Hi Friends,
I have changed a look and feel of our blog Template. Please let me know if you have any suggestion regarding look and feel. Since it's totaly designed by html and CSS, it's little technical task to modify it but I am planning to keep changing it every month. Please share if you are having any good links of website so that we can display them here. You can see I have added Sam's Cam, Yahoomail, Agencyfaq and Orkut links on the left side under Links section. You can directly visit this pages from clicking on links.
Rajesh and Sanjay have successfully joined the blog and now we all are waiting for Shweta to join. I have already send her an invitation.
Baki sab thik..I am going to murud on tuesday and will back on thursday. Till then keep posting and do take care of yourself.
-Sam
01 September 2006
30 August 2006
29 August 2006
I've learned..
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it may be better tomorrow.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles a rainy day and lost luggage.
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love that human touch - holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
28 August 2006
PHOTOS!!
ruju...maine tuze bola tha sab photos bhejneke liye.....tune ekhi bheja hai....baaki ke bhi bhej na jaldise..... want them all......acche ho ya bure.....n do it fast....
27 August 2006
26 August 2006
Some tips on the Table Manners..
As soon as you are seated unfold your napkin and place it across your lap folded with fold toward you. If you need to leave the table place your napkin on your chair folded loosely.It is considered poor etiquette if you do not use your napkin.
Use it frequently to discreetly wipe your mouth.Avoid wiping ear to ear. For more tips log on to always be friends next week till then enjoy your meals and life.
25 August 2006
Think Twice Before You Leave That Job
- By Bill Dueease
Job dissatisfaction has reached an all time high for corporate employees. Most employees have felt the sting of downsizing, out-placement, and compensation cutbacks over the past two-to-five years. Employees that remained through all of this were given additional duties and responsibilities, (normally of those employees laid off by the company), without additional compensation. The prevailing corporate attitude was that employees should consider themselves lucky to have a paycheck. Corporate employee improvement services, like training, counseling, or coaching were greatly reduced or even eliminated. Corporations no longer had the money to invest in their employees, nor did they know which employees to invest in.
Employees were almost considered a necessary burden. Benefit packages have been reduced or dismantled. Many corporations have converted employees to independent contract labor to lower costs, commitments, and benefit obligations. There has also been a well-publicized movement towards outsourcing labor to countries like India with much lower labor costs as an attempt to shed or reduce this burden.
Being an employee under these circumstances has probably been less than enjoyable and has certainly not created any loyalty by employees to the corporations who have treated them in this manner.
But like most other economic trends the pendulum is now swinging the other way. Corporations are beginning to grow and prosper. Corporations are looking to hire more employees to accommodate this new demand. This demand for additional employees presents an opportunity for existing employees to escape the unfavorable conditions they had to endure during recent years. I predict that there will be a very large exodus of employees who will seek employment with other companies to take advantage of the apparent grass-is-greener scenario. It appears that the migration has already started. Newsweek reported in their article in the May 24, 2004 issue entitled "Quitting Time” that Monster.com reported a 44% increase from a year earlier in resume postings and an increase of 13% of confidential postings (usually made by people trying to hide job hunting from their bosses).
If you are considering joining the exodus, there are some things you might want to consider, before you make a hasty exit, just because you can.
1. Try to avoid the flight-to-escape mentality. Getting another job to escape the bad conditions and memories of your present job will not be positive for you. You can only escape the problems of your past employment by focusing on achieving a new positive career situation. When you focus on past negativity, it follows you, wherever you go. Sure, the conditions might appear to be unbearable, but leaving only because of the bad will make it more difficult to focus on the improvements you want and need.
2. Consider seeking another career because it is a positive move for you. You have the right and obligation to take advantage of the opportunity to improve your work status by seeking employment that will be a true improvement for you. You will want to concentrate on creating a new more positive career situation, rather than focusing on the bad things that happened to you. When you concentrate on the positive aspects of your new career that is what you will attain.
3. Take the time to discover what you really want to do. The next few years will offer you a host of opportunities to improve your work situation, and you will want to make the right career choices while the time is right. You will want to discover your priorities; passions, talents and self imposed obstacles. This way you can determine the right career situation that will fit you, as opposed to having to adjust to fit the work situation as you have in the past. Once you are clearly aware of what career best suits you, you will have a much easier chance of attaining it.
