5. You get a lot of fingers pointed at you
When error messages pop up and system outages occur, employees and managers quickly start pointing fingers at IT and the pressure is intense to get things fixed quickly to keep users from losing productivity. That’s part of the job and you have to always be prepared for it. In fact, some IT pros even get an adrenaline rush from this type of high-pressure stakes.

The problem is that IT pros hear loud and clear when things aren’t working, but they rarely get much appreciation during the other 99% of the time when systems are running smoothly.

4. People assume you’re an expert in all things tech
When you’re an IT worker, non-techies tend to assume that you know everything about all tech subjects. For example, if you’re a help desk technician you get questions about how the company’s Web site is built. And if you’re a Java developer you can expect to field questions about how to deal with spam and spyware on an employee’s machine.

There are obviously tactful ways to handle this, but many IT pros can’t help but get a little frustrated by this, or even feeling a little inadequate. Worse, because you’re a techie, a lot of your co-workers will come to you for advice on buying PCs, digital cameras, and TVs. Some will even ask you to fix their PC for free or help troubleshoot a problem with their cable modem.

3. You have to continually re-train, on your own dime
I think it’s fair to say that no profession on earth is changing faster than the IT field right now and that’s not likely to change any time soon. The pace of development and innovation in hardware and software products is staggering. As a result, the knowledge that it takes just to keep your current job is always growing and morphing, and IT pros have to take responsibility for their continuing education or risk having their skills and knowledge become obsolete within a few short years.

This is a constant struggle. The big challenge is that many companies don’t officially recognize this problem, and so IT pros have to use free resources like TechRepublic to stay current, or pay for training out of their own pockets. In the past, TechRepublic surveys have shown that over 50% of IT pros pay for their own training.

2. The hours are long and irregular
Lots of jobs in the knowledge economy require long hours, so it’s not unique that many IT professionals — from developers to administrators to systems integrators — have to work overtime on a regular basis. However, what does set IT apart is the scattered irregularity of those hours. Most IT workers are always on call, or are at least part of an on-call rotation, in case critical systems go down during off-hours.

In addition, many IT pros have tasks that they need to do when there aren’t as many users on the system. That means coming in early to run backup routines or staying late to update an application or patch a server after most of the users have logged off at the end of the day.

1. The job market is tumultuous and in transition
During the late 1990s, people flooded into IT, chasing the promise of $65K/year jobs that were going unfilled because of the lack of qualified candidates. IT professionals who were already in the field could hop jobs and get significant pay raises. IT pros were in demand. But, it didn’t last. The dot com implosion and the wrap up of the Y2K fixes meant that a lot of tech jobs disappeared.

Since then, the off-shore outsourcing phenomenon and the H1B visa issue have put further strain on the IT job market in the U.S. and abroad. Many IT professionals run the risk of building their skills, experiences, and their careers, only to have their jobs shipped overseas to save costs. That means IT professionals have to be particularly adept at managing their own careers in order to avoid being unemployed or underemployed.

God’s Word is quite clear that one cannot just decide to be a Christian, one has to be invited!

by Doug Horchak

So what is a Christian? A couple of billion people on the planet all claim to be Christians, but their beliefs, doctrines and practices vary widely. What does being a Christian mean? Let’s take a quick look at what the Bible says a Christian is.

The word Christian is used three times in the New Testament (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16). Followers of Jesus Christ were first called “Christians” in Antioch (Acts 11:26) because they believed in Christ and followed His example. The word was initially used by their detractors in a derogatory sense, but believers embraced the term as a badge of honor.

While the first-century Christians did follow the teachings, practices and example of Jesus Christ at that time, since then the term has virtually lost its meaning—as it’s usually not accompanied by the same way of life and understanding. Today many claim to be Christians yet don’t really follow Jesus’ teachings.
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Wildlife Conservation Nepal is an organization committed to conservation of our natural heritage. Its different programs are focused on doing so through different mediums and one of such is the Photography Program. This program has been organizing Nature and Wildlife Photography Competition for Amateurs at national level with the support of philanthropic organizations since last five years.

