Author: akshay

[update on 2011/02/11: This is by far, the most read post on this blog. And this is also one of the oldest articles of this blog. And I think this article hasn’t been well-written. But, I won’t edit my articles (except for grammar/spelling mistakes) and I don’t want to lose my readers from this article.…

We make a lot of resolutions. And we break all of them. Can you tell out loud at least one resolution that you’ve kept (If yes, the comments section is open and waiting for you ) By the time you rack your brains to find one such resolution, I bet you’ll have found out ten…

Here are two tools which I’ve personally used and found extremely useful in calculating how much data i’ve downloaded/uploaded through my internet connection. Anyone using a minimum pay internet connection will sooner or later need either of these tools. The first one is a very small single file application called Network Traffic Monitor. This thing…

Everyone knows how to be happy when it’s party time. But how to be happy when s*it is happening to you? Being happy always, in everything that’s happening in your life, even when tears are rolling down your cheeks, even when you’re wilting with pain, even when you’ve failed at the most important tasks… Yes,…

…we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves – if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see?…

101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time That’s a really good collection. You’ll surely end up motivated.

I just found an excellent blog – Indian Current Affairs, which has been keeping a note of everything happening in India, day by day. It can be of great help to IAS aspirants.Indian Current Affairs Go there and see it for yourself. It must be read along withDiscover It which is a compilation of essays…

Most people have google as their home page. And it’s cool if you are a guy who just makes a google search about that thing which he needs to buy, checks his emails once in a while, and checks scraps at orkut.But what if you are a person who has multiple blogs, twitter accounts, facebook,…

So, you’ve set up a blog. And you’ve had some nice posts, and a decent amount of followers. Everything is going nice except for one thing. Once in a while you forget about blogging. You are so immersed in twitter or facebook or orkut that you forget to check out new comments in your blog.…

Wherever you live, whatever you are, you’re never living in a perfect world. One or the other, there will be defects in the system of which you are a part of. If you’re a doctor think of uninspired staff, inadequate facilities…If you’re a teacher think of lazy children, poor environment…If you’re a student think of…