Learn
This is the general learning category of posts.
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Today I am pleased to learn that the Elevate app is picked by Apple as the best iPhone app of 2014. So well done, people at Elevate Labs. Your work is awesome. We're honored to be the 2014 App of the Year on the @appstore! Thanks for all your support. http://t.co/vVIf4uSjHM pic.twitter.com/EevggM6Mkn — Elevate (@elevateapp)…
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Tonight’s hour long workout happens to be my 100th workout this year. It feels nice to actualize three rules I set for myself for 2014 (and beyond). Here’s to, not the next 100 but to the next one tomorrow. And next. And so on until whatever number it will be.
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I read Scott Berkun‘s latest book The Ghost of My Father. It is a memoir about Berkun’s failed relationship with his father. Given I am a father, the theme sounded interesting. So I hoped to buy and enqueue this book to my current reading list. However Berkun tweeted: Do you subscribe to my newsletter? If…
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Last week I finished reading Delivering Happiness book by Tony Hsieh. The book has also has its own resourceful website. I work in Customer Support and plan to advance my career in this area because I love learning things, solving problems, and helping people. So reading this book made perfect sense. Most of this book…
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Read the interesting message from Tim Cook on Apple’s stance on privacy. I am impressed with the following two paragraphs: Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store…
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Last week I backed up my posts and themes and then deleted my test WordPress.org installation on which I developed and tested my other self hosted blog over the last few months. I did this partly in order to start afresh with WP 4.0 RC1 beta testing. However I encountered the ‘Error establishing a database…
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I decided to put life back into this blog to log some of my learning experiences. This blog will henceforth be about all the things I am learning currently. I intend to share my experiences on this blog. I used to blog only about technical learning but going forward I will blog about all other…
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About 10 days ago I got the following notification in the WordPress app on my iPhone. It started as a hobby on a lonely Sunday afternoon in Trivandrum in the southern state of Kerala in India. I did not participate in the WordPress phenomenon as much as I wished. But it has been wonderful knowing…
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I somehow love spending best part of my spare time on this blog. I spent lot of time of late, thinking about color schemes and changing them numerous times. I got obsessed over fonts and simplified Twenty Fourteen to what I believe is minimalistic. And yeah, this site is now responsive too. At some stage I…