The Hindu Calender is divided into 12 Months which are called Maasas.They are Chaitra, Vaishaka, Jyestha, Aashada, Shravana, Bhadrapada, Ashvija, Karthika, Margashira, Pushya, Maagha and Phalguna.
Today is an auspicious day for us, as it is the first day of the Chaitra Maasa, and thus the beginning of the New Year. We celebrate this day as [...]

“Gotee, what’s wrong with you man?”, a friend asked.
“Why, what happened?”, I asked back, wondering which of my idiosyncrasies was she referring to.
“You’re reading the Bhagavad Gita it seems! You’re going to temple daily. Knowing you, and the rate at which you change, I think after five years in the US, you’ll come back a [...]

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India leads the 7 match series 4-0. Dhoni’s Dashers do it again.
Poker has become the new favourite game here at Civilization.inc
If a team loses the match due to losing the toss, can you use the phrase “Gone for a toss” ?

I am busy writing my statement of purpose these days, since the University application [...]

Earlier this week, I had been to my grandma’s place to celebrate Diwali. There, my young nephew was roaming in the hall repeating the names of everyone present. Suddenly he said something which made me smile. He pointed to a photograph in the  showcase and called out a name aloud.  “Doni mamama”, he said. The [...]

It’s simply wonderful how a combination of sights and sounds can unlock some of the memories hidden deep inside!
It rained today evening. The evening air was cool. As I was bicycling back home from work, Lucky Ali’s Sunoh started playing on my iPod. And all of a sudden, I was imagining an egg-roll and a [...]

Opening Mood: Hungry..
Opening song: Hamesha tum ko chaaya - Devdas
Got the official mail today morning. The “Power Aware Scheduler” Birds of Feathers Session Proposal that I had submitted for this year’s Ottawa Linux Symposium has been accepted. The rest of the BOFS can be found –> here
A couple of days back, Vaidy got confirmation that [...]

Opening Mood: This is insane!
Opening Song: None.
Like I mentioned in my previous post I was out for the whole of last week and am catching up with the happenings. One of the hilarious things that came to my notice is that one of my friends, lets say K, who usually boasts of his HUGE [...]

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: 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 [...]