You're like a river
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You flow
You’re like a river
You’re like a river.
You’re not stagnant. You flow.
Who you were yesterday, is not who you are today, or will be tomorrow.
You can change your mind on things, as and when you learn new things.
You’re like a river. You flow.
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Was it blood or water?
Here I stand
Just the two of us..!!
Why do I like Shruti Hassan?
The Longing
Scared I was!!
What is Justice?
That face among the faces!
The Code
Control?
The Foragers
Lost
it's Teacher's Day!!
Cannibal!
How would you like your fiction served?
What is the difference between Education & Knowledge?
The Gita, Religion and Dharma
In your dreams!
Nobody woke me up, I'm up any ways!
Daily Post: 1984 (Of Emptiness and Vastness)
Stolen mint
A little something called Inertia
The Perfect* Road Trip
Why I need to blog
No Pressure, Really!
The Morality Factor
Daneel’s issue was with the scientific slowdown, the decline in the development of newer technologies or that’s how he illustrates his point. I on the other hand have my issues with the morality of the society, the civilization in large.
I deceive
Happy New Year?
Writers are
Writers are magicians; and inventors of time machines, and a lot of other stuff too.
Photographic memory
My first memories of being captured, on a photo film that is, consist of me being rushed to the terrace, followed by a change of clothes and a brief touch up, which is followed by introduction of two more kids almost the same age and then one of my brothers clicking the picture.
Photography Challenge: Day One
Day Two: The Lone Patch
Day Five: The Girl with the Bazooka
Day Eight: Martyrdom
Day Nine: Reflections
Do what you want to!
Whatever you do, make sure that you are not doing what your father, mother or society wishes you to do because you don’t want to end up where you don’t want to be
Title Matters. Really?
Success/Failure
Why I do not write long stuff here!
Who'll fight my wars?
Dealing with the World Cup
Poems
Why planning is important, but irrelevant
Good Days, Bad Days
Flow
Why should I read?
What makes me happy?
We are all inspired!
Moving On
Surprises, and good stories
Moving On
How important is grammar to a writer?
Writing about not writing
Decisions decisions!
Communication protocol
Coming Home!
Was
Who are you?
Do you remember?
At work!
Life!
Anonymous
Incomplete
Observations!
The journal
Something about nothing!
The therapeutic act of writing
All the motivation you need!
The whorish aspect of things
Satisfaction
Children, and truth
Let's sail!
In search of 'Routine'
The Google or Windows dilemma
Why I decided to set a shipping date for my book
Progress
The idea of being a writer
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I'm back... again!
On Tolerance
On Possessions
On Honesty
Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : One
On Honesty, Part-II
The hopeful human condition
Fifty plus one
The second one
On Killing
New year, new rules!
My muse
On emotions
Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : Two
On the competitive aspect of things
On s*x
Everything withers away
On writing : the numbers
Why you should spend a little less time working
Why happiness never seems to last
Why do you fight?
What is love?
What if life were a game?
Why persistence matters
What to say to someone who's feeling down
Does setting a goal really help you?
Some numbers
It's funny!
I hold you
How it feels to finally finish that first draft
Why standing still is scary
Are you afraid of dying?
Are you tired of everything?
What does it take to be a writer?
Post a day!
Thoughts on self-hosting
Let's talk!
Who am I to you?
Washed lands
Why build walls?
Sometimes, I wish
Life, Death & Priorities
Dragon-slayer
Here's how I plan to beat my laziness
What is a blog?
A day of firsts
Where we love
Birth, death and everything in between
Fiction takes time
Why I feel like an impostor at times
Things that I think about
#58 in an year of mornings
Musings
Black box thinking: The surprising truth about success - Matthew Syed
This book talks about failures, how we treat them citing examples from industries ranging from aviation, healthcare, coding, cycling teams.
Do you trust me?
“If it were a dream”, he said, “would you spend it arguing what all this means, or..”
I wish I could fucking hibernate!
