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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.

Pictures from my kabini trip last weekend. I shot 4 rolls of slides, but only 2 rolls came out well and the photo shop place managed to do a horrible job of the scans. So most of the pics are from my D70. Too lazy to talk about the trip, but all I can say is, I am doing lot more trips in the coming weeks/months 🙂 yathin has a brief about the trip here .

Fox News instructed a couple of their reporters to lie in a story about health risks from Bovine Growth Hormone. The reporters refused, and Fox News fired them. The reporters attempted to sue as whistleblowers. Fox’s defence is that they have a First Amendment right to lie, and so weren’t doing anything wrong that would let the reporters qualify as whistleblowers. We all knew Fox always lied, but this time they have publicly acknowledged that they distort news. What’s scary is that a Florida Court agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or…

Today I met two hard-core wildlife photographer’s, M.N JaiKumar and T.N.A. Perumal. T.N.A Perumal is the best wildlife photographer in India and his work spans over 40 years. Very simple down to earth guy and he had great advice to give. He also started shooting using the Nikon D70. He was kind enough to invite me on an expedition that he is doing this week to study flora and fauna near Hampi. Will have to see, as this could mean the end of my weekend vacation plans. Anyway now I am considering serious wildlife photography and prob will be doing…

Since I am moving to a new project, I thought I’d take this week off, chill out and do nothing at home as I have quite a bunch of holidays left over this year. I’m an hour into my 1st day of ‘vacation’ and I’m already bored. Sigh. Watched the following movies over the weekend : The Terminal, Irreversible, 28 days later, The Manchurian Candidate, Seabiscuit Now that piracy is legal in bangalore, my video shop guy is stacking himself up with a lots of good movies. 🙂

Twice this week, I have used ‘goto’ because any other way would mean loads of code just to jump the control from one point of my program to another point in a big mess of nested loops. Traditionally while we were learning programming, everyone taught us GOTO and they have also advised us against it. But why ? I know the code becomes slightly unreadable, but anything beyond that ? Why were we all taught not to use goto ? OK the code *will* look messy if I had more then 10 goto statements, but what if I use 2…

Recently Madhu invited me to do a photo shoot at his restaurant, and take pics of his delicious dishes. Shooting food is really hard, or maybe it was because I was shooting in the kitchen and the customers were waiting. After spending couple of hours in the kitchen I managed to get few decent shots and got to know a lot about running a restaurant. Madhu does a good job of balancing costs vs quality of the excellent food that he serves.( Next time you are’re shiok, ask him about it, he loves to sit and explain it out :))…