4. Use this opportunity to take care of yourself and your loved ones. You owe it to yourself and those who depend upon you to take the steps to improve your career whenever you can, especially when doing so allows you to improve your family and personal lives. Most likely the corporation you are working for only considered fulfilling their needs. Your loyalty to you and your family will undoubtedly outweigh any loyalty you might have to your company. Grant yourself permission to pursue your career improvements without guilt or hesitation.
5. Consider approaching your current employer to improve your conditions. Your current employer might be very receptive to you staying under the new terms and conditions you present. There is a real good chance that your current employer is also experiencing successful growth and prosperity. If so, you now have considerable leverage to ask for and attain the improvements you want. Why? First, you were part of the reason they became successful. Second, they will be counting on you to achieve even bigger future success. Third, your departure will have serious negative consequences. It has been reported that the cost to replace an employee ranges from $10,000 to over $75,000 per employee. You will create a significant void in knowledge and continuity. They will have to train your replacement, which will take time, effort, and money, not to mention the break in productivity your departure creates. Your departure will also make it somewhat more difficult to entice new employees. Smart employers will want to make adjustments to retain the employees that formed the core of the company during the bad times. Employers who continue to disregard your personal needs and priorities do not deserve you. By asking your present employers for the things you want, assuming they are capable of providing them to you, will present an excellent indicator of the intent of the company decision makers. Because you will most likely be afforded other opportunities outside your present employment, you will eventually have little to lose by asking.
6. Go after the career that fits you. If your present employer cannot, or will not meet your required conditions, then search for those employment or income producing careers that will meet your conditions. Be sure to communicate to other employers who might meet your requirements what you want and why. But do not forget that you have an obligation to produce the results in your new position that will generate more profits to the company than their cost to compensate you. By knowing the value and profits you will provide new employers, you will be able to show them how meeting your requirements will be a real good deal for them. In addition, since you have chosen the new position to meet your personal passions, priorities and desires, you will have a natural enthusiasm for the position that will be hard to turn down.
7. Ask for help from the right person to assist you in your journey. Your career choices will have an extremely powerful affect on your life, and you will want to make the next selections count the most for you. Getting help from someone you trust, who has your best interest at heart, who will be strong enough to tell you the truth and caring enough to not impose their agenda or opinions on you, is priceless. The two of you can objectively search for, investigate, and evaluate career options to meet your true priorities, passions and needs. You two can develop plans to actually pursue your career choices and work together to actually implement your plan to completion.
Employment times are improving, and you can maximize the short and long term value of changing your work situation to meet your requirements, if you do it right. It is a very important part of your life, and making the most of these career opportunities will certainly be worth doing right.
Job dissatisfaction has reached an all time high for corporate employees. Most employees have felt the sting of downsizing, out-placement, and compensation cutbacks over the past two-to-five years. Employees that remained through all of this were given additional duties and responsibilities, (normally of those employees laid off by the company), without additional compensation. The prevailing corporate attitude was that employees should consider themselves lucky to have a paycheck. Corporate employee improvement services, like training, counseling, or coaching were greatly reduced or even eliminated. Corporations no longer had the money to invest in their employees, nor did they know which employees to invest in.
Employees were almost considered a necessary burden. Benefit packages have been reduced or dismantled. Many corporations have converted employees to independent contract labor to lower costs, commitments, and benefit obligations. There has also been a well-publicized movement towards outsourcing labor to countries like India with much lower labor costs as an attempt to shed or reduce this burden.
Being an employee under these circumstances has probably been less than enjoyable and has certainly not created any loyalty by employees to the corporations who have treated them in this manner.
But like most other economic trends the pendulum is now swinging the other way. Corporations are beginning to grow and prosper. Corporations are looking to hire more employees to accommodate this new demand. This demand for additional employees presents an opportunity for existing employees to escape the unfavorable conditions they had to endure during recent years. I predict that there will be a very large exodus of employees who will seek employment with other companies to take advantage of the apparent grass-is-greener scenario. It appears that the migration has already started. Newsweek reported in their article in the May 24, 2004 issue entitled "Quitting Time” that Monster.com reported a 44% increase from a year earlier in resume postings and an increase of 13% of confidential postings (usually made by people trying to hide job hunting from their bosses).
If you are considering joining the exodus, there are some things you might want to consider, before you make a hasty exit, just because you can.
