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.
A very close Kodava friend of mine got married recently. I am planning to write series of posts on Kodava marriage rituals. This is first one of the series. Kodavas are a warrior community and their wedding rituals involve symbolic warfare. This ritual of cutting banana shoots is to show respect to maternal...
Shifted to mediatemple web hosting now. Now the site lives on grid :) Got a mediatemple grid hosting sometime back. But was not able to move this domain until today. Last few days I worked on moving and today I am done. Everything should work smoothly. Let me know if you find any...
Friend of mine Lavanya acquired a Reva last month. Since I have never driven an electric car this was my best chance. So both of us reached parking lot but unfortunately we couldn’t take it outside parking lot(that’s another story). So I decided to take it for a spin inside the parking lot...
I have been tracking micro finance and social entrepreneurship for quite some time now. Of course after the success of Gramin Bank “Micro Finance” is Macro. But me being a *web* person was impressed with Kiva’s usage of web and social media for doing its part in eradicating poverty. At Kiva you can...
I like to comment when I read a good post. More than 50% of the blogs that I read are on either wordpress.com or hosted . So I created a simple scriptlet to fill the comment form for ease of commenting.Then I thought it could be useful to others too. So I wrote...
I have been using Nokia e61i (Symbian S60 3rd edition) for quite some time now. I am happy with it mostly because of the following applications. They are free and they enhance the functionality of my mobile. Opera Mini is my browser on my mobile. Its open 24X7 on my mobile. It supports...
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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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