Eye Pecker

The pictures of the Vine Snake were my fav from my Kudremukh Trip last week. Over all we saw about 13 new species of snakes (most of them dead, run over on the road). We saw this little fella crossing the road and managed to save it life from a passing truck. The Green Vine Snake is sometimes called as the ‘Eye Pecker’ because people believe it pecks humans eyes. In this picture it was quite agitated and was trying bite us off. Another amazing thing about this snake is that it can extend half of its body into midair…

I’m back

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…

Physical Data mining

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 *

Google Talk

So the rumours are true. I still do not see an official announcement, but talk.google.com is up and running. Lot of brownie points for google for using an open protocol like jabber and making it accessible for any jabber client. That’s right, you don’t even need to upgrade gaim to use the service. Now I hope Yahoo and MSN follow this model and make their protocols open soon. A more important outcome of this is the that people will start re-mixing this open API’s and will come out with amazing tools and services like this one which mrinal developed couple…

My new mistress

If you have seen the movie Pulp Fiction, you will remember Mr Wolf (Played by Harvey Keitel). He is the guy who comes to clean up the mess in the car. He is the guy whom you call when shit happens. He’s the guy who introduces himself by saying “I’m Winston Wolf, I solve problems”. Well Secuprise, is here to do exactly that. You can read all the ‘CxO formatted’ info in our website, but basically we are a no bullshit security company. As many of you know, we understand security from ground up and that’s what we are offering….

Cisco 0wned ?

Many of you might have read about the whole Cisco fiasco last week when it tried to shut up a security researcher from disclosing a bug that he discovered in its router. Well, Cisco should better then to piss of the hacker community. I noticed this a while back:

Sleep Problem

I have this real bad sleeping disorder. If I get even slightly disturbed during the first 30 min of my sleep, I just cannot fall asleep for the next couple of hours. It’s the second time this has happened this week and it’s quite annoying I tell ya. I’ve already tried 3 times to force myself, but it ain’t working. Anyone else has the same problem ?

Elephants, Monkeys and Tigers

Last week, sriramb was out of town and a lot of work was stalled for various reasons. So I decided to make a quick dash into the forest and boy, oh boy what a trip that was. At Bandipur, I got to see tons of elephants. In 2 days, I think I saw more then 50 elephants and they posed for me real nice. On one of the days, me and bunch of other folks trekked from Gopalswamybetta to the entrance of the national park. It was almost a full day trek and I’ve had one of the scariest encounter’s…

The sabbatical that was

Late last month, my sabbatical came to an end. What started out as a few weeks stint in the jungle, turned out to be a 6 month long sabbatical. Got to see some of the amazing varieties of animals, birds, insects and plants in the jungle and more importantly, I’ve learnt so much about them. Met a lot of interesting people and made friends with some even more amazing people at BR hills. More then the animals, I miss the people and my way of life there. I want to thank two people who made this whole sabbatical happen. Harsha…

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