Debashish Chakrabarty, a Software Consultant based at Pune, has been on the Internet since the “geocities” days but opened his Blogger account in October 2002. Apart from this blog he also maintains a Hindi blog NuktaChini.

Blog Cleanup

A little clean up happened here. A bit of rearrangement in my blog rolls, added some more blogs which I have been subscribing through Bloglines. To segregate the technical blogs I had to append the Gen (for general) and Tech (for technical) blogs to the section titles. Those who find the rolls too short, my […]

Baby steps onto J2ME

Stepping into using J2ME warrants major alteration in mindset for a programmer so far promenading in J2SE. Experienced J2ME programmers may perhaps enlighten me on this but these are opening remarks as I very recently took on developing applications for mobile devices. You have an array of challenges when you compare it to developing applications […]

The Latino connection

This blog finds some unexpected mention here. I could not have deciphered an iota of Spanish but for Bablefish. Apparently a reader was making some parallel between JRoller and Roller@jH. Here is what the comment says: Ummm… Also there is a user called al (but he is not ours al)….and a weblog with title Null […]

Israeli attacks: a lesson for India

The recent retaliatory attack on Syrian Islamic Jihad base camps by Israel reveals the true face of America, their doublespeak on the Kashmir issue becoming more poignantly evident. The American hypocrisy lets them pats on the back of Pakistan for its help in fighting terrorism ignoring the terrorist dens right beneath their nose and tells […]

The Blog Matrix

Rajeev identified an occupying topic from Bloggercon reportage, elitism in blogging. Infact I was giving this a thought while chatting with a fellow blogger few days back and we both marvelled at the volume of blogging being done by Indians and whether it has any impact on others who don't blog. The fact remains that […]

Tanmay is 1 year old today

Today is the first birthday of my son Tanmay. It is due to the little angel that I and Mitali were introduced to the joys, pressures, fun and responsibilities of parenting. Tanmay has ushered in a breeze of vitality and energy in our lives, infact he has tought us to relish the meaning of life […]