Alive, I am. Busy. Yeeeees busy. Forgiveness seek I, for catering not to addiction of yours for diary updates. Slight cold I have, but force (and Crocin) with me is. But good stuff doing am I. Linux rulez. ’nuff said.

After much deliberation (it was raining, my jaw was aching and I am not into progressive rock), I decided to go to Styx to watch Cryptic (starring Mrinal aka “Munnu”) perform. This was my first time at the Styx pub, and despite all the rave reviews by others, I was less than impressed. A place [...]

Hmmmmm – looks like Mrinal does *not* have a new girlfriend that is keeping him away. Yesterday (Wednesday, 19th June) Anjali thrust the Bangalore Times supplement to the Times of India in my face, and find myself looking at an ad for his prog-rock band Cryptic, who are playing tomorrow (Friday, 21st June) at Styx. [...]

Groan again. But this time not from pleasure. Had a major tooth extraction session today. One particular molar had decided that this was a particularly good day to die, and quietly self-destructed. So I trotted off to our family dentist, who assured me that it was a small job, and that she would have the [...]

Grooooaaaaaannn! Today was mom-in-law’s mutton biryani day, and the gang (Sony, Shanu, Vaibhav and Khader) came over to gorge. Mrinal couldn’t make it, as usual (either he has a new girlfriend we don’t know about, or he is genuinely busy). We hogged like we hadn’t eaten in days, then sat around, trying to breathe shallowly [...]

Ah, good fun. I am finally doing stuff I thoroughly enjoy doing. Naturally, it involves Linux And it has two fronts going – both linked together. Next month (July), I go back into the seminars circuit, as promised a few months back. And I start with The Exocore Professional Linux Administrator Workshop – a workshop [...]

On the 7th of June, I said: ” There is nothing I can really say, other than that I am disappointed, feel betrayed, used and (if my suspicion of the final destination is correct) stabbed in the back. “ I’d just like to put on record that I was right about the final destination.

Woah! I just finished something utterly and completely weird. For the past two hours, I have been jamming with Mrinal. “So what else is new” you may ask? Simply this – Mrinal and I were in our respective homes, dozens of kilometres apart. It started with my wanting to test out GnomeMeeting, and since I [...]

Started Sunday with a visit from Gopi. We discussed business matters for a while before Gopi whipped out a CD by Norah Jones. We sat and listened for a while and *God* is that woman a great singer or what? I *love* that CD! And I was quite surprised to read later that she is [...]

Well, the thing that I suspected (back on the 5th) would happen – happened. It is a huge blow to me, especially in the manner it was done. Just goes to show – trust is more often than not misplaced, and only the paranoid survive. There is nothing I can really say, other than that [...]