I quit my job as a Linux Kernel Engineer at IBM on July 20th 2010 to enroll for the Integrated Ph.D program in Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. I will be working in the area of Theoretical Computer Science.
And for the past two weeks or so, I have been getting various questions. Mostly [...]

I am going back to being a student starting this august.
First thing that struck me was that I will have to return my company provided laptop, a Lenovo T60p which has been my constant companion for the past 3.5 years. The laptop has served me well, but now it’s time to move on (Company policy [...]

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: I’m back!
Opening Song: Romantic Piano - Chopin
Spent the last week at this place called Kudremukh. It used to be one of Karnataka’s famous mines before the operations were shut down in 2005. So now it is just a nice little place with lots of greenery and very few people to bother an occasional [...]

Opening Mood: Chillout and relaxed. NZ cruising along against Canada.
Opening Song: Dooba Dooba - Silk Route
Time: 9:15 P.M, 22nd March 2007.

I visited Indian Institute Of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB) today to deliver a lecture on “Kernel Synchronization Primitives”. This being my first official technical lecture, I was quite anxious asto how it would turn out. [...]