I have been asking a few questions to myself over the past few months: 1. Am I happy? 2. Am I enjoying my day job? 3. What’s wrong with me? If anything? 4. Where should I see myself 10 years down the line? 5. Is this how life goes on? I am not sure if …
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2013: Year just passed
[Warning: Not a tech blog] I will keep it simple & try to summarize what all went to my life in 2013 in all fronts. Personal: Made few friends & some walked away, part of life. Trips: Traveled to cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Sf, Portland & Hong Kong for conference/presentations or …
Please don`t build your community this way
I been seeing a new trend which is bad for any community. Just added few points here 1. Doing senseless Press Release out of anything. 2. Instead of your product talking SHIT about opponents/competitors product 3. Creating fake twitter accounts for bitching [This one got deleted thankfully] 4. Last but not the least by making …
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People(tech) would like to meet before i die
Linus Torvalds The man who wrote Linux kernel & maintains the overall project. He is also behind a distributed version control and source code management (SCM) system. I know many people hate him because of his response to devs in kernel mailing list. He has his own unique way of addressing issue. Eric S. Raymond ESR is wrote The Cathedral …
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Things i like about Chennai
I been here for over two and half years. So felt like writing what i feel about this place. Food Most people think Chennai only famous for veg food like dosa/idli/appam that is not correct. I was lucky to try nice Chettinad non-veg food along with variety of seafood. Yes thats me eating drumstick chicken …
Thoughts on/about ITIL
Some of you might not know 3 weeks back i moved to solutions engineering team at my current workplace. One of the main assignment under my belt is to build a product line around emerging cloud technology. I know it sounds to cool isn’t it? I was suggested by my boss to attend ITIL foundation …
2012 passing, 2013 welcome!!
To start with Happy New Year 2013 in advance!! I been in Chennai for almost 2 years now, i don`t have anything good/bad/ugly 2 say on that. Foss confs I been lucky 2 attend OSCON, UDS, and many other conference happening in India like Gnunify, Pycon, OpenStack Day. It was great experience meeting so many …
Smart auto-wala in Chennai, for a change!!
Chennai is known for there fucked up/creepy autowalas. They will literally rob you if they realize you are not local. Even they act like morons with locals. So like every weekday i was out from my office around 8.30 pm waiting for auto and i was welcomed by an autowala. So my rule is just …
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Bull temple, Bangalore and friends
I was in Bangalore last week for OpenStack Day. I spent my Sunday meeting Bhavi and Shastry. It was great meeting them both. Also not to mention i had awesome lunch at Bhavi`s house cooked by her mom. A traditional kannada food i would assume, 3-4 varieties of rice and it was delicious. I should have taken …