Posts by Atul Chitnis

Thinking about new approaches

Of late, I have been thinking about doing something new. This doesn’t necessarily mean something different from what I have been doing all this time – it could also just mean a different approach to it. My commitment to the things I believe in and have been pushing remains unchanged. But maybe I should start [...]

On doing the impossible

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –St.Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

Resurgence

Phenom has released another track from their album. This time, it is their instrumental Resurgence, a track far more representative of their native progressive rock style than the earlier A Little Step that they released for Christmas. The title, given the current world scenario (and not necessarily only the tsunami tragedy), seems apt. Download the [...]

Report from the front

One reads a lot in the newspapers, and more in the blogs, about how things are on the ground in the tsunami affected areas. Sadly, much of it is either overblown, distorted, or seriously tainted by suspect motives. Not so this one. Jessie knows about organisation and logistics – read this and possibly make decisions [...]

Phenom: A BIG Step

So the guys at Phenom did it – after a year on the cooker, they have released their first single. They chose their most “un-rocky” number from the album (“A Little Step”) to be their vanguard number. One would have expected them to use CAP 5101, but they are right – it *is* Christmas, and [...]

Now sponsoring…. :)

Damn, I was *dying* to make this announcement, and I finally got to do it today. Excuse me while I do a little victory dance round the totem pole, hollering like a demented red indian. LINUX BANGALORE/2004 RECEIVES FULL SPONSORSHIP We are happy to announce that Linux Bangalore/2004 has now secured full sponsorship for the [...]

Whoa! Recognition!

From Harald Welte’s blog: “I’m happy to see an increasing number of high profile speakers at Linux Bangalore, and it’s now becoming (to the best of my knowledge) a big internationaly recognized Linux event.” That, coming from someone who is a big name himself at all the major Linux/FOSS events, is high praise indeed. Damn! [...]

Indiatimes does RSS

And in completely unrelated news, The Times of India (or rather, its online incarnation – Indiatimes.com) becomes what must be the last publication on earth to offer its news in the form of RSS/XML feeds – probably in retaliation to guys who have been scraping their headlines forever and offering them as RSS feeds. If [...]

I need a life!

Apologies to all who have been emailing me and whom I have not replied to – my life isn’t in my hands right now. Way too many things happening. Linux Bangalore/2004 is just round the corner. Have you registered yet? Major announcements happening starting tomorrow. I am still hunting for entertainment for the three evenings. [...]