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If you have a self-hosting WordPress blog, then it’s really time to take the following advice from Matt.
It contains very very important information. Don’t waste hundreds of man hours in future, because you don’t have 5 minutes now!
Prevention is better than cure. Don’t you agree? In life, all things are simple, yet it’s us who make it complicated by the way we look at each of those things. For example, all the media went erupt after the swine flu penetration in India, especially after the first death. Every media went crazy publishing news about it, and giving hourly updates on what’s going on in hospitals through out the country. They went ahead and interviewed many people who are suspected of this virus, who are naturally scared and do not know how to cure/prevent it. The worst of all, when a few doctors, who had been treating swine flu patients, became victims, the media exaggerated it even further.
No media actually gave enough importance to interview doctors and scientists who know what exactly swine flu does and how to prevent it. It’s sad to say that the media is more interested in creating scare among common man than spreading the word that it’s easy to prevent and cure. Creating hype about this is purely to improve their rating/publicity than actually giving out the news which is what they are meant for.
Swine flu was originated in Mexico. But now, it’s been under control there, but propagating so fast in many other countries including India. In Mexico, it is learned that they implemented some hard-to-follow rules such as banning people to go together in public places and shutting down theatres, malls, etc. In India, we don’t need these hard rules in order to prevent it from doing further damage. India was blessed to have lots of spiritual knowledge to learn from it’s own.
Most people are affected by swine flu because they don’t have the health to sustain any kind of affection. They often fall sick and don’t have much physical and mental energy. It is here, we need to go back to basics and learn to do yoga which improves both physical and mental strength. Even better, one can learn and practice Sudharshan Kriya taught by Art Of Living foundation throughout the world. When a HIV patient can live healthily for years together practising Sudharshan Kriya, why can’t it prevent swine flu?
Last Wednesday (August 12, 2009), as usual, the oDesk website was in maintenance mode for about 15 minutes starting 6pm PST. Earlier, I used to have a keen eye on the changes made after every weekly scheduled maintenance/update. oDesk usually make small updates that are mostly bug-fixes or minor updates. This time, the update they made was something that I never expected.
oDesk’s forum was updated this time. Firstly, it started displaying the number of posts each active user in the forum community. I remember being so active in the forum, but not being given any recognition. When I saw the number of posts against each user this week, I was so glad that they did it. After all, I have already written 365 useful posts since I registered in oDesk a year back. This feature also encourages users to be actively involved in the forum discussions.
Another change is again in the same place next to the username in the forum posts. It displays the country information about the users. I like it sometimes and don’t like it other times. When I see someone from India posts something in the forum, I become curious to see their profile immediately. 
Overall, oDesk made surprise updates that really encouraged me (and a few others, I believe) to be active again in the oDesk community forum.
Back in 2000, I learned to program using C. After a series of changes in life, I dropped programming and didn’t get updated with anything in the programming world. Lately, I thought I could learn the basics of PHP. So ultimately I searched the internet. Got numerous guides, tutorials, videos, etc. However, only one of these made a great impression on me. It’s from Vikram Vaswani of Melonfire written for Zend. When I learned C, it wasn’t fun at all. But when I saw this tutorial, I had a feeling “why didn’t I learn PHP earlier”. Such was the impression! Try it yourself, if you are starting to learn PHP. It’s not for intermediate or advanced programmers. Here is the link to it…
There are lots of lessons to learn from a dog about God.
- God doesn’t speak to us, yet we can realize God’s love. The same goes for a dog.
- God loves us unconditionally. Doesn’t your dog love you unconditionally?
- God always think about us. A dog does so.
- God gives us some kind of signal when something wrong is going to happen. A dog alerts us too. Dog and God have the ability to know what’s going to happen in advance.
God uses dogs to teach us how to overcome problems in life. If you are walking alone in a deserted street with a fierce dog walking towards you what would you do? Would you turn back and run? I hope you never did that. If you do so, the dog may become so curious in hurting you for sure within seconds. I also hope you wouldn’t turn to any other streets for a change, because there might be more than a dog on those streets when you enter. So naturally, you’d just pray to God and move on with head high (with fast-thumping heart) without looking at the dog as though it never exists in that street. After a while, you are sure to go beyond the dog without any grumble from dog’s end and your heartbeat would become normal.
In the same way, when you face a problem in your life, take it as a dog in the street. Just pray to God and move on towards the destination. All the problems (dogs) would eventually go off without even making any kind of impression. Sometimes, they may give more energy to face more problems (dogs) in the future without others’ help! If you try to run away from the problem, then the problem is sure to come along with you bringing more problems (dogs) as the time passes. If you turn away and go on a different path, then there may be more (different) problems (dogs) on that way.
Next time, when you face a problem in your life, remember this post and move on. Or join in an Art Of Living course and see how it brings changes in your life and in your problems!
Jai Guru Dev…
