A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
Obama is probably the best POTUS that I have seen in my lifetime. When he ran for his for office first time in 2008, I followed him everywhere on-line. Even though I had my doubts I wished US will choose its first black president. When he got elected I couldn’t believe myself but...
My last visit to Bangalore Government Museum must have been in 90s, when I was in school. I had almost forgotten how beautiful that building was. I was happy to be there. The reason for my recent visit was an exhibition about Inscription Stones of Bangalore. #InscriptionStonesofBangalore is a civic project to raise...
Recently I chanced upon these visualizations on Transforming India by Government of India. The site is recording of how India has been transforming since 2014. While going through them I found a few charts/visuals which Darrell Huff in his 1954 book How to Lie with Statistics talks about in the context of how...
I love personal analytics. Ever since I have started logging using Nomie, I have experimented with data, mostly using spreadsheet. It’s interesting to find patterns and make corrections. Nomie uses CouchDB as the cloud storage. CouchDB is a great database but I prefer a simple RDBMS when I want to query. So sometime...
As a teenager I was very curious about stars and galaxies. Only time we could get to see something related was an yearly school trip to Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore. As I grew up my interest moved to technology from science. Mostly because technology gave me an opportunity to tinker with. When I...
ನನಗೆ ಸುಮಾರು ೧೦ ವರ್ಷವಾದಾಗ ಅಮ್ಮ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಮನೆ ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಹಚ್ಚಿದಳು. ಬೇರೆಯವರ ಮನೆ ಅಲ್ಲ ನಮ್ಮನೆ ಕೆಲಸ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಯವರೆಗು ಅಮ್ಮ ತನ್ನ ಕೆಲಸದ ಜೊತೆ ಮನೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಅಪ್ಪ ಕೆಲಸದ ಜೊತೆ ಮನೆಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಹೊರಗಿನ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುತಿದ್ದರು. ನಮಗೆ ೧೦ ವರ್ಷವಾದ ತಕ್ಷಣ ಅವರ ಕೆಲಸಗಳನ್ನು ನಮ್ಮೊಡನೆ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು. ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸ ಅಂದರೆ ಅಮ್ಮ ನಮಗೆ ಹೊರಗಿನ ಕೆಲಸ, ಮನೆಯೊಳಗಿನ ಕೆಲಸ ಅಂತ ಭೇದ ಭಾವ ಮಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಪಾತ್ರೆ...
Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) “Thej” is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India.
He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape.
You can read more about him here.
Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]
