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A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else

Archive for September 11th, 2007

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Blogroll

• Bona tempora volvant–by Guy Kawasaki
• David Miller’s Networking Blog
• Deliberately different blog
• FLOSS in India
• G Reynold’s blog on issues related to professional presentation design
• Hold Open The Glass Door…Please
• Interfaces and Interoperability
• Kingsley 2.0
• Kushal’s rants on FLOSS and life
• Moved by Freedom, Powered by Standards
• Paul Kim’s Blog
• Sayamindu
• Soumyadip Modak on random things that interest him
• Through Myopic Eyes
• Ulrich Drepper’s Blog
• XPlane

FLOSS jottings

• Eugene Teo’s Musings on Systemtap, Kernel and life
• Planet FLOSS India
• The Free Software Foundation

On the interweb

• My del.icio.us bookmarks
• My LinkedIn Profile
• On Flickr
• On FriendFeed
• On identi.ca
• On Technorati

I recently wrote about…

• GNUnify’10 etc
• Rabindra Rachanabali and Bangla fonts
• A web-calendar for events – does that sound nice ?
• “I want a Fedora DVD, don’t know what to do !”
• Student,Contributor,Ambassador

Word of the day

• matutinal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
  matutinal: relating to or occurring in the morning. […]

Random Quotes

• John Kenneth Galbraith
  "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." […]
• Bill Vaughan
  "If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." […]

Photographs

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Recently posted on my other blog

• And sometimes you do
  end up smiling (note I did write smiling instead of smirking) on the predicaments. For instance, it is just the mid March and, instead of the Ides of March we have the beginnings of the hot season. Curiously enough, we had a spell of shower today and predictably enough the weather went all over the [...] […]
• There are times when you recall the surroundings
  It turns out that I completed 5 years at the work-place recently. It is a bit of a jumble because the employment contract and status during the times I joined was a bit of a mess and, so it was a surprise. It also struck me that through all these 5 years I have seen folks [...] […]
• Annoying ice-breakers
  “What are you up to ? Long time no see” was the constant refrain that I heard yesterday at GNUnify’10 when I dropped in. I have never been able to respond well to the “What are you up to part ?”. Most of the times I am doing stuff that is either deeply internal to [...] […]

What I recently said

• sankarshan: The Forbes India folks keep on doing this "Richest People" meme and it is becoming a bit ridiculously gossipy.
• sankarshan: @runa_b is there chow-chow this weekend ? _need_to_salivate_
• sankarshan: @debarshiray yeah, that's catching a lot of folks by surprise :)
• sankarshan: @debarshiray GNOME is there.
• sankarshan: Uh oh ! There goes my chance for a T-shirt :( http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010 #gsoc #fedora #jboss
• sankarshan: @rahulsundaram you sure need a hashtag for these updates.
• sankarshan: @achitnis I've read the mail earlier but in what context did you point that out ?
• sankarshan: @nirbheek If you have aliases configured,does the phone-based WebUI allow you to select them for From: ?
• sankarshan: @nirbheek as in the Gmail WebUI ?
• sankarshan: @bluesmoon yes indeed.having to do with add-ons what one gets out-of-the-box in pine is a bit annoying.

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