I am back in Bangalore, but am currently suffering my typical post-trip crash. Will post a detailed writeup by weekend, including news on my new notebook (finally!), and maybe some Goa photos.

OKOKOK, just before I leave – for those of you who think that no online diary is complete without an RSS syndication feed – you can now grab it from http://atulchitnis.net/diary/rss. If it works for you, cool. If not, you’ll have to wait till I get back from Goa. However, I refuse to buckle in [...]

OK, father-in-law has been discharged from hospital, and things seem to be going well. The RadioCity interview went off very well, and I had a ball. I have never done a radio interview before, that too live, but Darius put me right at ease and let say pretty much what I wanted to (apart from [...]

Today is our 16th wedding anniversary, but we are all way too busy to do anything about it. Hopefully will be able to make up for it next weekend – in Goa. Update on my father-in-law (since so many people asked) – after major vascular surgery and a minor heart attack, he is now recovering [...]

Let’s dance in style, lets dance for a while Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you going to drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don’t have the power but we never say never Sitting in [...]

The Goa event is approaching quickly – time to get cracking on new content for my talks. Apparently the Goan government recently decided that spending 10 Million Rupees on software from Microsoft is cheaper and more effective than using OpenSource software for school. It seems that while they werent willing to spend Rs.100 on some [...]

Father-in-law’s operation went well, and hopefully he will be discharged over the next week. Friday, met up with friend Kishore Bhargava, who happened to be in town to give a talk at SGI that I couldn’t give because I was travelling that day. We had a marvellous lunch at Shezan on Cunningham Road, where they [...]

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OK, it is now official – SALIS is organising the SALIS Workshop on Software and Licensing in Goa on the 27th and 28th of February. Many people have not heard about this workshop, but as a little background that you may find interesting – the same workshop was held in Trivandrum in November 2002, and [...]

Hmmm, looks like my Pune plans are jinxed. The issues were worked out and I was all ready to go there this weekend, when my father-in-law got admitted to a hospital in Bangalore for an operation – happening this week. That means that I cannot travel from the 13th until he is discharged, which will [...]