Orderliness in Randomness

In the macro world in which we live, there is complete randomness. Like accidents happening on the same road on which we are traveling. The orderliness is depicted in our moving ahead without getting deviated.

In the micro world, the electrons seem to be in random motion relative to each other. The orderliness is depicted in each of them moving in their predefined orbits without getting deviated by other electrons.

So, when orderliness in randomness is a rule, the reverse is only an exception.

Love Over Reason

When a person is born, he/she first experiences love, then is followed by reasons, much later. When the person is dying, all he/she wants is love, and no numbers or reasons. All reasons and numbers exist due to love without which they are meaningless. A person whose life lacks love, seeks fulfilment from numbers and reasons. This is something which isn't possible. Life's true joy lies in the simplest of all things, which is love.

Bits, Bites, Strings and Pages!!

I am a happy man today with the life square made up of bits, bites, strings and pages.

The bits in my life are those of GtkHTML. After having spent last few months fixing it's code so that it's 0s and 1s behave nicely, I feel I have succeeded. Next week will be it's stable release for Gnome 2.12. All the critical and major bugs have been squashed. I take the full responsiblity of the gruesome killings but bugs are born to die at our hands. If not, their natural death can coincide with that of the application!.. So, kill them in the bud!

Bites of some delicious food can often be elixir unless you are an anorexic. My mom and dad had dropped by in town and so I spent few days with them, savouring the delights of excellent home cooked sumptuous food! Wish I could cook like my mom! Hmm, need to start cooking first to cook well.

Strings, are the newest and wildest entry into my life. The hibernatation of the long harboured desire to play a stringed instrument, was finally broken when my friend Praveen talked to me about his guitar plans, few weeks back. And here I am today, who can play the tunes of about 10 songs without looking into the written chords. It has brought soulful harmony into my life. Amen!

Pages, authored by Dan Brown can be exciting, compelling and possessive.
I am on the verge of completing the entire Dan Brown series very soon. The order of the accomplishment is,
Da Vinci Code - Angels and Demons - Deception Point - Digital Fortress
The only other author whose entire collection I have loved reading is Jeffrey Archer.
M.K. Gandhi's 'My experiments with Truth' is supposedly next in my read queue.

Finally, some poetic juices at play....

Code is frozen hard and shiny,
may we fix all bugs, even too tiny,
life will turn over a new chapter,
we will make merry ever after....

Quote Un'Quote...
Find j0y 0ut 0f tits & bits in 1ife; wh01e is 0ften 0bscure.

Thanks for reading!

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.

Wish the day was longer and the week shorter

Bugs, bugs, bugs .. a buggy month just went by and here I am, blogging exactly after a month-long hiatus. The good news is, I stamped, scorched, and ate many bugs. The bad news is, they are still an army and they don't care. I do.

The title might make little sense to you, as it does, even to me. Here is my humble attempt to clear some haze. If the day was longer, I could blog daily. If the week was shorter, I could read some more cool stuff on file systems, which I miss during week days.

Samba is an interesting read. I really wish to complete reading Using Samba by O'Reilly before I blog next. No, it won't be as long as a month, this time!

My friend Madhan who was a Novell Open Source Internship Program trainee made it as an in-house trainee last week. Great guy, and lots of fun to work with.

On the off-tech (does this word exist?) side of life, I cherished my time watching Black, which looked like inspired by Ray, or maybe the other way round. Mark Knoffler is coming to town, and I don't even know if I am really a rock fan, yet. Let me see if I get lucky and find myself there. Rock on!

Heat is soaring! "Rain, rain don't go away, little Johny loves to play in rain".

Have fun, or whatever you like to have.
Catch ya, later.

Nautilus brings in newness and nerdity!

I have been handed over the baton of Nautilus and Gnome-VFS for Novell Linux Desktop (NLD). Yes!!! it feels good and I am simply loving it. I have begun my long journey with the small step of reading the RFC 959 towards fixing some issue in nautilus' ftp behaviour. Earlier, I was giving my love to audio/video stuff in NLD. Whenever I would get nostalgic, I can always fix nautilus-media problems and pacify my multimedia itch. So, much for the roadmap. No, wait..I also need to get back to tending my baby. She is hardly 3 months old and I am sure she needs lots of love from her papa. She is no one else but my Gnome Lockdown tool. She is growing well, I know.
Weekend whizzed past, way too fast. I think slashdot had a story about how the recent earthquake actually shortened the day (though only by a few micro-seconds), apart from telling us how capable a tsunami is in wreaking havoc.
Alas, Australian Open is over and none of my favourites could finally win the trophy. Though, they did play remarkably well. Sharapova and Sania, for those who would like to know the names.
Well, well, well, last but not the least, I am still waiting for my to-be lifeline, my new laptop! I am sure it would bring in lots of joy and freedom, in my world of hacking open-source software.
Have a nice week!!