the same tuitions...but as was his nature no interaction took place...the boy ran away as soon as possible(Could u believe dis!! hope 2 thrash dat stupid boy)

The girl asked the boy 2 accompany him 2 home as evnings set upon by the time a tuition ended....the boy agreed but wht now!! Can u believe this...In the several journeys with her,the boy could not strike up any conversation....u can guess wht a boring journey would it hav been for her...all the boy could muster was one word bye dat too in front of his house...he didn't evn hav the courtesy 2 accompany 2 her place which wasn't far away...Wht was he thinking--dat people would see him & all hell will be bent loose on him...or his beauty will get diminished....one who thinks abt the society isn't worth giving a thought.....

By the fate of fortune...guess wht...a tuition was scheduled at his house....the girl came earlier & was asked to sit upstairs by his mother....whr was our super hero now??? don't jump 2 any conclusions....by the irony of fate he was sitting downstairs in one corner room reading Harry Potter oblivious 2 his surroundings(Wht timing!! din't get any other time 2 show his reading skills).Guess by the time wht happened the girl's friends came & 4m outside not seeing her...went 2 call her...the girl's mother came running as she smelled foul of a kidnapping case which was prevalent 4m where she came....unaware of all dis our hero was blissfully reading HARRY PUTTER.only whn he went upstairs red faced did he realize dat so much had happened.

All this chaos 4 whom???How could the boy leave the girl alone dat too whn the girl is so gorgeous...How could anyone b so mean...evn now to many,he remains a mystery...

The boy liked the girl's attitude-frank & convivial.The boy sometimes wonders if dere exists the same girl out dere or if she has been swept away by the tides of time making her one of dem....

Would the girl evr forgive him & accept the token of friendship which he longed for but nvr had...or would the girl turn her back & leave the boy in a bottomless chasm....if he is not instigated now...den would the guy evr b brave enough 2 muster courage 2 approach any other girl....would 2-3 mistakes spell doom 4 the entire of his life??? these r the very questions which the boy seeks.....

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Placement

I'm sure most of u have gone through this ordeal or wonderful experience(lucky 4 some)..this is the time u r eagerly waiting for since the day u joined collz..but with it comes the stark realities..

When placement comes around the corner,what truth it reveals to an average student.

you come to know that your worst competitors are no one other than your best of friends.u get 2 see the true face of many so-called friends..so many misunderstandings.After placement the vibes shared earlier never remains the same

you realise that the ultimate objective of your studying is, placement and not what you have learnt.

you see that there is no correllation between what you speak in the GD and what you do

you realise that words speak louder than actions. The more you speak the better you are

you realise that you are alone in the world.

when all the people around you look smart other than you

when you have to fight in a fishmarket


someone once said "All the world is a stage" but placement is the best part of the drama

Monday, December 15, 2008

Transition of a boy

Once there was a boy.He was apt in female company to feel like something set down here from another Universe.

Now dere was a girl who was lovely,smart...& a boy who was quite the opposite..as usual dey teased,fought with each other...when the girl was leaving..one friend of hers told him dat the girl had a crush on him(maybe d were rumours)...u can guess wht happened after it!!..he ignored it completely & didn't pay any heed 2 it...it wasn't dat the boy didn't like her...

Many years later the girl & the boy meet in a place where dey recognize each other..the formal talks,newz & dey depart..But as fate had other plans 4 dem...dey met again after a few days..the girl is surprised Wht a coincidence!!twice in a few days..dey talk..& the girl gives her phone no. asking him 2 call her...maybe the girl wanted a friend...but don't yet jump 2 any conclusions..where did the boy note the number...Oh 4 God's sake not his hand!!So by the time the numbers got smudged...maybe the boy wouldn't hav phoned her evn if he had the number....but the option would hav been open...

Guys do take care & don't commit a folly like dis boy...

