When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time building things – whether soapbox racers, spaceship models or automatic window raisers. I used to do this because it was fun, was cool, and I felt that it was necessary to save the world from destruction by evil alien species. Over the [...]

Am sitting here in my hall at home, listening to Phenom‘s latest composition – “A Little Step” – a song that is very different from stuff they have done before, and I *really* like it. The recording is being published as well – making it the first Phenom recording making it to the market. Yay! [...]

Now for some ugly stuff. Children, please tune to another channel. I have heard/seen some serious BLUG bashing going on in some obscure mailing list, featuring the usual suspects from down south. Apparently someone is of the firm opinion that we at the BLUG are all rip-offs, milking poor innocent people of their hard-earned savings [...]

Another late night, and found myself handholding Vaibhav for the second time in a week with a new PDA. This guy is replicating my entire PDA journey, but what I took almost 6 years to do, he is doing in a couple of weeks! Anyway, I also found myself trying to fix a problem that [...]

Just an additional note for the day – it deserves an entry all of its own. This evening, on the 7th of June, 2003, at 10 pm, I complete two years of being nicotine free. Two years of no smoking – not a single cigarette. I have a little program on my PDA called PuffFree [...]

Spent all night working on a how-to document, that tells you how to configure COMversations days. My

Today is the 6th of June, my friend Jaikishan’s birthday. He passed away many years ago in a tragic accident, and it still hurts me badly. But rather than grieve, let me mark the occassion by remembering some happier times. Kishan and I lived in a shed outside his parents’ house- our den. The sloping, [...]

Just returned from my talk at the Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology in Tumkur, where the folks had their annual fest INTERFACE. To get there, I had to get up at 6:00 am, and leave home just before 8:00 am. Took about 75 minutes to get there by car (my driver driving, not me!). Shubha [...]

I am back from Delhi, and I am pleased to say that the trip was good. Left on the afternoon of the 26th, and landed late evening in Delhi. Kishore picked me up from the airport, and took me home, where we proceeded to yack straight through from around 10pm to 5:30am Next day, went [...]

Need to put this down somewhere – and what better place than here? Here are some of my favourite eating places in Bangalore: Windsor Pub Windsor Pub is located on Vasanthnagar Main Road, just before the circle, on the left side. It isn’t the regular kind of Bangalore pub – its more of a family [...]