VM deployment to VMware
Setup password less ssh
PowerShell Arrays
Three-tier CA setup
Terraform scaling VMs
Raise a certificate request on Windows
Install go
VMware unable to unmount datastore
Windows RDP issue
Powershell run commands on remote servers
Add SAN to cert request inf file method
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Kubernetes certificate expiry fix
EC2 Basics
High Availability vs Fault Tolerance vs Disaster Recovery
Azure AD Connect Pre-Reqs
VMware security certificates
Handling Reboots in Workload Manager
VMware remove datastores
Kubernets certificate expiry fix
Kubernetes Pods Certificate Related
Powershell Issues with Returned Values from Remote Sessions
Solarwinds IPAM reference
Remove vmware tools
Platespin scheduling target machine for provisioning fails
AD join fails with The Revision Level is Unknown
PowerShell create custom object
Platespin FIPS Error
keytab
Run remote command cmd
Windows enable quota
Eventcomb tool Account lockout
Ansible way
AAP about hosts licensing
Infoblox ip status
infoblox ip reservation csv import
Ansible Import
Windows cluster on vmware
Azure AD sync SSO disable RC4
Ansible Automation Platform Upgrade
On Vmware tools
UCSM firmware upgrade
Azure Master
Microsoft Entra
Entra ID Managed Identities
Azure RBAC custom roles
Azure subscriptions
Kevin Kelly - Excellent Advice for Living
Year One
Nord Letter #3 - I love you Prerna
vMotion does not work
Delegate permission to restore deleted ad objects
Machine Learning
Authentication and Authorization
Entra MFA
Conditional Access
Azure ABAC
Governance Overview
Azure Policy
Resiliency Overview
Azure resiliency concepts
Azure Backup
Azure Availability Zones
Azure Storage Account
Azure Storage Redundancy
Azure Storage Services
Azure File Sync
Azure VNet
Connecting virtual networks
Azure ExpressRoute
Azure DNS
Azure VM Basics
Windows gives Continue dialog box even if we have existing permissions
Azure Compute Gallery
Azure VM scale sets
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Container Apps
Azure App service
Azure Functions
Spring is here
Nord Letter #4 - Communal spaces @Iso Omena library
Azure SQL
Azure Data warehouse and analytics
Federating again
Nord Letter #5 - Ghost Activitypub + Information Flow
Azure monitoring old
Hyvä Vappu
Nord Letter #6 - Vappu + Costs of consumerism
Was I a good brother to you
You needed me, But was I there?
Life happens + iPads galore
Nord Letter #7 - Meeting people + Food + iPads
Cherries all around
Nord Letter #8 - Folklore'24 + Roihuvuori Cherry Park + AI
Oodi for all
Nord Letter #9 - Oodi + Toolo + Copilot PCs
Five pillars of Azure well architected framework
Thoughts on AI
LLMs are AI models trained on the vast dataset of the internet. This allows them to predict, based on the earlier word, what is the most likeliest next word.
A trip to IKEA
Nord Letter #10 - Visiting IKEA, a pilgrimage
Postcard from Oitta
Nord Letter #11 - Pristine waters at Oitta
VMware find out when vmotion happened
Yoga on Father's Day
Nord Letter #12 - Yoga celebration + WWDC announcements
Trek to Tallinn
Nord Letter #13 - Tallinn + bits around managing teams better
Azure Files
Azure Import Export
We won!
Nord Letter #14 - World Cup win + lots of reading
Replace CNO for cluster
Create windows firewall with gpo
Visit Porvoo
Nord Letter #15 - Day trip to Porvoo + a bit about fusion
A case for being kinder to others
About Fundamental Attribution Error + Be kinder
What Now?