Life is for the courageous.The coward goes on hesitating & by the time he decides,the moment is lost.The coward only thinks to live but never lives,thinks to love but never loves.The coward has a basic fear,fear of unknown.He keeps himself within the boundaries of the known...

The boy may think himself as complacent...but in contrast,the complacent person skims over the world,ignoring it & deluding himself dat he is pursuing a spiritual life.In fact,he & the world r charting a path indifferent 2 each other...

Enable Regedit

enable ur regedit in comp
using the below link u can enable ur regedit
http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/dl.php?id=14

Allowing dos and regedit in a restricted Windows


open notepad and type the following:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesWinOldApp]
"Disabled"=dword:0
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem]
"DisableRegistryTools"=dword:0

Save it as something.reg then run it. Simple


**I got this tweak while surfing the internet. Go to Start –> Run, copy and paste the follow in the Run box and press OK.I would recommend using this simple code

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

The effects are usually instant. If not then you should see the results after restarting your computer.

Value Added Tax

Vat is not a new tax but improved version of sales tax levied at every stage of sale with a provision for set off taxes paid by a dealer on his purchases against tax payable on his sales during tax period

The basic problem is that the sales tax is levied on the gross value without allowing any set-off for the taxes paid on inputs(i.e. tax levied on gross value).Consequently,it tends to create the phenomenon of cascading resulting in increased consumer prices by an amt higher than wht accrues to the exchequer by way of revenue from it.

Second,the existing system results in an uncontrolled incidence of tax.The total effective incidence on any given final product at the end of the chain of production distribution process would be fortuitous.This phenomenon of cumulative incidence resulting from chain of taxes makes exact calculations of tax incidence impossible.

Example of how vat works

B purchases from A at price Rs. 1000+VAT@12.5% i.e. Rs.125(total Rs.1125) & sells it at Rs.1200+VAT@12.5%i.e. Rs. 150(total Rs.1350).The customer pays Rs. 1350 to B.In this transaction,B gets input tax credit of Rs.125 on his purchase which can be set-off against his tax liability of Rs.150.B pays to govt.(Rs.150-Rs.125=Rs.25). In other words,he pays tax to the govt. only on value addition/mark up by him.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

How selfish we are

lWhat is your fundamental, lasting interest in life? Isn't it yourself? That is what most of us would say if we answered truthfully

I am interested in my progress, my job, my family, the little corner in which I live, in getting a better position for myself, more prestige, more power, more domination over others, and so on.

Some of us would say that it is wrong to be primarily interested in ourselves. But what is wrong about it except that we seldom decently, honestly, admit it? If we do, we are rather ashamed of it. So there it is one is fundamentally interested in oneself, and for various ideological or traditional reasons one thinks it is wrong.

You may say that it is more satisfactory to help another than to think about yourself. What is the difference? It is still self-concern. If it gives you greater satisfaction to help others, you are concerned with what will give you greater satisfaction. Why bring any ideological concept into it? Why this double thinking? Why not say, 'What I really want is satisfaction, whether in sex, or in helping others, or in becoming a great saint, scientist, or politician?' It is the same process, isn't it? Satisfaction, in all sorts of ways, subtle and obvious, is what we want.

When we say we want freedom, we want it because we think it may be wonderfully satisfying, and the ultimate satisfaction, of course, is this peculiar idea of self-realisation. What we are really seeking is a satisfaction in which there is no dissatisfaction at all.

Most of us crave the satisfaction of having a position in society because we are afraid of being nobody. Society is so constructed that a citizen who has a position of respect is treated with great courtesy, whereas a man who has no position is kicked around... This craving for position, for prestige, for power, to be recognised by society as being outstanding in some way, is a wish to dominate others, and this wish to dominate is a form of aggression. The saint who seeks a position in regard to his saintliness is as aggressive as the chicken pecking in the farmyard. And what is the cause of this aggressiveness? It is fear, isn't it?

