Shubha’s cousin Kiran, who came to Bangalore this week to meet a girl he had met over the Internet, found that she is everything he had dreamt of, and apparently she thinks the same thing of him, and they have decided to take it one step further – they are getting engaged on Monday, the [...]

Ah well, after several failed attempts, I am now the proud owner of a equipment list, in case you are interested. Yesterday’s

For years, Yahoo has provided the Internet community with reasonably well maintained, stable services in the form of Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo messenger. But all that seems to have gone down the drain, and irretrievably so. For many months now, I have tried interacting with Yahoo, trying to get problems fixed at all [...]

Been a week or more since I updated my diary, so here is what’s been happening: First of all, I was sick. And stayed sick for a while. Just as I was began to surface, Gopi fell ill, having just nursed his son through a similar flu. So I had to sit in office minding [...]

Am at home, sick with what appears to be a flu that I have been successfully keeping down for the past couple of days with lots of paracetamol. My sinuses are in revolt, and the left side of my head feels dead. Today’s rant is about cellphone companies who are hell bent on alienating their [...]

Today was the annual BLUG meet – the one meet in the year where we look back on what has been happening in the opensource world and the BLUG, and generally have a nice non-technical nose-rub. I didn’t have too good a time – for the past couple of days, I have had something nasty [...]

Nice surprise this morning, when I found myself featured in a story on rediff.com. This interview was done a while back by Anita Bora, and I had totally forgotten about it. The complete interview is here. Very interesting was the reaction Shubha (my wife) had to the top graphic featuring me and very eye-catching young [...]

Spent the night leading up to India’s independance day hacking code (for the un-educated – hacking is good, cracking is bad) to get my favourite IM of choice gaim to show the Indian Flag when you sent the correct smiley in Yahoo, a la the Indian version of Yahoo Messenger. Took me till 4 a.m., [...]

Well, today was supposed to be “No Power Day” in our area. Appears that our part of Sanjaynagar does not get considered as “sanjaynagar” when it comes to the Electricity Board – we had power all day, apart from a few minor outages lasting a minute or two. Not that this raised my productivity in [...]

Hmmm, one of those days. First, I decide to stay at home for the day, because Mrinal said he’d come over for some stuff. Beeps me in the morning that he couldn’t make it because of some stuff at home. Later in the day, PCQuest Editor Krishna Kumar was supposed to come to Exocore to [...]