Student, Gardener, Self-employed
Last week (5th – 10th Oct’24) we had heavy rains and winds in and around Bengaluru and both of our farms have some negative impacts. One of the melia dubia tree had fallen in the Dhanvi farm and damaged our trellis structure. After chopping the tree we have kept the wood in open for now. … Read more
From the time I read Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. which is more than 10-12 years before; I was kind of waiting to turn 42 to uncover the eventual answer of why I am doing anything and what difference does it make and to whom? For those who have not read the book … Read more
Today I completed one year of being on my own. In 2004, after graduating from college and doing brief experiment with a startup I came to Pune, looking for a job. I failed clearing the interviews of many MNCs. In the last two and a half years of my college I spent most of my … Read more
I did my second paid workshop in Bangalore on 12th and 13th March. I had the similar count of participation as last time. Most of participants had some prior experience with Linux so it was much easy and I was well prepared as well. So things went more smooth than last time. One of the participant from the … Read more
After doing free containers (Docker) workshop in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai; the next stop was Hyderabad which was scheduled on 13th Feb’16. Getting the audience and community space at Hyderabad was not as simple as other places because I have never worked there and did not have much community connections. When I scheduled it I … Read more
After leaving my full time job at Red Hat I started offering some free workshops in different cities on India. As currently I am staying in Bangalore and stayed in Pune for 8 years before moving, I choose both of these places to start with. Later I’ll be doing the free workshops in Chennai, Hyderabad and … Read more
Yesterday (2nd Dec’15) was my last day at Red Hat (again). I left Red Hat in Dec’08 to join a startup and then joined back on Sept’12 . This time I worked in the performance engineering team, which does performance evaluation of all the Red Hat products. It was best team I worked so far. I did performance … Read more
On 28th Nov’15, Akshar Bharati helped setting up Library section for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services centre NIMHANS, Bangalore. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services provides day-care to person with psychiatric disabilities and engage them with some vocational activities like arts, dance, yoga. Reading would be an additional activity. The library was inaugurated by director of NIMHANS Mr. P. Satish Chandra. At Akshar Bharati we generally setup … Read more
After attending DockerCon on 23rd June I took what people call Red Eye flight to reach Boston on 24th morning. I missed the Day 1 of Red Hat Summit on 23rd and had to miss keynotes 24th has as well because the flight got delayed. Later I have watched all those keystones. Apart from Jim … Read more
In last week of our course Understanding Media by Understanding Google we have to answer question similar to mentioned above. Here is my take on that:- We love convenience !! We are always willing to pay something extra for it. The payment we make may, not be the direct one. Lets say you want to have pizza … Read more