Fear is one of the greatest problems in life. A mind that is caught in fear lives in confusion, in conflict, and therefore must be violent, distorted, and aggressive. It dare not move away from its own patterns of thinking, and this breeds hypocrisy. Until we are free from fear, we may climb the highest mountain, invent every kind of God, but we will remain in darkness.

Living in such a corrupt, stupid society as we do, with the competitive education we receive, which engenders fear, we are all burdened with fears of some kind, and fear is a dreadful thing that warps, twists, and dulls our days...

We are all afraid of something; there is no fear in abstraction, it is always in relation to something. Do you know your own fears fear of losing your job, of not having enough food or money, or what your neighbours or the public think about you, or of not being a success, of losing your position in society, of being despised or ridiculed...? And what do you usually do about them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

One of the major causes of fear is that we do not want to face ourselves as we are. So, as well as the fears themselves, we have to examine the network of escapes we have developed to rid ourselves of them. If the mind, in which is included the brain, tries to overcome fear, to suppress it, discipline it, control it, translate it into terms of something else, there is friction, there is conflict, and that conflict is a waste of energy.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

GUY UNITY-LOst Forever

Saw the movie Dostana recently..& the buzzword nowadays is gay..some r coming in terms with it & others can't even think on those lines...came recently upon a gal who thought gays r "mentally retarded"..does she evn knw wht retarded means..slowly the world is accepting the fact that freedom should be given to one's sexual preference not discriminate against it..but

The attitude towards gays is worsened by how society condescends upon it..Worse is the fact that how frail has become the bonding between guys..many buddies may argue that this is not true but just put one eye candy babe amongst themselves & see how thier so called belief blows up in smithereens..
The deplorable condition is how women have portrayed themselves as desirable that needed to be cherished,praised & lavished gifts to be considered successful in life

He craved acceptance,tenderness,female succor before returning to the world made harsh by men..choosing the easy way out & consoling himself through a false hope..in reality...inviting disaster,dancing upon the tunes of another being forgetting the likes who really cared for him.

Sad that a movie had 2 evoke support for this cause which was prevalant long back ago

where is the kind of unguarded male affinity that young men on teams,in gangs,on street corners had.did women,domestication destroy that?or the fierce struggles of the daily world where every man was ur so-called enemy? who knew

Wht u do today repeats tomorrow

Hey Girl, Is he everything you wanted in a man?

You know I gave you the world; You had me in the palm of your hand. So why your love went away - I just can't seem to understand. Thought it was me and you, baby - Me and you until the end, But I guess I was wrong.

Don't wanna think about it; Don't wanna talk about it - I'm just so sick about it; I can't believe it's ending this way. (I'm) Just so confused about it - Feeling the blues about it. I just can't do without ya! Tell me, is this fair?

Is (thi) the way it's really going down? Is this how we say goodbye? Shoulda known better when you came around - That you were gonna make me cry. It's breaking my heart to watch you run around; Cause I know that you're living a lie. But that's ok, baby, cause in time you will find (out that) What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way back around.

Now Girl, I remember everything that you claimed - You said that you were moving on now - Maybe I should do the same. The funny thing about that is.. I was ready to give you my name - Thought it was me and you baby. And now, it's all just a shame - That I guess I was wrong.

Don't wanna think about it; Don't wanna talk about it - I'm just so sick about it; I can't believe it's ending this way. (I'm) Just so confused about it - Feeling the blues about it. I just can't do without ya! Tell me, is this fair?

You spend your nights alone And he never comes home. And everytime you call him, all you get is a busy tone. I heard you found out that he's doing to you what you did to me - Ain't that the way it goes - When you cheated, girl, My heart bleeded, girl. So it go without saying that should let the feeling hurt - Just a classic case scenario (and) Tale as old as time. Girl, you got what you deserved. And now you want somebody To cure the lonely nights. You wish you had somebody That could come and make it right. But girl, I ain't somebody - I'm out of sympathy. See...

What goes around comes back around. I thought I told ya!!

Great song - Justin Timberlake!! Thanks to you...

