Yesterday turned out to be an interesting day overall.

I woke up to notice that Google has delivered the Android 2.3.4 build to my phone.

I went to meet Mathew Carley and it turned out to be an excellent experience. Some of you might recognize the name… He is the man who could change the internet scene in India. Though he has his share of critics who love to do ‘investigative journalism’ and ‘online image tarnishing’. He is a brave brave man to have decided to launch Hayai Broadband in India. And he is a very patient man too… I respect him for what he is trying to accomplish and I respect him for all the time he spent answering queries on the India Broadband Forum.

It also turned out to be the day when airtel decided to kill their mobile network in Delhi NCR for a couple of hours.

Most of the time spent in the meeting with Mathew was me without a functional phone. I could take photos but could not share them on the web. I could not post any updates about the meet on Twitter. Vedant found it pretty hard to contact me about the meet.

airtel has a usual statement about the downtime… Unforeseen Technical Outage. Nothing on what they are doing to ensure that this is not repeated in the future. In any case, this was a good lesson that I should carry my older phone (a Tata Indicom number that has never seen any such problem over the last couple of years) with me whenever I go out.