Spent last evening chewing mails, reading up Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free and Open Source Software Projects [PDF link thanks to Kartik] and listening to music from Soulmate. Mail chewage is a necessary evil and one of these days I am going to write down how to “get it done”. Got “Shillong” off MusicYogi (that awesome site which is making me sing praises for them) and was surprised by the quality of their oeuvre. I quite like Blues … , St Valentine’s Day Blues, Shillong (Sier Lapalang) and My Baby. Having never heard them, I didn’t know what to expect and they are good, real good. Wouldn’t mind at all to watch them perform live.

Waiting for this book to land up. Meanwhile finished Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country – doesn’t say anything new other than arranging the old facts in proper relational sequence and tying them together in a journal like form. Too much actual dialogues being written down which comes in the way of a good read. Speaking of which, if someone uses Goodreads.com, I am “Sankarshan” there – perhaps you would like to connect.
Looks like Microsoft is doing an IndiBloggers meet at Pune tomorrow.  Agenda being showing off the LiveWriter thing. Hmm… time for Kushal to work on his offline blogging application I think 🙂

In the not-so-good-news department it turns out that the industrial growth has dipped to 5.3% as per news reports. That of course will set off the usual cascade of dips in various indices and pundits on television proclaiming about “the fundamentals being tested“. Which, by the way, is a phrase I can never make anything out of. Add to that the alarming news about global food stocks and things don’t look to be rosy at all.

ps: Haven’t seen potential SoC candidates from India for GNOME – wonder what’s wrong ?