A tired athlete comes back to his locker after a long day of practice.
He sits in his room, sipping some water. It had been a tiring day. He knows that it was to be the last of it’s kind. There had been changes at the top. The management which used to run the race earlier [...]

Personally, I have been disappointed with the election results of 2009 since the party which I had been rooting for lost by a huge margin. But knowing that elections are only a part of the process and not the process by themselves, it’s time to move on and reflect on what next do we expect [...]

From the past few days, Atanu has been posting blog-posts on what a Rational IT policy should look like, and what should be the role of the Government in it.  One of his posts received the following reaction from the GNUvisions blog:
The people who are in the business of education are literally in the “business” [...]

“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 [...]

I finished reading S.L.Bhyrappa’s AvaraNA yesterday. This is my first Kannada Novel. Yeah, despite being in Karnataka for almost a quarter century now,  I didn’t bother to check out the literature apart from whatever was being taught in the school. The last Kannada book I read was my 10th grade Kannada text book . [...]

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Cricket: India Whopped England’s ass in the first ODI. Way to go boys!
Had Potluck lunch at office today. The theme was Ethnic wear. I wore a Mundu!

Last time when I had gone home, I had a discussion with my mom regarding my future studies plans. There were certain things which we didn’t agree upon [...]

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Cricket: India comprehensively defeated Australia in the 2nd Test!
IEEE tutorial session on GNU/Linux Kernel Programming held during the last weekend went well. Though I had to wrap up the session on synchronization primitives in just 20 minutes!
Visible progress in my SOP.
New home rocks. Calm, Peaceful, and AWESOME!
Klueless4 is [...]

At times when you like something very much, and you start revering the creator, and later you realize that the creator had stolen that thing from some other place, you really feel let down.
I liked Pritam Chakraborty’s music, from the time of his first solo success Dhoom. He followed this up with some really cool [...]

It’s been some time since I last posted something. Had been busy gathering data for the OLS paper and once that was done, got some time to look into the couple of months old CPU-Hotplug issue. There are some more items to be done there, hopefully will get some free time this month.
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People who know me, know the fact that I like to keep my options open. Simply because it allows the freedom to defer any decision till it really needs to be taken.
However, in the last couple of years, I have observed that this has a common side effect: A totally scattered mind which is trying [...]