After a week of incessant rain the skies had cleared. The rays of the sun shining through the drops made them look like jewels on the green grass and leaves. This looked like a perfect day for some macrophotography. I was combing through the plants and stones in our garden for any form of life. … More Nature’s Con-Man
It was through the ‘windows’ of Internet Explorer that I first got a glimpse of the Internet world. During those days, every PC you buy came with a version of Windows XP installed. I doubt if I knew about any other browsers back then ( I don’t think I even cared.). A couple of years … More How I met the qutebrowser
The corona virus pandemic has forced many governments to enforce a lockdown. This has forced many of us to work from home. Over the last several weeks I have been trying to perfect my home desktop environment to make me as productive as possible and to optimise all the resources I have. At the office … More i3- A tiling window manager to declutter your desktop
As I slid into the driver’s seat at 4:30 in the morning, I could not believe that we are finally on our way to Wayanad. A month back we had started planning for this trip and 2 weeks back our chances of making this trip seemed so slim. Hectic work schedules and us falling sick … More The Queen of Thirunelli
Travel is one of the greatest stress busters, that I have ever experienced and that too there is nothing like a trip out into the wild. My wife and I never missed an opportunity to travel until our little angel arrived in 2018. Since then we were on a break from travel and was patiently … More A weekend on the banks of Kaveri
The first time I saw the name Munroe Islands was almost a decade back. It was during a train journey from Kottayam to Thiruvananthapuram, that I noticed a small railway station called ‘Munroe Thuruthu’. It might have been the name that fascinated me. I used to wonder what was outside that railway platform. What the … More Rowing through the canals of Munroe Islands
This post is a description of how to setup Rtags on Emacs. The internet is has quite a few resources about Rtags’ setup, but despite that I had to go over several of them to get things up and running for me. Rtags is ideally meant to work for C++ projects that use CMake build … More Rtags completes Emacs
Let me take my readers today to a hamlet called Talakadu. Once a capital city of the Ganga dynasty, now reduced to a ‘heap of sand’. There are many legends, folklore and mysteries surrounding Talakadu. Legend says that aeons ago in the Jungles of this area lived two brothers (some stories say they were demons, … More A tale by the river : Talakadu
It was a fine Sunday morning. The past week Bangalore witnessed intermittent spells of rains and the the days were overcast and gloomy. In the past few weeks some of my birding trips to the lake was cut short by spells of rain. Today was different. There was a cool breeze and the sun was … More A stroll at Hoskote Lake
I start my day by seeing the newspaper boy fling the paper as I watch its different pages landing all over the place. He has almost 10 seconds between the opening and closing of the lift at each floor, to fling papers to 4 different door steps. He is always in a hurry. I wonder … More We are all in a hurry…
