Insights of My Mind!!
This post is about one of my first encounters with programming, logic, variables & related. I came across my first computer in a computer training institute with a name I forgot, but it was a franchise chain in India, in 1999 Summer. It was a white CRT monitor with white mouse & keyboard, course was for Rs 1,500 for 20 days, with a focus on Notepad, Mouse Usage, DOS Commands & MS Paint. First few…
If you are in USA, your name is FIRST, MIDDLE, LAST & your government documents has your name in the form of NONAMEGIVEN FIRST, or FNU LAST, or LAST LAST, or UNKNOWN FIRST, continue reading this post to find more. The Problem *Note that Passport means INDIAN PASSPORT. *All of this is just ramblings, not any legal advice, do everything after you understand, only you are responsible for anything &…
This is a post about the Microsoft Excel formula to convert a number like 570 to text string like 1 year 6 months 3 weeks 2 days. Introduction In my various excel sheets being in use for financial, statistical or such, often times I have a cell with a number of days; i.e. how many days remaining till payment or maturity or expiry etc; & if it says like 156, 327, 198; I wanted it to be in better…
This is a part 01 of multi part series of my excel sheet as a digital chequebook & cheque generator, & using excel to convert numbers to words. So, I am using Microsoft Excel from ages, for various things at work as well as personal reasons, to track money, health, things, tasks, printing stationary & million other things. Initially I used Excel only as to print blank forms, just for its visual…
This is the post about the text shortcut phrases I use on android phones. Introduction We all know how much inconvenient it is to type long repetitive words/excerpts on tiny mobile keyboards. Luckily, there are few ways to use technology for our convenience (as almost every time). There are certain apps & ways that “expand” what you type to what you actually wanted to type; kind of like shortcuts…
This is the post about my experiences with Domain Names & related. My first domain purchase was davinder.net in November 2009, & from there until now I have spent about INR ~43,000/- on domains, with various registrars. I still remember the moment I read a square advertisement in paper newspaper at Chandigarh (Punjab) about domains & web hosting. I called the phone numbers listed, but nobody…