Anoop John

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.

I have just started looking at content oriented systems. As part of this experiment I have registered a few domains and have started setting up content management systems and content on these domains. My first experiment is a Guide on Home Mortgage.

After almost a week of planning and preparation we were ready for our second GNU/Linux Install Fest. Unlike in the previous install fest we were better organized in terms of operations. We had been to the location on Friday night and had prepared the complete place and got everything ready including the posters, banners, table/desk arrangements and the systems. We had everything ready by around 12 midnight and went home.

As a continuation of the massively successful first GNU/Linux Install Fest in Kerala we are organizing the first Mandriva Install Fest in Kerala. Zyxware has yet again taken the initiative to organize this meet with the GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum and Space-Kerala

Email has become the ubiquitous means of communication for people across almost all professions. Quite a lot of conversations and discussions happen through email but most people do not follow any standards when it comes to conversing through emails. A few simple policies can help you increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your communication via email.

I had no I idea as to what was in store for me when I checked my email today. I saw this notification from blogger that there is this pending comment that I need to approve on my blog post about me turning to vegetarianism. To my surprise the comment was by Adi (Adityan), one of my nephews, full 11 years of age, and who incidentally decided to go the vegetarian way a week back.