the great escape

"Shatabdi express" runs as fast as trains can run in India. Given that almost all the train tracks are open for people and animals to walk over, it is not too uncommon for nasty accidents -- more often with people than animals I suppose: the latter seem to employ a better sense of judgement. A good example is this video. The couple just had to wait for probably 4-5 seconds, but no, the guy hops over the tracks and girl promptly follows. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

at uds

I got the chance to volunteer at the ubuntu developers' summit today. It was pretty cool seeing all these guys discuss the future directions of probably the fastest growing linux platform in the recent past. Mark Shuttleworth even gave a talk yesterday, which I am sorry I missed. But looks like it was video taped and I am hoping to lay my hands on it soon.