Arrgghh…

My Internet connection was down for almost a week due to the strike at BSNL. Even my landline service was quite flaky, and during the past seven days, the only reliable way of contacting me was by calling my Hutch mobile. Anyway, the strike seems to be over now, and services are being restored (slowly, that is).

During the past few days, I have been digging into Jabberd2 (configuring this thing seems to be a really complicated affair), and into loudmouth. The plan is to implement a kind of virtual class room by integrating this into Senpai. The end product may not be very useful, but it is a good coding exercise for me :).

During the week, I got together with some of my college buddies, and watched Constantine. Didn’t like it very much. Also did a proper (non jhbuild) upgrade to GNOME 2.10 during the week, and after applying the patches from here, the experience has been really good. During the upgrade process, after applying the native file selector widget and Indic rendering patches to Firefox, I decided to make the switch from Epiphany. Though Firefox seems to be a little more “heavier” than Epiphany, tools like this and this make things bearable.

..and since I had nothing much to do, I also re-did my hacker head (since some people didn’t like the earlier one). Hope this one looks better.