intermittent chatter

I am going to Chennai for the BlogCamp on 8th September. Me and my wife planned out a small holiday alongwith it, since she has some relatives there. We all wanted to fly because Mahi-Meha are too young to travel such a long distance by train. But recent fear of terrorist attacks and new rules of flying without carrying any liquids robbed us of this opportunity

Mahi-Meha need something to eat/drink every 2-3 hours. We need to carry their feed and bottles of milk everywhere. We inquired with a friend working in Jet Airways. She said, baby food is allowed. But we again called Jet’s security section to be completely sure and they said no liquids are allowed. I called up the office of GoAir and they confirmed that no liquids are allowed. So ultimately we had to cancel the plan of a small holiday and M2 lost their first opportunity to fly!

BlogCamp, blog unconference, is being held in Chennai on 9th and 10th September. Deep informed me about it and I confirmed my participation soon enough.

We are leaving on 8th evening. We had an option of leaving on 9th early morning. But we were afraid of flight delays and consequently missing out on the initial part of it. So decided to leave on 8th and return on 10th by a late night flight. We have already booked the tickets and will book our accomodation soon.

Besides the unconference, I am also looking forward to meet a couple of friends in Chennai whom I have never met - Ashwin and Sathya! I have interacted online with both these many times over in YIM and/or forums (Digit and TechSpot). But this is the first opportunity to meet them in person. I have also suggested a TechSpot Chennai meet on one of these days so that we get to meet some more guys from Chennai while we are already there.

The thought of this camp and an opprtunity to listen to experienced bloggers excites me quite a bit. Hold on Chennai, I am on my way!

A few friends and cousins have always been fond of the twins-timeline that I maintain. Some of them remind me to update it if I havent done it in a month. For those who don’t know, twins-timeline contains the pictures of my twin daughters - Mahi & Meha - since their birth in May 2005. I put 2 pics every month in the timeline. It really shows the progress these two have made since their birth.

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I feel better I have upgraded to WP 2.0.4. I had my share of hiccups while upgrading and a wrong click due to lack of concentration, messed up the whole thing. I am glad, I backed up my MySQL database and restored everything from there. On the way, I learnt a few things

Now the next step is to get all the plugins back and search for a new theme for WordPress

Due to an extremely busy work schedule and a couple of new projects on hand, I could not blog for almost a month! I hope to do so now. I am still very busy with about more than 20 different work projects on hand. But still hope to blog at least twice a week. And yes! Twins-timeline will remain upto date and will be updated every month!

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