Posts from — September 2008

A post-debate article, on my take on the experience of being the only turban wearing Sikh at the first US presidential debate, has been published at Sikhchic.com. If the front page link is not working anymore, here is the permanent link.

The US presidential debate was the best thing that happened to the University of Mississippi in quite a while. OleMiss is still recovering from the best hangover a university can ever have. My friend James Church has posted student account of the debate here. (By the way, we also beat Gators this weekend. Woohoo!)

I was in and around the media tent and “spin alley” for most of the debate. Instead of writing a long and boring narration, here is a picture blog of the debate that my flickr feed has posted. I did not have enough time to tag each picture; if you follow American politics, you’ll see some big names in there. Feels like a match puzzle? Lets write a program to solve it!:)

Senator John McCain’s announcement on suspending his debate is drawing looks of shock in Oxford.

This small town in northern Mississippi seems to be all painted red, white and blue in the wake of Friday’s Presidential debate. Within an hour of the Senator John McCain’s announcement, a petition website is up.

The The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has released a statement a while ago that it is moving forward with its plan for the first presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. this Friday, September 26.

Photo Credits: Jessica Miller

I was invited by the Office of International programs to be on the panel for ‘Politics Around the World’ forum. It was fun addressing a diverse group of people, and being involved in a discussion across borders.

The University did a press release of the event, which is already on youtube.

The university also posted the audio podcast of the whole event here.

It has been a while that I did a post.

Last month I travelled to San Jose, California to see my younger brother. California is beautiful. Went around the Silicon Valley campuses, enjoyed the California beaches,

drove around San Francisco,

saw the famous Golden Gate Bridge,

went for a game of beach-ball at Half Moon bay,

and went on 17 Mile Drive.

And yes! I forgot to tell you, I was there for just a day and a half:).

I’m watching Sikhnet Film Festival. A great attempt by Sikhnet.com to share the video submissions for the annual festival at the same time. Sikhnet is using a web service mogulus.com which provides free broadcast.

At this point of time, there are 146 viewers watching the “35″- A documentary on the importance of learning Punjabi script by Sikhs. A very professionally made video by 19 years old Raj Singh. I’m impressed.

I invite more people to join Satluj, where we – a group of Punjabi Techies are constantly working on enabling softwares in Punjabi and Localization of Linux.