My favourite festival of all: Bangalore HabbaA week of celebration of music, dance and theatre. The finest artistes perform and every event is a treat ( Read more... )

I did manage to go on Day 3 of foss.in and attend kalyan's talk on Web Application Security. It was pretty cool to see cross site scripting at work, and how easy it is to side step all the defences claimed by e-commerce websites like www.indiatimes.com and www.rediff.com and even banks - ICICI for one. He said that Amazon.com is one of the most secure ( Read more... )

I spent all morning at foss.in today. The talks I sat through were quite disappointing. One wouldn't even qualify as a talk. Time spent at another could have been spent reading up documentation or tutorials. A third was too high level and just an overview and not enough an appetite satisfier. What one really wants to hear in such talks is things ( Read more... )

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn’t let itself be extended; it achieves significance only through its death. Each moment appears only to bring on the moment after - I know that it is unique, irreplaceable and yet I would not lift a finger to prevent it from being annihilated.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

From above it looks as if there is a dark lining to every silver cloud.

Written in an aeroplane flying back to Bangalore, sitting by the window and looking down at the clouds below.

I find it amazing how Neitzche managed to publish Thus Spake Zarathustra. Especially when he did. Here and now, if I even discussed what he has written I wouldn't hear the end of my impious self ( Read more... )

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

-Emily Dickinson

From Paul Graham's essay on the YCombinator's Summer Founders' Program found here: http://paulgraham.com/sfp.html

"I think the problem here is much the same as with the apparent laziness of people this age. They seem lazy because the work they're given is pointless, and they act irresponsible because they're not given any power. Some of them, ( Read more... )

It's good to be back!
And I'm looking forward to doing nothing most of the time. My Sunderbans plans have been shelved because of the rains. It's Diwali time which means I can't escape having to meet almost every person remotely related to me. Which means a lot of PC. Ugh.
See you around.

Yesterday was St. Crispin's Day.
It is a holiday in celebration of Shoemakers.

Boot and shoemakers are often commonly called "cobblers". But the word cobbler is more properly applied to shoe repairmen. Those who actually make footwear are known as "cordwainers".