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This is for the few people who stumble in here this week.
The reason my blog looks it’s usual unremarkable self (and loads as slow as ever*) is because I got an unexpected Christmas present from a dear friend. I screwed up. Rather, a horribly iffy internet connection screwed up a fairly routine WordPress upgrade from [...]

I expect my blog to get it’s one hundred thousandth visitor by today going by Statcounter, the very first blog stat application that I installed back in 2006 when I started out.
That’s not a big number after nearly thirty-four months of irregular blogging. Especially compared to some of the more famous medbloggers that I am [...]

The fourth episode of my infrequent podcast is up at scan man speaks, my dedicated podcast blog.
You can listen to it there or here by clicking play on the linked title below or subscribe via iTunes to download and listen in your own audio player (see my podcast blog’s sidebar for instructions to subscribe in [...]

I was pleasantly surprised by some news passed on by one of my medical college classmates from Chennai a couple of days ago.
One of our classmates, I’ll call her Sue, has been promoted and appointed as a Unit Chief in the General Medicine department in a big league medical college in Chennai.
Sue was among the [...]

For over a decade now, the first week of September has been one of nostalgia and reminiscences for me. Two dates in particular are powerful in their ability to trigger compelling and evocative memories.
The fifth of September, which is celebrated as Teacher’s Day here in India evokes memories of all the great teachers that I [...]

Here I am pushing the limits of my technical abilities, modest as they are, exploring yet another frontier.
l apologize in advance for typos and formatting errors, which l hope will be minimal.
I am writing this post on my mobile phone, while on my way out of town. l am thankful for handwriting recognition with stylus [...]

Coloured chalk on vinyl blackboard. My daughter’s latest effort at home.
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I am trying to go green from now on….
…on a red bicycle.

I bought a new bicycle yesterday. My wife and I intend to share it. The shop did not have a metallic red cycle ready last evening, so we had to wait till they delivered it today. I have to remove the garish rubber ‘mudguard‘ [...]