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"I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."

P G Wodehouse, 'Rallying round Old George'

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my page

Hullo! Hullo! Hullo! You've stumbled onto my nook in the web. I fancy that it has grown to be somewhat more than a nook, but nook sounds good. Much of what I put up in this website is not intended for any particular audience. I like writing and I have some likes and dislikes and I put them down on HTML. I usually take out material from my site, as much of the content was quite green (literally too, I'm a bit colour blind). These days, I'm more interested in automating and scripting using templates, Makefiles, etc. If my fancy takes that direction I might add some cool web works, but don't hold your breath. I use Vim , which happens to be the coolest editor I know, and a few elementary bash scripts to make pages from templates. Whether you use Windows, Linux, Unix or OS X, you should try it (Vim, I mean).

I no longer feel the need to add oomph and espièglerie to this page and I have dispensed with the eye candy save for the image of yours truly below. I'm a big fan of PG Wodehouse and my style is consciously and sub-consciously modelled on his.

I guess I ought to warn you that there may be a few links that don't work (these will continue to be until I work out a script to weed out non-working links) and some of the pages are perenially half-baked. The old lemon is throbbing fiercely trying to think up and create content for the pages. I'll do it by and by. So do come back. I put down an edited version of my rambling thoughts and other miscellaneous stuff in the ramblings page.

Well then, ramble on... Hold on just a minute, just one more caveat: take my writings seriously at your own risk. Right ho, march on.

about me

Er, well, ah. Thats me in the picture. I was born in Hyderabad, but spent the next 18 years in Trivandrum, a quiet, pleasant, comfortable city. Now that the city corporation is trying to widen the roads, the place looks like something out of a World War II movie. I am now pursuing a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland. I work at the Centre for Automation Research. I've a thousand interests (there may be only 990, I haven't counted them). What with this and that, I'm unable to devote as much time towards my interests as I'd like to. (Don't we all). But I shuffle along.

As I mentioned earlier, I've a lot of interests. I listen to music, I read, I watch movies, try to learn my way around Linux, to name a few. See why you should use open source and standards in my Linux page. I like football, and I try to watch and play a bit here and there. I also like outdoor activities and I visit parks whenever I can. I listen to music a bit. I like Elton John, The Beatles, The Police, The Who, among others. I also listen to Indian music and a bit of classical stuff. I used to paint and sketch a lot when I was at school. These days I don't get time to sit down at a painting, but I sketch a bit occasionally. Its my great desire to start on oils, so far I've done only water colours and poster colours. I've always enjoyed watching movies; this is one of the few hobbies that I've been following on a regular basis. Check out my Movies page. I try to read when I can from bedtime stuff to literature, fantasy and am leaning towards philosophy these days. My brother's webpage can be found at Srikanth Sundaresan.

my tools

All the pages in this site were created using the amazing Vim Editor, BASH scripts, and my basic HTML knowledge coupled with some CSS. It looks good on the Mozilla Browser and other browsers that ahere to the standards (If you use Internet Explorer, you should think of an alternative, because IE doesn't correctly render pages that adhere to the World Wide Web Consortium standards. And it sucks.) I used to use Gentoo Linux, but I'm getting lazy these days and I use Ubuntu and Debian. Why do I go for Linuxes that sound like some tribe? I don't know. Gentoo is a species of penguin that is a terrible show off; I know they were darting around in the Montreal Biodome for the benefit of the spectators while the other species were standing around looking bored. There are several translations of the word "ubuntu", but the one I like and is probably the correct one is "I can't configure Debian" (I saw this on Slashdot, I think). It certainly was true in my case. I gave up when it steadfastly refused to recognise a monitor, and I fell asleep while going through the long list of questions, some of which I didn't have a clue about.

Comments

Guest books suck. Constructive Criticism is acceptable, not vulgar abuse. Mail me if you want to send any comments. No? I have not left a single comment myself, and I don't see why others should, but I will probably be happy if you do. Anyway don't let this deter you.