Am being kidnapped by wife to some interiors exhibition at the Kanteerva Stadium. Please send help! In the meanwhile, have fixed the CSS error on this site that had some of you climbing walls. And I also replaced the image at the top with a GIF (yes, I know it is evil – let’s see [...]

A while back, I had mentioned that a lot of people ask me for the archives of my old PCQuest column, COMversations. Over the past few days, I have ressurected most of them, and you can now find then in their

I was casually browsing through a mailing list I am on, when I stumbled across one of those obnoxious anti-Linux-on-the-desktop notes that pop up every now and then. I couldn’t help myself, and the result was

I have been driving (and been driven by) a number of communities over the past decade. And one thing that continues to amaze me is the effort it takes to get people to participate in any meaningful fashion. When I ran my

OK, a quick note to say that I am alive, that EPLAWS went extremely well, that the kittens are growing and have opened their eyes and that I am busy with tons of stuff, and have not been able to update the diary with any regularity. PC at home died with a bad hard disk [...]

I am busy as hell with getting ready for the Exocore Professional Linux Administrator Workshop that starts on the 18th. We have been in office every night till around 5 a.m., and back to work by lunchtime, working on various EPLAWS related things. Lots of client related work as well. Was pleased to see that [...]

A while back, I had a heated discussion with someone who referred to my online diary as a “weblog” or “‘blog”. I was most offended – the person clearly also lumped Slashdot and Beyond 2000 under “educational news sites” because both appear on the web and publish news. A few minutes back, someone sent me [...]

So ya, thought ya, could crash out tonight….. Hah! Spent the whole day at home yesterday, but by evening, old friend Harsha lured me out of my lair. Picked me up in the evening, and we headed for the Windsor pub for a man-to-man chat, with me at the receiving end. We reached there by [...]

Woah! I am bushed! Am staying at home and relaxing today! Last night, Shubha and I went to Allen and Sandhya Mendonca’s anniversary bash – way out Whitefield side. This was a bash with a difference – BYOLM (Bring Your Own Live Music)! Everyone was encouraged to bring their musical instruments and gear and show [...]

Last Friday gave a talk at the IPv6 Forum’s 6ig, which went off quite well. Announced the BLUG’s new IPv6 Deployment Effort, which should start bearing results in July. I have been asked to speak at several other events in July, but I think it is only fair that I concentrate on EPLAWS for now. [...]