Another hot day. This is getting monotonous! Luckily, airconditioning in my cabin and in the conference room should be functional tomorrow. Shubha went snap-happy in the garden, the results this one. Poor Judo is suffering (though that is not visible in these photos). This is the worst time of the year for dogs like him. [...]

Roger Water’s “In The Flesh” CD set rolled in today, making it the second time in a row that Fabmart blew my socks off with timely delivery. Not bad. The album is *really* nice, but what struck me were the liner notes. Here, read this extract: “Anyone who is familiar with my work and with [...]

Nothing much happened today, apart from my going and buying our tickets for the Roger Waters show. Most impressive – credit card shaped, in plastic, with hologram and barcode. Definitely a collector’s item. Oh yeah – in a record breaking feat of customer service, Fabmart managed to deliver the “Pink Floyd – Pulse” CD set [...]

Office is still in a mess, but things are beginning to fall into place – the new UPS is now functional, and the cabins rewired. Hopefully things should be back to normal by tomorrow. Had a hilarious time at lunch. Avinash told us of this new sandwich bar near the office, so Gopi grabbed my [...]

Started the week with a bang. CDROM drive on notebook not working. Called TVA help.com, who collected it for a checkup. Office in chaos – we recently purchased a huge UPS to power the entire office, which requires extensive rewiring. End result – I got evicted from my cabin into the conference room. Hey, it’s [...]

Sunday. Zzzzzzz….. Well, not quite, but almost so. Bangalore heat is now the number one topic in all diaries and journals I follow. Everyone seems to be suffering. No major excitement during the day, I slept like a log after lunch. It was way too hot to do anything else. Ask my dog. Evening got [...]

Ah, the day is done. Anjali’s birthday today, so naturally we had to get up at midnight to wish her – dog, cat and all. She appeared to be thrilled with her gifts – The complete set of the “Lord of the Rings” books and three PC video games – The Sims, Simcity 3000 Unlimited [...]

Yesterday, I read about this new product called Crossover Office. It essentially allows you to run quite a number of Microsoft products under Linux, including (hold your breath now) Microsoft Office 2000. Hmmm, the holy grail – MS Office under Linux? I couldn’t resist this, bought the package ($54), whipped out my MS Office 2000 [...]

First up – I have changed the domain for my official website from “atulchitnis.com” to “atulchitnis.net”. It has nothing to do with a certain company’s attempt at hijacking the existing .net TLD and everything to do with the fact that my website is not commercial (as implied by the .com in the earlier domain name). [...]

Ah, as if it wasn’t hot enough, people decided to try their hand at flaming me about something other than Linux for a change. How utterly refreshing! In other news, Bangalore is getting hotter and hotter, and if it doesn’t rain soon (April showers) I am going to migrate. Anjali’s birthday this Saturday, but with [...]