Prof. David Cheriton has agreed to give the keynote address at the Open HA Cluster summit on May 31. Dr. Cheriton is an industry expert and is a world-renowned researcher in the areas of networking  and distributed systems with numerous widely cited publications and patents. His lecture should be very interesting.

The summit is free and open to anyone. It falls on the Sunday before CommunityOne and JavaOne. We have a very interesting panel discussion with several distinguished industry experts, who will share their experiences and provide their insights into the present and future of HA Clustering. I look forward to …

India is an ancient country. The Mohenjodaro remains, dating back to 3250 BC to 2750 BC, when the Indus Valley civilization was in full glory seem to indicate that swimming was an important game. There is strong evidence of the presence of the “Great Bath” which is similar to the present day swimming pools. The medieval empires also had swimming pools indicating that swimming was common.

A significant part of the Indian population (almost 80%) live in smaller towns and villages. Both as a general activity and sporting event, swimming is not as popular in India as one would expect it …

My proposal titled  “Women and the Flat Connected World” was accepted at the  The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It will be held 30Sept-03Oct 2009 in Tucson, Arizona. The GHC 2009 theme is “Creating Technology for Social Good”.

Modern global companies allow for multiple forms of collaboration, without regard to geography, time, distance, culture or language; in essence, they create a “flat” world without such boundaries. The worlds of software, academia, journalism and business have seen a surge in world wide collaboration.  Technology companies have embraced new processes and employees have adapted themselves to the new model. Teams have …

The results of the parliamentary elections in India, the largest democracy are out! In this election caste-based politics took a backseat and the country moved towards having a stable government!

Dr. Manmohan Singh, re-emerges as the Congress Prime Minister with much stronger support and with less dependence on supporting parties. Dr. Singh is an economist and has worked as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, in the Planning Commission and has been the Finance Minister. He has studied at Cambridge and Oxford. The man has played a very important role in the progress of the country.

The biggest surprise was …

It is 5 weeks since I have began learning swimming with Mary Donahue. I have no access to a pool to practice what I learn during the class. So, part of my living room carpet area is dedicated for my scissor kicks and mock freestyle swimming! My son has also left me a snorkel so I can practice and accompany him on a future offshore trip to see marine life!

While I reflect back on each class I notice that there is a really good structure to Mary’s teaching methodology.  It is hard to get the kind of success …