Back in Chennai after a two-week trip to Mumbai for attending a training program. Mumbai is a great city in all respects, except for the condition of its roads. The timing of the visit was also right; the monsoon was just tapering off, producing some excellent weather, with cloudy or pleasantly sunny days with some rain thrown in. My visit also coincided with the Ganesh festival. The fervour shown by the people in celebrating this has to be seen to be believed. The beating of the drums as the idol is taken for immersion in the sea is pretty exhilarating.

Here is the solution to the Smalltalk trivia question: if you type 'class' an odd number of times after anyObject, you would get 'Metaclass'; for even numbers, you would get the class object of Metaclass, i.e., 'Metaclass class'. If you are wondering what the heck a metaclass or a class object is, welcome to the wonderful world of Smalltalk, where Everything is an Object (tm).