Nope, it is not yet the time to reveal the new name. But this is our first call to the Free & Open Source community – if you are interested in helping bring this year’s event to life, then the first thing you should do is drop us a line. From this year onwards, the [...]

After my recent article, I am being flooded with mail from people, most of whom have questions about various things related to broadband internet connections. Many of the questions are similar, so I am writing an article that I will put up on COMversations ASAP. It will take me a couple of days, so until [...]

In late January, I traveled to Calicut, to speak at the National Institute of Technology. Because of the strange flight-connections to/from Calicut — you can get there from Dubai, but not from Bangalore — I decided to travel by train, which takes about 12 hours, but is comfortable enough. Now if there is one thing [...]

So yesterday was the daughter’s birthday party – delayed by a couple of weeks because of exams. Thanks to able assistance and prodding from various friends, Shubha and I decided give Anjali some culture: we bought her a Yamaha PSR295 keyboard, in the sincere hope that she will learn to play it and continue the [...]

Ah well, it was a nice holiday while it lasted, but now it is over. On the morning of the 7th of April, BSNL DataOne went down, and every single subscriber that I know of in Bangalore and Chennai (probably elsewhere as well) was either disconnected or experiencing speeds slower than a 14.4kbps dialup modem. [...]

I am in Mysore on Saturday morning, to speak at the SJCE on FOSS, what it is, and how students could/should get involved and how they will benefit. The event is called Technologix-05, and I will be speaking in the morning.

Today my daughter Anjali (Geetanjali for long, brat for short ) celebrates her 15th birthday. So here’s wishing her a Happy Birthday, and no – she can’t have the car keys. Nor am I going to ask her what she would like to have for her birthday: when she was three years old, someone asked [...]

Some of you will remember my post about BSNL Broadband. A lot of people wrote in and narrated their experiences. Some of them good, some of them bad. Here’s my story: Read the rest of this entry…

Yahoo has recently launched a new special search section that lets you search for material that is licensed under a Creative Commons license. I did a casual search for the term bangalore rock music and was thrilled to bits to see Phenom listed right near the top of the search results. Why am I so [...]

David Hammerstein, a Member of the European Parliament, has sent a letter to the Indian government on the subject of software patents. Will this make India see sense? Will it stop India from sending its “pride of the nation” industry into a complete hell that it has been safe from till now? Stay tuned for [...]