The Internet is broken again. Until they fix it, please read this, then visit here. If the quantity of sulphuric acid produced is an indicator of the health of a nation’s economy, then acts like these are an indicator of the cluelessness of it’s government. BTW – I hear that critics of the government terrorists [...]

He’s lean, mean, got fabulous memory, two brains, deep pockets, a black cloak and can reach out and touch you without wires. And he weighs in at 1.5 kilos. He is Vader – my new IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X60s. Sporting 2 GB of RAM, 100 GB of SATA hard disk goodness, 802.11a/b/g wireless connectivity, a docking [...]

In February of this year, I had mentioned that I would be looking out for new opportunities. It is time to update my friends on the results of this quest. As I had mentioned, I had two primary areas of interest – Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Mobile Computing. I finally ended up [...]

If, like me, you are hopping mad about the most recent petrol price hike here in India, then I urge you to go see this lecture (Flash required) by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. You can also download his slides (PPT, 9MB). Go on, watch it. And think about it – Brazil has already done this [...]

I am currently in Mumbai on work, and on Saturday land up at Pune, where I will be participating at BarCamp Pune – making it the fourth barcamp I will have attended in a row. Barcamp Pune will be interesting for me, because it will give me a chance to check out the geek and [...]

“They say a restless body can hide a peaceful soul. A voyager, and a settler, they both have a distant goal. If I explore the heavens, or if I search inside. Well, it really doesn’t matter as long as I can tell myself I’ve always tried.” Like a roller in the ocean, life is motion [...]

It’s been 5 years since I stopped smoking. To be precise: 5 years 1 hour 52 minutes 33 seconds. I have not smoked 36,521 cigarettes I have saved Rs.118,695 My life has been extended by 4 months, 4 days, 19 hours 27 minutes and 53 seconds. My AS3 Milestone is OOF. (Statistics thanks to PuffFree) [...]

In a late night chat, I was asked by a friend what I would consider to be the thing that drives me the most – what is it that more than anything else makes me want to stay involved, no matter how hard something is. I was kind of stumped. It wasn’t something I had [...]

Be aware that as of this time, BSNL has *NOT* enabled the Unlimited Schemes (UL 900 Plus and UL 900), though they have appear to have cut down the speed for people who applied for a switch from higher speeds. When I spoke to BSNL at Bangalore this evening, I was told that as of [...]

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the monthly meet of the Bangalore Linux Users Group. Lots of talks lined up – including one on Stellarium by Sridhar from Infosys, phpwiki and Zwiki by Shahnawaz from Mindtree, OpenVPN by Shilpa from PESIT and MediaWiki tips, ticks and extensions by me. As usual, anyone is free to attend the meet [...]