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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Negativity all around!!

Disclaimer: This blog has nothing to do with Technology How many of you r  having/facing same issue around you :– 1. people are more unhappy about your success 2. people always suggest you stay away from taking risk/challenges 3. trying to be your daddy and suggesting do this/that 4. more interested in back bitching rather …