As a coder, it has always been a dream to develop my own blogging/CMS platform. Something where you can plug-in anything - anywhere.

I am finally moving from Tumblr to my own blogging platform. Though it is nowhere near to complete, releasing it would at-least keep me going. So here is the version One.Dot.O.

Stay tuned, lots and lots of interesting things are queued up!!!

[Going back to work :P].

Thanks to Matt for this beautiful essay - “1.0 Is the Lonliest Number.”

For any given month, all the multiples of 7 fall on the same day. I usually have memorized what day that is for the current month and the next few months. So October is a “[F]riday month” and November is a “Monday month” and December is a “Wednesday month”. You only have to memorize a new one every month.

Now when somebody says, “We should get together one Saturday. Say… December 12.” you can snap back with “That’s a Monday. Do you mean December 10?” All you have to do is find the nearest multiple of 7 and work from there. So when they ask about December 12, that’s close to December 14 - which must be a Wednesday (since December 2011 is a Wednesday month).

via LifeHacker.

Hahahaa, that is a simple handy trick!!!

Want to respond to letters - complete the report - read a book - spend quality time with family?

Try turning off the router for an hour. Handling impulsiveness is easy, you just have to:

Throw away the key: Close off tempting alternatives.

Setup a couple of Pomodoros to complete the job; or talk the matters with your complete presence. Don’t let your impulsiveness distract you! Your job will end up better and your clients will be happier.

Similar “tempting alternatives” might include: phone, television, tickers, IMs etc. When work starts expanding, turn these off - focus, and you can happily return to them after that.

You can stay afraid forever of:

- a subject (taxation, particular disease, English grammar, politics),

- a term (SQL joints, standard deviation, VLOOKUP, Piotroski score),

- a method/framework (organisation manuals, guidance notes, new technology, Gmail, Linux), or

- an activity (swimming, public speaking, driving)

or get into its depth, learn about it, practice it and become its master. It might take some time and patience to learn something new (especially when you fear it), but you will soon realize that you have removed a bottleneck.

So start taming your fears!

Both, a new favorable idea as well as an opposing thought should be noted down.

You think of a new feature for your application; a more usable design for your website; a new investment idea; a new blog post; a seminar that your read about…the key to their execution lies in making a note of them.

Darwin wrote in his autobiography:

“I had … during many years, followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed by my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from memory than favorable ones.”

Darwin emphasized even more on noting down opposing or unfavorable thoughts. For a split moment, your mind might ask - can the hard-disk crash; do I have a backup of all my digital pictures; can the seats become unavailable; can there be down-time…if a note is not made of these thoughts then they might just escape, or even worst, you might end up satisfying yourself that it won’t/can’t happen.

(via Labnol - Understanding Hue, Saturation and Luminosity)

If you think you are beaten, you are, 
If you think you dare not, you don’t, 
If you like to win, but you think you can’t, 
It is almost certain you won’t. 

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost 
For out of the world we find, 
Success begins with a fellow’s will - 
It’s all in the state of mind. 

If you think you are outclassed, you are, 
You’ve got to think high to rise, 
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before 
You can ever win a prize. 

Life’s battles don’t always go 
To the stronger or faster man, 
But soon or late the man who wins 
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN! 

A wonderful poem.

via (Favourite Motivational Quotes and Books)