Category: Personal

  • Thanks..

    .. to all the teachers who ever taught me. You folks have made me what I am today. Some that deserve special mention (in no particular order) are Mrs. Gulati, Mrs. Das, Father VT Jose, Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Francis (all from Don Bosco, Siliguri), Mr. Upadhyay (BPS, Pilani), and Dr. D (AKD) and Mrs.…

  • Remember the head fakes

    Randy Pausch (1960-2008) – Brilliant orator, awesome teacher, and above all – an amazing person. RIP. The Last Lecture.

  • Delhi Airport

    Comments welcome 🙂

  • Software release names

    When I was upgrading the WordPress installation, I noticed that the particular version was code named “Tyner” after McCoy Tyner, a jazz pianist. WordPress releases are mostly named after Jazz musicians, like Ella Fitzgerald, and saxophonist Stan Getz. These codenames have always fascinated me since the good old days of Prithvi and Agni, at the…

  • WordPress upgrade and…

    The blog now runs WordPress 2.6 and I will be in Hyderabad over the weekend and plan to have a lot of fun 🙂