Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Helpful while sending official mails through Microsoft Outlook

Forgot Writing Subject in Mail ?

Forgot to mention subject, while writing an official mail??????

Don't worry......... just follow the simple steps mentioned below and see the result.

Here are the below steps
1. Open your outlook
2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic editor
3. On the Left Pane, one can see "Microsoft Outlook Objects", expand this. Now one can see the "ThisOutLookSession".
4. Click on "ThisOutLookSession".
5. Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane.(Code Pane)

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim strSubject As String
strSubject = Item.Subject

If Len(strSubject) = 0 Then
Prompt$ = "Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?"
If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, "Check for Subject") = vbNo Then
Cancel = True
End If
End If
End Sub

Save this and now close the VB Code editor and take a breath.

From now on, this macro will make sure you do not make the mistake of sending a mail without subject

Hope this helps!!!

Monday, January 15, 2007

Facts about HIV that everyone ought to know

Its good to be well informed about HIV.

There was a story on junk some days back where it is said that a boy got infected by HIV virus by eating pani-puri. And there have also been rumours where people are affected by the HIV virus when they got pricked by an HIV infected needle in theaters...

OK!!!! Lets evaluate the rubbish.

So read along!

Please read following points carefully

HIV (virus) requires *ONLY* *Blood or Semen* as medium to transmit from one body to another

HIV *can not* transmit even through *Saliva* (mucous) i.e. even if HIV-infected patient coughs and another person is exposed to his sputum (cough), the virus still can not transmit because concentration of virus particles in sputum is almost NIL & exposure to air anyway kills virus in fraction of seconds

In case HIV-infected person got an injury (like the cut in below mentioned story) and he is bleeding, the virus can transmit to another person only if another person has a cut/wound in his body & that too when *blood from both person comes in contact with each other* (this is also very very rare unless bleeding is very high) and not otherwise

HIV can *never survive in any other liquid* medium also other than blood or semen (& please for God sake ... never in Pani Puri wala's pani)

Even if one drinks an HIV infected blood (or semen) of someone (ingest through Gastro Intestinal track), the virus *can not survive in the acidic pH of stomach*. Highest extent of acidity is 0 (practically not possible) so imagine 1 as pH which is in our stomach. (This pH can bun your own finger in less than a second if you dip in that acid).

Exposure of less than 1 second in AIR KILLS the HIV virus* (story of needle pricks in Cinema theatres goes down the drain) . Even if blood from a wound (of infected person) dries up (*blood clot*), *the virus dies* and can not infect anyone else

HIV transmission is *ONLY* an *INFECTION* i.e. entrance of virus in one's body. It *DOES NOT MEAN AIDS*. An HIV-infected person (after entrance of virus) can progress to condition of AIDS only after *8 to 10 YEARS *(not in 15 days as in the mentioned story)

It is *not HIV (virus) that kills a human* ..... the virus attacks immune cells (cells that fight against foreign pathogens/antigens) and hence a person's ability to fight against infections & diseases slowly diminishes and person ultimately dies of a disease which could be as simple as TB

Most importantly, HIV is no longer dreadful disease ... it is "* CHRONIC MANAGEABLE DISEASE*" just like Diabetes or Hypertension. If there is anything you need to be careful from to prevent HIV is *UnsafeSex*, *Blood transfusion* (check before taking) / Blood donation (use sterilized needles only) and any *blood contact during an accident *or so where amount of bleeding is very high

This is an info passed on thru an email. I thought this might be of help. Please let others know too !!!

People isolate the ones affected by HIV and they are not able to live a normal life. This is a big problem in India.

Just sit back and think about this, are they not as human as you are ????