About the author:

Sundar Raman - who has written 42 articles on Fairfield Voice.

It's only fair that I say a bit about myself before I force the world to share in my deepest (darkest?) insights I guess, so here goes. I'm a Fairfield native. Not by birth, but having been here for just about 20 years I think I can consider myself about as committed to this community as anyone out there. I'm an Open Source advocate. This means that I have long, drawn out debates about the merits of transparency that make for very awkward dinner conversations with my more corporate friends and relatives. I'm opinionated about most things. I'm more opinionated about things that I know absolutely nothing about than those that I know something about. I'm sure that says a lot about me to the psycho-analysts out there. (Instructions to readers of my posts: 1. procure a sizeable hunk of Himalayan Pink Salt; 2. place HPS next to computer; 3. read blog sentence; 4. lick HPS; 5. repeat steps 3-5. ) I love politics, food, travel, nature, photography, art and technology. Not in any particular order, and the more deviant and unconventional these are, the better! So now that you know me, let's get it on ...