yeah, yeah, I am still missing in action, buried in Linux Bangalore/2003 work. 72 hours to go. Aaaaaaaarrrrgghhhhhh!!!!!!!! A quick headsup for those of you who enjoy rock music, and feel the urge to do something good and worthwhile this evening: Friend Mrinal and his other group Cryptic are doing a gig this evening. Here [...]

In a few hours from now, I will be on my way back to India. I leave behind tons of memories of my grandmother, and of her … no … our home. Hopefully, I will be able to bring Shubha and Anjali here early next year. In Bangalore, the collossus named Linux Bangalore/2003 awaits me, [...]

On the 12th of November I wrote: “I am not here to sight-see, but to meet my

OKOKOK, stop howling at me! So I haven’t been updating my diary for a while. I didn’t know that your lives would come to an end over this Read the rest of this entry…

Listen to the pouring rain Listen to it pour And with every drop of rain You know I love you more Let it rain all night long Let my love for you go strong As long as we’re together Who cares about the weather? Listen to the falling rain Listen to it fall And with [...]

Sometimes, dreams do come true. And for my old (figuratively speaking) friend Vinod Unny, they most certainly did yesterday in Delhi, when he finally got married to his longterm dream, Neeta. I wish Vinod and Neeta all the best and everything they deserve (well, they already got each other, so that’s a start), and may [...]

Phenom is competing at the Castrol Garage Rock competion on Friday, between 6:00pm and 8:30pm, at “The Club” on Mysore Road. Read the rest of this entry…

They say that somewhere in the world, there is a person who is your exact twin. Well, I don’t know if there is anyone out there who looks exactly like me, but I do know that somewhere out there, there is another Atul Chitnis. Read the rest of this entry…

Not bad – within two days of launch, COMversations is beginning to see some really heavy traffic – several thousand pageviews, and my mailbox is full of comments from readers – most of them really complimentary. Read the rest of this entry…

As promised earlier, my “techno” column, COMversations, is back. That’s where you will find all my technical and techno-social writing from now on. I promise I will try to add at least one or two items every week, touching as diverse subjects as PDAs, networking, digital photography, open source, etc. The site is at http://comversations.com. [...]