I am currently in Berlin, Germany, to attend Linux Tag. I came in early to be able to spend some time with my mom over the weekend. This morning, I went out and put a resounding tickmark against an item long outstanding on my wishlist – I bought a new acoustic guitar, to add to [...]

Wow! Remember my post about Mundu Radio – the first product I was responsible for when I joined Geodesic? Well, that little product has been doing VERY well for itself, and now finds itself to be a finalist for C|Net’s Webware 100 awards in the Mobile category! I am *thrilled*! To win the award, Mundu [...]

On May 17th, 2007, my parents-in-law, Mahadev and Bhagyawati Deshpande, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The three sisters – Shubha, Keerti and Arati – moved heaven and earth to make sure that this day was special, with both Keerti and Arati flying in from the USA a week before, spending time with them in their [...]

On Sunday, the 6th of May, I will be speaking at the “Mobile Monday (on Sunday) Chennai” event, on “The Challenge of Mobile Internet”. And on Monday, the 7th of May, I will be speaking at the “Mobile Monday Mumbai” event on “Mobile Messaging Futures”. If you are into (or interested in) mobile computing, and [...]

One of the advantages of having friends who become relatives is that you usually know a lot about each other. Such is the case of my wife’s younger brother-in-law, Vibhu Srinivasan who was a friend long before he married my sister-in-law. From the kid growing up next door, through attending the same engineering college I [...]

If you are a startup, then you could do worse than reading Paul Graham’s “Hacker’s Guide to Investors”. Go on, read the whole thing. Then read it again. I’ll wait for you here.

Opened up the Times of India today to find myself mentioned on Page 2 (no, not Page 3 . Interesting topic, though really small article. They refer to an article I wrote in 1995 – Email – The 7 Deadly Sins, part of COMversations – my monthly column in PCQuest from 1993 to 1996. It [...]

Recently, in a fit of splurgy madness, I went and acquired an Onkyo TX-SR504 AV Receiver (yes Mrinal, that’s what they call an “amplifier” these days and an Onkyo SL-107 subwoofer. This was to replace my stone-age Kenwood audio system that I had acquired sometime in the last century. I am yet to buy some [...]

Whenever I tell people about my paraskevidekatriaphobia, they usually scoff and give knowing smiles to each other, with an implied finger tapping at the temple. Well, I have good reason for being mortally afraid of Friday the 13th. It began decades ago, involving my friend Jaikishan, a car and a lot of associated factors, and [...]

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