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It’s that time of the year when all roads for geeks lead to Bangalore. FOSS.IN/2005 starts in less then 10 days and I’m quite excited about this year’s event. Most of you know, Linux-Bangalore/2003 was a blast, and the years before that was total party too, and after that, linux-bangalore/2004 was quite a drag. Many blamed it on the participants, some on the speakers and few even said it was the bad food. But personally I think it was because linux world itself changed. Let me tell you why Few years ago, no one ever heard of Linux and it…

Last week, when I had parked my car on a side of a street, this jeep came and banged my car on the side, jamming the side door window. After taking the car through bad road of BR hills, I had given it for servicing earlier this week and picked it up yesterday after a fat bill. Today afternoon, a truck come and crashed into my car from behind on hosur road. My seat broke, back doors are jammed and the whole of back is smashed up. The driver said sorry and there is nothing more that I could do…

I’m marooned in my house with knee deep water all around. This is one of the worest flooding I’ve seen and it’s right here in India’s IT capital. Will post pics once the power is restored.

Did my second day of rocking climbing at turahalli this morning. Managed to climb few of them and did not injure myself this time. The pain in my toes and fingers feels good. Plan to go with my camera next time to shoot some pictures. It’s nice to see people hanging on to these cracks which are less then 1cm in width.

Remember the wildlife related project I was talking about ? Well here you go. Introducing WildIndia, a community site for people interested in Indian wildlife, ornithologists, wildlife photographers and ofcourse for everyone else. Noel and me have been working on this for a while now, but only recently this has taken off in a big way. The aim is to use the power of the Internet and current day technology tools to enable people to collect, share and analyze our Biodiversity data in an easy way. I also wrote my first ajax script using google maps to show bird distribution…

It’s been one hectic month (explains why I’ve not blogged in a while) Work is picking up slow and steady.. so good stuff on that front Managed to make one trip to Muthodi late august and one trip to Kudremukh last week. Both were in core western ghats and they were *Excellent*. More about it later My laptop gave up on me, and was stranded on a windows machine for a week. But thanks to IBM’s excellent service, I’m back in action now Working on a wildlife related project.. You’ll hear about it in the coming week Hope to blog…

So this morning, the laundry chap came home to deliver the usual clothes. When my mom picked up the bundle, he said Laundry Guy : “Looks like kalyan changed jobs or has gotten a promotion” My mom : “Huh? What do you mean ?” Laundry guy : “Over the last couple of weeks, his clothes have fully changed from green camouflage T-shirts to formal pants and shirts, So I guessed he’s got a new job” This reminds me of the movie ‘One Hour Photo’. * scary *