Been hard at work reorganising things, preparing to launch a personal project I have been working on for a while. This project will allow me to focus on areas of interest that I am currently unable to address in any meaningful fashion. This requires me to make changes in several places, including my websites (no, [...]

I have been working on the PDA friendly section of my site (clicking here. Note: Avantgo limits such “custom channels”, so it is essentially first come first served. If you use Plucker, then essentially you just have to tell it to pick up stuff from

This note is for the many people who have been writing to me, asking how I am. I am at home, recovering from a severe Anterior Uveitis that has (hopefully temporarily) sent my right eye out for lunch. The inflammation is under control, thanks to the excellent treatment I received, and right now it is [...]

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Am currently at home, nursing a bad eye infection. Not the “Madras Eye” kind of thingy, or conjunctivitis – apparently something more complicated than that. Let us leave at the fact that I now appreciate the ability to see with both eyes a whole lot more. Had to finally do some stomping on the BLUG [...]

Yesterday was the Bangalore Linux Users Group April meet. To whip things up a bit, Gopi, Shanu and I decided to present part of our upcoming Exocore Wireless Networking Workshop (in May) at the meet – specifically an Intro to Wireless Networking, Wireless Networking and Linux, and practical demonstrations of setup and procedures. We expected [...]

This Friday is the monthly Bangalore Linux Users Group meet, and Gopi, Shanu and I will be doing a series of short talks on Wireless Networking and deployment of Wireless LANs under Linux. Hopefully the topic will be interesting enough to get a lot of BLUG veterans, who have been missing from the monthly meets, [...]

Since the early 90′s, I have always published my email address in my articles, talks and other public places. In those days few people had email addresses at all, so that wasn’t really much of an issue if a lot of people knew my address, because it gave me the chance to interact with countless [...]

If anyone had any doubt that Saturday’s party had a mind-altering effect on some of the guests, then check these two snaps of Kishore – taken about 12 hours apart – the left on Saturday night, the right on Sunday.

And so it came to pass that the hordes of Bangalore partied till deep into the night…. Saturday was a day of great happenings, and much change, and the conviction that we really should have had a plan C. By afternoon, Mrinal and Sashi turned up with Phenom’s equipment, only to find that they had [...]