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

Happy birthday to G Karunakar many more happy hacking years to come!!

@Karunakar – the captcha on your blog sux 😉

Will you be there at freed.in

I and Swati will be there – will you be?

Anyone interested in any informal, in the corridor kind of BoFs?

@Kishore – are there corridors at the venue that can be conviniently crowded 😉