13 Dec 2004 zeenix   » (Journeyer)

Life

While i am busy at office, my mother and sister are busy setting-up the house and buying the req. stuff at the same time. I've also heard that my brother-in-law (who was responsible to get me my current job) is going to visit karachi in January.

There are also some seemingly impossible-to-solve problems regarding the aptt. Like there are no separate pipelines flowing for hot and cold water so either you'll get water flowing from the main-storage (cold) or from the geyser (hot). Another problem is that my cell-phone only works near my room's window.

Yesterday was another Sunday that i spent in nothing more than sleeping and watching TV. I always get a very annoying headache on Sundays after i got this job which I think is because of sudden change in my routine on Sundays (I wake-up around 12-1 pm).

Office

I was told to make a demo ATM machine (using the card-reader and the printer) to show to someone (i don't know who) who'll come to see it in the evening. That i did and now I am bloging so i can do other things in the evening. :)

Gstreamer's text2video element

Looking at the pango docs and help from people at #gtk, I now know that font sizes are in the units of points (rather than pixels), but how do you translate pixels into points?

The Linux Course

Now I am to teach (GNU/)Linux at some place in the evening. The classes shall be held on alternate days (3 days a week) and the duration of the course is 6 weeks. I opted for it in some confusion while I was new at job. But I'll try my best to stay away from ANY kind of business in the evening after this course is finished, as I already do not get enough time for 'my stuff'.

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