The night before Drupal Hyderabad Workshop

It was early morning arund 1.30 AM i.e. when i returned home after watching the balakrishna movie Simha with my friend. So all telugu film watching people by now would have understand the state of my mind. Fortunately it was not so bad and this movie is better than his old movies Vijayendra varma or Chennakesava reddy :)

Feeling sleepy, but I have to 2 sessions on the 1st day of the workshop. Moreover, the first session of Day 1is by me and i have not yet prepared anything. I opened my laptop bag just to realize that i forgot my laptop charger in office. Disappointment and frustration. Soon i remembered that i am using my new laptop battery which i got it just 10 days before from US. It gives good 2-3 hrs of backup. That much of time is more than enough for me bcoz i knew i just need solid 45 mins to 1 hour to make the presentation.

I opened the laptop and then another shock. I don't have microsoft powerpoint as i have started using Open office from last 6 months. I never used openoffice Draw before. I am using openoffice word and it is more or less similar to MS Word, so i was confident that i can make a presentation in open office.

So i opened Open office Draw. 30 minutes gone and still i am on the 1st slide. I am unable to create new slide or make regions in the slide. It has plain 1 blank slide. Tried to use it as much as possible and finally gave up. Again frustration as the time is already 2.30 AM.

Then i realize that there is a desktop of my brother-in-law which got MS office installed. So immediately i went there and this time no shocks. The system was super fast and i am able to create the presentation in 30 mins. 3 AM, i am done with my 1st presentation. Do not worry about 2nd presenation, i did not made that. I went to sleep. I prepared the 2nd ppt in the workshop :)

Thank you all for reading the post. Comments are welcome.

Note: Even though msoffice is licensed and proprietary, the software rocks. It has addressed the usability in the best way it is possible. Open office is way too behind for that.