silence before the storm

After two years of mixed blogging, and with lots of opportunities to publish the confused jugglery I perform in GNU/Linux on technical groun...

I lay afloat, but still drown in a sea of impulsiveness, My body is tired, but my mind is bubbling in randomness; Inhibitions are set free...

Ubuntu logo: Humanity to Others:: Tweaked Ubuntu Logo; Humanity amongst Indians! (colors symbolize 3 major religions in India) I have sp...

This is one question not many of us, who are not involved with the Free Software Movement would be even aware of. When knowledge becomes a...

Prof.Eben Moglen, Founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, and also the architect of GPL v3 is in Bangalore do...

Dear Friends and Patrons of Swatantra Software, Software Freedom Law Centre, New Delhi(SFLC-ND) and Free Software Movement-Karnataka (FSM...

Those of you who have been following this debate on my social networking profile, might already know the stand I have taken on this debate. ...

With Gowri-Ganesha festival in an hour, recollecting the legacy of Indian mythology would be appropriate. The greatness of these epics are...

Time flies.. Yes, it does. But, when does it fly?  Not when you are stuck on a lazy afternoon, or while conversing about irrelevance of rel...

Off late, if you have been reading my posts, there has been a lot of open criticism and cynicism about the News and Media houses, for all th...

Rarely it happens to people that the pursuance of an idea keeps them awake, while the desire to go for it pulls them repeatedly out of bed, ...

We the  Homo sapiens  call ourselves social beings. Don't we? Or at least that is what has been told to us right from the beginning of o...

Blogger Fiesta yesterday, wasn't the best of the executions, I agree. But still, it was fun to have met up and the proceedings of the ev...

Decentralize and redistribute: This should form the slogan; a slogan representing the need of the hour. The need being, a revolution which ...

We all have ideas about us being grown-ups. Not many times we can remember well as to what we wanted to become, like in my case, as in the c...

Well, it might sound like an oxymoron, when i use the phrase "Varying Perceptions". For, perceptions are meant to vary. With chang...

Date of occurrence: 09/08/2010 It's early morning, and we are entering the borders of Bengaluru in a KSRTC inter-city bus ( B'luru...

Like you all know, I do not indulge in specific days for celebrating specific emotions ( love or friendship!). But, I have decided to commem...

ಆತ್ಮೀಯ ಓದುಗರೇ, ಸುಮಾರು ಮೂರು ತಿಂಗಳುಗಳಿಂದ ನನ್ನ ಬ್ಲಾಗಿನ ಓದುಗರ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಗಮಿನಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಆಗ ಒಂದು ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯಕರ  ವಿಷಯವೊಂದು ಗಮನಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದಿತು: ನನ್ನ ...

I sincerely wanted to post something positive for India's 64th Independence Day, but, things all around, for so long, without yielding a...

Hi, Bloggers and aspiring bloggers. Blogger's birthday is being celebrated world across, in different cities by the bloggers. It'l...

Historically, Travels have been rightfully attributed to have imparted great experiences, which culminated into life changing enlightenments...

After the first day of enthusiastic activities like talks and hands on workshops, the momentum had been set for the second day of the MiniDe...

The National Conference on Debian , for budding developers and Free Software enthusiasts is going on in the College of Engineering, Pune. ...

Scandals and corruption have become so common these days, that there is little of remorse or guilt in the vandals involved in these embezzle...

Every individual acts according to his/her relative status in the society. By which, I intend to bring out the integral interdependence betw...

I still cherish the first music album I purchased for myself : That was Shankar's Boys in 2003... And needless to say what a rage that m...

I was contemplating some compelling post for today, while I was walking into my room. By the time I could get life running into my laptop, i...

I've been using Evolution mail client in Ubuntu for quite sometime now,without much hassle. But recently, I performed a hard restart on ...

Ironical depiction of the pompous and hypocritical bourgeoisie lifestyle at its best, in " Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie "; ...

Impeccable is the closest word which can rightfully attribute this encore of lovely weather in Bengaluru. After a hiatus of about four years...

The power of print media, with it's far reach and deep impact, in the form of press, books and newspapers needn't be questioned at a...

" ಮೂರ್ತಿ ಚಿಕ್ಕದಾದರೂ, ಕೀರ್ತಿ ದೊಡ್ಡದು", ಎಂಬ ಗಾದೆ ಮಾತು ಸ್ಟುಡಸ್ಯಾಟ್ ಉಪಗ್ರಹಕ್ಕೆ ಹೊಂದುತ್ತದೆ. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ, ಇಸ್ರೋ ಬಾಹ್ಯಾಕಾಶಕ್ಕೆ ಕಳುಹಿಸಿರುವ ಉಪಗ...