Healthy computing

India is a country where lot of young people earn their living by working with computers.The software engineers are not only earn money but they earn lot of other things also.

One of them is neck pain and back pain.This mainly happens because of the extended sessions in front of the computers with a poor sitting posture.Many people told me about the RSI,back pain and neck pain.

I thought these are all crap for me and I won't get this because from my childhood I have been involved in active games like shuttle badminton,cricket and Table Tennis.Everyday I used to do 20 mins of stretching exercises and yoga.

Slowly gave up those 20 mins exercise everyday and allocated the extra time to sit in front of my laptop.Now I am suffering from neck pain which affects my daily work life.

Now I have allotted 40 mins everyday(i.e Exactly double the time as before) to do the yoga and stretching exercises.Adjusted the workstation and sitting postures according to the ergonomist's recommendations.Slowly the pain disappeared,unfortunately it can be back anytime,if proper care is not taken while working with computers.

Prevention is better than cure -- What a golden words...I am writing these because please take care of simple things mentioned below in the link to avoid complex things in life...

Beware all those working with computers are prone to these kind of injuries regardless of the age and how physically active you are...

Here is the recommendations from lenovo towards healthy computing:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing

Thoughts on the topic of Reservations

Here is a great thought from some great people

I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by a OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century.

We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal.

Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters.

There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and
politicians (that can really help the country.. )

Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers and other politicians. (Another way of saving the country..)

Here by SC/ST and OBC candidates should be given opportunities in a proactive manner to get up in life and compete with general category and reservation is not the solution for that.

Instead government can give good quality primary and secondary education in schools to all the category people for free(Instead of colour Tvs as free).This is what I mean by equal opportunity to all the people accross different categories.

Now no one is deprived of any opportunity at these level.Only people who had used up this opportunity will be considered for the next levels strictly based on merit.The reservations will kill the thought process of both the one who is getting it and one who is not getting it.

Your comments are most welcome about the topic....



Disclaimer:
This article is not intended to hurt anyone.If it would have accidentally hurt anyone's feeling or emotion,please forgive me for that.

Indian Space Program-Must See for Every Indian

In the early 1960's ...India was slowly awakening to the Space age....Although rest of the world was preparing to reach for the Moon...we were making our humble beginning...a small rocket took off from Thumba on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, announcing the birth of the modern space age in India. That was when the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) formally came into existence. Over the years, TERLS have given birth to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)...

Some Pics that will make every Indian proud...

Pics that say...we may not be as successful as the US or Russia...but we are there nevertheless...so watch out for us...



This was how the Rocket Cone was transported to the Launch Pad at Thumba !!

November 21, 1963: The Nike Apache rocket being readied for launch

Try Identifyin the person on the left...most probably you wont be able to identify...He is our very own...Dr. A.P J. Abdul Kalam...
Early days at the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. Readying equipment to be carried by a sounding rocket into the atmosphere are Kalam and R. Aravamudan

The present day Launch Station at SriHarikota

Swami Vivekananda's Speeches-Chicago

Swami Vivekananda's Speeches
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The World Parliament of Religions, Chicago

WELCOME ADDRESS - Chicago, Sept 11, 1893

Sisters and Brothers of America,It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.

My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings: "As the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.


"The present convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever held, is in itself a vindication, a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: "Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me." Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.