I’ve filed a [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/135342|bug report]] on [[http://launchpad.net|Launchpad]]. If you’re facing this same problem, please go vote on the bug and/or give additional information. If you know a fix, that would be even better.

Meanwhile, I’ve been hearing a lot about [[http://feedburner.com|FeedBurner]] these days. So I decided to give it a try. Setting up was trivial using [[http://orderedlist.com|Steve Smith's]] excellent [[http://orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress-feedburner-plugin/|WP FeedBurner plugin]]. So as of now, all my blog feeds are routed through FeedBurner. As always I’m a bit suspicious about everything, but so far they seem to have good intentions.

In other news, I saw [[http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/noentry.asp|No Entry]] on friday night. A mostly crappy movie, but I had tons of fun because I was in good company :-) We were all sitting in the front row laughing our assess of at nothing. Good times :-)

Like I said before, HP internship coming to and end. So I’m busy doing my slides for the talk on Wednesday, wrapping up some final graphs and so on. I’ll probably do a longer talk on friday and will drive back down to San Diego (ah, home sweet home) on saturday. Friday night, I’ll be at Asim’s having loads of tea.

Yesterday we also had our scheduled “technical discussion on Mac OS X” :-D It turned out to be pretty good actually. More on that later. For now, back to work.

Now, let me make it clear that I know //jack// about baseball. So right before the game I had Alvin and Sara give me a crash course on the basics. After that I lost myself in the food and enjoyed the game.

It has hard not to have a good time there. We had our own private suite, we had food and drinks, a fantastic view and an amazing crowd. For my first game, it turned out to be pretty interesting. The A’s were down 4-0, and eventually then **won** 5-4!! And the last run was just, … well funny! :-)

Of course, it helped that the entire thing was paid for by HP (thanks, Rich and Cristina!). We brought back some popcorn. Nelson unsuccesfully tried to squeeze out some beers, but it was valiant effort nonetheless.

Work is coming along well, I’m feeling good work-wise. Other than that though, nothing really great is happening in life. I feel mostly cynical these days.

Asim’s reaching here this weekend, which is nice. And if he lands up in my apartment complex, that will be just frikking cool :-D

I’ve started the slow and painful process of importing my blog posts (yeah I know I should just write a script, but I’m being lazy and besides, I want to retag all my posts :-D!!) but it’ll be a while. Setting up the gallery will be an order of magnitude easier though, so I’m putting it off for now.

Then drove to Cupertino for the HP Welcome BBQ Lunch. By the time we got back, it was almost 2.

At 2:30 we had the social event for interns working in [[http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/issl/|ISSL]]. It was a lot of fun, and it was good listening to our lab director, Rich. It was also good, because I won a Shrek 2 DVD and a HP Photosmart 245 printer. Apparently, this particular model is out of production now (no wonder it was up for grabs!), but its a nice cute little printer nonetheless and prints great photos, so I’m happy!

After that I just didn’t feel like working. So came home early and trying to get some work done towards the research exam document. July 4th plans are also brewing up and in general the atmosphere is all so that I just can’t get that ‘settle down into work’ type of feeling :)

We left Friday evening and camped out at [[http://employeeprograms.hp.com/little-basin/|Little Basin]]. My camping experience this time was much better than the last—the camp site was much more like the traditional camping ground I had in mind, there weren’t too many people around, the jungle was lush and dense, the weather was nice, it wasn’t hot or dry and we even had an interesting incident with a racoon!

I also learnt a lot about traditional camping practices here in the US—like s’mores or the common breakfast and lunches people have, or quickly setting up a tent and so on.

On Saturday we drove to the [[http://www.bigbasin.org/|Big Basin State Park]] and hiked on an eight mile trail (actually we looped across walking on one trail the first half and coming back through a second one on the latter half). There were some nice waterfalls on the way, and we had a good time walking and talking and lunching together.

People mingle together, flock together. Groups are formed, loyalties are found. There’s gossip, there’s politics. Small little things that get said here and there turn up a few days later as major public announcements. You have to take care of what you say to whom, and always keep your eyes and ears open.

I don’t know what the numbers are, but it seems to me that a lot of the big stuff in a company—be it products or ideas or new recruits or other decisions—are made over innocuous lunches.

The first day at HP was nice. Nothing spectacular. A few things bug me about the working environment, but thats not unusual. I’m quickly getting up to speed on the development environment and the problem definition. Hopefully within a day or two I will start doing some serious work.

There’s plenty to explore in this area, but that would have to wait till the weekend. Right now I have to sort out a whole bunch of things, move into my studio on 16th, work on the research exam—so there’s plenty to keep me busy.