OSS is; at worst - ridiculously pathetic and can be the brilliant underdog - at best. But most of the times it's plain frustrating to work with… in my humble opinion, that is. I have worked most of my career on it, I have had many frustrating experiences with it. How the hell can you explain to yourself; let alone your peers & superiors how a FC4 server would reboot whenever you make a request to phpMyAdmin that's been working great for the past 4 months. This kind of voodoo behavior has driven me nuts at times.
Ironically I'm talking on this issue on the day I was finally successful in setting up CVS after almost a dozen attempts over the last few months. (Had earlier tried it on Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora Core 4, FreeBSD, Windows Server 2003 & Windows xp Professional over the course of time, when I was finally able to setup CVSNT on my Windows xp machine)
Then there are things that you can't stop laughing about; thinking how pathetic a situation can get. So Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of the PHP project had quit. There are people who are using this incident to cite the supposedly "unhappy" life that OSS programmers lead. I absolutely hope that it's not true. As soon as you begin to wonder what was of so much interest to Slahdotters in this story when you suddenly find discussions about the Israel & Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon having something to do with this? Grow up people!
And then there's the whole debate over the GPL draft. Let's face it, GPL is not a business-centric model. But then why debate over the commercial viabilities every time a new draft is forged?

How much time should it take to return to your normal routine when you've been missing out from it for almost a month? It will be 2 weeks today since I returned back to work after a not so nice Chicken Pox experience, but still haven't returned to what I would call One Hundred Percent Efficiency. Trust me when I say it's best to get it in your childhood, than mid-20s. But the new Scarface is more charming around the ladies than the soft spoken, handsome, homely, nice guy. So I guess I should be happy.
But not all is good, I am still stuck at the same chapter of Professional ASP.net 2 I was on June 28th, rather I am 6 chapters behind (as I am on a revision tour).
I figure I need something inspirational, like a little more than a month ago when I learnt of the new found romance of a certain friend, it had the same effect on me as Spinach on Popeye. I reloaded my web site's design, I doubled my learning speed of ASP.net, I got rid of a time wasting habit. I finally managed my personal routine. Boy! Talk of a Project Manager with serious time management issues… All of this in the short span of 10 days before I had to put breaks because of the Chickenpox.
I guess watching Apollo 13 one more time; will do for the time being.

So I'm out of action for 2 weeks… since 28th of June (if you want the exact date) but who cares? Perhaps a venomous bite from Poison Ivy or may be it was the Joker?
I don't know what is sad, the fact that I contracted it from Robin. Or perhaps that no one… neither Kent nor Gordon check up on me or my health. Hell, Catwoman has her own demons to fight so can't blame her. Maybe that's what you get for being Anti-Social.
Anyways still need a couple of days before I make a complete recovery and start again on my night patrols.