It’s been more than a year since I blogged here, it’s not becuase I did not have anything to blog about, but it was mostly because I was away biking in the Himalayas, enjoying the beach in Goa, a boat ride in the Papi Kondalu area of Godavari river, attending the Mozilla Summit or very busy with Spicebird!
Earlier this year we went on a trip to Papi Kondalu, a group of hills along river Godavari. I would recommend the trip for anyone in Andhra Pradesh who is looking for a short holiday close to the nature. Ofcourse there are other places too like the Araku Valley or find a friend’s home in the greenery of the coasts of Godavari, Krishna or Guntur districts 
In early May, it was time for a trip to Goa where a couple were renewing their marriage vows, this was only the second Christian ceremony I attended, but they do look interesting for the simplicity with which the entire ceremony is organized. We did go around Goa for a couple of days.
July was the time for a Biking trip in the Himalayas… after half-a-year of planning we finally made to Manali, which was the starting point for what would be a memorable biking tour through few of the world’s highest roads to Leh. The trip lasted for a 10 days (Hyderabad to Hyderabad). From Leh, we later took a cab to the world’s highest motorable road. In my attempts to spend holidays close to nature, this is my second trip to Himalayas and is definitely more memorable than the first. For all those residents of India, 10 days and some money is all it takes - don’t miss it. For people who don’t reside here, India is a place of diversity and am sure it is difficult to cover all of it in one trip - so there might be other things that you like better here. Will try to make a dedicated post for it 
End of July came the Mozilla Summit at the amazing Whistler, BC, Canada. It was an oppurtunity to meet many Mozilla developers whom I knew only by their IRC handles or the e-mail addresses. Attended a lot of sessions there, mostly those that are relevant to mailnews, many of the Mozilla Labs sessions and the India specific stuff. As a representative of Spicebird, I hope there will be a lot more cooperation with the Thunderbird and Lightning developers. The evil forces did try hard to disrupt the summit, but could not match the force. Thanks for the great conference guys.
And then it’s the Spicebird during the rest of the time. We released Spicebird 0.4 Beta in January and got loads of constructive feedback from the community - lot of it has already gone in to the nightly builds that we make, and a lot more lying still under development. More about Spicebird to come in further posts - a short thing I will want to say is that 0.7 is in development and all the developers are working hard to get it out as quickly as possible. I will post a more detailed update about 0.7 soon.
Well, that was a long post and expect shorter more frequent updates in future. Keep visiting
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