09 Oct 2005
The show starts at 8:45. Alla Rakha Rahman, live in concert. Starts off with his “Fanaa” from “Yuva”. The crowd is hysterical. We’re all singing, dancing, swaying, letting out our excitement. Part of the proceeds are to go to “Namma Mane” (“Our home” in Kannada) a home and school for...
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09 Oct 2005
A brilliant race by Raikkonen at Suzuka, Japan. To win from the last place is not something that everyone can do. Especially when 6 laps have been effectively cut from the race owing to no overtakings due to the safety car on the track. Hmm, Montoya – please help McLaren...
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09 Oct 2005
A. R. Rahman, the genius, performing live in Bangalore… I had to be there. Vikram went to Ahmedabad, so it was me with some friends – six of us in all. We ended up purchasing the lowest-priced ones, we’d have to stand for the whole show. My repeated arguments for...
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11 Aug 2005
KDE 3.5 alpha 1 has been released. It’s simply superb. A screenshot of my current desktop. Notice the translucent taskbar at the bottom. (The gkrellm looks ugly, but I’ll find a suitable theme soon). Sad that KDE doesn’t have a good enough alternative for gkrellm now. Kudos to the KDE...
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18 Jul 2005
I cooked dinner for the first time in my life! (If you leave out sandwiches, omlettes and the like). Pav-Bhaji was cooked with step-by-step instructions from mom and sis (over the phone). The result was great pav bhaji, enjoyed by me and Vikram. The recipe wasn’t quite like the one...
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12 Jul 2005
It seems there’ve been a lot of calls that people are getting that are claiming Andrew Morton and Theodore Ts’o are coming to India to deliver talks on the kernel. Sponsors seem to be Novell, NetApp and some other companies. Well, I confirmed with Andrew that this is a hoax....
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07 Jun 2005
Atul refers to a blog entry where Magesh describes how taxi drivers swindle people of their monies. Be careful, it’s a bad, bad world out there! That reminds me of the enterprising Bangalore rickshaw men: there’s a rule here that mandates passengers to pay 1.5 times the normal charge for...
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02 Jun 2005
I was just browsing around aimlessly when I stumbled upon the openMosix HOWTO. Hmm, I’ve not been involved with openMosix for quite some time now, but I thought of giving it a look. And I’m surprised to see that intro to hacking openMosix still quotes my mail! There’s also another...
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25 May 2005
amitshah.net is now mine. Though the page is horribly out of date, it’ll be updated Real Soon Now :-)
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23 May 2005
Hunting for accommodation in Bangalore?
(Thanks to Chirag and Amol. I’m not hunting for a place right now, but that’ll help.)
(Also, if you want to get in touch with brokers, ask Chirag for their contact info. He’s got a big list of brokers and their house-showing abilities.)
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