“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

I will be participating in the BarCamp Chennai on the 8th and 9th of April (this Saturday and Sunday). I will be joining the event after my review meeting at the NRC-FOSS. I will be giving a talk on “Mobile Computing – Moving Beyond PCs”. This is a topic very close to my heart, and [...]

Today is the 16th birthday of my daughter, Geetanjali (whom we call Anjali, or just “brat” for short . In 1978, when I was 16, I was a year away from meeting the girl who would eventually become my wife, already knew what I wanted to do in the future (my facination with electronics, and [...]

And so we have another BLUG meet this Saturday (the 25th of March). Details are here. This meet will be different, because after a long time, technical talks return to the BLUG meets, albeit in a very different from those in 2003/2004. Instead of long, complicated and detailed talks, these will be short (15 minute) [...]

Now that we safely past the 20th of March, I can answer an open question from an earlier post – who was that friend who presented me the new camera? That friend was Harald Welte, who was in India from end February to the 20th of March, on a holiday with his fiancee, Elisabeth. I [...]

I finally dumped my homebrew system at COMversations.com, and replaced it with WordPress. I have also started moving some older articles into that system, and am generally playing around with things, in preparation for the big shift on my personal site as well. Because tehre are so many people linking to various parts of my [...]

Last minute heads-up: You have till 9:45pm tonight to send and SMS saying “RCL B” to 7007 to vote for Phenom as one of the top bands in Bangalore. If they are selected, they get to play on Palace Grounds on the 17th! Vote now!

This month (March 2006) marks ten years since PC Quest carried the first ever Linux distribution in India on it’s cover CD – in March 1996. That Linux CD (the distro was Slackware) was the result of some intense lobbying by several people, but initially the work of three people: Prasanto Kumar Roy, then the [...]