Circle of Life

This week has been hectic- My neighbor died, an elderly lady; one of my good friends got married, awesome party; my cousin sister gave birth to a baby girl, sweet little thing. All in one week. This does put life into perspective.

I suppose it happens everyday, every minute, every second, somewhere to someone.

When you look at the world from a distance, all seems fine. It's just another lonely planet. The closer you get, you start to see the chaos- the joy, the sorrow, the life and the death, the wars, and the peace, the truth and the lies, the sick and the healthy, the generous and the selfish, the brave and fearful, all trying to make or take something of value out of this circle of life.

:-)

How to provide 'Email Subscription' Feature to your Blog

There are those who prefer to email subscriptions vs Feeds via a Feed reader. To satisfy this type of audience you must include on your blog/Web page:

a) Email subscription Form

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You can do this by burning your blog or feed address via FeedBurner and then publicizing the newly generated feed for email subscriptions.

Here's a step by step guide to do just that, courtesy of BloggerTricks.com

IMPORTANT: Step 6 in this guide is now made easy by FeedBurner by providing one click facility to include either a single link subscription or a subscription form widget on your blog/Web page, without having to copy paste any code to a manually added HTML/JavaScript Google Gadget.

Rustic Cooking

Visiting a friend at the Jesuit House, Dalugama, Kelaniya last weekend I had the privilege of meeting his superior who was busy preparing a Rustic Roast Chicken for a special Easter dinner. Although I could not taste it, I heard it was delicious, something worth trying out.

Here's Google search engine's number 1 ranked Rustic Roast Chicken recipe you may want to try :


Taste Sensations: How To Make Rustic Roast Chicken

Here are some other rustic chicken dishes you should take a look at:

Rustic chicken with Pasta
Rustic chicken stew
Rustic chicken soup
Rustic chicken noodle soup with spinach
Rustic chicken salad with spring vegetables
Rustic chicken club

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

I was introduced to this poem in school, when we were still very young children, and required to by heart it for our elocution classes. I did not know at the time how practically this poem was going to help me in my adult life.

Read it today, read it tomorrow, read it in another month, months or years, it will have some new personal meaning to you.

In my opinion, believe this poem epitomizes the Buddhist philosophy of the path of moderation. In a world where extremism is a fashion, Rudyard Kipling reminds us to keep our feet well grounded, while we move through the snares of the world to achieve what we believe is true and is of value...

Here's If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

How does a non-Google Account Holder Join a Google Group?

This simple guide will help invitees of the Ranaviru Support Google Group to sign-in and accept their invitations, especially those who do not hold a Google Account.

Getting Started - Sign in and Accept Invitation

1. Visit the Ranaviri Support Google Group [1]

2. Click on Sign-in [2]

3.1 If the e-mail address to which the invitation was sent is already a Google account then simply sign in using the box below

3.2 If the e-mail address to which the invitation was sent is NOT already a Google account then, you must enable it as a Google account by clicking on Create an acccount now [3].

This link will take you to a form which will require you to provide some information. Make sure you give the email address to which the invitation was sent to, at the field requesting 'Your current email address'. After submitting this form you will be taken to your new Google account (with access to all other Google services) where you will find Ranaviru Support Group under 'Groups'.

Update Membership & Profile

1. You can easily update your Google Group profile at http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?myprofile

2. Membership settings control email subscriptions, your nickname to this group etc. You can also remove yourself from the group here at your will. These settings can be updated at http://groups.google.com/group/ranaviru-support/subscribe

References

[1]http://groups.google.com/group/ranaviru-support

[2]https://www.google.com/groups/signin?cd=US&hl=en&ssip=g3&_done=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Franaviru-support

[3]https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?hl=en&cd=US&service=groups2&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroups%2Fauth%3F_done%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgroups.google.com%252Fgroup%252Franaviru-support&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroups%2Fauth%3F_done%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgroups.google.com%252Fgroup%252Franaviru-support

Resources

[4] Do I need a Google Account to use Google Groups?

[5] Google Group Help Desk