1. Try to avoid the flight-to-escape mentality. Getting another job to escape the bad conditions and memories of your present job will not be positive for you. You can only escape the problems of your past employment by focusing on achieving a new positive career situation. When you focus on past negativity, it follows you, wherever you go. Sure, the conditions might appear to be unbearable, but leaving only because of the bad will make it more difficult to focus on the improvements you want and need.
2. Consider seeking another career because it is a positive move for you. You have the right and obligation to take advantage of the opportunity to improve your work status by seeking employment that will be a true improvement for you. You will want to concentrate on creating a new more positive career situation, rather than focusing on the bad things that happened to you. When you concentrate on the positive aspects of your new career that is what you will attain.
3. Take the time to discover what you really want to do. The next few years will offer you a host of opportunities to improve your work situation, and you will want to make the right career choices while the time is right. You will want to discover your priorities; passions, talents and self imposed obstacles. This way you can determine the right career situation that will fit you, as opposed to having to adjust to fit the work situation as you have in the past. Once you are clearly aware of what career best suits you, you will have a much easier chance of attaining it.
4. Use this opportunity to take care of yourself and your loved ones. You owe it to yourself and those who depend upon you to take the steps to improve your career whenever you can, especially when doing so allows you to improve your family and personal lives. Most likely the corporation you are working for only considered fulfilling their needs. Your loyalty to you and your family will undoubtedly outweigh any loyalty you might have to your company. Grant yourself permission to pursue your career improvements without guilt or hesitation.
5. Consider approaching your current employer to improve your conditions. Your current employer might be very receptive to you staying under the new terms and conditions you present. There is a real good chance that your current employer is also experiencing successful growth and prosperity. If so, you now have considerable leverage to ask for and attain the improvements you want. Why? First, you were part of the reason they became successful. Second, they will be counting on you to achieve even bigger future success. Third, your departure will have serious negative consequences. It has been reported that the cost to replace an employee ranges from $10,000 to over $75,000 per employee. You will create a significant void in knowledge and continuity. They will have to train your replacement, which will take time, effort, and money, not to mention the break in productivity your departure creates. Your departure will also make it somewhat more difficult to entice new employees. Smart employers will want to make adjustments to retain the employees that formed the core of the company during the bad times. Employers who continue to disregard your personal needs and priorities do not deserve you. By asking your present employers for the things you want, assuming they are capable of providing them to you, will present an excellent indicator of the intent of the company decision makers. Because you will most likely be afforded other opportunities outside your present employment, you will eventually have little to lose by asking.
6. Go after the career that fits you. If your present employer cannot, or will not meet your required conditions, then search for those employment or income producing careers that will meet your conditions. Be sure to communicate to other employers who might meet your requirements what you want and why. But do not forget that you have an obligation to produce the results in your new position that will generate more profits to the company than their cost to compensate you. By knowing the value and profits you will provide new employers, you will be able to show them how meeting your requirements will be a real good deal for them. In addition, since you have chosen the new position to meet your personal passions, priorities and desires, you will have a natural enthusiasm for the position that will be hard to turn down.
7. Ask for help from the right person to assist you in your journey. Your career choices will have an extremely powerful affect on your life, and you will want to make the next selections count the most for you. Getting help from someone you trust, who has your best interest at heart, who will be strong enough to tell you the truth and caring enough to not impose their agenda or opinions on you, is priceless. The two of you can objectively search for, investigate, and evaluate career options to meet your true priorities, passions and needs. You two can develop plans to actually pursue your career choices and work together to actually implement your plan to completion.
Employment times are improving, and you can maximize the short and long term value of changing your work situation to meet your requirements, if you do it right. It is a very important part of your life, and making the most of these career opportunities will certainly be worth doing right.
24 August 2006
Arz Kiya hai...
" i am always running late, but atleast i m running! "
i am so happy that its not me this time :)
i am so happy that its not me this time :)
And the award goes to...
Unlike the college days...where ruju used to be the last one to submit assignments...this time...the LAST ENTRY AWARD GOES TO DIPALI [manasi is not counted for awards :)...hope she too joins soon]
23 August 2006
Uploading just to know the process. Vaise main ye bohot saal pehle clay se banaya tha, Ab click kiya aisehi.
How to Format PC?
