The following are tips for people who use computer for more than 2 hours a day. They must take care to avoid computer related injuries.

1) Keep your palms on rest while typing/using mouse
2) Monitor should be kept at a distance of at least 18-24 inches from eyes
3) Top of monitor should be little lower than eye level
4) Adjust chair height so your feet are flat on the floor, knees are bent slightly more than 90 degrees in front of you
5) Take regular breaks and stretch a little whenever you get up

Also see Ergonomics for the Computer Workstations

Do suggest your tips in the comments section if you have any to add to these.

Today is the festival of Raksha Bandhan and it was Krishna’s first Raksha Bandhan, Vishruti & Ishita her cousin sisters tied him the rakhi today.

About Raksha Bandhan (Rakhi)
Raksha Bandhan also called Rakhi is one of the festivals that Hindu celebrates. This festival is to signify and extend the brother-sister relationship in which a sisters tie a rakhi - a thread on their brothers’ wrists. The brother in return offers a gift to his sister and vows to protect her. This festival is typically an occasion for celebration by the whole family.

It is not necessary that the rakhi can be given only to a blood brother - any male can be “adopted” as a brother by tying a rakhi on the person. Indian history is replete with women asking for protection, through rakhi, from men who were neither their brothers, nor Hindus themselves.

Rani Karnavati of Chittor sent a rakhi to the Mughal Emperor Humayun when she was threatened by Bahadur Shah of Mewar. Humayun abandoned an ongoing military campaign to ride to her rescue.

Raksha Bandhan is celebrated on the full moon of the month of Shraavana.

If you have been listening to FM lately in Delhi you must have heard about their ads regarding Visual Radio. I just wondered and checked what its all about and found that Visual Radio is a Nokia proprietary streaming technology for Symbian smartphones. It is not audio streaming: some phones that are already equiped with analog FM radio (notably the Nokia 3230) come with the Visual Radio client that is used to stream SMIL-based data to the phone while the user listens to analog FM radio. (Visual Radio definition From Wikipedia)

Then later I checked this website

Visual Radio enables to see and do more when listening to radio on your mobile phone. It shows you what is playing right now, on your phone’s screen, so you never have to have that feeling again when you keep hearing a song you like and you can’t find out who it is. It helps in finding details about new singers, songs, etc. It makes radio news and sports broadcasts enriched with graphics and interesting background information.

It lets you interact with radio station you are listening to, express your opinion, take part in audience polls, votes and competitions with few clicks on your mobile.

For more details see FAQs on VisualRadio.com website

I had mentioned few posts back about trip to Agra and had just put two pictures of the trip. This post (Part I) is about the details of the trip (Delhi - Agra - Delhi). This post also has select pictures (keep your mouse over the pictures for description) of the first half of the trip.

Number of People : 7 Adults & 3 children
Mode of transport : By Road (in Tavera)
Time started : 8:30 am
Distance (approx.) : 190 kms (Delhi - Agra); 37 Kms (Agra to Fatehpur Sikri)

Its always better to start as early as possible in the morning to avoid office hour rush and that can really help to reduce travelling time especially when going to Agra because its quite a task to cover first 30 kms. As there were 3 kids with us, we intentionally decided not to start early. We left at around 8: 30 am from my place (Kamla Nagar, north part of Delhi), we picked my cousin & family from his place at around 9.

We were motoring on Mathura Road highway and it was quite heavy rush all around as it was a working day. We stopped at some Akash Resort to have some breakfast, though there was no one in the restaurant and I had apprehensions while stopping whether or not food will be good. But once the stuff arrived and we took our first bites, the food quality was excellent and fresh. Paneer pokaras were the best out of the lot.

We moved from Akash Resort at around quarter past eleven, though the highway was quite neat and clean , there were occasional hiccups of instant breaking because of people / cattle coming out of small villages. We continuously drove till Fatehpur Sikri then and reached around 1:45 p.m. We took a by-pass road which helped us avoid Agra while going but I must tell you that drive on the village roads was quite a bumpy one. We had to travel around 20-25 kms but that seemed a lot to me as I was sitting on rear seat.

The sun was shining bright at Fatehpur Sikri, we took tickets to get into palace complex which required us to take tickets - Rs. 20 for each adult, entry for children was free. We walked all over watching Jodha Bai’s palace , Diwan-i-Am, Diwan-i-Khas, Birbal’s house: the house of Akbar’s favourite minister, place where Tansen used to practice/play music, Panch Mahal - the tallest of the buildings of the complex, the pool where Salim used to take bath. It was quite hot inside but there was such a cool fresh air while inside any of these buildings, they were made in such a way that it did not require any kind of cooling system, it was naturally air-conditioned.

After we finished seeing the complex we went towards Buland Darwaza. We were approached by all kinds of vendor to buy different stuff from them. There was one small guy who wanted us to listen to his shayari and give him a kind of prize money if impressed by his shayari. He was good for his age and said shayari in a such a fashion which was interactive in a way that he included each one of us in his sher’s. Everybody was pretty impressed by his style and well formed & meaningful shayari.

As we moved towards, Buland Darwaza and sun was still hot, I just happened to inquire about whether we need to take our shoes once we get there and were told that we have to take shoes at the door there and walk along bare footed there. It was already 3 :30 pm and each one of us was little hungry and nobody wanted to walk bare-footed. So we had a good look at Buland Darwaza from the footsteps itself.

Part II - Coming Soon !!

Have you ever written a letter to God…perhaps No ! There is temple in Uttranchal where people actually write letters to God. There are thousands of letters written in English, Hindi, Pahari, German, French. These letters are written by followers of Lord Golu which acts as a prayer of the followers for any wishes/thanks they want to convey to the Lord. What a communication link between Lord & its followers in this jetage.

That particular interesting piece of information I found here