Well, it is almost Saturday. And as we all know, Saturday is the day to party. Anjali has handed me the (what I presume to be) final guest list, which is substantially longer than we had expected. It includes a bunch of (very) recent foreign returnees, a high power rock group (God save the neighbourhood!), [...]

Well, despite earlier misgivings, I ended up at the Rolling Stones concert after all. Earlier on Friday, we decided to postpone Anjali’s party to next week, because it looks like this weekend is going to be rained out, and quite a few people couldn’t make it to the party anyway. Was sitting in office when [...]

Today was a holiday, so got bored stiff. Managed to survive most of the day, with some battles with VSNL, Redhat and assorted service providers. Finally snapped, grabbed Sony and Shanu, and headed for town. Habitat was closed, so no DVDs to be had. Planet M was a disaster zone – playing Rolling Stones and [...]

Small victory for me, more of a sentimental thing than anything else, but as of 31-Mar-2003, the domains COMversations.com and COMversations.net are finally mine! Someone had registered them many years ago, before it struck me that there was some brandvalue for these names. Well, looks like he either forgot to renew them this year, or [...]

Today is my daughter Geetanjali’s 13th birthday. She is officially a teenager today. Another era passes by. Sure, being 13 doesn’t give her the car keys or a right to vote (or even the right to decide what we watch on TV on Wednesdays at 9pm ), but it does bring about two fundamental changes: [...]

This war gives me nightmares. Both the USA and UK have abandoned the “liberation” charade and are clearly focussing on the main objectives – the Iraqi oil fields. Just now, I watched a live interview on BBC with some guy who asked a very valid question – why are the Americans bombing the Iraqi palace [...]

Never before has a single country (including, ironically, Iraq) ever managed to garner so much scorn and outrage from its own citizens and the rest of the world as the USA has now managed to. And forget everything else, when United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld finally goes on the air, what does he plead? [...]

While some people mock the upcoming US war on Iraq, many people miss the real importance of this war. History shows that the Vietnam war fought by the USA in the 20th century was without any doubt a war the USA lost, and lost miserably. In an attempt to impose their own line of thinking [...]

OK, this update is due, so I am jamming it in: I finally bought a new notebook – it is a IBM Thinkpad T30 Model 92A. Muchos gracias to all the people involved who helped with the final decision and acquisition. My home is now fully wifi’d. I can wirelessly connect to the home LAN [...]

Sorry about no updates. Whenever I run into massive issues with something, I tend to fall behind with diary updates. Please bear with me – hopefully I will be able to get over this mountain soon.