Nord Letter #16 - Better at Yoga + New phones
Colophon
VNet Peering
Storage Spaces
Celebrating Annaprashan
Nord Letter #17 - Annaprashan + Global Crowdstrike outage
How to handle dependencies in Bicep
Azure Load Balancer
Azure Networking Basics
Network Virtual Appliance
Nature trails - Nuuksio and Pihlajasaari
Nord Letter #18 - Nature trails + Beating procrastination
Manage VM Templates in VMware content libraries
Azure Monitoring
A day trip to Tampere
Nord Letter #19 - Tampere + foundations for a good life
Azure Log Analytics
Azure Network Watcher
Powershell rename cluster resource
Missing home
Nord Letter #20 - What is home + Google is a monopolist
India Day
India Day + Reading the Egg
Ready or Not
Pixel Peeping + What is a photo
Glowtime
iPhone month is here + trees can heal you
Azure Admin Associate
I passed the AZ 104 on 3rd Sep
Certified and it feels so good
Azure goals + Apple's DMA compliance
Thoughts on iPhone day
2024 edition
Original art
No art is original
Further thoughts on certifications and trainings
And marrying well
Made you cry
That's the goal
iPhones and Typography
iPhone 16 launch event + learn about typefaces and fonts
Basics of typography
Good typography conveys emotion
Notes from the new OS releases
iOS18 + MacOS15 + WatchOS11
The joy of reading
Books transport you
Hello from the puddle
Nature
Spectacular Solar Punk
iPhone reviews + reading becky chambers
The good people of Finland
About going to sell my phone and unexpected kindness
What are trails
But paths other have walked upon
Linkin Park are back
The emptiness machine
Our place in the world
Linkin Park are back + what is our place in this world
What is an iPhone
Answer - a computer
Professionals are consistent
They show up
Sing!
Go on!
Where are we going
More iPhone (camera) reviews + AI future
The stories we tell
Of a place and a time
A world full of agents
Hey Siri fetch me a glass of water!
The custodian for all human knowledge
AIs trained on the web make the web a worse place
We don't want intelligence
We want slaves
A head full of dreams
Writing every day + AI + Metaverse
Why walk the same path every day
Ignore the path
Keeping promises
Everything can teach us something
Help us grow
The problem with read-it-later apps
It feels like stripping character from the web
If you're stuck on something
Talk to someone
How to tell stories
Stories need to surprise
Of shinobis and reading
Visiting Restaurant Shinobi + Reading on devices and the web
Look at the stars
Look at the sun
The future of Kindle
More notes please!
Going home
To Delhi
Living with bindis
Going back home
Trip to India
A tale of two airlines
Finnair good. SpiceJet shit.
Untitled
Diwali + Tips + New Macs
When to let go
Life withers away
The human condition
Curing cancer + e-Vitara + President of the USA
Visiting the Ashokan Pillar in Vaishali
Good business
Buying old furniture from failed startups + POSSE
Where is home
The expat's dilemma + Social Web + Net News Wire
Trusting people to do the work they were hired to do
Curb micro-management
Be positive
And not just in the abstract sense.
Love and Despair
Reading poems
Helsinki Christmas Market
Two fun videos + two business concepts + something about rats
Proprietary formats
A day spent copy pasting from Notes to Markdown
Why are there no small photo sharing apps
There is an opportunity here
Beating death
Living forever
Building furniture
A traditional Ikea holiday
Before and after
Sinitarra + who owns your words + Intel drama
Writing more vs less
Reducing vs habit
Becky Chambers - A closed and Common Orbit
Birthdays are funny
Another year around the sun! Yay!
What is love?
An year hence
The things we don't need
We should let those go, no?
Music can remind you of things
It can transport you, across time and space
The families we make
2 hopeful things + electric cars might last longer + the age of average + one more thing about AI
Digital consumption does not let me do actual work
It affects my ability to focus and remember
We can have a fun conversation with max four people
Shakespeare got it
We don't own anything in this age of subscriptions
An accidents leads to a little peak behind the curtain
The net good or bad of AI
Balancing the perceived benefits against the harms
No pity for the bosses
Apps make everything legal
Riddell, Chris - Poems to Fall in Love with
An excellent collection of poetry on love with wonderful art
Feels like Christmas
Delhi Rasoi + decaying internet + bad Spotify + solar probe
Sitting and talking
a place to be less alone
Two lessons on work
Show your work + Ask for help
Playful eyes
When to write
When you're away from the keyboard
Writing and publishing
Playing TT at Vox + Car makers merging + paper passports might die
Build a bridge to your corner of the web
Self host
Hard works trumps talent every time
Every damn time
Rethinking what and how I write on this website
How to add a linkblog here and about how I categorise things
How to use habituation to your benefit
Recognise. Breaks in good. No breaks in bad.
Sometimes all it takes is magic
Sometimes magic is working harder than imagined possible
A happy new year
Most things are still the same + AI roundups + good things that happened in 2024
I figured out what to do
How to write here
Would you enjoy killing more human NPCs?
Nvidia’s AI NPCs can become your allies
About glue work
Is glue work bad? Depends.
