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.
Nomie is a simple and usable tracker. What makes it better is it doesn’t have artificial restrictions, doesn’t lock you down, its private, customizable and has great API support if you are a DIY kind of Quantified Self practitioner. But none of these matter if the app is not usable or useful. So...
2016 in one word was challenging. It was huge mix of sadness and happiness. I must say this is one of those years that changed some things in me forever and for good. In that way it was a good year. I wish you all the very best for 2017. Some things that...
Its 5:30 AM. I am up because our maid is here and Max is up. Yes. We adopted Max yesterday. This was his first night at our home. He wasn’t totally comfortable because ours is his third new home is last five months and he is ten+ years old. We are hoping he...
I turn 36 today. I didn’t think what I wrote last year would come into effect so fast. Life is really short. Amma isn’t here anymore. It felt like someone pressed a button somewhere and everything was over. I miss her but I am also very proud and happy when I look at...
I just finished reading Nationalism by Tagore. The book has three essays which talk about Nationalism in the West, Nationalism in Japan, Nationalism in India and ends with a poem called The Sunset of the Century. First two essays are based on lectures delivered in USA and Japan. The third essay on India...
A 1954 book “How to Lie with Statistics” by Darrel Huff should be made a compulsory reading for anyone who wants to do data based journalism. The book is very small and talks about the ways data is used to lie aka statisticulation. In 2016, 62 years later, we still see the same...
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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]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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