Heading out of town

Heading out to Hamburg, for the Linux Kongress 2008. I've a talk scheduled
on the 9th of October, at 2:45 pm. Followed by ...

Feisty Fatwa on hackneyed Humour

I, Sheikh Abhi, ( who'll be known as Sheikh Abhi-Dulha at the time of
marriage), decree the following fatwa. This fatwa aims to radically improve
the 'Post-Nehruvian Indian Humour quotient'.
Editor's note: "Nehru bit" added for extra scope, a...

All Brevity.No Wit

It has been a phenomenal week.
We bludgeoned the aussies… Vishy is in a freakingly awesome form, having
tricked kramnik through a queen pawn opening move that he rarely uses, and
perfecting its nuances through various stages. ISRO made us proud by k...

Vista – On the Rocks. Azure in the Clouds…

Seeing this brilliant piece of satire by America's Finest news Source – The
Onion News, made me think....

The towel story

One of the interesting incidents that took place while we were at hamburg
is the towel story.
The story starts sometime back, when we mailed Dirk (and ...

And presenting the famous Dirk Wetter photograph

At http://www.flickr.com/photos/drwetter/2946617121/ Dirk mentions that he
erased all tracks of that photograph. Well, we couldn't let him have all
the fun and so,
*drum rolls*...

Back home

So I made it back home.
Observations
1. India is the best country in the world. Doesn't matter if there are a
billion people everywhere
2. I hate toilet paper.
3. German girls are hotter than fre...

Times of India – Bangalore Festival

I have been appreciative of The Times of India with respect to two aspects
so far.
•Newspaper in Education (N.I.E)
•Providing hosting space for R.K.Laxman's awesome offline cartoon strips.
I add one more to that illustrious list today. The T...

The Full Monty Problem…

Monty Singh was a wise man. The brightest in the land.
On that eventful Thursday, he received an email. This was a mail 
like.no.other.
It was from a Nigerian King.
A real friggin rich Nigger Raja. [P.C version -  Niger. Bu...

Kernel Hacker Humour

(11:39:01 PM) Dhaval: got to talk with my first crush todat...

Debian, and its variants

The ILUG-Goa mailing list comes up with gems at times. The open source
world is vast, and its hard to keep track of all projects. There is Debian,
which had these gazillion variants, and no one really understood how it
worked (apart from obviously the d...