Archive for February, 2008

rediscover the joy of walking

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

This is a letter to my colleagues, and I thought I’d share it here as well… Dear all, Can you guess where this photo was taken… Around 18:20 just a few minutes’ walk fromour office!   This facility has just happened to be provided to us by coincidence so if you like you could use [...]

grails – hasMany does not generate dynamic properties

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

This is a technical post, I should probably create another site for such things. Just want to document some problems I came across while trying out some examples from The Definitive Guide To Grails… class Bookmark {     static hasMany = [tags:Tag]        URL url    String title    String notes    Date dateCreated = new Date()} class [...]

the Pause button: when only one thing matters

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

My wife was expected to be at my house to receive my sister, and usually she’s pretty punctual but today she just wasn’t around. Maybe she’s left her mobile behind. Try to forget it and get back to work – either she’ll get back to me seeing my missed calls, or my sister has anyway [...]

two ways to bring up a child

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Recently someone from America had come on a visit to India. She has two granddaughters in the US, elder one she has brought up with more attention in her own way, compared to the younger one. And there on the phone was her elder granddaughter, wailing away and completely miserable not able to eat properly [...]

[updated version of an earlier post] developer tools and utilities

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Here is a list of tools that makes a developer’s life easier… Scite – Lightweight Powerful Text Editor: Though there are other ones like Notepad++, Scite is quite comprehensive and amazingly fast, and based on screenshots only seemed to be move lightweight than Notepad++. The link above has an installable that includes an Explorer integration [...]

blogging from Firefox

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Mesmerized by the number of plugins and customization available for Firefox. And in my new job that I’ve started this week (more about that shortly), I’m not tied to IE anymore and so spent more time exploring Firefox. Installed some of them and WOW now my browser is far beyond a mere browser – in [...]

angulimala – violent psychopathic killer conquers himself non-violently

Friday, February 8th, 2008

We might already be familar with the story of Angulimala from our childhood. I recently came across it again, and was able to appreciate it more now! I found a very readable version, and edited it with a little detail. Original reference links are provided at the end. ——————————— Angulimala: A Story of the Power [...]

beyond anger management & stress management: ignorance management!

Monday, February 4th, 2008

We have so many programmes and workshops in the corporate world all over the place for anger management or stress management. People feel angry about so many issues and their work issues affect their home life or sometimes its the other way round! (“work is a place to get away from stressful home life” said [...]

you

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This graph was in some presentation by one of my teachers Radhakrishnaji, a few years ago, trying to present it here again. Its based on some simple well-known psychology, and shows a graph of a common man’s personality. In the top right above the X axis, is what I know about myself which no one [...]