• For this year’s GSOC, I will be mentoring Julen Ruiz Aizpuru, who will be working on Effective user experience for Pootle.
• I badly needed a break this week, and so three of us from college went for a trip to Mandarmani, a sea side resort around 200 km from Kolkata. It is still somewhat isolated compared to the other sea side resorts nearby, and the last 7 km of our trip consisted of driving over the beach, and getting stuck in the sand, which was fun. However, due to Mandarmani’s isolation, and since we went there in the middle of the week (no weekend tourists), we had almost the entire beach to ourselves for the next two days, and it was an awesome experience. Some pictures
  
  
  
  Driving on the beach

  
  Desolate beach, dotted with red crabs

  
  The beach

  
  Sunset

The picture above (I took it during September 2006) looks very similar to a photo published in this month’s Linux For You. A scan of the page is available in Ravishankar’s blog.


…and it looks like this is not the first time Linux for You is doing this .

….To use it, make sure you’re in a reasonably lit room. It won’t work in pitch black, but you don’t have to be sitting in a tanning bed either. Start Colors! and navigate to the second tab, Paint. Click on the leftmost icon, Palette, and enable both “Pressure Sensitive” checkboxes. Click on the Palette button again to close that window. Click on the rightmost button, the magnifying glass called Video Paint. Hold the charger out a foot or two from the camera, and hold the left mouse button to paint. ….

Awesome!