I was phobic to the use of any version that was more recent than the iTunes release supplied with my trusty 5th generation iPod, simply because I had seen how some versions in the intermediate releases didn't allow manual control of the content in one's list, and that freaked me out no end ( Read more... )

Its been a little over two months since I blogged from my own lovely typewriter, and its a good feeling to be reunited with it again, and to sit and compose mindlessly arbit posts on it ( Read more... )

Don't say I didn't warn you. The whole iPod related tirade continues thus ( Read more... )

I used to manage a band named Swarathma. The odds of you following my LJ regularly and not knowing about this fact are pretty low ( Read more... )

I am of the general impression that I am more conscientious than average as a result of which I would think twice about doing something that I would consider socially / morally or legally unacceptable ( Read more... )

I had this whole sentimental post in mind about how the little things and little actions of ours matter so much in the greater scheme of things, but I guess that will have to be put on hold because my friend, Prateek, gave me some information through gtalk about how Sasken's office was ransacked by the activists of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, ( Read more... )

So it turns out, not without a tinge of irony attached, that in a manner similar to how my first visit to a McDonalds happened in Oslo, rather then in dear old Bangalore or how my first bout of public drunkness (read drinking beer in the wide open in public) happened on the pedestrian streets of Copenhagen with a fellow brown guy and his Polish ( Read more... )

In the land of hedonism and of unimaginable excesses, I am trying to live life like a native, albeit a poor one without a car, who uses public transport to get to work ( Read more... )

It is the first time in almost a year that I have had to pay paid money to go for a music concert - watching MotherJane and Zero live at IIM Bangalore, for Unmaad. A princely sum of INR 100 is what I have parted with in order to do that ( Read more... )

Blagging on the move - enroute to Bangalore from Mysore. 7 AM in the morning. The things people do for cheap thrills.

An ipod on shuffle mode can do the most wonderful things. With the Zero and MotherJane concert up ahead this friday at IIM B, it was really nice to stumble upon an hitherto unknown (to me) track by Zero, titled 'SpitleafI have ( Read more... )