Japanese fish

Japanese fish

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste.

To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought lower price.

So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive.

Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish. So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they manage to get fresh-tasting fish to Japan?

To keep the fish tasting fresh, Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged.

As soon as you reach your goals, such as finding a wonderful mate, starting a successful company, paying off your debts or whatever, you might lose your passion. You don't need to work so hard so you relax.

Like the Japanese fish problem, the best solution is simple. L. Ron Hubbard observed it in the early 1950's. "Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment."

The Benefits of a Challenge: The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more you enjoy a good problem. If your challenges are the correct size, and if you are steadily conquering those challenges, you are happy. You think of your challenges and get energized. You are excited to try new solutions. You have fun. You are alive!

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are!

Via | Sreenivas

Display custom fonts, using only html code

Display custom fonts, using only html code

If I you want to use a font style which is not loaded in a user's system, normally you may convert the same text into graphics in .gif and .jpeg format and upload it as a image called into web page. Which adds to the size of the page and rendering time also increases. Till now, though there are many hacks to load custom fonts, they were mostly few browser specific. Here's an interesting solution, just by using javascript and HTML coding custom font written text can be rendered in a browser.

Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at least to render the the graphic text on this site. Here's what it takes to get going: load the typeface.js library and some typeface.js fonts, then proceed like normal here:

>> Using Custom fonts at Typeface.js

"eno feelingoo"

"eno feelingoo"

(Photo from floating villages in Tonle Sap, Siem Reap. Cambodia. October 2008)

The moment we got into a boat in Tonle Sap, it was dusky evening. Damn nice sunset was melting into the chocolaty colored waters of floating village. The motor boat was driving like a lost kite into splashing waters of the lake. Cool wind was waving our ear curves. Nikky and me sat stretching our hands in the forefront of the boat. Ah ! what a feeling it was, gulping wind into lungs ! It was the pinnacle conquered moment, slowly moving into the windy water making a way between the shrubs and floating houses made on boats.

And by then Nikhil exclaimed: "eno feelingoo, nakkan" We yelled it like country kids, care free like a lost wind again and again :). Its crude, but can't help ? The traverse across 3 nations was much more than what I could capture in words. The unforgettable voyage criss-crossing South east Asia for last 20 days are crude memories in my heart and soul which left a long lasting travel-addiction-scar inside me.

The stone temples of Angkor,muddy long roads of Cambodia, floating villages in Tonle Sap, high rise buildings of Singapore, high voltage discos of Pattaya, amazing beaches of south skin Thailand , the deadly daring ocean boat journey of Krabi islands, mesmerizing blue waters of Phi-Phi are longer to stay in my moods & forever. It was the longest vacation of my life in abroad, mixed with hip-hop, terrain hiking, plush photography flavor all through. My blog will have the rhythm of experiences of my short travel to South East Asia for few days henceforth.