tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67461082024-03-19T13:35:52.059+05:30Change is 'the' only CONSTANT!What a Say! Well here we go, ever changing/morphing. How a Change becomes a constant? it must be a variable ;)sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-3983541653661480232010-01-14T13:17:00.009+05:302010-03-07T19:55:35.430+05:30Change, Constant and ContinuamMore than one year without writing...Just reading, meditating and trying to implement learning's(Technical as well as philosophical). That is how the last year passed by when I involved myself into action.My understanding of "Change" completes here. Its a continuam. Its part of life. Observed everywhere. Sometime I wonder, is it the "Maya"(Illusion) surrounding us?...I am closing this topic now. sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-22556081980927538192008-11-19T21:01:00.017+05:302008-11-23T01:32:31.279+05:30A planned weekend of multiple activities.When it comes to planning a weekend, I have very laid back approach. (Mine are either unplanned or purely circumstantial) But this time 8th and 9th Nov 2008, I wanted to make it happen. Approach was to start early on Friday evening with below planning:Try PCBSD7.0.1 on my HP L2000 Laptop. Friday night plan.Research on Minimalism. Saturday night plan.Visit Nandi Hills a vacation place near by sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-62337397907807063352008-11-01T11:47:00.003+05:302008-11-01T11:56:44.480+05:30OpenID enabled.With Microsoft and Google announce OpenID support my blog is also OpenID enabled. That means any OpenID enabled user can comment.More info on OpenID is here.sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-54645903446343803452008-10-12T19:32:00.005+05:302008-10-13T00:25:29.529+05:30Dvorak experiment completedWell after a long time, I could dedicate some time to Dvorak, which was initiated in here. Yes, It is fruitful. The software approach was used. So, I have to remember layout. Alternatively a background is embedded with Dvorak layout, as below.Now, I am using Dvorak daily. It feels good.Share your experience with DSK!sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-27119045478765968892008-07-27T20:48:00.007+05:302008-07-27T21:15:11.808+05:30First year Birthday of TejasPhew, my son Tejas is already one year old. It seems as if he was born yesterday!... It was a very nice parenting experience. His naughty smiles, tiresome... late night cries, his first teeth (the pain he and we as parents experienced). His hugs when I leave to office and come back from office (if he is awake)... and lot more...For him 1st year birthday celebrations were all too new. He was sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-83147865814314058312008-06-04T22:36:00.006+05:302008-07-23T23:04:49.136+05:30Zen to Done by Leo BabautaWell, if you are Productivity practitioner, you may be already aware of David Allen's GTD (Getting Things Done) and Leo Babauta's ZTD (Zen to Done). The beauty of ZTD is in its simplicity. BTW, there is a concept of Minimalistic ZTD also. In the below image 1 to 4 habits constitute Minimalistic ZTD.So, when I learnt about ZTD at Zen Habits, my first instict was to convey the same message in sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-42264251495580123742007-10-27T22:58:00.000+05:302007-10-27T23:31:45.341+05:30Busy!? BreakAway.Well... After a long time.... thought will write and post something.Past two months were pretty busy. Decided to move on to new house.Shifting was hectic. Yet settling down.Getting internet connection established took 2 weeks. Had to run around to change the postal address for services availed.Workwise, hectic weeks.A look back into past.A pic from Singapore:An evening in Karwar:So long... Will sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-82314236418871018202007-08-04T12:05:00.000+05:302007-08-04T14:09:07.935+05:30BOINC and SETI@HOMEUnused idle time of my computer made me think of contributing something to community. There are lot of projects from cluster to desktop grid computing, which can utilize your personal computer's idle time. SETI@HOME is the one which attracted me first, then there is Rosetta@home. Around one month back I downloaded BOINC and started contributing to SETI@HOME project.Why BOINC? Easily available forsidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-2014281118925338422007-07-27T10:42:00.000+05:302007-07-27T10:54:01.818+05:30Being ParentsYesterday (26JUL2007) is one memorable day in our life. We became parents!!! (first time in life!) . The birth of baby boy happened at 12:19PM(IST) and baby weighed 3.26Kg. The feeling is difficult to explain in words, so below link for pics...First photos of my son.sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-35601141763871072342007-06-03T12:39:00.000+05:302007-08-04T14:23:47.294+05:30ಕನ್ನಡ, Ruby ಮತ್ತು WatirWell this week I had a look at Firefox and kannada issue. The interesting thing is I could see the kannada fonts flawlessly in firefox/feisty combination after following through the steps at http://sampada.net/fonthelp. Only thing I did extra is pull fonts from Optional step from http://dev.sampada.net/wiki/Kannada-on-Ubuntu-Edgy and put it in $HOME/.fonts, then did below steps:$ cd $HOME/.fonts$sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-40084403108593580302007-05-26T09:46:00.000+05:302007-05-26T10:57:49.686+05:30Traffic Jam everywhere!Travelling a mere 30 KMs in Bengaluru taking up 2 hours 30 Minutes!