Hola Chicos...

...Are perhaps one of the few words in Spanish I know, thanks to Eva.

She and Simone are having a blast of a time in sunny PA... Much as I dig not being there, I wish you both better luck with flights, trams and lots of fun... ;-)

Germany is more fun when you are here. :-)

Tied in a knot...

My childhood friend Vinay got married this weekend. What a wonderful thing.

Living in a foreign country comes with it share of pains - one of them being the inability to be physically present in days so important as these. My best wishes to you Prajakta and Vinay towards a long, happy, peaceful and blissful marital life.

Much as I envy Sujit for being able to make it, I am very happy that at least one other in our elite group of three was witness to this great event! :-)

Miss you both.
So long...

Me and photography...

Hope you enjoy the photos at: http://ilovemycam.blogspot.com/

I'll keep updating it... You keep visiting it.
Simple!

My first technical BLOG...

Announcing the arrival of: http://cstrings.blogspot.com/

More to follow...

Some nice meetings to talk of...

I've been a member of a popular programming bulletin board (online, of course) called Codeguru for some time now. It all started about 3 years back when I had some queries, and posted them here. As time passed, I became a contributor of solutions too, and in general - started enjoying this community. Eventually, I got recognized by Microsoft and some doors opened.

It does seem that lady luck was going strong on me (perhaps, I did work long on her ;) ) and I had the pleasure of meeting some really nice people (MVPs and otherwise) whom I knew of online - in person.

Rather than delve deep into the individual meetings again, let me just take you to the threads that discuss these developments -

• Meet with Guido Stercken-Sorrenti during informal MVP Dinner at Frankfurt.
• Meet with Guido and Codeguru Member Mr. Beans at Stuttgart
• Meet with Marius Bancila (a fellow MVP), Guido and Mr. Beans at Guido's Birthday (latest)

I have also had the pleasure of meeting MVPs during regional Microsoft meet, and that was a wonderful experience too.

That's a lot of reading for now.

Ciao,
Sid!