I will be speaking at Tuxedo 2004 this saturday ( Nov 6th ) at SJCE, Mysore. If you are around that area, do drop in.. we could have a mini-mysore-LJ-meet. Bandipur National park is just an hour’s drive from Mysore and I am resisting myself from going there 😀
Last couple of days have been really crazy. Been considering all my options and still not really decided on anything. I was floating the idea of starting sometime on my own, but after meeting people/VC’s etc, I realised that’s not such a viable option right now. And let me tell you this : if you want to start off, its better to start off yourself, then via a VC. The VC’s will drink every drop of your blood. Photography is moving slow and steady. I am hiring derherr as my manager. He has more contacts in the industry then anyone…
I shot the above picture at the Bannerghatta National Park. Though the tiger looks like a wild one, its a captive animal, which has been rescued from some circus somewhere. There’s a mad rush to see them as everyone in this country is infatuated with tigers. People come in hundreds everyday to go on the safari just to see the wild cat. Even in the wild forests, everyone wants to see the tiger and nothing else. It turns into this really distasteful circus. The people that have the best time are the ones that are just as happy seeing birds,…
Its been two weeks since I’ve quit work and I’m still no where close to deciding my future. I have bunch of options on hand, but I need to weigh them out and choose the one I really want to go after. Meanwhile I have decided what I shall be doing in the next 2 -3 months while I am on the sabbatical break. Here’s what I have in mind Build a Helicopter : jd_knight and me have decided to build a mini helicopter from scratch. Our initial aim is just to make it float and hopefully put in some…
( Oct 9th 2004, Chinnaswamy stadium ) Just way too much pressue on the Indian Cricket Team and under heavy pressure our team is known to fail.
One of the best security/crypto technologist of our times, Bruce Schneier has started his own blog. I never liked Schneier’s writing when I went through his first book Applied Cryptography. It’s one of those really boring ‘text book’ kinda book. But recently he has changed his writing style and I love his new stuff. His recent book Practical Cryptography is one of the finest crypto/security books out there. I loved the book so much, I even went and bought the hardcover version of it. I highly recommend the book, even though you are not into crypto. You can read his…
This week will be my last week at Yahoo! Bangalore and I finish exactly 3 years at Yahoo this coming monday. Everyday here has been a learning experience. Met some of the brightest minds ever, learnt many valuable lessons in life and Yahoo has pretty much been my second home. I’ve been fortunate to have made some really amazing friends, met many incredible coworkers and I get to take with me some great memories which I can cherish rest of my life. It has been one heck of a ride. I know there will be no other place like this…
Was at the Linux Desktop Conference today, and as expected Nat Friedman (another pic) and Jon Trowbridge thrilled and inspired the crowds. Jon’s Beagle project seems to be a very interesting. Its a tool for indexing and searching your data, and when I say your data, its your emails, IM’s, files on the hard disk,irc logs and your web data. Looks like Ximian folks have beaten Google/Yahoo/Microsoft and Apple ( well sort of ) to it. I just hope all the Ximian hacks hit stable soon and come out in linux distros.
Thanks to the generious donations from people, I managed to raise around $120 for the
Drove to Sangam and Muthathi via Kankapura on saturday with bunch of photography friends. The destinations themselves were polluted and crappy, however the drive till there was mind blowing and almost felt like a drive through switzerland. The weather was on our side as well. Too bad I could not do justice to scenery, but I managed to get back few gems. lazy me. Anita has posted a nice write up.