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.
Karnataka MobileOne service was launched by The Government of Karnataka recently. According to them around 4500 services are available on it. Thats a lot of services to put into a mobile app. I didnt find any detailed reviews online and hence I explored the application myself. All my tests were done on android...
I have been using SQLite as a format to distribute open data for a while. I also use it to share private data. I do encrypt before sending the private data. Its mostly by putting the sqlite file inside an encrypted container (GPG, TrueCrypt or 7zip encrypted archive). It works as a simple...
I have shared links for a long time. What ever I share ends up mostly on Thej.IN aggregator. But its not easy to find interesting links of certain category. One such category is Chill Factor India which is full of bad things that are happening in India. Bad news has certain chilling effect...
It’s a pain to search for Open Data on the web. I publish quite a bit of data. As you could see on the OpenBangalore. The data is in different formats and is at different urls. There is no easy way to find it other than going through the list. You can’t find...
Its been a while I learnt a new programming language. I have been very happy with Python. All most all the work that I do involves Python. But there has been an itch to learn something new. So I made up my mind to learn a new programming language this week. But again...
They say Internet doesn’t forget anything. But link decay is very common on the web. The things that are visible today on web vanish tomorrow. Links become inaccessible and hence linkrot. But there are services like internet way back machine or archive.today which backup the web pages to find the content for rotten...
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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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