Archive for May, 2004

After bee the bird…

I have been waiting in anticipation for this picture for nearly three months now, a Coppersmith (aka crimson breasted barbet) has made its nest right next to our main gate. However it is a very shy bird and would never come near the nest when any of us was around…. But my  patience paid off [...]

In the heart of Tiger land

21st May – It was hot!! We started about an hour late, around 2pm, in Mr Arjun Dhanwatey’s Sumo. Along with him were his wife and daughter, I immediately was relieved because Aasim had some company and would not get bored, though it was bit of a squeeze in the Sumo for 6 adults and [...]

Sometimes you just have to wait….

I have ISO’s of Fedora Core 2 on one of my machine but for a variety of reasons cannot install it as yet… sidcarter andbrainz will be arriving later in the day and tomorrow we leave for Kanha National Park, our guide told us that tigers are on the move and so we have great [...]

Ancestors, Elections and some Photography

Sometime this week we discovered that Swati’s father has a family tree drawing which goes back to 13 generations, spanning nearly 250 years, enthused by this she has decided to put the whole stuff on the web. This lead to some RnD and I discovered GEDCOM format. phpGedView is a great PHP application if you [...]

A prayer and a desire

Dil me sanam ki soorat Aakhon me aashiqui de Mere khuda mujhe tu Ek aur zindagi de Kaise karoon mohabbat Do din ki zindagi me Yeh din to beet jayenge Yuhi hasi hasi me Jee bharke pyaar karloon Aisi mujhe khushi de Mere khuda mujhe tu Ek aur zindagi de Sau saal tak sanam ki [...]

It’s a jungle out there….

Tigers were recently sited sighted about 40kms for where we live… For those of you who did not know Nagpur is surrounded on all four side, within drivable distance, by National parks and sanctuaries, the best known among them is the Kanha National Park which is in fact the jungle in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book!! [...]

Bird and bug watching

On last Saturday Aasim got promoted to 1st standard, this means after summer holidays he will be in school from 9am to 3:30pm will have to carry a bag and will have exams… He is a BIG boy now!!! Finally I found a good bookmark server Sitebar. Works great with Mozilla and is written in [...]

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