Trillian Astra... is here!

As Trillian Astra is finally exposed and now sending shockwaves (literally because it's in Flash) across the Internet, my company and I feel more liberated with higher spirits than ever before.

(Pictured above: Trillian Astra with Cordonata skin doing its zen.)

The sheer mass of information delivered by the Trillian Astra Sneak Preview is enough to get everyone excited for months to come.  We have been working under cover for so long, as some of the features introduced in Trillian Astra are truly unique and creative.  We don't want the "Vista disaster" to happen to us, where people over-expect things for 5 years, just because we can't keep our mouths shut...  (No offense to Microsoft here, I applaud your Office 2007 team.)  It's some sort of Zen of patience for us, and for our users too, to wait for more than a year, as we build up our software and servers.

To announce "how Trillian Astra will change your web" is a great undertaking.  And to explode the clogged tubes of Web 2.0 is whimsical, but requires a great deal of courage to make that joke in front of millions of people watching it.  But we are that confident, well, we have to be.

So... with so much happened, so much happened throughout the past year, I can finally sit down here and talk about things that aren't professional enough to go into the official blog, like stuff happening behind the scenes.

For those who read the Trillian forums zealously, you probably know about this already:

The fire is spreading all over the web now, but to light it up is just a mouse click - as Scott clicked the "Publish Blog" button on our Blogger account, at around noon on Tuesday, 21st November 2006 (after we had a meal at the Burger King and Andy got all the three Xbox 360 games that they offer, and I like the 'Sneak King' game the best).  We didn't have any champagne, and I guess we'll have to wait for Kevin to come back from Thanksgiving in order to really celebrate. (He worked till midnight on Monday though!) We had a plate with 3 plastic cups, and we poured a can of Coke into the cups - champagne style.  We should have done it with Red Bull.  Then that will be total caffeine style.  Oh, nevermind.  Someone send us a bottle of champagne. ;)