I just came back from IIT Guwahati and discovered that Dennis Ritchie has passed away Most people would know of Dennis Ritchie as the person who invented C and Unix. What most folks do not realize is how profound C and Unix were when they were created and what amazing impact they have had on [...]
Oct 142011
Oct 062011
Steve Jobs passed away today – I woke up and read the news on my iPhone, like much of the world. I never thought I would be so affected by the passing away of someone I never knew personally. But if you are in the world of tech and developing consumer products, it is not [...]
Oct 302010
Last year, when I moved to Blogger, my decision was influenced by: Staying with a cloud provider for the blog service Ability to install plugins Now WordPress.com does not allow you to install plugins unless you are really big, and therefore Blogger made sense. However, I have found Blogger to be very limiting and every time [...]
Aug 152008
Yesterday was my last working day at Microsoft India. When I joined Microsoft in Oct 2001, I never thought this day would come. After all, joining Microsoft was a dream, and when I finally did join the company, I thought I am going to be here for life. However, when you have lived a dream [...]
Jun 122008
As a kid, I found studies quite boring. (who doesn’t?) The first subject I fell in love was Physics (actually second – first one was Computer Science) I used to find it utterly boring too, but this changed when I was in 11th standard and was forced to stay at home for about two months [...]
Nov 212006
Been a long long time since I posted … the reason is simple - I was so deep in work, there was no time for anything else. So what all has been happening? Well, some of this work is visible in the shape of IndiMix – the largest IT event yet in India. We reached out to well over [...]
Aug 062006
Saw Omkara today – it is an adaption of Othello, set in a rustic western UP. I did not expect a lot from the movie, but it has turned out to be surprisingly well made, with a lot of attention to detail. Vishal Bhardwaj has managed to capture the thinking of the common man in [...]
Mar 162006
I turned 29 on Tue. Himani was very enthusiastic about it, got me some terrific gifts, things which, now that I have them, I realize I quite like, but would probably never have got for myself. And that’s maybe the essence of a good gift: it has to be stuff that people like, but would never [...]
Mar 122006
I am back! It’s been over three months since I last posted something significant, there was just an odd post in between on the Oracle flaw. And its been a very busy three months. What I have been upto? Let’s see: 1. Reading everything I could find and trying out a LOT of code [...]
Nov 162005
It was my dad’s birthday yesterday and we decided to have dinner at PiccaDelhi Circus – the new multi-cuisine restaurant below what used to be the Plaza Cinema hall a few months ago. Why PiccaDelhi? Well, two reasons: 1. Veer Sanghvi had carried a positive review in his Rude Food column in HT’s Brunch [...]
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