Linux And Friends

What does it feel like living in India ? Are the roads of India chaotic as they seem ? Do animals live on Indian roads ? Rest assured, India is all that and more. In fact, “The Times of India” newspaper – which purportedly has the largest number of print subscribers among all English newspapers [...]

A beautiful video that presents the facts of life – namely, if you want to live, you have to take risks. Risk taking is bound to make you fail. However, if you never failed, you never lived. Watch the video.

A few years back, I had blogged on learning to tie a tie. The post contains YouTube videos demonstrating various knots. Now here is an info-graphic which clearly describes the steps involved in putting on a tie.

This is a synopsis of the Dale Carnegie‘s best selling book – “How to win friends and influence people“.

As human beings, we are all affected by emotions. I am sure every one of us have had to face emotions like anger, hurt, guilt, regret, sadness, dejection and so on. Many times, we are overwhelmed by these emotions thus making us less useful to us and people around us. Learning to master these emotions [...]

My friend who does night shift work tells me he initially found it hard to work at night. Of course the management did make it a point to provide night shift entertainment to its employees to keep them alert. However, nothing beats a sound sleep right ? He went on to provide the following 5 [...]

Learning new skills can be a chore or an enjoyable experience depending upon what type of skill you wish to acquire. However, if developing skills involve everyday tasks like changing ones car tire, how to keep yourself cool in a hot climate, finding potable water in a desert, or picking up a few essential first [...]

In this age of  economic downturn, if you want to hold on to your job, you have to be productive. Productivity improvement is the new mantra in most offices  and your boss will be gauging you (as he will be gauged by his boss)  on how useful you are to the company.  To remain useful [...]

Baking soda is a common ingredient in many food recipes. But baking soda can be used for many other things as well. For example, baking soda is an excellent disinfectant, it can be used in combination with other ingredients as a substitute for commercial tooth paste and so on. Today, I happened to read an [...]