Didn’t I promise to tell you about some exotic adventure in my previous entry? Hopefully, my narration/description will live upto your expectations - if not, take a tour of these places and you can feel it yourself. BTW, I am looking for a way to generate a map of the route that was followed in [...]

Like I mentioned in the previous entry, /me has been in Spokane (Washington State) to attend a workshop. I will try to keep this entry pretty short but fill them up with photographs, so that you get a better picture of what happened:
Accommodation was perfect - ambience of Montvale Hotel, apart from pretty good [...]

Much of about 36 hours after arriving in US were used, effectively to a certain extent, to get done quite a few things: a short research meeting, working on some SMEAGOL related issues, meeting Dave Tobias for GSC website related work, short stops at MTU Telecom office & Victoria’s Kitchen, a hair cut, Changgong Zhou’s [...]

In A Nutshell…
All in all, although I felt severe shortage of time sometimes, this trip to India was a pretty good one. Attending the Cochin Conference, visiting schools/institutions I studied in, talking to my teachers, hanging out with friends, roaming in/around/outside of Bangalore, seeing places that I had never seen before in my life, seeing [...]

Our trip to BiLigiri Rangana Hills helped improve my health to a significant extent. But staying in Bangalore and roaming around in some awesomely polluted parts promptly did its part and the cough/bad-throat related issues showed no signs of letting go. I was forced to stay at home, much to my mom’s liking - she [...]

We (Kalyan, Phillip Ross and yours truly) set off on a pleasant Sunday morning, amidst not so much traffic, far far away from concrete jungle and towards a more natural forest. I was very very impressed with the quality of Mysore-Bangalore 4-lane highway (last time around, I had slept for much of the journey) and [...]