Random thoughts and serendipity

A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else

Translator accounts on GNOME

Runa writes about some difficulties in getting accounts for translators – not so good news

Written by sankarshan

December 12th, 2007 at 9:25 am

matutinal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
matutinal: relating to or occurring in the morning. […]

John Kenneth Galbraith
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." […]
Bill Vaughan
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." […]

And sometimes you do
end up smiling (note I did write smiling instead of smirking) on the predicaments. For instance, it is just the mid March and, instead of the Ides of March we have the beginnings of the hot season. Curiously enough, we had a spell of shower today and predictably enough the weather went all over the [...] […]
There are times when you recall the surroundings
It turns out that I completed 5 years at the work-place recently. It is a bit of a jumble because the employment contract and status during the times I joined was a bit of a mess and, so it was a surprise. It also struck me that through all these 5 years I have seen folks [...] […]
Annoying ice-breakers
“What are you up to ? Long time no see” was the constant refrain that I heard yesterday at GNUnify’10 when I dropped in. I have never been able to respond well to the “What are you up to part ?”. Most of the times I am doing stuff that is either deeply internal to [...] […]