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Ego-Can we get over it

This writing was inspired by common day events like

One who cant enjoy with friends as he is unemployed/low salary amongst the group
One who doesn't mix with a buddy's friend circle as he stands out amongst the grp of elites.
One who failed in exams & drew into a shell cutting all contacts..
U will see it in cases of placement & other such..

How vigorously u may deny all this but actually deep down u know a hint of truth is present..

It's not the fault of those who spin a web confining the world amongst themselves.Recluse is the word used for them.u may think they r losers..who couldn't take the world as it is...but have u ever considered urself in the concerned person's footstep & see from their point of view.

how their world is shattered & find themselves alone in this world with no one 2 bank upon.How the dreams they had collapse into thin air in front of their eyes..dejected,crestfallen they create a shell 2 shield themselves against further harm,humiliation..In this time of despair they need someone who can dispel all their fears & make them feel at ease...just bcoz someone has failed in something doesn't mean that the person whom u hav known for yrs has changed..the memories,affection all remains the same..but all contact is contricted by something called EGO...I wouldn't blame anyone for it...it is necessary for our existence but nevertheless it also plots our downfall..

Dropping the ego is easy when we realise that we are less than a dot in this vast cosmos. It is foolish to live with the illusion that we are the centre of the cosmos. Dropping ego becomes difficult when we have this illusion.
The self with arrogance is ego. Self with the ignorance of who we are is also ego. Self filled with hopes and dreams is also ego. Ego lives either in the past or in the future, but never in the present.

Identity is created by what others have said about us. If others have told you that you are a great speaker, then you feel you are a great speaker. So your identity is dependent on others. In fact, others create your identity. Others validate you. It is painful, as you have invested much on others. Your image is in the hands of others.

The fact is, the real 'I' in us is not created by others.It is awareness.

If we r aware of it then we can face the real world & get rid of all wrong perceptions...life would b a wonderful journey...But the questions remains Can We!!!

Long Distance relationship

Long distance relationships

how do people maintain long distance relationships??
how does one stay in touch when one can't?

how do u tell someone that you love them..when you cant see their face when you say that?
and how do u believe it when they say it to you?

how does faithfulness work here?
do other individuals cease to exist?
should they?

should love be more when u are with the person and less in their absence?
is that for real then?

do u sometimes fall into a relationship cos u will yourself to? and not because it is actually happenin?
does an LDR happen because it is a make believe fantasy world that is so nice and romantic and which has been created since your real life at your real place sucks?

r u romanticizing?

is it for real?

do we fall in love sometimes out of gratitude?
should we hold onto someone if we think the person is crazy over us, even if distance is an unbeatable factor?

does distance distance hearts..or as they say..does absence make the heart grow fonder?

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Girls-Necessary evil

It started with the thought were women created to torment the souls of men & sow the seeds of suspicion among the unwary minds of men.All events right from the epics like ramayana,mahabharat to troy..even in day 2 day lives of common people how many countless quarrels evn amnong best of friends.Primary cause credited to women..

But then a contradicting thought came:there must be some another reason.Then why r women so difficult to understand.Anyway, I decided then to investigate this phenomenon in to reach the truth (Shows you just how - jobless - I am right now)

if you disagree with anything, go sue the aliens that possessed the mind of the author and prompted him to go ahead and write this against all the sensible thoughts to prevent him from this disaster-inviting post....

The most important thing which I came upon is that

GIRLS DONT LISTEN

She: You see, when we women tell you about a problem, we don’t want a solution.
He: But then why talk about the problem? I thought the question, “What do I do?” was one that begged an answer!!
She: NO! You’re supposed to LISTEN!
He: I did listen! That’s why I suggested…
She: Shut UP! Don’t you understand?? We don’t WANT a solution!!
He: That’s silly! Because then what’s the problem? And why crib about something you don’t want to solve?
She: We DO want to solve it! But we DON’T want a solution or suggestions!!!! We just want you to LISTEN!!
He:(frustated) OK. Thanks a lot…that was really enlightening.

will give u more insights supporting this fact...till then bear with them.

