Random thoughts and serendipity

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

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• 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

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

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• On identi.ca
• On Technorati

I recently wrote about…

• “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
• Pleasant experiences and project loyalty

Word of the day

• phantasmagoria: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
  phantasmagoria: a shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined. […]
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Random Quotes

• H. L. Mencken
  "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." […]
• Zsa Zsa Gabor
  "I know nothing about sex because I was always married." […]

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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: @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 ?
• sankarshan: RT @runa Doh! The huge L10n battalion from India is missing in this nice interview by FPL, @stickster in LFY: http://bit.ly/aaaDjC #fedora
• sankarshan: @aashiks Now that is either funny or trolly-take your pick.Like I said mileages vary and I haven't seen that on my boxes.
• sankarshan: Does not identi.ca allow posting using text messages? I don't recall seeing a way to do so on the system #fb
• sankarshan: @aashiks Since mileages vary I tend not to comment in specifics.If it does,I am sure folks would appreciate a bug report.
• sankarshan: In case you did not notice this - http://tedxpune.org/ TEDxPune Group and tedxpune.googlegroups.com as the Google Group for discussions
• sankarshan: "Rock it !" can lend itself to some interesting translations :) #fedora13 #goddard

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