The exhibition “Nature through Lens 4″ is displaying more than 350 pictures of 140 photographers participating in the competition. I would like to invite you to this event which starts from 28 to 31 August 2008 at the Nepal Art Council, Babarmahal.  I am sure that this exhibition will prove immensely beneficial for you.

This event will not only promote amateur photographers but it also raises funds for conservation activities at local level in Kathmandu Valley and support young researchers to carry out study on Urban Wildlife.

The Program is being inaugurated by Her Excellency Ms. Nancy Powell, The Ambassador, and Embassy of United States of America to Kathmandu.

ITechInside.com is a website where you can discover different websites and share links to your friends. You can not get all websites here but you will get web links related to information technology as it is clear from its web address. You can get all stuffs like tutorials, tips, tricks, how to, manuals, information, technical news, etc. User can post websites here and they can save their favourite links. This website is based on social networking so user can add their friends in their friend list or can share links to new friends. All IT related links can be posted here in different categories like web design, web development, hardware, software, domain and web hosting, security, networking, graphics, downloads, etc. Check out your favourite stuffs today at itechinside.com.

Have you ever received a request to visit a link http://www.fanebook.com from your friend or unknown persons or through group messaging? If you visited that link and entered your facebook username and password in that website then change your facebook password immediately. This website fanebook.com is a exact replica of our very popular social networking website facebook.com. This type of phishing attack is increasing day by day in the world of web. Before also there were such several websites with fake facebook login screen. People use this technique to find out your password and get into your account. Most dangerous thing is that many people use same password for different accounts like bank account, paypal, etc. Therefore, these types of attacks can become extremely malicious. So beware of such kind of links.

A Young Christian’s Guide to Using Social Network Sites.

What do hundreds of thousands—even millions—of people check daily?
Maybe even several times a day? Their blood sugar? Their bank account? Their attitude? No! They log on to the Internet and check their social network site! Whether it be on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Cyworld, Bebo or any number of other sites, experiencing a part of life through a social network site is a daily routine for millions.

Social network sites have quickly become one of the primary ways young people communicate with each other. Through our personal pages on these sites we share our current mood or our latest digital pictures. We use the sites to exchange thoughts, jokes, blogs, songs and videos.

We let the world know who we are through our personal online profile. We proclaim to the Internet world what we like and dislike, what makes us happy or sad and certainly what makes us unique. These sites can be a great way to communicate with our best friends, reconnect with long lost friends and even meet new people.
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Do you run ecommerce website or planning to start e-commerce website? If yes then there is a new Joomla! template for ecommerce portals. You can easily get this template and run your fully manageable, powerful and customized ecommerce website. All you need for this is Joomla CMS and this template. Launched in last July, this template is named JA Mesolite - Ecommerce inside. This artistic and clean designed template is very useful for your products showcase. Download package is delivered with source PSD, fonts, demo site and user guide.

Overview of JA Mesolite features:

• Artistic and Clean Design
• 3 columns layout based template
• 3 color options: default, red and green
• Tableless design and 100% CSS-based
• Joomla 1.5.x compatible
• 3 Menu options: JA Split menu, JA Css menu, JA Moo menu
• XHTML 1.0 Transitional Check it ?
• CSS Validates Check it ?
• Valid 508 Accessibility
• Delivered with source .PSD and FONT files, Demo site sample database and detailed user guide which can be found in JA Mesolite download folder and JA Mesolite forum.
• Well-commented template_css.css and index.php file for flexible customization
• Cross Browser Support

Check live demo of JA Mesolite here.

