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I attended the PSI Basic seminar last weekend. It is life-altering! I recognized that I was doubting myself, not trusting people who work along with me, letting negative thoughts cloud my thinking, was wound-up tight. I can now see through my thinking, am able to listen to what people have to say. I realize that awareness of what we think comes before we can muster the will to change it. Realization of how difficult it is to stay changed comes before we can stay changed. In a sense, it has freed me from the limits of my own thinking!

On of my managers asked me to rate the PSI Basic seminar. My rating for the PSI Basic is 10/10. The only other rating possible for this seminar, in my mind, is 0/10. Either it worked or it didn’t. In my case, it worked. I am proud of myself. I opened my heart and my mind - I made it work.

Folks, I have just now implemented Google Adsense for my blog. I hope to provide you with your daily diet of advertising right here on selvin.net. Please do provide me feedback about the quality and relevance of the ads that you see on my pages. Even if it is the great “G” company serving up the ads - these are my pages and I intend to keep my pages worth reading and the ads worth looking at!

Always wanted to write a novel? November 2006 is NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. You have one month to churn out a 175-page (50,000 words) novel by the end of November. So let that writer shine and receive a honorable mention in the NaNoWriMo Hall Of Fame

The focus is on quantity here, don’t sweat it - the website says.
Checkout the NaNoWriMo website

iBookDB makes it very easy for you to catalog all your books online, organize them as Owned / Wanted / Favorites / Read / Unread. You can even show off your Bookshelf (and the fact that you read) on your weblog / Myspace / website. You can search for books and put them on your “to read” list - and get them from amazon or a library near you by following the links. You can rate books, read and write reviews. Best of all this is free!

Checkout http://www.ibookdb.net/

Canon Inc., Toshiba Corp. and their joint venture SED Inc. are exhibiting a 55-inch SED panel at the “FPD International 2006″ in Pacifico Yokohama convention center. It is a so-called “full HD” panel featuring 1920 x 1080p resolution as with the one showcased at the “CEATEC JAPAN 2006″. The contrast ratio is reported to be 100000:1, while that of the model presented at the CEATEC JAPAN 2006 was 50000:1

If the picture is any indication, this has the potential to completely change what we expect of FPDs. No guidelines on pricing yet - which usually means its dirt cheap.

The Meizu miniplayer has an impressive set of features - plays just about any audio format you care about, is the size of an iPod Nano with a screen size larger than the larger iPod brethren! Watching videos on the meizu will be bearable

There are a dozen different ways to show a box with rounded corners in HTML. The Gurus decry the method of using corner divs with background colors or images as un-semantic HTML. Similarly using a class=”rounded” on the box and later adding divs to the DOM may keep the HTML semantic but they violate layer seperation and make the behavior layer perform the function of the presentation layer.

Why should implementing rounded corners leave such a bad taste? The CSS3 spec comes to our rescue with border-top-right-radius, border-top-left-radius etc. Each of these properties takes 2 values - first one for the horizontal radius and the second one for the vertical radius (or reverse if the writing mode is vertical). If any of them is 0, that corner is square. Checkout CSS3 rounded corners on the css3.info website

From an architectural standpoint, the most important change with the 2.6 scheduler is that the single global queue has been replaced with one queue per processor addressing multiprocessor scalability and CPU affinity concerns. Read the rest of this entry »

The Y!Shopping blog showcases interesting products on our comparison shopping site - shopping.yahoo.com. Checkout my blog post there about the FIFA 2006 World Cup. So this is basically a blog post about a blog post!

Italy’s sense of urgency in extra time finally paid off when Fabio Grosso struck in the 119th minute to give Italy the 1-0 lead and Germany just a little over a minute to try to break even. Germany’s all out crying attack in the last minute bore no goal and Italy’s Alessandro Del Piero scored another goal in the 121st minute to end Germany’s dreams of the 2006 FIFA World Cup
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