Gal, going, gone !!

Yoo hoo! I finally retired Gal today (a.k.a 'Gal merged into evolution') and marked the closing ceremony by removing it from the 2.12 jhbuild moduleset. It had so many learnings that I could a write a book, if someone promises to read it. Nice experience, in all!
So, Gtkhtml, I am back to you after a vacation with Gal. Sorry, about the delay; got stuck in some cvs traffic.
Laptops (and so computing from home) would take some more time. Life, as they say, bears sweet fruits for those who can wait. But hey, I don't want any fruits, I asked for a laptop ;)
City is getting cooler, day by day, as we progress into the monsoon. Caught some cold and headache yesterday. Much better now.
See ya soon. Have good fun or however you like it.
Bye.

Back to blogging after a blink

Two months can see you through lots of change. I have moved over to working and maintaining Gtkhtml, which is the editing and rendering component of evolution - "The coolest mail client around". Then the other interesting stuff happening was retiring GAL (Gnome Application Library), which has been the customized widget set, used primarily by evolution, and in the past also by Gnumeric and Planner. It kept me hooked for a while in the world of bash scripting. Now that it is all committed to the cvs, I can take a deep cool long breadth and blog a while, till something else gets me. GAL is now merged into evolution and the moed widgets are still relevant and need to be maintained. Of course, as it isn't as privileged as gdm, to be maintained by the Queen of England ;), so I have the honor of doing this for sometime.

At home, I like reading, like nothing else. Just finished 'Lajja' - by Taslima Nasreen, and picked up 'Veronica decides to die' - by Paolo Coelho. Only 50 pages read and yet, I already find it very engaging. 150 more to go. What more could I ask.

I need to get myself a laptop soon so that I can give more love to gtkhtml. I wish it happens soon after what looks like a life-long wait. Wish I had the scissors which cut red-tape ;).

Ah yes, before I forget or fail to make this blog less boring, let me stick a picture here. This is of the Novell's 10th Annual Day (2005) celebration at the Taj Residency, Bangalore. (refer the last post below).

Raining off and on here in Bangalore. Catch you, soon.
Bye.

Novell Annual Day Hotel gallery pic

Novell Annual Day Hotel gallery pic
Originally uploaded by kaushalkumar.