Anoop John

I have been on my toes for the last one month doing the ground work for the upcoming GNU/Linux Install Fest in Technopark. The install fest is scheduled for the first week of September and you can read more about it at GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum's website. Preparations for the fest are still underway and we have got most of the issues under control.

Software Patents are bad - Period. The patent system was created to protect inventors from being robbed of their inventions by bigger players or bad people. Software companies want software patents because they want to patent generic and designs and algorithms to prevent anybody else from using them or to gain royalties from using them. Software is just a means of processing information and information should be open.

I need some urgent help from my friends and relatives to find people who invest in the Indian Stock Market. I have invested in setting up a Stock Brokerage Firm - Stock Shop India - at Pattom, Trivandrum and the fall in the market has hit us badly. To recover we need to build our customer base rapidly. If you/friends/relatives invest in shares and trade at either NSE or BSE do consider opening an account at my firm. And not for nothing. I can probably offer you one of the lowest brokerage rates in the Market

I did my 11th and 12th classes at St. Antony's Public School, Anakkal, Kanjirappally. We have yearly alumni get togethers and last meeting a decision was made to revamp our alumni network. Towards this goal we are building our alumni database. Since the website is still under development, we are collecting the information via google docs.

I had written recently on a simple way to fight global warming - reduce consumption. Now governments across the world have been preaching to people in their own states about conserving energy. The same has been happening in Kerala, especially with energy reserves (hydroelectric) hovering close to the empty mark. I was impressed about our system when I saw the public interest advertisements that were being shown related to this, i.e. until I saw the Park Center reception center at Technopark last week.

I normally don't give up on anything that I set my mind upon. I don't always succeed in everything I do but I almost always give my best shot in trying to do the things that I want to do. I have been following this policy, ever since I started thinking on my own and taking decisions on my own. I have also been advocating this policy to people I know and meet in business and to prospective entrepreneurs.

I am an ardent advocate of the theory that people should follow their dreams and passions than just follow orthodox conventions. I believe I have been doing that myself and I try to promote anybody who I think is doing that. It gives me great satisfaction and pleasure to see people try that and succeed in it. One of the excuses I hear from people is that they have made wrong career/educational choices and that they are stuck with their choices. Oh no I don't, neither does one of my friends - Jeoraj Stanley George

I have lost count of the number of hartals that were called since I started Zyxware. Hartals affects the normal life of the common man. It is as if he is totally under the power of the political leaders. Yet it is this common man who possesses the power to defeat a hartal; but he does not; why? I can't stand this injustice and I have decided to act, and I have acted and the result is http://www.boycotthartal.org.

Zyxware turned 2 on the 24th of June 2008. It has been a heck of an adventure full of excitement for the last two years and I am loving it. This year is slated to be far more exciting with a slew of projects and programs scheduled to be unveiled within the coming 5-6 months.

Last day I gave my car for service and got its horn repaired. It must have been almost two months since the horn stopped working and I have been driving for the last two months without a horn. Can you believe this? I mean I never thought I would survive a day without horn driving on Indian roads. But I did and I am no meek driver.