Hi Guys,
Here is something that can be helpful for you. We all work on Windows Xp and face various types of problems regarding speed, Memory, Drivers, Networking etc. The biggest threat is of Virus. Many viruses are configured to crash your system and you just cannot back up your data. Most of the time you can't get access to Task Manager to check the resourses running. If your AntiVirus is not updated or if it's not able to clean the Virus, You may need to format the disk to remove virus completly. Here I am telling you the process of formatting C drive with bootable Windows Xp cd and fresh installation of Windows Xp.
Please note: Hard disks, which are the primary storage devices on your computer, need to be formatted before you can use them. Formatting a disk means erasing all data and configuring the disk with a file system so that Windows can store information on the disk.
Warning: All data on the Hard disk will be erased once you format it.
So if you are planning to format C drive of your machine, Please copy My Document, My pictures, Favourites and Fonts folders and paste them to some other drive, may be D or E before starting actual Formatting.
Things you need: Windows XP home or Windows Xp Proffessional Bootable CD. Working CD rom.
Process: Make a list of programs installed on your PC. You will need setup of those lateron. If you dont have any Drivers for Internet Printer, Scanner or Modem, Please download them before formatting. Dont forget to copy My Documents, Fonts and Favourites folder on D Drive. Once you have copied all the important data on other drives, you can restart your PC. After restart when PC boots up (as soon as you hear a beep sound from CPU) press Delete button to go to BIOS Setup options. Navigate to Advance Chipset Features and chnage first boot device to CD Rom. It was previously set as ide-0 (Hard disk). After setting Cd rom as the First boot device. Restart PC. Now your computer will boot with the help of Cd. You will see the message "Press any key to boot from cd". Once it gathers all the information about your configuration, it will show you three options. 1) Press Enter to install windows xp. 2) Press R to start recovery Console. 3) Press F3 to quit.
Here is something that can be helpful for you. We all work on Windows Xp and face various types of problems regarding speed, Memory, Drivers, Networking etc. The biggest threat is of Virus. Many viruses are configured to crash your system and you just cannot back up your data. Most of the time you can't get access to Task Manager to check the resourses running. If your AntiVirus is not updated or if it's not able to clean the Virus, You may need to format the disk to remove virus completly. Here I am telling you the process of formatting C drive with bootable Windows Xp cd and fresh installation of Windows Xp.
Please note: Hard disks, which are the primary storage devices on your computer, need to be formatted before you can use them. Formatting a disk means erasing all data and configuring the disk with a file system so that Windows can store information on the disk.
Warning: All data on the Hard disk will be erased once you format it.
So if you are planning to format C drive of your machine, Please copy My Document, My pictures, Favourites and Fonts folders and paste them to some other drive, may be D or E before starting actual Formatting.
Things you need: Windows XP home or Windows Xp Proffessional Bootable CD. Working CD rom.
Process: Make a list of programs installed on your PC. You will need setup of those lateron. If you dont have any Drivers for Internet Printer, Scanner or Modem, Please download them before formatting. Dont forget to copy My Documents, Fonts and Favourites folder on D Drive. Once you have copied all the important data on other drives, you can restart your PC. After restart when PC boots up (as soon as you hear a beep sound from CPU) press Delete button to go to BIOS Setup options. Navigate to Advance Chipset Features and chnage first boot device to CD Rom. It was previously set as ide-0 (Hard disk). After setting Cd rom as the First boot device. Restart PC. Now your computer will boot with the help of Cd. You will see the message "Press any key to boot from cd". Once it gathers all the information about your configuration, it will show you three options. 1) Press Enter to install windows xp. 2) Press R to start recovery Console. 3) Press F3 to quit.
- Press R to start recovery console.
- The screen will switch to black and you will be asked which installation to log on to. If you only have one installation you will press "1". Remember that numlock is off at this time.
- Next you'll be prompted to enter your Admin password. By default it is created blank so just press Enter.
- Type map and press enter. You will get information about your drives free space and partitions.
- Now It's time to format your drive. The following will do a full format of C as FAT32
- FORMAT C: /FS:FAT32
- You will be prompted if you really want to delete all the data from Drive? press Enter or Y.
- Formatting will start. Once it's completely done. you can type Exit to restart PC. Next time when your Pc boots with CD. Choose first option of installing windows Xp.
Congratulations! you have successfully formatted Drive c and installed Windows XP! ----- Sam.
