The Bangalore IndiBlogger Meet 2010


IndiBlogger - The Indian Blogger Community
You know how difficult it is for a system admin to skip the sunday afternoon nap?

I attended the meet. So you could guess how important it was for me.. The event was well organized if we could just forget the last moment change of the venue.

I met with some interesting bloggers from different parts of life. Most of these people are well active on twitter, I too signed up yesterday. But somehow I feel facebook is better and I am gonna stick to it for now.

I am not going to bore you with a commentary on what happened. There was coffee/tea/snacks, HP ePrint product launch, introduction of bloggers and some social awareness initiatives etc etc… It was so interesting to see people talking about what matters most to them and how they are trying to achieve it. There was some truly inspirational thoughts shared by some people. I wished somebody could have talked about Open Source there. May be next time..

The new place was far away for me, and…. well read on. πŸ™‚ There was a photo contest for the participants and I took a picture of a traffic block near the lal baug gate. No motivation or such, I just clicked and went on. But surprisingly, they chose my photo as one of the winners for a HP Printer. They might have found some meanings to it, that was not my fault anyway. πŸ˜›

Overall it was fun. I will be there next time too. πŸ™‚

Re-United after 12 years !

The Re-Union of Tuition Class 1998

The Re-Union of Tuition Class 1998

This one event made my Onam worth the trip. All of these people are my good friends and the first batch of my tuition classes. They all became successful in their lives. I can now proudly say that they are now in Indian Railways, Kerala State Electricity Board etc.. some of them made it into Politics and their own businesses. From the left, Anoop, Girish, Jayan,Binoop, Me, Anjith, Praveen, Vijeesh, Bijesh. Only Dixon and Shanoop failed to show up.

I was very glad to see that they all came to my home upon a very short notice.. ( called them just 1 day before ). We had lunch together and spent an afternoon talking about old times and how our lives progressed.

Just can’t express the happiness I had. It is one of those moments I felt that I did something worth living in this world. Thanks a lot for your care and friendship.

Loving Ubuntu !

Installed latest Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. For those who don’t know, Ubuntu is a Linux Operating System just like Windows or more than that.

Check out the features of this new version here : http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features

In my experience, installation took approximately 20 minutes, asking only 7 very basic questions to me. It includes a few great enhancements to enrich your computer experience.

  • Wireless configuration was a breeze. It found my home wireless automatically and prompted for password. That’s all. I am online withing a few seconds. πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚
  • Software Center application provides access to 32000+ free/open source applications that are ready to be downloaded and installed with a single click. Yes, a single click is all you need. πŸ™‚
  • It contains an update manager that could update all my software including the Operating System with one click. I do not have to keep on downloading security updates, firefox, openoffice or chrome seperately. this cute little application lists all updates in one place where I can click “Update” and it does the rest.

You do not need to partition or install the software to see how it looks. You can experience the Ubuntu magic just by booting from the CD. Try it, and if you like it, join the revolution. πŸ™‚