Tail Wags Dog

I’m at the last stop in my tour of company bastions of appliance freedom. Chennai, India is the home of our Linux-based team which I have looked forward to linking up with since I’m just a Linux guy at heart. And it was good today. Meetings, discussion, and formative statements all made me feel that we are on the right path. I also like Chennai quite a bit. Its this mix of culture, religion, poverty, technology. Perhaps it stirs the anthropologist in me too many ways; but its this fabulous unfinished picture of life with the colors and shades still being added. I want to come back for longer actually and learn more about this city once called Madras.

After meetings tomorrow, I’m back to Singapore for a night and then on to home on a long airplane flight. It will be good to get home but I already am planning a trip to the UK and back to Chennai. There are things which need to get done that belong to me. Its a good feeling that I still have so much left to contribute. I feel in the right place, right time. Now I need to deliver and execute. I’ve always felt I could do that reasonably well. Except perhaps at Levanta. But Levanta had its own issues far and away from my humble abilities. They did not know what they had and mis-managed the rest of it. Blech…

I’m going to Linuxworld Expo in SF for one day. If you go on Wednesday, see ya there. Look for me. I’ll be wearing an older debian shirt or something and my beard has touches of grey. Age moves along at its pace.

Catch you all tomorrow Chennai time!