Sticky keys.. Sticky keys...

Oh no.. Its not a variation of Phoebe's Smelly Cat! It is the feature which comes to my rescue when I encounter weird behavior with Windows.
I know, i know.. I can already hear all you linux geeks sneering away to glory!

What is the weird behavior you ask? Well, sometimes when I have many Firefox tabs open (>15) for a long time (through multiple hibernations), the keyboard starts acting up. I click on some links, and instead of opening it in a new tab, it starts downloading them! Typing 'b' behaves like ctrl/alt+b.
Happens sometimes with Notepad too. ctrl+c, ctrl+v does not work.

I did discover an awesome solution though! Press the 'Shift' key more than 5 times and you get the Sticky-keys window like this:




Clicking 'Cancel' makes the keyboard normal again!!! :-D And it works every time!!!

My work makes me take loads of snapshots as it involves a 3rd party GUI. Guess it shows huh?!?!

Office office

Back to work after a month long vacation! :-)
Feels good to be back here..will worry about the work backlog a lil later!

Different strokes

And here i go again with a combination of mist and trees.. [with a lil post-processing ;-) ]
Btw these were near Jog falls only... :-) and with this I complete the Jog trilogy!!!

Black 'n white

its a mesh!

Shady

Hazy

finally..some brightness!!! :-)

All in a day's work

I am not able to express entirely what’s there on my mind for sometime now. But yesterday I could indeed put a few into words and realized a few. And here they are…

- It's not everyday you get emotionally attached to people you work with. But sometimes it does happen. And when different/separate paths loom ahead, the detachment is what is really painful.

- You just cannot bring yourself to speak when there's that feeling of a knot in your throat, and tears threatening to emerge the moment you even think of opening your mouth.

- You can indeed cry your heart out and laugh your guts out – all within a matter of a few hours!!!

In other things,

Aap Ka Suroor [The Moviee-The Real Luv Story] is hilarious. You just can’t stop laughing at the absurdity. The only thing which I was not amused with – Usage of the Gayatri mantra. Nevertheless, go to the movie with a cheerful and fun-loving gang and be entertained!

Kahani do hafton ki

I went to a church on Christmas Day and the icing-on-the-cake? My parents tagged along. We were in Mysore and turns out they were left with not much choice! :-)

My college friends gave me a very cute surprise on my birthday. They came to office and whisked me away. What more?!?. They celebrated it with cake, balloons et al. Thanks guys, love you all.

Went to Kotilingeshwara Temple near Kolar. This place has one koTi Shivalingas. The huge Linga looks magnificent. The others were, well, I’ll just say very much serialized!

Also, I found a temple of Bramha, Vishnu and Maheshwara there. I was amazed, since a temple for Brahma is found very rarely, the Brahma temple at Pushkar [OK sis, you were right] being one of them or the only one!

Some of the pics below.

The various colorful stalls at the entrance to the temple.

The countless lines of small Shivalingas.

The Huge Shivalinga and Nandi Statue.

Entrance to the Bangaru Thirupathi temple nearby.

Hands adorned with Mehndi - The instant kind. There was a lady at the temple who put these. She was using a seal with pretty designs. All for Rs.20-30/hand.

Lake within the temple enclosure. Found it to be very pleasant and peaceful.

Sunset on the year 2006. :-)

I welcomed the New Year this time with friends. Sush, thanks for everything. Really enjoyed it and hope it was fun for you too. :-)

We had been to Bheemeshwari last friday as part of a team outing. It was fun. The organizers made us play some silly games. But our team won so no complaints. :-) We weren't allowed to go near the water, but we managed to squeeze in a walk by the river side.

River and the Monkey :-)

Elegant!

There's treasure everywhere!

Few of our colleagues had organized a treasure hunt today. It has shaped up into a 3-day event [for team-building i think] which culminates with a day outing on Friday.

Teams were formed randomly and captains to the teams chosen randomly too. The clues were scattered all over. From our cubicles to our labs to our online home page, from the pantry to rest-rooms even!! Finally the code had to be deciphered and the "treasure" turned out to be our Business Unit Head. :-) And to think we searched frantically in his cabin for the "treasure" in front of him!!! It was indeed fun.

Yummy!

Melt-in-the-mouth, creamy Belgian chocolates. Absolutely Yummmmmm....
Nice way to kick-start Monday :-)


Thanks Sandhya! Thanks Bhuvana! (for the chocs, for the camera) :-)