The human mind and working of the human brain have been the subject of innumerable studies, and have over the years, inspired both discoveries, and the spread of myths and urban legends. A popular myth is that human beings utilize only about 10% of the capacity/capability of the human brain; it even inspired the critically panned Hollywood movie Lucy. While it’s been proved that the brain is almost always working at full capacity, the efficiency is probably very low. As any programmer knows, efficient scheduling is an extremely challenging problem, and scheduling tasks for the brain is no different. In this post, I’ll also use the words brain and mind interchangeably, as I’m just too lazy now to decide on ground rules as to where which term is to be used.

The wife is all set to fly for the first time ever, and it’s going to be international! I’m sure there are tons of material already available out there, but thought I’d put together something that is more personalized; something that’s likely to make her smile, and still ensure she has a trouble-free journey. Since she’s going to be flying out of an Indian airport, there might be a couple of additional India-specific points, in an otherwise generic list.

prose.io provides a very easy to use, minimal, yet intuitive interface, allowing even people without git know-how, to easily wade through their site files and make edits, or create new posts. The separate metadata entry mechanism is nice, and the preview functionality gives one an opportunity to inspect stuff, before committing their changes/posts.

It’s been more than four years since I wrote about securing my home PC, back in India. Since then, I’ve both upgraded the operating system, and also changed the internet provider. The change of ISP also merited a change in the router, and I had not even the time to inspect the hardware, much less configure it to allow remote access, before I returned to Sweden. This meant that like earlier, I had to coax someone back home in India to help me get it done, and that someone this time around, was my wife!

My site is now at the point where I’m reasonably happy with it. I might still tinker with things, but that’ll likely be an ongoinging affair. It’s however at a point where it’s ready for actual posts, instead of lorem ipsums!