Writing For Selfish Self

why_notAs a child I never thought, I would want to become a writer. It was not until my mid twenties that  I realized my passion for writing. It started with poetry in Hindi, my mother tongue.

English has been an alien language since beginning but Hindi was natural. So I wrote in what cam naturally.

From Hindi poetry I then moved to verse in Hindi. I also served as Co-editor of our college magazine “Spandan”, a yearly magazine by students of Maulana Azad Medical College [The place where I did my MBBS from] [Read more...]

WordPress Wins CMS Award

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I am quite pleased to note that  WordPress has grabbed first rank in and awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.

This is first time the WordPress has won this award and I would say it was quite deserved.

In addition to winning in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category.

Bravo! [Read more...]

Annoying CAPS Lock

keyboardI have always found CAPS lock on the keyboard very annoying. Because it is near to SHIFT button and often gets pressed wrongly, it often results in mistakes that are so irritating that I feel like pulling the button.

I am so surprised at the ite where it has been positioned. May be ewarlier keyboards meant for professional typists only. But now majority of keyboard users are novices like me ho look at keyboard when they type. [I have again pledged to learn typing by joining typing course but I know I am not going to do it before arrival of next year] [Read more...]

Microsoft Office 2010

office-2010Microsoft Office 2010 is under process. Microsoft is offering a beta version that yu can download.

As suggested by Microsoft,  you should run it on a secondary computer as it is a beta version only.

I did not use MS Office 2007 as I did not much like it. Let us see how is 2010.

Here is the link

Microsoft office 2010 Beta

Expense – The Biggest Hurdle In Patient Treatment

moneyAs a doctor, one is trained to treat the disease. We are trained on disease diagnosis that begins from history and then clinical examination followed by required investigations.

I find it very painful when someone in the need of investigation refuses because she cannot afford it.

What do you do?

Investigations are costly. The investigations require equipments and gadgets that come at phenomenal cost.

It is a smooth work up when one nods yes and get investigated.

But the problem is for not so privileged ones.

This becomes a difficult situation. [Read more...]