I used LaTeX when I was in school to create reports, presentation (using beamer) and even sometimes class notes and assignments. Recently when I was looking for a presentation program in Linux I was crestfallen by the lack of polish in OpenOffice Impress. So I created my presentation for the Salt Lake Linux User Group in LaTeX and it looked professional (nothing surprising there). But that was created on my tiny Netbook running Meego....

My wife and I were in Burlington coat factory today and she finally found a pair of gloves that fits her stringent requirements. Her joy knew no bounds. I’ve never seen anyone so truly happy. She has been wearing them since we got out of the store and haven’t taken them off. Its been more than 4 hours. Reminds me of the time, I got my first bokken and carried it around everywhere....

I’m getting ready for the India Trip in January and it is one hectic process. I’m getting all these gifts for my parents, brothers, cousins, uncles and the list keeps on growing. Perils of having a large loving family. One of these days, I’m going to make enough money to get all of them the gifts that I really want to give. One of these days….

Today I presented in the Salt Lake Linux User Group meeting. The topic was “Hands on Intro - Git”. It went well and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. I choked twice once while trying to explain how to git apply patches that you receive via email, but then recovered from it with some help from the audience. But the second time I choked while trying to explain how to pull from multiple remote repositories, I couldn’t recover from that....

My body is aching from Hapkido. My head hurts from the constant context-switching. My brain is tired from the messy debugging I had to do at work. But life must go on. I have to prepare two different presentations for next week. A Git presentation for the Linux User Group and a PyQt4 presentation for the UtahPython Group. I think I can manage it.  But I have promises to keep,...