I’ve mostly had the preference of controlling my data rather than depend on someone else. That’s one reason why I still believe email to be my most reliable medium for data storage, one that is not plagued/locked by a single entity. If I had the resources, I’d prefer all digital data to be broken down to its simplest form for storage, like email format, and empower the user with it i.e. their data.

Curiosity

I guess this would be common to most of us.

While I grew up, right from the childhood itself, the sky was always an intriguing view. The Stars, the Moon, the Eclipses; were all fascinating.

As a child, in my region, religion and culture; the mythology also built up stories around it. Lunar Eclipses have a story of its own. During Solar Eclipses, parents still insist that we do not go out. And to be done with the food eating before/after the eclipse.

apt-offline 1.8.2

I am pleased to announce the release of apt-offline version 1.8.2

This release has many bug fixes along with a long standing issue of signature validation

2017 - The year of realization and change

Back in 2017, the bug was reported that apt-offline did not validate apt meta Packages files. apt-offline was only doing a signature validation for the Release files but did no validation of the apt meta Packages files, which had their checksums listed in the Release files. This validation was completely missing in apt-offline and gave the user the wrong impression that validation was in place.

Integrating Comments on Hugo with Isso

Oh! Boy. Finally been able to get something set up almost to my liking. After moving away from Drupal to Hugo, getting the commenting system in place was challenging. There were many solutions but I was adamant to what I wanted.

• Simple. Something very simple so that I can spend very limited time to tickle with (especially 2 years down the line)
• Independent. No Google/Facebook/3rd Party dependency
• Simple workflow. No Github/Gitlab/Staticman dependency
• Simple moderation workflow

Simplicity

First, the migration away from Drupal itself was a PITA. I let go of all the comments there. Knowing my limited web skills, it was the foremost requisite to have something simplest as possible.

Experiences setting up a Lotus Pond Pot

A novice’s first time experience setting up a Lotus pond and germinating the Lotus seeds to a full plant

The trigger

Our neighbors have a very nice Lotus setup in the front of their garden, with flowers blooming in it. It is really a pleasing experience to see it. With lifestyles limiting to specifics, I’m glad to be around with like minded people. So we decided to set up a Lotus Pond Pot in our garden too.

Acidity and Hyperacidity

Acidity refers to the production of excessive hydrochloric acid from the gastric cells. Due to overproduction of the acid there is feeling of heartburn in the region of chest and a person may have sour eructation. There are different remedies available in the market for acidity and hyperacidity. Natural cure for acid reflux includes natural remedies that give quick relief from heartburn and sour eructation. It is easy to find acid reflux natural treatment. There are different natural remedies for the treatment of acid reflux.

Adenitis

What is Adenitis?

Adenitis refers to the inflammation of lymph glands present in our body. Lymph nodes are present everywhere in human body. The main symptoms of adenitis are pain and swelling. Adenoids of different body parts are given different names depending upon their location. Inflammation from one part may reach to other parts of the body. Mainly bacteria or virus is responsible for producing the infection. When inflammation is not diagnosed at an early stage it may further develop and grow into a tumour. Generally, on conventional system surgery is done to remove the tumour of the affected part of the body. But this is not a real cure but inflammation can occur repeatedly.

PSA: Research in the domain of Ayurveda

http://www.patanjaliresearchfoundation.com/patanjali/

I am so glad to see this initiative taken by the Patanjali group. This is a great stepping stone in the health and wellness domain.

So far, Allopathy has been blunt in discarding alternate medicine practices, without much solid justification. The only, repetitive, response I’ve heard is “lack of research”. This initiative definitely is a great step in that regard.

Ayurveda (Ancient Hindu art of healing) has a huge potential to touch lives. For the Indian sub-continent, this has the potential of a blessing.

This has gotten me finally ask the question

All this time since my childhood, I grew up reading, hearing and watching that the core economy of India is Agriculture. And that it needs the highest bracket in the budgets of the country. It still applies today. Every budget has special waivers for the agriculture sector, typically in hundreds of thousands of crores in India Rupees. The most recent to mention is INR 27420 Crores waived off for just a single state (Uttar Pradesh), as was promised by the winning party during their campaign.

Ulcerative colitis is a disease that affects the intestines. There is inflammation of the colon and rectum. The main cause of ulcerative colitis may be recurrent infections. Bacteria or virus is the most important cause of ulcerative colitis. It may result due to infection in other parts of the body. It is a chronic disease. It usually occurs during the young age. There are small ulcers present in the colon or rectum.