Search skills

Not so long before there lived a young man in India who had a thing for searching on Internet. He would search the net thoroughly and find answers for his questions, doubts and also for others (He wished all items in his home were listed in his computer and were search able digitally). Time passed by. Now he work in a company in the accounts stream and recently got a broadband connection for his computer. Then began trouble. The BBS would not work if LAN is connected. Every time he wanted to connect to the Internet he needed to disconnect / disable his LAN. It was a pain in the neck and also elsewhere. He decided to resort to his old technique. And he did. He searched the whole wide world but could not hit upon the right link. Whenever he said two connections the search term was taken to mean one to be wireless. Days passed with no answer. Then he knew that the rules of the game have changed and his rusty search engine cannot work here.

PS.1

His undying spirit helped him find an answer within. Not within himself but in the settings screens of his network connections. Stumbled upon the idea to add a port to exceptions list in window firewall and there it works.

PS.2

No need to mention that it is about me.

PS.3

The idea in PS.1 failed even before this post can get to the blog. But today both networks are co-existing as if there had never been compatibility issues.
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It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

There is nothing permanent except change.

“There is nothing permanent except change.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus quotes (Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, 540-480BC)

It is the most truest (is the emphasis enough) of all I have ever heard. My blog shows three suggested downloads which I don't use anymore. The first is "Post it notes for PC" which at one point of time seemed to be very important for carrying out my day to day work. The second is “FireFox extension for Time Management” used by me to track time spent on web (am I spiderman). More a tool to restrict my surfing time. Finally “A43 file manager” a replacement for windows explorer. That was expected to save time for me in opening command windows and searching file within a folder.

I am not using any of these today. Being organised does help. As I started to streamline processes in office by prioritising the tasks according to the urgency, pendency and importance monetarily or information wise thing began to fall in place themselves. Once the back logs are set right it is now really possible to go ahead of schedules by over a week. This has done away with the use of sticky notes on the screen.

This was a more simple one. Time management is done by me for the whole of my time. Not just surfing time. Respecting of the priorities I have set gave me little time to be on the web (mostly during lunch time). So I need not be looking at the bottom right corner of the browser to see when to stop ( usually how much time has been lost ).

The file manager is still installed in my PC, though it is not in the quick launch anymore. The credit goes to “Open command prompt here” tweak by MS. Moreover being organised has some thing to it. Now I don't need to search for files every now and then. I know where they are.

So why this title. Because only a few months ago I thought these tools to be indispensable, now completely dispensed with. And more changes are expected too. That's why.