Hello,

This is Balachandran Sivakumar, a 21 year old computer science engineer working in Motorola,a telecom giant. I hail from Srirangam, a temple town next to Trichy, Tamilnadu. Presently I reside at Bangalore, close to my office.

To say more about me, I have got a lot of nicknames and quite a good set of friends to use those funny names. I am a cool, friendly, high-spirited guy. I have great interests in the field of IT in general and Operating systems and FOSS in particular. I have a lot of great expectations from myself and my friends.I firmly believe that I will achieve much of them as soon as possible.I am a hardworking, sincere (at least my friends will agree) and so I can get to my dreams soon, with the blessings of the almighty. To most of my friends around here, I am a humanoid who always sits before the system.   My downsides include,I am bit short tempered and a get very lazy occasionaly. And when it comes to college work, I almost never do it properly. I never submited assignments, records on time. But somehow managed to get permission from teachers.

My hobbies include reading books and a browsing the net. You can catch me almost daily between 9:00 pm and 12:00 midnight through my GTalk. My favourite sites include the all famous Google, Wikipedia, osdever.net, osdev.org, opensolaris.org, and such sites. I read books of many genre. But my interests include, Detective stories, Sci-Fi stories and technical magazines. Sherlock Holmes is my all time favourite. My other favourites include Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkings, Wings of Fire by Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, etc.

My primary interest in FOSS and FOSS based tools. I am a GNU/Linux user and FOSS enthusiast as my blog tagline says. I am interested in Security as well. My other interests include Operating Systems, Network Programming, Number Theory, Cluster computing, Computational Biology, etc. Apart from IT and related fields, I am quite interested in Mathematics and Physics, as a few of my favourite books might have suggested.

As far as programming is concerened, my favourite programming language is Python. Then comes Java, C,  in that order. I am just learning PERL and I enjoy it. These days, I have stated to love Java inspite of its cryptic and unnecessarily long coding syntax.

Another aspect of me is that I am quite religious. in fact, I have dedicated a whole new blog for posting my opinion on anything that is religious and spiritual. I am a devout hindu, who can respect all religions well.