On the bulk of digital reactions: the Like buttons!

Foreword: It’s not as if I had nothing better to do at the moment. But this thought just struck me and I wanted to record it somewhere. Do read and react, if you want to. I can almost hear sarcasm floating around: “I bet you’re fun at parties”.

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Like buttons are acknowledgments alright. But what use could they be of, if one is not able to smile/reply back to every individual ack? Do the numbers”50 favorites / 50,000 likes” really matter a lot? This thought is important if you ask me, since these reactions really have coaxed a lot of people around the world into doing crazy stuff, just for the likes. Guilty as charged, myself!

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..and write, I will.

100 posts lined up. Now that I’ve put this here, sometime in near future, *hoping* I would probably save myself some embarrassment of posting this one .. by nailing down those 100 posts  Need to let the word out; Need to help people; Need to document life, conversations, events, personalities, ideas, products more often.

*Repeats to himself*

  • “No, I won’t delete this post to cover up my tracks.”

Saltstack workshop – Kya aapke Stack mein Salt hai?

Helped Krace and Saravana organize SaltStack workshop today at Redhat office, Bangalore (IN) [meetup link: Workshop on SaltStack] with a count of around 35-40 participants. The aim was to give a hands-on intro to concepts of salt stack, like minions, master, grains, pillars, state files, salt modules.. However, due to time constraints, some installation problem diagnosis and interesting questions being put up actively by a few, all topics could not be covered. Although my doubts were cleared, thanks to Krace and Saravana for putting effort and time into the presentation!

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