About Me

My name is Sivakumar. One name. People call me Siva or Kumar or Sivku.

I trained to be a Naval Architect and figured I had a better shot at life going through B-School. For a bit over 10 years now I have been working in the financial services business. Thankfully, work is normally challenging and intellectually rewarding. And I enjoy it. Because work times are generally fixed, it also leaves me time to do other things.

Right, I am not going to do the A/S/L thing. There is going to be a lot of “I” in this page, but seeing as it is an About Me page…

I like to read. My favourite fiction genres are crime and humour plus some science fiction & fantasy. I also dabble in philosophy and religion. Then there is history and language. And lastly economics and politics (not elections, but political philosophy).

I have mellowed musically. In college, I was the only one listening to hip-hop. For a while, I almost exclusively listened to country. But in middle age, my tastes have become much more mainstream. Still my choices of are a little out of the ordinary for those around me.

Technology, especially computers, do it for me. I have been using Linux almost since Slackware began (kernel 1.2 was my first). For several years now, my main machines have been running Linux based operating systems. My last two phones have had open source underpinnings. But damn you, Motorola, for screwing your users with the disgrace that is EZX. My next project is to get it running on my recently acquired Playstation3.