Adventures of an High Elf Sorcerer

Plans are brewing up. Something big lies ahead of us. X-ite is doing really well and we have come pretty far from where we started. But all things have a saturation point. Perhaps X-ite has hit it. Perhaps there is a lot that can still be done with it. But as we keep exploring the unknown seas of perl script goodies and the hazardous rock cliff shores of Xt, we are beginning to see shorelines all around us. It seems like a time to move to newer seas. But what we have in mind is almost as big as a Captain Cook voyage as compared to what we have been doing so far. Its a humongous task to say the least. One step at a time. The first task is going to be to agree upon a good design.

After a loong time I got my hands dirty with some ugly looking C code. Managed to add in a new feature in x3270 in pretty quick time! Feels good, really good.

The next thing that I remember is Homyar shaking me awake the next morning. I was feeling much better and all the exhaustion seemed to gone away. Good thing too, because I was scheduled to give my talk in three hours. The talk before ours was on Gambas (Gambas is mostly basic). Gambas is supposed to be a clone of VB. I dont know how good it really is, but the speaker managed to create a movie player and its RPM package for Suse in three minutes flat. And yes, everythign worked absolutely fine. After that was my talk. There were about 10 people in the hall to listen to us. Out of them, one old fellow kept insisting that working on Mainframes is a horrowing experience and that we had really done a tremendous job in making life easier for other mainframe programs. I can't believe that Abhay and I actually argued with that fellow in favour of mainframes for a while. We met Rajesh (from Infosys) out there. He was one of the audience. All our efforts bearing fruit in Infosys have been la...

We reached on Tue at 11 pm. Unforunately we had missed the Infosys visit and the interaction with all the hackers elite. When we reached the hotel, Abhay had not yet reached. He was scheduled to check in on Wednesday morning. On the list of people who I knew was Guntapalli Karunakar. I decided to pay him a visit at around 11:30 in the night. I knew that there was no way he would be sleeping. He hangs around on IRC till late night usually. Karunakar was working on his presentation when we barged in on him. He was put up with a fellow called Gopal who works in Wipro, Hyderabad. Over three days I have come to greatly respect this fellow. That was pretty much it for Tuesday. Wednesday started with Abhay knocking on our door when we were getting ready. The person he was supposed to share his room with was having his bath. When I opened the door, he said 'Hi'. I replied with a 'Hi', but I had no idea who I was talking to. I had never seen Abhay in my life before. He introduce...

The more I use thunderbird, the more I like it. It may not have the functionality the mutt provides or the advanced filtering capabilities of KMail, but it has just enough. Just enough for me that is. So far, I have been able to find every feature I needed right where I looked. That is what I call an intuitive interface. Finally after a long time, the Silicon Mountains repairman showed up and got my connection working again, which means I can now access the net using my laptop (I could have done it in Windows, but who is going to go through so much of extra trouble to connect to the net, especially when the desktop is running fine). So here I am, typing this post in Thunderbird, replying to other mails, with my legs stretched out on the bed. Its such a comfortable feeling. Now back to that documentation Manas has imposed upon me.