Got the best Christmas gift I could ever hope for! Several dozen of my school friends are in town for the 25th year re-union of our passing out…
Author: Tarique Sani
Not so sucky after all!
Saturday I wrote to someone
(06:47:09 PM) Tarique: life SUX – it is weekend and I am dreading it
After the *adrenaline and endorphin high* from foss.in of the past week waning, I was feeling kind of lost… Had planned to hook up with some friends to go a nearby village and see the Bar-headed geese but that fizzled out. So decided to sleep late….
Woke up at 9 which is late by everyday standards but still early enough to go bird watching – by 9:30 we were out, much to the annoyance of Swati’s hypothetical mom in-law. A three kilometer drive and we were walking the catchment area of Ambhazari lake. Seeing that the number of migratory arrivals has increased was heartening. We spent the next two and a half hours there and racked up a massive count of 104 species! including a pair for Bar-headed geese. Got very few pictures though as my D70 is now nearly dead and refuses to focus, doing a manual focus is too frustrating to be worth its while.
Between all this Swati could talk to her cook at home and we knew that there will be hot aloo parathas waiting for us. On the way we stopped at the DVD shop and picked up some DVD/VCD among them was 8 VCD set of “Yeh jo hai zindagi” and much to our delight Aasim is absolutely loving the series. Watched 2 episodes… post lunch time was spent watching the movie “Mumbai Salsa” an ok movie to watch once….
Evening? – thats best left out of a public entry….
Barbecue!!!
Finally it happened… the first barbecue party at the new home. While such parties were a norm almost every third week through out the winter at the old place it was just not happening here.
We were just three families with the kids.
The fun part in any barbecue is making the kebabs and steaks, right from lighting the charcoal to putting stuff on the skewers and grilling it – everything interspersed with drinks and expert comments from everyone 😉
Apart from the usual malai kebabs and chicken tikka – the marinade for which Swati has perfected – this time we had excellent steaks of Surmai fish and we also tried Thai style fish grilled over coals in bannana leaf wrap – we used a biggish Red Snapper for this. All this was washed down it lots of white wine, Oh! yes there was also some Roti and smoked Dal but even the kids kept asking “Dal? – whats that!!”
flickr now has stats!!
If you are a pro account holder then you can now activate stats for your photo stream. Now only if these were also available in their API…..
foss.in/2007 pictures
Subject line says it all – here they are – about 220 of them….
Give me programmers or give me death!!!!!
Damn! I am not even asking for developers.
WOW! that is a lot of downloads!
Was just leafing through the Coppermine Picture Gallery stats page and noticed that we have crossed 4 million downloads from sourceforge alone to be precise it currently stands at 4,070,119 downloads
A huge thanks to the entire team who have been most wonderful over the years but special thanks to to Abbas, Aditya and Amit the three who besides being on the dev team work right here by my side at SANIsoft
Lessons for the internet age: You don’t name your event same as a common english phrase!
Techno babble
Evidence that Aasim is exposed to too much techno babble and the net.
On being asked what was he searching in the cupboards and drawers – “Nothing I am just surfing through them.”
His comment on an erratically behaving digital wall clock – “That thing is randomly browsing through time.”
Back from freed.in
Got back from https://freed.in/
Food was good
Meeting friends was great
The hospitality of the organizers outstanding