Welcome !

February 20, 2012

Hi there! I'm Satish and, thank you very much for checking out here ! Presently, I'm studying and working in Finland.

What's new ?

19-Feb-2012 :: A brand new website template.
06-Dec-2011 :: Deleting unused Linux kernels.
01-Mar-2011 :: Shell script to build GCC Snapshot.
26-Dec-2010 :: Google Transliteration IME for Sanskrit.
2009 - 2010 :: All previous posts.

What can you find here ?

As the website evolves, I plan to add content about:

You'll find my restless mind trying to know too many new things all the time.

I'm still adding pages. If you have any comments, suggestions or criticism, mail them to me: spam4uni.hsitspam4uasdbspam4u@spam4uliam ‎

About this site

No ads, no pop-ups, no flash videos, no obfuscated Javascripts, PHPs, ASPs, & all that junk. Plain XHTML & CSS — not generated by spam scripts but meticulously hand-written. Images used sparingly. Website design reduced to the bare bones. This is an art too ! I ensure that my website is reasonably navigable even on text-only web browsers such as w3m (Emacs!) and Lynx. Note that I am not a web designer, nor do I intend to be — a view I share with the inventor of C++.

That said, the CSS template for this site has been adapted from a design of Andreas Viklund. My earlier, three-column design was from Node Thirty Three, which was also inspired by A List Apart. For an year or so, I used Nucleus CMS for managing blogs on my site. That wasn't not good, because all my posts were hidden away in a MySQL database. Nor can I test my website locally without uploading to remote server. But now, I installed mini-httpd on my laptop, which is a ridiculously simple HTTP server. I'm using a Python script and all of my site is version-controlled by Git. Peace !

It all started in 2007, after my graduation, when I created a personal website on Google Pages. Now, the original homepage redirects back to here. For some reason, in 2008, Google decided to migrate it to Google Sites. I was not allowed to upload my own HTML, CSS or JPEGs. That's when I decided to get a domain of my own. I hosted this website during the afternoon of 09 May, 2009 while I was working in Finland. Yes, I love my home country; that's why the domain ends in dot-in, and not another dot-com.