(let me agree it usually takes 1 hour 15 minuts). This was the situation yesterday night here in Bengaluru. Top it up with travelling a mere 10 kilomenters for 3 minutes over 1 hour!!! ( from electronic city to bommanahalli). Oh! did I mention, I travelled with company provided bus service, if it would have been me driving my sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-19438606514859372362007-04-14T09:36:00.000+05:302007-04-15T10:41:44.609+05:30Moving from Knoppix to Ubuntu.Well... its very late to reveal this. I am using Ubuntu from long time, say from the time of release of edgy eft.(Ubuntu 6.10). The main reason to move to Ubuntu; is very vast distribution, and streamlined forums, where i get answers to most of the problems i face. Of course it is trying to be the best Desktop OS. Beryl is awesome. Following are some of snapshots...Now, waiting for feisty fawn. sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-69392773034712071272007-03-21T17:46:00.000+05:302007-08-14T21:06:19.217+05:30Typing made easy with DSK!Yesterday, i was thinking about the amount of typing i do, whether it is Documentation/Coding, and the impact on hands. That is when i stumbled upon this Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.There are 2 ways to use it, one go for new Dvorak Keyboards, (where the keys are arranged in the Dvorak layout). Second one is free, software implementation.Most of the Operating Systems (Windows, MAC or *nix) support sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-39505400348883712702007-03-06T12:16:00.000+05:302007-08-14T21:06:52.494+05:30Music and Musings.Today, when i am traveling to office, i took my brother's handy music set (Sony NetMD along with Bose headsets). The travel takes approximately 1.5 hours.I am amazed with the quality of sound and song on a MiniDisc, when compared to new Age Memory based MP3 players! I am not crazy about music and sound, but surely i love to listen good music. Well i can tell the impedence and power impacts on a sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-25098835272385138452007-02-12T22:14:00.000+05:302007-02-17T19:16:33.679+05:30 <!-- @page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್... ಬರೆಯಲು ಇದು ನನ್ನ ಮೊದಲ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ. ನಾನು ಊಪಯೊಗಿಸುವದು ಉಬುಂಟು ಲಿನಕ್ಸ. ಇಂದಿನವರೆಗೆ ಲಿನಕ್ಸನಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಬರೆಯುವದು ಬಹು ಕಷ್ಟವೆಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು, ಆದರೆ ಇಂದು OpenOffice.org ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯುವದನ್ನು ಬಹಳ ಸುಲಭ ಮಾಡಿದೆ.sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-1151259628072756942006-06-25T23:49:00.000+05:302007-08-26T17:09:46.272+05:30Sufferings from Reliance land line It was winter of 2004, and had moved into a new rented house, and my family moved in. That is when I realized that I need a landline connection at home (even though I had a reliance mobile). So, at that time the best offer going on was reliance.... pay Rs. 1800, immediate connection and you are ready to go. The new technology called WLL, having good Internet speed (oh! Forgot to mention, you sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-1150615885648101782006-06-18T12:35:00.000+05:302007-08-26T17:09:10.309+05:30Some clicks from my Panasonic FZ15A rare beauty.-------------------------------------------------------------Glacier Point at Yosemite, CA, USA-------------------------------------------------------------Sunset at End Point, Manipal, Karnataka, India.sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746108.post-1150533119080897912006-06-17T13:44:00.000+05:302007-08-26T17:06:52.797+05:30Why change is the only constant?I am thinking on this from past few days!... ( or was it months?)How the change is a constant? that was my first thought.Then i realized life is full of changes... u are born baby... then youth... then mid age...Yes it seems i have seen a lot from my childhood.the requirements in childhood would be more of play and study... being first in class or sports! having a cricket match on weekend would sidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797524330732409851noreply@blogger.com0