So my mother who is in her 60s � I won�t say how far into the 60�s � was chatting with me on MSN Messenger when she complaint that I has not made any new blog entries. I don�t know about the flying cars that I was sure I would have bee driving by now, but I believe we are now on the 21st century � Finally!!!

Mono Beta 1 and MonoDevelop 0.3 have been released! I can only take such a miniscule credit for such a fantastic milestone. My pride will always be that I have been tagging along no matter in what seat in the Mono bus during such a wonderful road trip. The only burden in my heart is that I cannot send all of the teams to a full expenses paid to the Greatest Resort on Earth (Puerto Rico of course!).

Yesterday, Dan Garvin one of my best friends at HEALTHvision, helped me test Beta 1 on some SuSE 90 boxes. Dan is a strong Windows .NET developer that has now fallen somewhat under the spell of Linux/Mono. He came up with some very creative ways to use Red-Carpet and create a user defined channel for the installation of the Beta 1 RPMs. Thanks to that we did a Red-carpet installation that beat most of the community by about 6 hours. If that is not a record of monumental proportions that will never be broken you tell me what is! -- one would have to seen Enter the Dragon to relate to the �A tournament of Epic proportions!� quotes.

WARNING: Only Mono and Red-carpet users could appreciate that cheesy humor.

There has also been some running around to adjust the content, context and the time slot for my modest intervention in the Puerto Rico Open Source Congress. I now appears that I will take part of a �panel� discussion. The other good news is that there will likely be another more technical presentation on the following day (Friday, May 21st) where I will be able to do what I really want to do which is showing Mono/MonoDevelop live!

A fellow Monoer and North Texas neighbor Joseph Hill, is trying to coordinate with Matt and me to participate on a Mono presentation at the Netware Users Group on May 27th.

My friend Erik Dasque got a hold of some Eidth Nylon (1979 circa French punk music). When I played it my dad Roger Martinez jumped in my thoughts. In what should be a related event, I rented and watched Big Fish. I didn�t think it was as extraordinary as other things I have seen, but it was good nonetheless. However, what did happen was, as I am coming to the last 30 minutes of the film I began crying almost uncontrollably out of grief and the only thought in my mind was my father.

Mi Mama y mi Papa son dos santos. Gracias a Dios por ellos!