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The Chennai Twitter Meetup
on 22/09/2008 - like it?

Picture courtesy Karthik

Well the third Chennai twitter meetup was held yesterday – and like the second tweetup, this one too was decided in a hurry. UNLIKE the last tweetup, we had more people – 7 people all in all including me, The ones that attended were

• Ashish (@ashishmohta)
• Balaji Sowmyanarayan(@labsji)
• Gayathri (@gbot)
• Karthik(@karthiksn)
• Narayanan(@narayananh)
• Palaniappam (@palam)

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Tags: Chennai, Life, meetup, tweetup, twitter

Onsite opportunity beckons
on 21/09/2008 - like it?

Couple of days ago I’d posted a small text on my Tumblelog which went like this:

next couple of days could give me a very important break in my career. Will it happen or won’t ? Hoping for the former.

That was cryptic, wasn’t it ? Atleast Reetesh thought so!

So to clear up, did it happen? Did I get the break: the answer is YES!  

And what’s the big break? Well, I’ve been” identified” as a technical resource for onsite implementation of the current project I’m working on. Quite a mouthful eh? Basically, I will be accompanying the implementor(the functional guy) and lending him assistance with regard to technical issues, data migration etc.

So why was I so cryptic in the first place? And what’s with “identified”,  you may be wondering huh ? Read on.

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Tags: 3i, career, Chennai, Life, onsite, US

Of Tumbles, Disabled NT accounts, And BarCampBangalore 7
on 13/09/2008 - like it?

I’ve finally done it. Been contemplating it for a while, but past couple of days’ turn of events have made me do what I’ve been contemplating about. What am I writing about? My tumblelog of course!

I get lots, I mean LOTS of email forwards. Those subscribed to my forwards mailing list would say I send lots of forwards. But then I forward only the best of the lot, and that’s like maybe 10% of what I get. But then couple of days ago, my office NT user account (and not just mail account) was disabled by the mail network admin, citing “Mail misuse” After running from pillar to post, getting approval mails from group head, phone calls to the network admin, apologizing and three-quarters of a day lost productivity, was finally able to get my NT account re-enabled, and me decided not forward anymore. But still I wanted to share those forwards. I’ve been trying WordPress’s blog-by-email feature, but was unable to get it running on my Google Apps’ mail id. 

Tumblr seemed a nice way of sharing these forwards, and though I’d signed up for tumblr couple of weeks back, I’d never used it. So I decided to wipe off the dust, and launch it! The result -> Ta daah! Sathya’s Tumbles (yeah I know corny name, but WTH). I’m still waiting for the A records propogation to be through, and once that is done, my tumblelog will be available at http://tumble.sathyabh.at/. I’ve also enabled Disqus comments for my Tumblelog, so feel free to comment [on a side note, I'm seriously considering integrating Disqus with my WordPress blogs]. There’s also a “read-only” mode of my tumblelog at http://sathyabh.at/tumblelog which just displays my tumblelog posts, adapting my blog CSS, which looks neat

Next – Barcamp Bangalore 7 is here! Though I won’t be able to attend day 1 of Barcamp Bangalore due to clash with my working days, I will be there for day 2. I’m really excited to attend, since this will be the first ever Barcamp that I’m gonna attend. I’ve signed up as Volunteer over there, will be blogging and obviosuly tweeting about it as well. Looking forward to meeting Santosh(@9_6), Laxman(@scorpion032), Ashwin(@cruisemaniac), Prashanth(@hnprashanth), Ashish(@mataal) and LOT more of tweeters! So see you all there! 

And just as I was about to leave from office, I was chatting with Kunal Sheth over GTalk and he told me that he’s going to be in Bangalore on Monday, so that just about about made my day – I do hope Kunal can spare some time and we could catchup – it’ll be awesome if we could.

So then see ya all in Barcamp!

Tags: 3i, barcampbangalore, barcampbangalore7, bcb7, Chennai, Life, tumblr

Coming October 17: Def Leppard in Concert in Bangalore!
on 05/09/2008 - like it?

Yup, what was tentative earlier is now more or less confirmed as the below picture shows:

I _should_ be able to make it, and if I do, this will be the first concert I’ll be attending! I desperately wanted Red Hot Chili Peppers to perform live(there were rumours of them performing in Bangalore), sadly seems the concert didn’t materialize. Oh well. Santosh & Subbu have confirmed their presence for the concert, are you coming? Confirm your presence over at last.fm events.

Comes via Santosh via Bangalore Metblogs

Tags: concert, Def Leppard, music