Heh. So here I was, saving up for a new point-and-shoot camera after my faithful Kodak DC290 finally died after 6 years. Target was $200 or so. Then night before last, along comes a friend (whom I will write about later – you will understand why) who dumps this packet in my lap and wishes [...]

Over the past year or more, I have repeatedly dropped hints about changes that I intend to make in my life. Or more precisely – my professional life. The time has now come to implement those changes. This is a lengthy post, so I apologise to my RSS-based readers who are forced to visit my [...]

Today is my birthday. While most people wishing me like to (at least jokingly) focus on my age, they seem to miss the fact that I am just 22 for the second time. I had a blast these past two days, attending two excellently performed Phenom shows – one on Saturday (Unwind Center) and the [...]

My favourite local source of noise is up and in the air on Sunday. Phenom will be on Bangalore’s premier FM radio station, RadioCity 91FM, at 8 pm on Sunday, the 29th of January. A complete show, interview music and laughs package. Be sure to tune in. They are playing new stuff as well. And [...]

I have watched a few hacks happening, and I was lucky – hacking is not a spectator sport. From what I am told, great hacks invariably have sentences like one of the following somewhere in the beginning of the timeline: “Hmm, that looks interesting. I wonder if…” “I am telling you, it can’t be done” [...]

If you are looking here for reports on FOSS.IN/2005, you are looking in the wrong place. You should be reading Planet FOSS.IN. *Now*.

Updates from FOSS.IN/2005: We started late (ok, so no one is perfect), but things are more or less on schedule now. The network team worked overnight and things are slowly falling into place. Wifi is up and running and people are connecting all over the place – making this the first time in 5 years [...]

Whether it is machines for FOSS.IN/2005, accommodation and travel for speakers, food for delegates, movement of man and machines, or just plain old talks scheduling – it can all turn out a nightmare if it isn’t done right. Most people (especially detractors) see events like these as “child’s play” and are full of criticism when [...]

This has *got* to be the most hilarious backfire *ever*! As you must have probably heard, Microsoft has commissioned Parikrama to write a song on an emergency basis, to be pubicised and performed during the Microsoft-hijacked MAIT event on the 9th of December at Bangalore Palace, in the august presence of Sir Bill Gates. You [...]