“My inclination was to support the government and the war until proven wrong, and that only came later, as I realized we could not explain the mission, had no exit strategy, and did not seem to be fighting to win.” –George W.Bush in his autobiography “A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House” [...]

Mondays are usually bad, but today took the cake. We moved office last week, because we just couldn’t live with the issues at the old office (the temple noise, the constant not-so-nice smells emanating from the bakery on the ground floor, the blown out electric system that mysteriously manifested itself every year during festival season [...]

According to StarTrek.com, I am a member of Klingon Intelligence. Must be a lot of secrecy involved, which explains why they don’t have a photo up. In other news, I would like to address the “blog v/s journal” thing again (it comes up about once a year). Read the rest of this entry…

And here we go again – the process that revs up the engine of India’s largest annual Free and Open Source (FOSS) event has begun. As of this morning, the Linux Bangalore/2004 site has been opened to the public, providing preliminary information about the event. As time goes by, more details will be added, and [...]

And so I spent the past week reading Dan Brown’s other novels – Digital Fortress, Deception Point and Angels & Demons. Some comments: Read the rest of this entry…

OK, I simply have to put this down publicly: It is unbelievable just how many times in the day someone or the other pops up in my IM window or my Inbox, asking me whether I have read this book. Note that for some strange reason, no one ever *recommends* that I read it, as [...]

The past few days that I have been here in Germany have been the most “family intense” times I have had in years – actually decades. Read the rest of this entry…

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Hmmm, I just realised that in the past 7 weeks, I have logged almost 30,000 miles in my Lufthansa Miles&More (Frequent Flyer) program. That’s a personal record! Read the rest of this entry…

It’s been a while since the last update – time to let the world know that I am still alive and what’s happening in my life. Read the rest of this entry…