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Well ... Blog 6.0 Beta 3 is out :-) I actually uploaded the build to the server a couple of days ago but didn't have the time to do an update to the site to let everybody know about it. This is basically a build to add image support in Client mode and to handle those attached images in Server mode as well as a few other fixes. I also added a fix for the decimal point problem with floating point numbers when using the version number that one of the Spanish users found - they use a comma instead of a decimal point and so that creates problems in international versions of Windows. This should hopefully be the final release of 6.0 but I wanted to make certain before declaring it so since I've made a few changes that need to be proven in action :p

Well ... we went to Kurunegala and had to wait around pretty much the whole day for the finger printing team to arrive. The police had already been there once but they'd said that they'd come back with the fingerprinting team to take a statement. Turns out that there is only one fingerprint team for 30 police stations and that team consists of only two people! So they didn't get there till we were almost ready to leave and of course, once they'd dusted for prints it turned out that the thieves had worn gloves :p I guess while the police are less-than-efficient over here, the thieves are becoming extra-efficient since the lot who robbed our Colombo house wore gloves too. Anyway, the upshot was that the police will not have any way to catch the criminals ... not that they would have with fingerprints but at least then they could have fingered - pun intended <g> - anybody who was brought in on suspicion. Now the only thing that can happen is if they catch them with the goods and that's really a long shot ...

The Farook family saga continues - there was a call from my brother who was staying at our other house in Kurunegala saying that the house had been robbed while he slept :-( That house is kind of sparsely furnished since we are still in the process of building it and my parents had just come back from Kurunegala yesterday and my brother was supposed to leave in the morning for work. He'd woken up, got dressed and had seen that his shoes were missing and so gone looking and had realized that the whole house, except for the room that he'd been in, had been cleaned out! Well, not totally cleaned out since they left the heavy stuff like furniture but took almost everything else of value that could be carried. I don't know whether it is some sort of a jinx following our family (since this is the second robbery in less than six months ...) or just plain coincidence. Anyway, I'll probably not go to work today since I'll have to accompany my mother to Kurunegala to see what's up ...