Archive for December 2007

Opening Mood: Looks like a nite out!
Opening Song: Abhi nahin aana - Sona Mohapatra.
Way back last year, when I heard Afterglow by INXS for the first time, I instantly liked it. It has got all the nice beats, and the ethnic and the rustic feel to it. Plus the mood is kind of reflective.
Around sometime [...]

Opening Mood: Woke up just now! Good morning!
Opening Song: Girl from yesterday - The Eagles
Watched the movie The Terminal yesterday night. It was absolutely awesome!
A story of a man stranded in the JFK airport because his country underwent a revolution while he was on his way to the US and hence his visa and passport [...]

Opening Mood: I’m full after the dinner.
Opening Song: Saawariya (Reprise) Saawariya.
I watched two bollywood movies today afternoon. Dus Kahaniyan and Om Shanti Om. And I liked them both.
While Dus Kahaniyan reminded me of Jeffery Archer’s short stories: Short, crisp and a nice li’l twist in the end. OTOH, Om Shanti Om was a real [...]

Opening Mood: Good Morning.
Opening Song: Boondein - Silk Route
The last and final Day of FOSS.in had some really interesting talks.
I missed the talk by Andrew Cowie, since we reached the venue pretty late. However, I managed to catch the next talk by Ulrich Drepper, the person whose article on Memory management I thought was brilliant. [...]

Opening Mood: Sleepy.
Opening Song: Walk of Life - Dire Straits.
I couldn’t attend the morning nor the afternoon session owing to some work at office. However, I managed to catch the OpenMoko talk by Harald Welte. It’s a pretty neat stuff and has got an emulator which is based on qemu which does complete hardware emulation. [...]

Opening Mood: Amazed would be a good word. Astounded would be a better one.
Opening Song: None. But probably a good time to switch on the Radio.
My first day at FOSS.in was a pretty eventful one.
Me and some of my colleagues had registered online but had not collected our delegate badges yet. So we didn’t [...]

Opening Mood: Good Morning.
Opening Song: Afterglow - INXS
Indias premier FOSS event FOSS.in kicked off on Tuesday, 4th December at the IISc campus. This year’s speakers include
Rusty Russel, Thomas Gleixner, Ulrich Drepper, Harald Welte and a few of my Colleagues Bharata B Rao and Kamalesh Babulal. I am eagerly looking forward to these talks [...]