Meta will not do fact-checking anymore
Meta goes MAGA?
Chambers, Becky - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
The fourth and final book in the wayfarer series
How to complain
Or, how to make your boss's life easier
I’ve become afraid of keeping thoughts in my head
The consequence of thinking while writing
The value of consistency
Discipline and repetition
Ice, Ice, baby!
Snow falls + Dark energy may not exist + why is American diet bad + kids can't use computers
Sakraat redux
Second year of celebrating Makar Sankranti in Finland + 2 things about social apps
Parenting is full of contradictions
Sleep child, sleep!
The next four years are going to be a drag
Spent in dread
The two factors that allow services to be terrible
My WhatsApp story
You can’t have one without the other
Actions and consequences
I need to talk to more people, more often
And hear their stories
What a mess!
Living with a kid in a messy home
Celebrating the Republic
Republic Day at the embassy + OpenAI announces Operator + Trumps first few orders + some life lessons
Why do I read more on the web
The phone, that’s the answer.
A week of AI news
Deepsek and the others
Murakami, Haruki - Men Without Women
I love the book, and the object that it is
Designing a book
With a little bit of quirkiness
Sleep well
Yoga helps you know your body
Good food, good life
Finland's PR changes + VPNs + Why are so many people wearing glasses now + a succinct take on AI
Once upon a time, we almost lost everything
A story of a near victim of a cyber crime
Should you pay for search?
Public services should be subsidised
Some times
Preparedness Day
Fighting flu + smaller AI models + timeline apps
The three types of code I write
slapdash, scrappy and production-grade
Why work?
The myths of work
About the marshmallow experiment
And the value of providing kids with a good environment growing up
These are just poems
Week of love
Celebrating our second anniversary by having a date night at Classic Pizza
Savya-Sajal
Coalescing into my son
About Garbage
And how its our responsibility
About reflections on writing
From people who have been doing this for many years
Liu, Cixin - The three-body problem
The first book in the remembrance of earth's past series
LLMs are being deployed in factories
How does that make you feel?
Writing meet-ups
Shutup and write + 2 opposite views on where the society is going + save your attention
how does a city form
Kindle bad + AI poet + chip designer + good bye Finland
Warming up to LLMs
Using copilot to update my book page
About the Pareto principle
And the value of putting in the work
We are all addicted to our phones
And a few rules I have
How to upgrade Domain Controller
what matters to you
A year of mornings available everywhere now + EV for the masses + new Apple stuff
Don’t call me a writer!
I hate the spotlight
Providing customisation options to users is a great thing
Adventures in configuring tools to work better
Good food takes time to prepare
Patience is a virtue
You can’t make friendships happen
Holi redux
Playing Holi + Death Stranding 2 + black hole universe + some bad news in AI land
Who are you?
Re-designing my home screen and the way I use my phone
Focus modes + Shortcuts magic
The things we make
Apple rumours + Learn some AI python
Ghost announces beginning of the public beta for the social web
Public beta for fediverse support is live now
Maybe we should not have connected
Mixing DS2, Mastodon and Fediverse
Be a hybrid
Have expertise in two or more things
How to add custom attributes to AD
My ego would not let me say sorry
Boiling frogs and global warming
How would the web work in an increasingly AI-fied world
My own writing Meetup
Happening on 6th April + smart homes suck as do smart TVs
It does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar
I don’t need to count anymore
All new technology needs to be tested out in the world
Balancing new tech and its maintainance
Election time
Election stories + Apple AI is not a bust, AI is a bust + some things to change on your phone
Elections in Finland
About the local elections
Organizing the things in our life
The value of knowing where things are
I want to share little ephemeral messages with my family
Like this picture of the skies I took while out on my walk
Everything you type in your iPhone could be used to train a digital you
Make more detailed notes
Just because you can do something does not mean you should
A writer's apocalypse approaches
What would you do?
Teenagers + AI can be a partner + Meta doing Meta things + Love Death and Robots!
What would you do without me?
Remarry (Bad jokes and me)
We need to learn the technique in the beginning and then leave it behind
Don't think too much about the rules
Going northern light hunting
And a bunch of AI use cases + Zuck shot himself in the foot
Attending the Global AI Bootcamp in Helsinki
Tribes
We join them