Amazing Sand Animation - Ukraine's Got Talent

An old song - favorite from KGP days :D

Interesting reads from hbr blog

1. 
   To Get What You Want, Don't Go With Your Gut
   


2. 
   Four Rules for Effective Negotiations
   

After reading these posts, i realized how miserable i was in a recent negotiation (i was desperately looking for a +ve outcome but lost it even before i could start presenting my side of the case)... definitely worth reading; not sure how much a reading can help but something is better than nothing. And in my way of thinking, first step towards fixing a problem is to realize that there is a problem. :-)

बस यूँही...

आज फिर उस गली से गुजरे हम
हुए पुराने लम्हे रूबरू
तुम न थे दूर दूर तक कहीं
फिर भी की हमने गुफ्तगू...

Thought of the day...

... well, i always thought its funny;
and yesterday i realized it really is (yep, i did)!
and then i thought why the hell it took so long for the realization?
...then i felt this thought itself is funny;
finally to conclude that i "think" too much!

Deleting all tables in a mysql database

Turned out there is no command like "trunk database " but unix piping could be a savior.

Warning: Somehow my putty session crashes after running the command mentioned below and i've to restart the session. Just in case you know a better way to do this, please do share in the comments. Thanks!

mysqldump -h <dbhost> -u <dbuser> -p --add-drop-table --no-data <dbname> | grep ^DROP | mysql -h <dbhost> -u <dbuser> -p <dbname>

Thought of the day...

All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;
All play and no work, makes Jack a mere toy!