Quick tricks i learnt

Well, this past month, been reading a lot and also finding some nice quick tricks on the way.

1. This one is really cool if you are usually reading about bug reports on bugzilla. Use firefox quick search feature. Create a quick search for yourself and just type "bugs 65532" and boom, it lists you the bug report for 65532. "bugs" is what firefox calls the "keyword". Well, Harish actually told me about this, and its kinda cool feature i keep using quite often.

2. Gmail has added a new spell check feature. A bit sliggish, but works. And yeah, if you havent noticed the similarity, gmail actually uses vim navigation keys.

3. Found a nice article on Chip mutithreading. Is a good reading.

4. Found some tips for mastering email overload :-)

More to come ahead ...

The fun of reading a book

Do you remember when was the last time you experienced the fun of reading a book? Well, if you really think well, its not when you are holding a book in the late night at around 2, fighting hard to not leave the book and still get some sleep soon so you can catch the bus in the morning, nor is it when you read that one more twist in the story that makes you praise the author in awe, but its actually when you discuss about that one great book you read with another reader who was also fascinated by the same things that clicked to you as well when you were reading it.

Well, thats exactly what happened when i met someone on my way back home in the bus, when he saw me holding Crichton's book "The Terminal Man". We unanimously agreed that the best part of Crichton's books is the detailed explanation of the things in the field around which the story is revolving. The most common thing in all Crichton's book, apart from the vast knowledge you get to gain from the detailed research that he puts in to give you that information, is that one central character, who for most of the time, is completely ignorant to the technical details of the industry in discussion. This thing is very much evident in two of Crichton's books I read, one being "Airframe", discussing about the aeronautics industry and the other one being "The Terminal Man" which revolves around psychology, brain surgery and computers. Well, this also reminds me about "Prey", another Michael's book, which dwells into microbiology and computers and nanotechnology.

I was recommended to read. Robert Ludlum's "Airport". I guess, thats the next one i am gonna read.

Its been really long since the last time i posted anything here on this blog. It was some real hectic time with last minute things going in and our friend Murphy always standing there and smiling on us say, "I told you, if something can go wrong, it definately will" ... Arrrggghhh !!!. We completed evolution-exchange 2.2.0 release as part of Evolution 2.2.0 for GNOME 2.10, and also completed 2.2.1 release. We are all now preparing some requirements in a very unique way, in a wiki, to gather as much information we can and decide on the most important things we can concentrate on for the coming up 2.4 release.