Year.introspect(2007)

Being a Friday afternoon, I wanted to finish any pending tasks and go home early and more importantly to keep myself away from the laptop on the weekend. I started looking at the TODO list and the one with top priority was submitting the self assessment. Hmmm, another year just rolled by and while filling up my assessment I introspected my personal life as well.

This year has been very eventful on the personal and work fronts. On the personal front, the long pending tasks have been completed. I purchased my first car, am delighted to drive it. Got a very good deal and purchased a house, would me moving into that very soon and most important, got engaged. The horoscopes have finally relented and I found my soul mate. My fiancee is also a java developer :-).

On the work front, I got a very challenging assignment and am all the more happy for it, though it is going to be little hectic. We will be driving the "Bus" - Enterprise Service Bus. ALSB has been choosen as the ESB and hopefully, the ride is going to be fun and thrilling as we become more SOAified ( I coined this word, hehe).

This year went by just like that, but was very eventful. Hoping that the next year would be more fun filled and exuberant. Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, 2008!!!

Safely Remove Hardware icon, where has it gone?

I noticed that sometimes, the "Safely Remove Hardware icon" disappears from the taskbar and simply unplugging the thumb drive has corrupted it once. Today, I found that there is another workaround for this - Start > Run and key in the following to bring up Safely Remove Hardware dialog:

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll