One of the things that always zaps people at my talks about mobile computing is my demonstration of running full-length videos (movies, TV episodes, etc.) on my Palm TX PDA, without skipping, without stuttering audio, in a limited RAM environment, on a slow processor. And the most common question I get after my talks -”Can [...]

This afternoon I completed the formalities related to booking of the venue for FOSS.IN/2006. FOSS.IN/2006 will be held on November 24/25/26 (Friday-Sunday) at the National Science Symposium Centre of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. This year’s event will be formatted very differently, taking the best from the old Linux Bangalore and last year’s FOSS.IN [...]

Excellent read – a post by RKVS Raman. I highly recommend that anyone interested in FOSS reads this. Do you see yourself there?

…Gaurav walking through the door, holding two 14″ pepperoni pizzas from Dominos. Burp!

The Internet is broken again. Until they fix it, please read this, then visit here. If the quantity of sulphuric acid produced is an indicator of the health of a nation’s economy, then acts like these are an indicator of the cluelessness of it’s government. BTW – I hear that critics of the government terrorists [...]

He’s lean, mean, got fabulous memory, two brains, deep pockets, a black cloak and can reach out and touch you without wires. And he weighs in at 1.5 kilos. He is Vader – my new IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X60s. Sporting 2 GB of RAM, 100 GB of SATA hard disk goodness, 802.11a/b/g wireless connectivity, a docking [...]

In February of this year, I had mentioned that I would be looking out for new opportunities. It is time to update my friends on the results of this quest. As I had mentioned, I had two primary areas of interest – Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Mobile Computing. I finally ended up [...]

If, like me, you are hopping mad about the most recent petrol price hike here in India, then I urge you to go see this lecture (Flash required) by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. You can also download his slides (PPT, 9MB). Go on, watch it. And think about it – Brazil has already done this [...]

I am currently in Mumbai on work, and on Saturday land up at Pune, where I will be participating at BarCamp Pune – making it the fourth barcamp I will have attended in a row. Barcamp Pune will be interesting for me, because it will give me a chance to check out the geek and [...]

“They say a restless body can hide a peaceful soul. A voyager, and a settler, they both have a distant goal. If I explore the heavens, or if I search inside. Well, it really doesn’t matter as long as I can tell myself I’ve always tried.” Like a roller in the ocean, life is motion [...]