Puri…

The Beach at Puri Fishing Night's Catch
Just came back home from a one day whirlwind trip to Puri. The return journey was not a very comfortable one, since somehow, my seat (no. 8, AC 3 tier) had been converted into a locker for keeping the “bed-rolls“, and I had to sleep in the TTC’s seat. Anyway, I’m again back in action at Kolkata, and currently, I’m trying to release a patch to solve the issues remaining wrt Bangla rendering in OpenOffice.org 2. If you are interested in beta testing, take a look at this mailing list post. Tomorrow, I’ll be going to WBUT, and if things go as planned, I’ll be celebrating New Year by attending the Midnight Mass at St. Pauls.

Recovering after the disaster

Last November, there was a major hardware failure in the server that hosts the Randomink.org website, and as a result, the last six months’ posts have been lost. However, the hardware failure provided me with the excuse to upgrade my Wordpress installation, and now I’m running Wordpress 2.0 RC3. The theme is a slightly modified version of the Wuhan Wordpress theme (the header image was GIMP-ed to include a picture of my room).

My 3rd semester exams are finally over, and at present, I’m frantically trying to clean up my mailbox and make a proper prioritised list of the pending tasks ahead. I’ll be going back to college sometime during January, and hopefully, the new FSF India site, as well as the Ankur Bangla site will be officially up and running by then. I also plan to complete the XMPP support in Senpai during this break, and if I get some time, I’ll be upgrading the Drupal installation in the iLUG-Cal site. I’m also attending the regional FLOSSWorld workshop to be held at CDAC Mumbai, and maybe, I’ll also try to go to Linux Asia 2006. Right now, however, the priority is to put the various randomink services back online. If you used to utilise any of the randomink.org services (mailing list hosting, email, web hosting, etc), and if you are facing problems, please do email me at sayamindu randomink org with the words randomink repair in the subject line. I’ll try my best to restore all services as soon as possible.