It’s been 5 years since I stopped smoking. To be precise: 5 years 1 hour 52 minutes 33 seconds. I have not smoked 36,521 cigarettes I have saved Rs.118,695 My life has been extended by 4 months, 4 days, 19 hours 27 minutes and 53 seconds. My AS3 Milestone is OOF. (Statistics thanks to PuffFree) [...]

In a late night chat, I was asked by a friend what I would consider to be the thing that drives me the most – what is it that more than anything else makes me want to stay involved, no matter how hard something is. I was kind of stumped. It wasn’t something I had [...]

Be aware that as of this time, BSNL has *NOT* enabled the Unlimited Schemes (UL 900 Plus and UL 900), though they have appear to have cut down the speed for people who applied for a switch from higher speeds. When I spoke to BSNL at Bangalore this evening, I was told that as of [...]

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the monthly meet of the Bangalore Linux Users Group. Lots of talks lined up – including one on Stellarium by Sridhar from Infosys, phpwiki and Zwiki by Shahnawaz from Mindtree, OpenVPN by Shilpa from PESIT and MediaWiki tips, ticks and extensions by me. As usual, anyone is free to attend the meet [...]

So thanks to Jayakumar, we finally have *some* videos of FOSS.IN/2005: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=FOSS.IN/2005 Many thanks, Jayakumar!

Hey! Reporting from BarCamp Mumbai! We are here, wirelress network and other stuff is up, and we are slowly getting ready to get the sessions going. I hope everyone broiught pens, because Anjali forgot to pack the pens I was supposed to bring! Aaaarrrgghhh!!! Will update this entryy as the day goes by, hopefully with [...]

Remember my rant from about 3 years ago, about Dominos and Pizza Hut not delivering pizza to my area? Well, things looked up when Pizza Hut opened stores in RT Nagar and more recently on BEL Road, but Dominos continued to hold out – out of service area. That’s a pity, because I like Domino’s [...]

This Saturday, the 13th of May, is BarCamp Mumbai – the next in the series of BarCamps sweeping India, after Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. For some reason, we have been extremely lucky with BarCamp Mumbai – while searching for a venue, I hesitatingly asked IIT Bombay if they could help, and they not only [...]

Thursday, I received news that my landlord, Mr.S.Ramdas, had passed away at his home in Canada. This was a terrible shock for me, and I would like to write a little bit about him here in my diary: Read the rest of this entry…

On last Thursday, I was a panelist at a conclave organised by the Project Management Institute, which was quite fun – especially when one of the panelists (Partha from Mindtree) decided to stand up for the rights of hapless project managers who get theblame if things go wrong. Unfortunately, I had to leave a little [...]