Author: akshay
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Surgery all papers
Surgery was an altogether different experience This is Surgery (general) paper, part 1 This is orthopaedics paper And this is Surgery part 2 which was the ultimate cram-test
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General Medicine Paper 2
Everything went by so fast and I have no idea how. Heart failure, again!
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General Medicine Paper 1; final year, final exam, finally!
That’s the question paper, folks. Except the 10 markers, everything was random. Finally, after years of apparent toil, the final exam starts. I was cramming yesterday and today morning (exam was from 2-5 pm). Heart failure was taught by Dr Srinivas in those 7 day extra classes. Pneumonia, I read today morning. So was NASH…
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The Reason Why You Cannot Convince Anyone To Switch To FOSS
How many times have you talked about your favorite free software to a friend and they appeared totally convinced about how cool it is, but just won’t stop using their proprietary tool? Firefox is cool. But Chrome’s market share keeps increasing. XMPP and IRC are both cool. But they’re both dying. LibreOffice can do everything…
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[jog-journal] Running With A Smile
I went jogging in the evening today. My main goal today was to run slow with a smile on the face. To look at others and show my smile. I remember reading a long article earlier today about what goes inside the mind of a runner. I know what goes through. “Is my heart beating…
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Who is Killing Our Bloggers?
How do you discover content to read, on the Web? Do you have a specific set of websites that you visit every day? Do you have a single website that you visit every day and people there fill you in with links? Do the pages that you read online mostly come from your friends? Do…
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[jog-journal] I Woke Up Early Today. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
My professor had last day told the story of his friend who finished MBBS, Post Graduation, and some specialty, got married, had a kid, and at the age of 30 something, when everything was “settled” got a myocardial infarction. Don’t put health behind anything else, he said. And don’t go running from the next day,…
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Onaghosham 2015
I reached Mysore at 8 in the morning from Mozilla Kerala community meet-up and Zigu and Harinath had just dressed up to leave for the badminton court where 2k13 were organizing the Onam this year. I had a quick shower, changed immediately to the mundu I got as Onakkodi this year and the kurta that…
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Mozilla Kerala Community Meetup ’15
I left for Kochi from Mysore on Oct 1 (the same day I received email from the participation team inviting me to participation leadership cohort and passed third year subjects). After about 8 hours of sleep I woke up at 4 in the bus to be involved in a very active discussion about misogyny/nitpicking in…
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Did I Screw Up Mozilla India Blog’s Security?
With great power comes great responsibility. The headline was clickbait. I probably haven’t screwed up anything. I was granted temporary admin access to Mozilla India blog because I kept pestering the existing admins with bug-fix demands. This post is the story of how I went ahead to fix my first bug; opening myself to scrutiny,…