Tag Archives: Talks

Speaking Truth to Absurdity

There have been recent argu­ments, which I have myself encountered, on why I should bother chal­len­ging the pre­vail­ing views of oth­ers; why I should attack their cher­ished beliefs although they claim to have done noth­ing to attack my beliefs. A recent debate comes to mind which didn’t even qual­i­fied as a debate as a tone-troll

I Feel (less) Geekier Already: Linus Torvalds

Linus Tor­valds. Geek, genius. Cre­ator of the Linux and Git. I have been enjoy­ing the fruits of his genius since I first star­ted using Ubuntu in 2008. It is amaz­ing how much has been achieved since Tor­valds first hacked together what was to be the Linux ker­nel on a machine with the fol­low­ing spe­cific­a­tions: 386, DX33,