• G1G1 is back (and we are shipping to Europe as well for this edition). This time, with Amazon around, the delivery issues would hopefully be a lot better.
• It looks like the XO is topping the Amazon bestsellers list in the computer category today.
• The laptops can also run GNOME with Fedora as an option (put in an SD card, and it will boot Fedora, pull the card out, and you’ll get Sugar). Someone is already selling Fedora pre-installed SD cards for the XO on Amazon. (of course, you can always create an image, and put it on a SD card yourself)
• Apparently there is still confusion about OLPC and Microsoft – Greg’s post should clear things up.
• Among the G1G1 related marketing efforts, there’s a pretty awesome video (I’m trying to find out if there is a Ogg version somewhere), and a cool (though flash based…) “equations to change the world” website, equation.laptop.org.
  
  
  
  
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Last week I took a mini vacation and went to a trip to the Sundarbans (the largest Mangrove forest in the world, formed on the delta of the Ganga and the Bramhaputra). I hadn’t realized that it was so close – Gosaba, which is the gateway to the forests is only around 2 and a half hours drive from my house. (we took a “package tour”, which minimized the hassles as we got a car taking us from Kolkata to Gosaba, and at Gosaba a launch was waiting to take us into the forest)

We arrived on a day when Cyclone Reshmi was approaching the region, and the first night in the forest was to put it mildly… interesting . Fortunately the skies cleared up on the second day, and for the next two days, we had an awesome experience, including one of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve ever seen in my life.

More photos in this Flickr set.

..and no – I did not see any tigers – we were busy hopping around from one watchtower to another.