Random thoughts and serendipity

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

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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

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• On Technorati

I recently wrote about…

• A web-calendar for events – does that sound nice ?
• “I want a Fedora DVD, don’t know what to do !”
• Student,Contributor,Ambassador
• Do we need to look for new software ?
• In the company of a ninja

Word of the day

• salient: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
  salient: noticeable; also, projecting; also, leaping. […]
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Random Quotes

• George Santayana
  "To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." […]
• Groucho Marx
  "I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks." […]

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Recently posted on my other blog

• 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 [...] […]
• Why do we …
  … think over what we don’t have instead of feeling blessed with the little happy moments that come our way ? … need to compare ourselves to others and then realize our worth instead of realizing what we are ? … want to rush after things that will not make us happy and, delay things that are [...] […]

What I recently said

• sankarshan: Looks like there is no way to get GOOG reader to send out non-HTML mails and a GOOG group to stop receiving HTML mails.
• sankarshan: @dpreacher Yes.And, the web based form to raise a ticket is hilariously designed.
• sankarshan: @ajuonline Nope. I don't have to use EDGE.
• sankarshan: @sameerverma doh ! why won't you take time to just enjoy the journey ? :)
• sankarshan: @ajuonline I use Reliance NetConnect often enough to know about "waiting ..."
• sankarshan: is wondering how many eons the Indiaplaza.in page will take to load fully.Patience is indeed a virtue less appreciated.
• sankarshan: @rahulsundaram @susmit should be looking into those then.
• sankarshan: https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/medical-sig/2010-March/000033.html : Drivers: main concern in adopting OSS solutions
• sankarshan: I see someone familiar at http://www.springerlink.com/content/q1n6w31357837512/ :)
• sankarshan: @hiemanshu - did you forget to blog about GNUnify'10 or, just don't want to ?

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