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.
I ran the first ever Bangalore SkyScraperDash today, thanks to Intuit. It was more tiring than I thought. I wish I had bigger lungs and more climbing practice. But it was fun. Some pictures from the run And the map. Map time includes the climb time but not the distance. The fastest was...
Locus App allows offline sqlite format maps. I was always curious about the self-contained maps specially because I love sqlite. So last evening I selected a small area on Locus and asked it to download in SQLite format. This GIF should show you how to download the maps on locus for offline usage....
This was my third visit to Milan. In the last two visits I mostly went around using Metro or Buses. This time I wanted to either walk or cycle around. I decided to cycle around as hiring the BikeMi bicycle is cheap and can be done in minutes if you have a credit...
This is my second TCS 10K. All I wanted to is better my previous performances. I think I did well.
I like huge human gatherings and festivities. I like watching people and activities. This year I got chance to be in Thrissur during the Pooram. Wikipedia has a decent article about the pooram. Thrissur Pooram (Malayalam: തൃശ്ശൂര് പൂരം) is one of the most popular temple festivals of the South Indian state Kerala. It...
Last few days I have been contributing to a project of Mozilla called Location Services. Its a crowdsourced project to map the wireless networks (WiFi access points, cell towers, etc.) across the world. This will help the devices which doesn’t have built in GPS or can’t get GPS signal to figure their location....
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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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