Don't dance so fast

Today I received a mail with a nice but advicing thoughts. So I thought of adding it here.

As the mail explained, this poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.


Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.


Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.


When you run
so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.


Update:
Today I got to know that the author of this poem is Mr. David L. Weatherford. Thanks for such a nice poem.

Extend Firefox Contest finalists

The finalists of the firefox extension contest has been announced!!!

There are many extensions that I am using very much. So here are some comments about some of the extensions that are selected for the final contest.



Adblock by Ben Karel

Block ads including Flash ads from their source. Right click on an ad and select Adblock to block ads. Hit the status-element and see what has or hasn't been blocked.

Now there's another good enhancement for ad blocks named Adblock Plus.
It provides the ability to get the ad list managed at Filterset.G. (For that you need Adblock Filterset.G Updater extension).

Firefox Showcase by Josep del Rio

View open Tabs and Windows with Showcase. You can use it in two ways: global mode (F12) or local mode (Shift + F12). In global mode, a new window will be opened with thumbnails of the pages you've opened in all windows. In local mode, only content in tabs of your current window will be shown. You can also right click in those thumbnails to perform the most usual operations on them. Mouse middle button can be used to zoom a thumbnail, although other actions can be assigned to it.

This is a pretty useful extension which shows thumbnails of all the pages that you have loaded currently. I like this extension.

What's missing?
I think one of the greatest extension is missing in the finalist list. It is the Tab Mix Plus.

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.4, by CPU

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

This is one of the greatest extensions I have ever used as it provide so many features to manage tabs.

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[UNIX Tips] Learn tar utility in 5 minutes

tar is a facility in Linux that creates archived file using a set of files. One file will be created that contains all the files in it. But do not get misunderstand, ".tar" file is not a compressed file. It is only a collection of files within a single uncompressed file.

TAR
1. Create tar archive
    $ tar -cf tarFileName.tar file1 file2 file3
This will create an achive named tarFileName.tar and that will include the files specified there (ie: file1, file2, file3).
2. View the list of files
    $ tar -tf tarFileName.tar
This will list the details of the files inside the archive.
3. Extract tar archive
    $ tar -xf tarFileName.tar
This will extract the archive and create the files that were inside the archive.

The above options have the meanings as:
c - create an archive
f - archive file
t - list the content of the archive
x - extract an archive

GZIP
If the file is a ".tar.gz" or ".tgz" file it is a collection of files that is compressed. To compress a file, first create the tar file then gzip the file. For using gzip the option -z has to be used with the above command.
1. Create tar archive
    $ tar -czf tarFileName.tar file1 file2 file3
Now the archive is created as a compressed file.

z - compress using gzip utility

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