About this Website

This website is my (Atul Chitnis) personal home on the web. It is by and about me, my family, my friends, my hobbies, my music and in general things that interest me. It very specifically is not about my company or my work. If you need to know more about my professional life, please visit my professional website.

Content

This site contains stuff I write, think or otherwise create. It does not represent stuff you write, think or otherwise create. It represents my opinions. It is possible that these clash with yours. If you feel that this is unfair, tough luck. This is what the web is all about - the ability to put up a place in cyberspace and call it "mine". You are free to put up your own site and call it "yours".

Privacy

This site does not collect private information other than my own. If you respect my privacy, I will respect yours.

Tech

This site uses a combination of HTML and PHP code that I hand coded myself. Other than standard stuff that ships with a decent Linux distribution, I have used no external code (especially not any "Instant Website" applications).

It is fully templated, and I can change the look and feel of the site at the drop of a hat. I often do.

The diary and several sections on this site are database driven (I currently use MySQL). Naturally, everything is hosted under Linux.

For reasons of embarrassment, I do not publish the code that drives this site - there is enough spagetti out there without my contributing to it. Someday, I might change my mind - when I do, you will read about it on this website.

The photo albums are produced by a set of custom scripts. I only need to copy the photos into a directory and run "mkalbum" to have them resized for the web, thumbnails created and HTML files generated. These scripts are totally hardcoded for this site, but if someone is interested in them, let me know. Please note that they are for Linux and will not work under Windows. They also assume that you have at least ImageMagick installed.

Disclaimer

While you are welcome to read stuff posted here (except areas that are specifically marked as private), please be aware that anything and everything on this site is subject to my own personal whims and fancies. There are no guarantees of accuracy.

In fact, there are no guarantees at all. Period.

Copyright

Unless specifically stated, everything on this site is