Sometimes it is frustrating to remain stuck in a problem which you thought is as simple as can be overcome in couple of minutes but you spend almost whole day in figuring out that problem. A problem which makes you recall your old stupid days once again, the one which might make you feel as if you have wasted your day in resolving it. In the end, when you find out the solution which was actually that simple, you might think that it is right to to call it as a day wasted.

In my case, I preferred to call it a day well utilized to learn something basic which we generally prefer to forget or put in backside of memory. This was the day when I wasn’t able to find solution to a problem which might have not taken more than 10 minutes to a software kid if he had been knowing what exactly has to be done. For me, it went on and on for more than 8 hours as parallel activity with my work to find out the dead simple solution.

The problem in my case was that a specific file type wasn’t opening in the way it should have opened in my favorite IDE (Eclipse). It was being opened in different color syntax and I wasn’t able to get code assist/content assist in the way I was expecting for JSP files. I copied/recopied/re-re-copied and so on… the fresh installation of IDE, tried to compare it with the one I was working on, exchanged the core files and experiments in as many different ways as I could but still the problem remained the same. Yeah, of course, (I know you are brilliant enough to have already thought that out) – googled again and again and again in all these hours. Also tried to migrate my existing setup to fresh setup but of no use. Finally (or perhaps not) I had started thinking of giving up on all my tries. Just then this simple piece of code over web brought sparkle in my eyes –

You have missed out one thing that we have to make the ABC viewer as the default viewer for *.xyz files under Windows->Preferences->general->Editors->File Associations.

Thanks to the brilliant lady who provided the unwanted and perhaps not so important solution to that problem – not to forget it was what exactly I wanted and hence wasn’t useless in my case at all. Once again many thanks to this intelligent gal for this simple looking but generally overlooked solution. In this specific case, I had to go to File Associations inside Eclipse and change the association of my file to different/default editor. Stupid me!

In general for any file, if we aren’t able to view a file in the way we want it to appear, all we have to do is to change the editor in which it opens.

A friend shared this link about recent news with title – India Awakening. This is the story about a victim of surgical mistake and how he fought all this way to get the appropriate claim.

Here are excerpt from true and motivating story -

Apex court orders Rs.10 mn compensation for medical negligence

 

Nearly two decades after Bangalore-based Infosys engineer Prashanth S. Dhananka became paralysed waist down after a botched surgery, the Supreme Court ordered the Nizam Medical Institute of Hyderabad to pay him a record compensation of Rs.10 million, while praising him for fighting the case himself though confined to a wheelchair.

 

Ordering the compensation for medical negligence to Dhananka, a bench of Justice B.N. Agrawal also asked the apex court’s registry to send the verdict to the victim through registered post at his address in Bangalore.

 

The bench also recorded its ‘deep appreciation’ of Dhananka for his having argued the entire case on medical concepts himself in the apex court with the deftness of a lawyer.

 

Justifying the payment of the compensation, the court said, the sum is justified ‘keeping in mind that a brilliant career has been cut short and there is, as of now, no possibility of improvement of his physical conditions’.

 

Dhananka, son of a Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) employee, was admitted to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in September 1990 after complaints of unexplained intermittent fever. Doctors from BHEL hospital referred him to the Hyderabad hospital for ‘further’ tests, which showed a large tumour in his left chest cavity. After an X-ray and a CT scan confirmed this, he was asked to undergo a biopsy.

 

Though the tumour was found to be benign, doctors decided to remove it fearing that it might later exert pressure on his respiratory, cardio-vascular and neurological systems. The doctors feared it could also later turn malignant.

 

A team led by a cardio-thoracic surgeon removed the tumour. In the process, a part of his ribs had to be cut. After the surgery, Dhananka, developed paralysis of the lower portion of the body, including legs.

 

No allegation of medical negligence was made then. But, six months later, Dhananka’s father wrote a letter to the institute in 1991, alleging negligence.

 

In 1993, Dhananka moved the NCDRC seeking damages of about Rs.50 million. The commission held the doctors negligent and directed the institute to pay Rs.1.4 million to him and Rs.150,000 to his father.

 

The institute moved the apex court challenging the NCDRC finding that it was guilty of negligence.

 

It contended that it had not associated a neuro-surgeon in the surgery from the beginning and had not exchanged any opinion with sister institutes in India and abroad.

 

I request you to take these in light humorous sense otherwise if you are a hot-blooded Indian (no matter which region you belong to), don’t read ahead.

What it means to have a TAMIL GIRL friend -

• Her mother looks down at you because you didn’t study in IIT or Madras /Anna University.
  
• Her father starts every conversation with ” I say…”
  
• She shudders if you use four letter words.
  
• She shudders when you eat eggs.
  
• She has long hair, neatly oiled and braided.
  
• She uses the word ‘Super’ as her only superlative.
  
• Her name is another name for a Goddess or a flower.
  
• Her first name is longer than your first name, middle name and surname combined.
  
• When she mixes milk and rice you are never sure whether it is for the Dog or for herself. (That is baaad!)
  
• For weddings, she sports a mini jasmine garden on her head and wears silk saris in the Madras heat without looking too uncomfortable while you are melting in your singlet.
  
• She thinks Arvind Swami is the sexiest man alive.
  
• Her favorite cricketer is Kris Srikanth.
  
• Her favorite food is dosa though she has tried North Indian snack like Chat (pronounced like the slang for ‘conversation’)
  
• She bursts into songs with her cousins in every movie.
  
• She bores you by telling you which raaga each song you hear is based on.
  
• You have to give her jewels, though she has already got plenty of it.
  
• She is more educated than you.
  
