Monthly Archive March, 2004

Back to India and the week of “new” things

Not me, yet.
Raghu, one of my colleagues, decided not to renew his H1 this time and to go back to India 6 months before his current H1 period expires. He got a very nice opportunity with GE hyderabad as a lead architect for their security group. Took him 2 months for the whole process of […]

Cigarette smokers, I hate you.

1.15 a.m. I go down to fetch some water as my throat was itching with all the coughing and the cold I’ve been going through. I smell smoke, cigarette smoke.
Dinesh was happily standing at the kitchen door, trying to smoke and vent the smoke out of the kitchen door. Obviously, that was not working. The […]

Work, health and last two weeks

Been very busy for the past two weeks.
Got the new T1 line activated at work, switched away from DSL in 3 days, moved colocated box inhouse. In terms of number of users, the current setup is very simple (apart from a couple of my dirty VPN hacks) but our whole business process depends heavily on […]

And life goes on

Robin and Puneet were blessed with a baby boy and what a date for that to happen, Feb 29th 2004. I am not sure if junior Robin Hood (as I call him) would be happy about this when he grows up. I have not seen him yet but have heard the usual “*very* keee-yooot […]