Yesterday was Dassera. We had a nice pooja at office, with Shanu acting as official poojari. I got some nice photos of that – shall upload soon. Afternoon decided to crash out for a while, then got up to find the entire gang at my dining table playing Monopoly. Watched for a while, then took [...]

Help! That new Bridgestone tyres advertisement jingle is stuck in my head! The one that shows a car driving down a long and winding road, and starts with “On and on …”. Is that a real song? Or is it just an ad jingle? If it is a real song, can anyone tell me what [...]

Am kind of busy with various things. Will update when able. My company is doing a workshop on Managing Networks on 24-Oct-2002. Let me warn you right away that this is *not* entry-level stuff – it is pretty advanced and will require you to have knowledge of how networks work. If you are a sys/network [...]

Late last night, I lay in bed and finished reading Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” for the second time in 20 years. How different an experience it was from the time back in 1982 when I read it the first time, shortly before my first year engineering exams. I had “borrowed” the book from my mother’s [...]

And now for something completely different. Opening the newspaper on Wednesday morning, I found an advertorial about Document:Done playing at Guru Nanak Bhavan that evening, in a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. A little later in the day, Gaurav of Phenom also mentioned this gig, and recommended going. This I had to see, and for several [...]

Sundays aren’t quite what they used to be. So spent my day catching up on other people’s journals. One of the fallouts of my turning 40 this year has been that I have become acutely aware of just how many things I *cannot* do any more, even though I want to. For example, the Bangalore [...]

Yesterday was the September BLUG meet. A quick poll proved what I suspected by the end of it – for many people, this was one of the best BLUG meets in recent times. To start off, the meet was unsponsored. This meant that everyone had to pay their own way, at Rs.100 a head. I [...]

Grrrrr…. Some prolific poster on Slashdot has linked to one of

On Sunday night, we received a shocking phone call. Our dog, Judo, has a “girlfriend” named Mona (a beautiful female German Shepherd just a month older than Judo) staying close by to our place, and who often visited Judo over the past year to play with him. She has appeared quite often in my photos [...]

The second wave struck this morning (for context, see yesterday’s diary entry), and I am told a third wave will hit us tonight, bringing the total number of people staying under my roof from the usual 3 to 13 or more. The phone hasn’t stopped ringing, with lots of people wanting to talk to lots [...]