• Her father thinks she is much smarter than you.
  
• And he is probably right.

Note: Sorry Tamil friends

What it means to have a TELGU GIRL friend

• Her mother looks down at you because you didn’t study Engineering or for not having a fake certificate which others can easily identify…
  
• Her father starts every conversation with Dowry??… Is he a Brinjal vendor..?
  
• She shudders if you use FIVE (DOWRY) letter words.
  
• She hates you when you don’t eat GONGURA…and all pickles her mom has given from a 3 yrs back India trip…
  
• She has a capability of turning anything into a pickle…even paper… Andhra style… Your fate to eat it…
  
• She has long hair, neatly oiled and braided not to make, feel her husband admire…but to offer to Tirupathi god.
  
• She uses the word ‘Bagundhi’ as a standard adjective for anything even to praise you… so no value.
  
• She breaks her first name and keeps a nick name; her last name is usually being horrible to pronounce…everyone confuses which one to use.
  
• When she mixes milk and rice you don’t realize that it would also be like a fire hot…so spicy…Unless you taste it and go to hospital she might have used white chillis. (That is chaala baaad!).
  
• For weddings, she doesn’t sport a mini jasmine garden on her head because she knows well that her hair is going to TIRUPATHI so why jasmine flowers wastely? Correct na…?? and wears basic cotton sari in the
• Guntur and save something to her dad because of dowry expenses.
  
• She thinks Chiranjeevi and Venkatesh are the sexiest men alive. Otherwise, she knows only about Tamil heroes and movies because approx…200% Tamil movies are dubbed or remade in Telugu right?
  
• Her favorite cricketer is Tendulkar…because there is no one from Guntur.
  
• She bores you by telling you how to save $… while sleeping…too… trying to save snore? Lol.
  
• You have to give her American life, Lexus, Acura MDX, Blackberry & always update with…Luxury stuff…so that she will balance the jewels and houses her father gave you..
  
• But she rarely likes to buy those cars…and owns an obsolete Corolla…for her entire US life…
  
• She is rarely educated…knows how to be a best kanjoo in the world…
  
• Her father thinks she is much smarter than You( my telugu friend)…and he is correct…

I remember the days at Infy when people especially used to get the chairs with straight back so that they can sit at 90 degrees while staring at their PCs. Some people used to go to extent of even customizing those chairs. People went for such chairs because they already suffered from back problems. One of my college mates was one of them. I used to feel better on the other usual chairs which weren’t specifically made for right-angled sitting positions and I never had any back or that kind of problems. Therefore, I used to wonder that even getting such chairs, their problem used to get worse instead of relieving them. But it seems that I got the reason…

According to the recent survey reported in an online news journal,

The stick-straight posture is bad for your back. The best posture is actually a 135-degree angle, which would mean one would sit at their desk leaning backwards slightly. This position takes the pressure off the spinal disks in the lower back.

Total 22 patients were studied for this survey. According to study, sitting straight puts extra pressure on your spine and hence causes the disks to relocate more than the relaxed position i.e. 135 degrees. I am surprised that the posture we and even our parents used to think as the best posture isn’t actually the right posture.

Here is the excerpt from article -

Aching back? Don’t sit up straight, study says

 

A new study is making it easier to ignore your mother’s sage advice on sitting up straight.

 

In fact, the stick-straight posture is bad for your back, researchers say.

 

The best posture is actually a 135-degree angle, which would mean one would sit at their desk leaning backwards slightly, according to new research presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

 

This position takes the pressure off the spinal disks in the lower back, researchers say.

 

“A 135-degree body-thigh sitting posture was demonstrated to be the best biomechanical sitting position, as opposed to a 90-degree posture, which most people consider normal,” said Waseem Amir Bashir, author and clinical fellow in the Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging at the University of Alberta Hospital.

 

“Sitting in a sound anatomic position is essential, since the strain put on the spine and its associated ligaments over time can lead to pain, deformity and chronic illness,” he said in a written statement.

 

Researchers used a positional MRI scanner to collect images from 22 healthy volunteers with no history of back pain or surgery.

 

The 22 patients studied at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland assumed three different sitting positions.

 

One included a slouching posture in which the body is hunched forward; while the second was an upright 90-degree sitting position; and the third was the relaxed position where the patient reclined backward 135 degrees while the feet remained on the floor.

 

The researchers used the MRI images to determine which sitting position put the least stress on the back.

 

Spinal disk movement occurs when weight-bearing strain is placed on the spine, causing the internal disk material to misalign.

“You can see the disc has gone backwards,” said Bashir as he showed an MRI image of a patient’s back. “If you stand up after long periods (of sitting), and you’ve got weak back muscles, you can potentially pop the disc out.”

Disk movement was most pronounced with a 90-degree upright sitting posture but it was least pronounced with the 135-degree position, indicating that less strain is placed on the spinal disks and associated muscles and tendons in this position.

 

“Employers could also reduce problems by providing their staff with more appropriate seating, thereby saving on the cost of lost work hours.”

 

But one Canadian specialist suggested a far more simple solution: less sitting and more movement.

 

“The most practical solution is to get people to move,” said Prof. Jack Callaghan of the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

I had talk about a personality long back ago and now, I am enjoying his company. He is here at CE with me. He is no one else but Vivek Maurya. He was my ML at Infy. We were together only for three months and then he shifted to other org. Now after about 2 years, we are together again.

I am happy to be with him as he was the one of the MLs I liked because he is more concerned about quality than quantity of work. I liked that attitude of this guy. And other thing which I like about him is that he likes to play Quake III – just the way I like!!!

Welcome to CE, Vivek. We will have great time together here – that’s for sure .