Tarique's Travails

128 MB CF card Spare EN EL1 battery Collapsible clothes rack. In case you are wondering about the last item it is of great use for hanging the backdrops in a cluttered room and I can always disown it as not mine Tweet

Our cable Internet was reconnected, the speeds are not so great but still the phone is no longer engaged… Have a whole lot of catching up to do… Tweet

Heroes rise, heroes fall Rise again, win it all In your heart, can’t you feel the glory Through our joy, through our pain We can move worlds again Take my hand, dance with me I want to spend my lifetime loving you If that is all in life I will ever do I will want [...]

We have been unceremoniously kicked from the Information Super highway to the Information Footpath. As news tells it our ISP was illegally giving cable internet connections using a leased line from BSNL, their offices were raided by CBI yesterday and all the equipment seized. So we are back to using dial-up and very high telephone [...]

Maya Jaal Na toda Jaaye, Loobhi mann mujh ko tarsaye Mil Jaaye to rooG hai duniya, Mil na sa ke to jee lalcha ye! Mere Aainsoo, Un ka daman, RaeT pe jharna sookha jaye. Taash ke mahalon me hardum, Kaanch ki choodi khanki jaye! Pyaar, mohabbat, rishte naate Sani kuch bhi kaam na aaye.                                    [...]

Woke up checked mail saw that the sky had not fallen overnight… Aasim woke up a little later and he wanted a game of frisbee. Its amazing how much fun you can have with a wobbly Rs35/- only toy given the right time and people. Soon tired I settled Aasim to watch Disney special edition [...]

Was getting bored so I hacked an RSS Feed generator for Coppermine. Turned out it needed just 20 lines of code… Made it a bit more user friendly, added frills and comments worth 50 more lines of code Tweet

I am thankful to god for whatever treasured moments I can steal with my loved one over a cup of hot coffee drunk sitting in the warm winter sun. The picture has no special lights or tricks – I just happen to have my camera in my hand the cups were on the table, rest [...]

While the desi IT press chooses to pointedly ignore and scorn the Coppermine Picture Gallery I was interviewed today about the same by Internet Magazine, UK. It is a print magazine, beyond that I don’t know anything about it – does anyone know? I have also been pondering about an elitist Open Source event scheduled [...]