So thanks to Jayakumar, we finally have *some* videos of FOSS.IN/2005: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=FOSS.IN/2005 Many thanks, Jayakumar!

Hey! Reporting from BarCamp Mumbai! We are here, wirelress network and other stuff is up, and we are slowly getting ready to get the sessions going. I hope everyone broiught pens, because Anjali forgot to pack the pens I was supposed to bring! Aaaarrrgghhh!!! Will update this entryy as the day goes by, hopefully with [...]

Remember my rant from about 3 years ago, about Dominos and Pizza Hut not delivering pizza to my area? Well, things looked up when Pizza Hut opened stores in RT Nagar and more recently on BEL Road, but Dominos continued to hold out – out of service area. That’s a pity, because I like Domino’s [...]

This Saturday, the 13th of May, is BarCamp Mumbai – the next in the series of BarCamps sweeping India, after Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. For some reason, we have been extremely lucky with BarCamp Mumbai – while searching for a venue, I hesitatingly asked IIT Bombay if they could help, and they not only [...]

Thursday, I received news that my landlord, Mr.S.Ramdas, had passed away at his home in Canada. This was a terrible shock for me, and I would like to write a little bit about him here in my diary: Read the rest of this entry…

On last Thursday, I was a panelist at a conclave organised by the Project Management Institute, which was quite fun – especially when one of the panelists (Partha from Mindtree) decided to stand up for the rights of hapless project managers who get theblame if things go wrong. Unfortunately, I had to leave a little [...]

To answer all the questions pouring in And the meeting is at 4:30pm, on Saturday, the 29th of April. It is at the HP office, at Shezan Lavelle No 15,Walton Rd, B’lore-1 Landmark :close to Airlines hotel Conference room is on the 1st floor. There are no pre-conditions for attending – you just be there [...]

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.” -Nietzsche

It’s been 7 years this last month since my BBS – CiX – shut down in March 1999, after running for almost a decade (it went live 1-Dec-1989, as India’s first online service of any sort). During those years, many online friendships were formed, and occasionally we used to meet in real life (IRL) as [...]

Happy Birthday, Gaurav! Now the years are rolling by me They are rocking evenly I am older than I once was Younger than I’ll be, that’s not unusual No, it isn’t strange After changes upon changes We are more or less the same –The “missing verse” from “The Boxer” by Simon and Garfunkel