Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Cyber Blood Banks
We knew quite a few sites which have contact details for a host of volunteer donors. We searched and found contact details for 2 people with same blood group. Very important and amazing was the response we got from each of them. It was really great and I still feel great when I think of it.
My friend tried calling first person. This guy was in Bangalore at that time so was not able to help us immediately but he was ready to fly to our place and donate blood as soon as he could. We told him to hold for some time just to try other person’s contact. Then we called second person, he was about 150 kms away from our place and told us like “I will be there as soon as I can”. After 5-10 minutes, we thought to give him a call just to reconfirm the time when he will reach us. Till the time we called him again, he was already on his way. He reached in approx 2.5 hours and donated blood
It was really good to know that even in today’s busy world there are at least some people who are eager to help just for the sake of humanity without any personal benefit.
Here is the list of some of the sites..
http://www.bharatbloodbank.com/
http://explore.oneindia.in/health/donors/blood/
http://www.indianblooddonors.com
http://www.lionsbloodline.com/
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Tool to generate script with SQL 2005
Here is comprehesive description regarding the same from one of my friends.
From: Ravindra Bisht
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 3:38 PM
Subject: Tool to generate script withSQL 2005
Microsoft Sql Server management studio does provide a elaborate Script wizard for generating script but it has only following options
- Script to file (which is one huge file with everything)
- Script to Clipboard
- Script to New Query Window
However two important features from SQL 2000 are missing:
1) One object per file.
2) A script that performs both DROP and CREATE.
Though MSDN documents indicates that this is possible here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191299.aspx
However, it doesn't give any clue on how to accomplish it. Quote from that page:
"The schema for generated objects can be saved in a single SQL Script file , or in several files with each file containing
the schema of just one object."
And these above two features can be accomplish by tool that can be installed from http://www.sqlteam.com/publish/scriptio/
However the extension for all those files is .sql which can easily be modified.
Regards
Ravindra Bisht
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Yahoooo vs Gmail
Yahoo has finally done some really cool things with its email interface. Its all now using
Because Tab shifts your focus to the next control (which is Send Button) and Enter clicks the button. So if someone types “To” address after keying in whole body then he will have to click on the text area to use shortcut for sending email.
Can someone call this a shortcut J