Carthik Sharma

Smartism

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Now don’t you wish you could say, like I can, that you are a Smartist (Smarta to be precise), or that you are a follower of Smartism?

I guess my claim to be a follower of Smartism is valid. I was reading up the article on Wikipedia following up on a lead that Aldous Huxley was a Hindu. I have often wondered, since there is no space for proselytization and conversion in Hinduism, as to how someone could become a Hindu if they wanted. The last I thought about it, if one beleives in some fundamental precepts and lays claim to being Hindu - then that is the end of it.

I wish I could say, now, that I am a practising Smarta, which I am not, right now.

Filed by Carthik at 4:48 pm under Yours Truly 1 Comment

Help a helpful soul, will you?

Thursday, May 4, 2006

I ran into Rob Levin on a random walk in the #joiito chatroom yesterday as I was looking for the solution to an Ubuntu problem. He’s the guy behind freenode, the network of irc chat servers that serves as the communication backbone of almost the entire open source development and user world, and that includes Ubuntu. IRC is the preferred method of communication for developers spread out all over the world, and freenode is absolutely free to use.

Have you wondered how people who dedicate a portion of their lives actually live their lives, how they manage to get paid etc? I have. I visited Rob’s homepage and found out. He’s requesting financial help, and I’d say that he’s justified in doing that. So if you want to do a good deed today, consider helping him out.

Filed by Carthik at 10:56 pm under Ubuntu 3 Comments

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