Planning to buy a portable keyboard of range between 200$ to 300$. I googled for some a while and found Yamaha PSR-E403 in Yamaha’s official website. This device comes with features such as 155 styles, 32-note polyphony and 504 voices and comes with 61 keys. It also have pro features like Pitch Bend Wheel for authentic playing of guitar and horn sounds, Control Knobs that allow you to have real time control over filters, effects, EQ, tempo and an arpeggio function for techno and synthesizer keyboard playing that can automatically add the playing of notes in rapid succession in ascending and descending fashion.

You can connect this keyboard with your personal computer using USB and you can add more sounds and songs in your internal flash memory. Plus you can even play your songs into the computer or edit them if necessary. PSR-E403 also has 6-track sequencer to record your own music. Sound quality is also good enough with 2-way stereo speaker system, Bass Boost System, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Advanced Wave Memory (AWM).

It has lots of other great features like Music Finder, One Touch Setting (OTS), Registration Memory, Performance Assistant Technology, etc. You can easily compose your own songs and give them different digital effects. It has dual and split modes feature also. With dual mode you can layer two voices together - example piano and strings. Or you can use split mode to split the keyboard in two and play bass with the left hand and piano with the right hand for example. Now you can get this portable keyboard for around 200$. You can check out it’s features and specifications here.

It’s a only Christian website running from Nepal actively till now. This website consists of different regular sections like news, events, articles, sermons, devotions, etc. NepalChurch.com was started by Pastor Tanka Subedi (Family of God Church, Lalitpur). Currently articles are contributed by Mr. Loknath Manean, Dr. Ramesh Khatry, Mr. P. A. Thomas and other writers. Similarly sermons are published by pastor himself and devotions by Dr. Nicanor Tamang. Interviews section brings out interviews of different senior idols and personalities.

Nepal Church has other sections also like photo gallery, forum, blog, chat, guestbook, web links and directory of churches & organizations. According to Pastor Tanka Subedi, he is going to add audio section very soon. Members can register in this website and use different facilities provided there like photo gallery, forum, blog, directory, etc. Next interesting section of this website is ‘Photo of the week’ which is regularly maintained by Mr. Paulas Panday. You can visit this website and check it yourself and share with your friends. Log on www.NepalChurch.com today!

These days I am too much addicted to one song from a new upcoming movie Sano Sansar - People meet. Love happens. The song is well composed with nice lyric and vocal. Lyric is written by Bhupendra Khadka, vocal by Baboo Bogati and composed by Sachin Singh. Movie is a presentation of Quest Entertainment and directed by Alok Nembang. Before this Quest Entertainment has already presented Kagbeni as their first movie. Casts in Sano Sansar are Mahesh Shakya, Jivan Luitel, Namrata Shrestha, Vinay Shrestha, Nir Shah, Arjun Shrestha and Sushila Raimajhi. More details can be found in their official website www.sanosansar.com.np. You can find lyric of the song sano cha gaun below. Enjoy !

sano cha gaun, sano yo shahar, sanai cha sansar x 2
bhugolle chhekna, badal le dhakna, nasakne rahar
goreto galli, kunai ghumti modma X 2
satirahanchan… (jeevan ka prahar) x 2

dobato ani, harek chokma, kohi ta bhetincha
aafantai thanchha, pabitra manle, chaha tyo metincha
jaba afnai aghi, bilai jancha, dooor tyo najar X 2
naya fanko, marcha usko, khojima

sano cha gaun, sano yo shahar, sanai cha sansar
bhugolle chhekna, badal le dhakna, nasakne rahar
goreto galli, kunai ghumti modma X 2
satirahanchan…

anjan muhar, anjan pathamai, hami dui satiyoun
man mutu gasyoun, janinajani, premama batiyoun
anautho nata, hamro jeevanko, banyo tyo rahar x 2
drishya eutai, dui jor, aankhama

sano cha gaun, sano yo shahar, sanai cha sansar
bhugolle chhekna, badal le dhakna, nasakne rahar
goreto galli, kunai ghumti modma X 2
satirahanchan… (jeevan ka prahar) x 4