Save depleteing ground water table

Today when Kapil dropped me in the evening, it was raining. My home being one and a half kilometer from his place, I knew that whatever I do can not save me from getting drenched. So leaving the idea of taking the shelter aside, I started walking. It was pouring down heavily. I got drenched even to my inner most layers, before the seconds hand of my watch could complete one round around the dial. But I enjoyed the rain thoroughly. Though it’s not been too long since I got caught in the rains, last time, but it was the time when I was not worried about saving my Laptop. The cold drops of rain on my face felt so good.

Walking with the long strides, on my way back, I was passing through the streets. The streets were flooded with the overflowing drains leaving only small islands, for people like me to walk on. The water was flowing down from the small drains made on the roofs of the houses near by. Suddenly I felt "Aren't we wasting the lot of rain water by allowing it to go down the drains and not harvesting it". The water drained down only from my roof should be sufficient enough to irrigate a small field for may be two days. Had everybody harvested this rain water and used it water the plants and garden, it would have saved a lot of underground water in already depleted ground water table. I am not mentioning the electricity required that water out. I resolved to get rain water harvesting system installed at my house and do my bit believing that it would inspire the others also. Somebody please share the address of the places in Delhi from where I can get the rainwater harvesting system.

Gmail Labels get drag and drop

Today when I logged in my google mail account a change alert greeted me. Google mail has kept improving its interface in 5 years since its inception, to add functionality or improve the user experience. This time it has introduced the Lable drag option. This feature lets you assign the lable to any and many messages in your mail box by simply dragging the lable onto the messages.




A very cool usability feature. When you are on your inbox or on a message screen you can drag a lable to assign that lable to the message(s) in question. From your inbox you can also drag message or multiple messages(press "Shift" Key while selecting, to select multiple messages) to assign a specific lable to these messages. But on assigning the lables this way (dragging message to the lable) will move your message from the inbox to the folder specific to your lable.



This functionality eases the task of assigning lables to your communications especially if you have a longish Labels list. Google also has thought the functionality well from usability perspective and moved the Lables above the chats widget. This means just drag and drop no Scrolling up and down for finding the lables (or communications) while dragging. Another thing that They have maintained is the Lables drop down. So when I am at the end of a loooooong mail, I can assign the lable to this mail the conventional way (from the drop down). Google sure knows the nerves of its users.