Tagged: Lifehack

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My Life in a Distributed Version Control System

I am completely sold to DVCS and in particular mercurial. You already know that I maintain most of my projects on bitbucket but what you dont know is the fact that every bit of my creation now lives inside a mercurial repository. Most of my creations on my laptop are inside Documents folder....

Reading blogs ( feeds ) inside outlook 2

Reading blogs ( feeds ) inside outlook

Recently I have seen number of users reading my feed on outlook. Its been increasing month by month. So I thought there could be many more users who will be interested in reading feeds in outlook. The recent version of outlook, i.e outlook 2007 has feed reader built into it. Using which you...

My New Geek Toy Cannondale F8 bike 22

My New Geek Toy Cannondale F8 bike

OK.. After a lot of thinking..rethinking and multiple calculations, I gifted myself an early birthday gift, a Cannondale F8. It costed a bomb but worth every paisa. well its been a long time dream to own onw of these which came true today. As of now I am planning to cycle twice a...

Culture of Continuous Learning 18

Culture of Continuous Learning

I had a conversation with my team mate about the recent buzz word in the market upgrading yourself. The buzz word used by most of the bosses to warn the young generation mostly in connection with recession and pink slip. Both of us were of the opinion that continuous learning (or so called...

Hacking sleep two months later 6

Hacking sleep two months later

I have been hacking my sleep to achieve the optimum sleeping period. Two months back when I started this experiment, I was sleeping almost 9 hrs per day. Today I am spending only 6.5 hrs per day on sleep. The gain of 2.5 hours per day is very big. It started with reducing...

I’ll Sleep When I Am Dead 6

I’ll Sleep When I Am Dead

I am not sure why I started feeling like that. But by the end of the year 2008 I had this feeling that I am wasting my time by sleeping. On 2nd Jan 09 this came into my mind. “If i sleep one hour less everyday. I will get 365 hours per years....