The creature called Reuben Cornel...
I was brought forth one afternoon during the winter of 1983. After two years my parents shifted to Hyderabad because, Dad's company opened up a new branch in Hyderabad and he was supposed to set up the unit. We were in Hyderabad for 10 years. During that time, I did my schooling in Little Flower High school then at St. Patrick's High School. I don't have many memories about the place. But I made a very close friend whom I still like to keep in touch.
It was in 1995 that Dad's company decided to unify all their division in Bangalore and that year we moved to Bangalore. This was probably one of the most important decision we made and we don't regret it. I did my schooling at Bethany High School, Koramangala. This is where I received enlightenment about computers sitting on under one of the nodes of the lan in school in deep meditation. I owe this realisation to my head of the computer science department, Pankaj sir.
I finished my 10th standard under the ICSE board in 1998. After this I joined Christ College for first and second PUC. This is equivalent to 11th and 12th standard in ICSE and CBSE. My specialization was Electronics. To be honest in the beginning I actually cribbed about taking the subject. I wanted to join St. Josephs which had computer Science. But I took up Christ College. Though it was not very easy, it went on well. But then I realized it made life really easy for me in engineering because we had a subject on electronics, and more over it helped me develop another hobby. I learned how to build hobby circuits. I must say that is an interesting hobby.
It was just after first PUC we shifted to our own home (picture of my home). This was around 2000. I took my CET in 2001 and joined RNSIT. This college has a lot of memories associated with it. It was here I wrote one of the most useful programs I've ever written. I can't give its details because of its sensitive nature. But if you know anybody from the first batch RNSIT, Computer Science, ask them about a program called "magic" written by me. There was a very interesting reason for the creation of the program, but I might tell it here at a later point of time.
It was the sys admin of the college with whom I had a love-hate relationship, to be honest it was a slightly more hate than love relationship. Because of all the tension I caused him and the others in the computer labs. But this got me a crazy reputation, like I liked cracking people's email accounts. To be honest, I'm very particular about privacy, ergo I would not get involved in such acts.
I'm a HAM, call sign VU3BIU. As of now, I'm working for a company called Torry Harris Business Solutions. I love programming, making circuits, long distance cycling, free software, Linux. I'm proud to say that I'm a member of the church choir. I hate lazy people, hypocrites, and politicians of all sizes and shapes.
I recomend people use encryption for privacy. I have put up my GPG public key on this site. Below is my geek code.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS/E/IT d-(+)? s-():-() a-- C++(++++) ULC*++(+++) P+++(++++)>$
L++(++++)>$ E(+++)>$ !W+(++)>$ !N !o K--? !w !O !M !V
PS+(++) !PE !Y PGP-(+++)>$ !t !5 !X !R tv? b++(+++)>$ DI
D>$ !G>$ e++(+++)$ h(++) !r(++) !y
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
I swear by the emacs text editor, because of its extreme versatility and programability. Configuring emacs is an art in its self. I have put up me .emacs file on this site. It was originally culled of another site. I have made some additions to the file which you probably might not have on your computer. This may cause a bit of trouble when starting the editor. Commenting the appropritate lines will prevail over all evil.