Author: akshay
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Memento – The Simplest Desktop Notes Application
You ask this: I want an application that can be used to attach sticky notes or to do lists or just some notes on my desktop. It should run with almost no memory requirement. Don’t make me download higher than 1 MB. (I mean download must be less than 1 MB) It should be easy…
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Achieving God
The success of experiencing what I did and am trying to share with you through this post will depend on how detached you are from your mind. (In doubt? Read the post The Secret to (Infinite) Happiness) Earlier I told you about the happiness you get out of the realisation that you are neither your…
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Some Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Probably Didn’t Know Of
I found out some shortcuts recently which I didn’t know of. Ctrl + Tab will switch through the tabs in a tabbed window like that of Firefox Alt + Enter will open up the properties of a file or folder when it is selected (while enter opens it) F2 can rename an item Win Key…
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When You Look Back At The End…
Life whizzes past you so quickly that you forget to do or get what you really want to. You go school for years and finally there will be a day of farewell and you suddenly feel you missed to do something. You spend your youth, your winged days and finally when you start slowing down…
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Is An Amoeba Conscious Of Its Existence?
Just think of living things and non-living things. We know that we are conscious of ourselves. But what is this consciousness? Where does it come from? Think in terms of atoms. There are atoms and molecules in our body. They are certainly not conscious. We have many carbon, oxygen, etc. combined to form proteins, carbohydrates,…
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Who Must Start Blogging? – People Like Nishan
Anyone can start a blog. But some people must start a blog. If you are any one of the following and haven’t started a blog yet, you should immediately start one, for the sake of the blogosphere. Travelers: If you travel. Be it anywhere. Your own city, foreign countries. Any time, any number of times.…
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Imagining Nothing
What if there was nothing? No me, no you, no blogs, no people, no life, no planets, no stars, no universe, no nothing. It is beyond imagination. Imagine nothing. (What? Imagine OK but nothing? How do I imagine nothing?) Of course you can imagine the lifeless planets. But you will have to remove them from…
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What if the PM directly orders the District Collectors? (and technology assists them)
I just found a solution for corrupt politics. If I can get one great Prime Minister, I have made a plan to rescue India. Consider: There are only around 600 districts in India. Assuming that all of them have one and only district collector we will have around 600 district collectors. All of them are…
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Gandhiji Best Expressed
I am really really busy today, but I have to make a post to mark this very special day too. So I thought rather than telling about Gandhi, I will tell what Gandhi told. Here are my favourites among His quotes: A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.…
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Pale Blue Dot
Can you see a tiny little dot in the above picture. That is our good old earth. Just that it was photographed 3.7 billion miles away from the home of anyone reading this. And the famous Carl Sagan gave the following words relating to that little speck: “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s…