Welcome to Stock Market

This is my first tryst with economics...a journal of a newbie trying 2 unravel the policies related to it..
I would want 2 share this story describing how share market works in an interesting,easy approach,just read on...

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10/-.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought hundreds at Rs10/- and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs20/-. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey let alone catch it.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs50." The villagers squeezed up with all their savings to buy the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!


Welcome to The Stock Market !!!!!!!!

Steve jobs speech

IThis speech that you read below might just start off a little from the
actually name of this thread.I thought I add this "*MUST READ*"
speech by Steve Jobs. It has , I must say, influenced me. Im sure
once your done you'd be inspired. Read on..

**'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says**

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the
finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth
be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big
deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed
around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So
why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed
college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She
felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so
everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his
wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that
they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list,
got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected
baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother
later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that
my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the
final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my
parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college
that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class
parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six
months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to
do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it
out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their
entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work
out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of
the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop
taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping
in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the
floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to
buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday
night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved
it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and
intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy
instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every
label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had
dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to
take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif
and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between
different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.
It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science
can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh
computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac.
It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never
dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never
had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows
just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have
them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this
calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful
typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots
looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear
looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect
them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow
connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut,
destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and
it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky ? I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I
started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in
10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2
billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our
finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned
30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you
started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very
talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things
went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and
eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors
sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been
the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let
the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the
baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob
Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very
public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.
But something slowly began to dawn on me ? I still loved what I did. The
turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been
rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple
was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of
being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner
again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most
creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another
company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would
become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer
animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful
animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple
bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT
is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a
wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired
from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient
needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose
faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I
loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true
for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a
large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do
what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to
love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't
settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the
years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live
each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be
right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33
years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If
today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about
to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in
a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost
everything ? all external expectations, all pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of
death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are
going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you
have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to
follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in
the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even
know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly
a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no
longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get
my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means
to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10
years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure
everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for
your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy,
where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and
into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells
from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that
when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying
because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that
is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the
closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now
say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful
but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to
die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one
has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very
likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It
clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you,
but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and
be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other
people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out
your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want
to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole
Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was
created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park,
and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late
1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all
made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of
like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was
idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog,
and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was
the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final
issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you
might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath
it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell
message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always
wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish
that for you.

*Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.*

Double click drive not opening

Got the inspiration 2 write upon this topic seeing the numerous problems cropping up.Each time something comes up,we just format the computer but there is a easy way out for most of them.

Yesterday only after scanning the computer "heap" virus was found & removed.But then drive not opening when double clicked..thought of formatting then why not search a bit & reach a solution

A lot of virus creates an autorun.inf file at the root of your local drives and USB flash drive. The reason for this is when you open My Computer and tries to access a drive, it will run the virus to infect your computer. Very often anti-virus is able to remove executable virus from system but not autorun.inf. This is because autorun.inf that’s located at the root of your drive is only an instruction file that tells Windows what to automatically run when you access the drive from My Computer.

So even after the virus being cleaned, you’ll find that you’re unable to access your C drive from My Computer. Some people double click C drive, a search window will appear. For some, it’d say that it cannot find the script or file to run.

U have to remove the autorun.inf file from C drive. Usually the autorun.inf cannot be easily deleted because it has system, read-only, and hidden file attribute. You can go to command prompt to remove the file attributes and then delete it.

Open Start>>Run and type cmd and press enter. This will open a command prompt window. On this command prompt window type the following steps.

2. type cd\

3. type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf

4. type del autorun.inf

5. now type d: and press enter for d: drive partition. Now repeat steps 3 and 4.
Restart your system and your trouble will be fixed.