Adventures of an High Elf Sorcerer

This is perhaps the best example of a community effort - power of the people. This almost makes me believe in socialism. A mammoth work created by the cumulative effort of perhaps thousands of people across the globe, transcending all barriers of region, language, religion and all such others that we tend to raise between us and our neigbours. For the English version, check out http://en.wikipedia.org This project started on January 2, 2001. It basically uses a system based on wikis (a wiki is web page that can be edited using your web browser by whoever has rights to do so and the name 'wiki' is derived from the Hawaiian word 'wiki-wiki', meaning 'quick') to create an encyclopedia. The inspiration behind this idea was Richard M Stallman . This is an encyclopedia that you can modify if you want to (unless you have been blacklisted for vandalism). By now it must be the largest repository of knowledge in the world ... and it is still growing a

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All right, I promise to be more regular with this now, especially now that I can ;) There have been quite a few developments lately. One of them is my website. Check out http://aditya.adotout.net . Its not very jazzy though, primarily due to my lack of expertise to make it jazzy. And also because I want to be able to see it through lynx/links. I've been working a bit on x3270 which is a mainframe terminal emulator client. Planning to deploy and promote it in Infy. Its been a lot a fun and has been irritating at times. GUI programming has alays been irritating for me. Other than that, I was confirmed as an employee of Infosys pretty recently. Which basically means that I completed one year out here. We had a small private celebration at Rujuta's place where I ate Tandoor chicken from Blue Nile to my heart's content and we watched 'Schiendler's List'. Perhaps not an apt choice for the occasion, but I had never seen it before and I loved it!