Longreads with Kindle
How to increase Kindle's usage
May 29, 2021
| 3 minutes | 533 words | Dheepak
E-Commerce, eBooks, Prime Video & music even for some AWS. This is the list of items that my close surroundings say about Amazon’s domain. Kindle is mostly overlooked or not prominently known among people.
Kindle is a strange product from Amazon. Unlike its Video/music or retail site, Kindle appeals to a narrow circle - readers. Even among the readers, there is a split between ebook and physical book readers.
Firstly, it’s the only hardware product from Amazon.
AWS Certified Solution Architect - for whom, why and how
April 16, 2021
| 4 minutes | 640 words | Dheepak
Certifications are a waste of time. It’s not unreasonable as I came across dumps (aka recent questions, question banks). Once you memorize the contents of the question bank, you can score cent percent. Memorise answers and recall them in the exam hall, score a pass mark - a common theme in schools and colleges. I went through it as there are no alternatives. But in the post-academic stage of life, I was hesitant to follow the same approach in office.
Weekly Update 7 - Nov 10, 2020
November 10, 2020
| 3 minutes | 470 words | Dheepak
This is the 7th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (November 10, 2020). This is 444 words long.
1. #USElection2020
Joe Biden (aka Amtrak Joe) is the president-elect, winning over the incumbent Donald J Trump. It’s been a huge drama right from the preparation to election till the vote counting. And, even now the counting is not over - the Senate & the House results are awaited.
Weekly Update 6 - Nov 3, 2020
November 3, 2020
| 1 minutes | 160 words | Dheepak
This is the 6th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (November 3, 2020). It’s been a month since I updated the page. To restart the habit, I’m keeping this short to cover only the COVID stats, I’ll be sharing interesting stuffs from the weekend.
Before wrapping it up lets touch on the most important event of the year.
Weekly Update 5 - Sep 29, 2020
September 29, 2020
| 4 minutes | 757 words | Dheepak
This is the 5th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 29, 2020). This is 759 words long.
Some interesting finds from the past week 1. What could an old TV could do? Breaking the Internet, may be.
Yes, the old TV took revenge on internet, in a village in Wales, UK. The story in the Register is worth a read, and could be valid post in r/Whatcouldgowrong
Weekly Update 4 - Sep 22, 2020
September 22, 2020
| 4 minutes | 755 words | Dheepak
This is the 4th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 22, 2020). This is 757 words long.
Some interesting finds from the past week Big Bazaar Story
During college days, we visit Big Bazaar to have their ice cream. Ice cream connoisseurs may not agree, but for us, a small group of college kids who depend on pocket money for this occasional eat out, the Big Bazaar was the goto place.
Weekly Update 3 - Sep 13, 2020
September 13, 2020
| 4 minutes | 797 words | Dheepak
This is the third instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 13, 2020). Word count at 800.
Some interesting items from the past week The AIIMS Story I happened to read about the founder of AIIMS - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. This piece from Indian Express details on how she dreamt about an institute for medical higher education in India.
Unexpected outcome
September 8, 2020
| 1 minutes | 143 words | Dheepak
Here, I want to discuss about an unexpected outcome from interview. Contrary to the ‘rona times, I felt happy and contented.
The interview is usually a stressful affair. I usually prepare 100s of topics, then the interviewer will bombard me with 101st topic. Well, its just a déjà vu, nothing new with the session.
The interviewer was friendly and made me absolutely comfortable, there were no stress-inducing questions, all through the entire discussion.
Weekly Update - Sep 6, 2020
September 6, 2020
| 3 minutes | 505 words | Dheepak
This is the second instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 6, 2020).
Some interesting news the past week Monday’s news feed is filled with Chinese law that hurdles sale of TikTok to American entity. Chinese officials revised rules that govern the sale of certain kinds of technology to foreign buyers. The updated list includes data processing, speech and text recognition — the kind of tech that experts say is used by the popular short-form video app.
Weekly Update - Aug 30, 2020
August 30, 2020
| 2 minutes | 251 words | Dheepak
Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (August 30, 2020).
Positive News Apart from recoveries, I don’t see any positive news in the last week. As of 29th, the number of recovery is 2.712M, with total cases at 3.539M. Recovery rate @ 75+ Negative News As if the COVID-19 pandemic is not enough, the state of Assam is worst affected by flood in Brahmaputra river.