Monthly Archives: January 2011

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30

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  • Awesome #birding – great shots of eagle owl in flight. Met some more birders. #
  • @meenabhatia Many owls are diurnal… #
  • Damn! looks like I have strained the knee a bit today – hope it does not swell up :-( #
  • @sidin Yes! you should discuss about the thoroughly awesome present which could have been shitty. ;-) #
  • Just noticed that Owls can dilate their pupils in each eye to a different aperture #amazing #
  • @mapalong Would very much like an invite. Please….. Continue reading →

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-23

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  • @sharat_j Thanks :-) #
  • Home after a day out – no just glimpse of "Black Eagle" but then happy that it is there in #Nagpur #
  • @achitnis did they ever reply back to you? Presuming they are the same hammock suppliers that @swatisani dug out…. #
  • @chiefsanjay great start to your blog! Subscribed #
  • I need an iOS app to monitor and report progress of my torrents! Is there such a miracle available? #
  • @achitnis nothing like that in app store… Continue reading →

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16

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  • Unexpected meetings with relatives sux. Specially when the subject is not so pleasant #life #
  • Why not put the App store inside iTunes as well #mac #
  • I missed the Nagpur Bird Race function – feeling bad, and nothing concrete seems to be coming out of all the discussions #
  • @mark_story congratulations to you
    And blessings to the new one! Pictures? #
  • happy birthday @bluesmoon #
  • Indian Muntjac at Tarique's Travails http://t.co/JUmHHlv #photography #blog Continue reading →

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02

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  • Lie to me Season 3 started off very well #tv #
  • @Ramblinggeek I would say she is one smart woman! Budda kab tak jiye ga ;-) #
  • @Manoemanop yes? #
  • #WTF a group can hold only 20 apps #iPad #
  • @achitnis Somewhere FOSS also got lost to mean freedom to other developers… Guys! It stands for freedom to end users #
  • Wondering what will be the best user experience for implementing Image notes like functionality on a touch screen. O… http://bit.ly/eKe3vO Continue reading →

Last month @ SANIsoft blog January 1, 2011

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  • [How To] Live index updates in Sphinx search
    Sphinx search engine can index huge databases with ease and speed. However, when new data (in database or the configured data source) comes in, there is no point in re-indexing everything again and waste our CPU cycles and other resources. Sphinx offers live (almost real time) index updates using a technique called as main+delta scheme. [...]
  • [How To] Create content type with CCK fields from your custom module in Drupal
    In the previous post, Sumit wrote about creating content type through custom module. Creating the content type this way allows you to distribute your custom content type easily without asking your users to create the content type manually before installing your module. But what if you have a complex content type created with lots of [...]
  • [CakePHP - How To] CKFinder configuration management using component
    Hello guyz, I am back again with an article on CakePHP. This one is related to CKFinder configuration management. CKFinder is a file management plugin for CKEditor using which you can upload new files or use existing files to link in to CKEditor’s content. There is a config.php in CKFinder’s directory which has many configuration [...]

Travails of 2010 and some new year resolutions

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Last foss.in

Last foss.in

The year gone by can be best described as a year of photography and traveling.

I started the new year with my 20th picture on Flickr explore, but the novelty of Flickr explore wore off pretty soon as I got a front page explore again and then 40 pictures and finally 50+. We traveled to the Rann of Kutch for a week in the last week of January and got a lot of bird (and a few animal) photographs.

February saw me doing the long over due drive to Mallura Village in Melghat in quest for the the Forest owlet . The pictures I brought back from that trip have been in demand by several publications and websites.

I started collaborating with Lalit Vikamshi and we have been doing some very interesting experiments with studio photography since then…

Mid May we took another trip and this time it was to Tanzania, It was an wonderful and unique experience and once again there were a lot of photographs, in fact 14000+ I finally managed to post-process upload the last of selected few in November. Just before the trip we celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary

I got myself an iPad and became a fan.

September I tried out the 750 Words experiment successfully, turned 44 and noticed that my blog has 200006 published words.

The trip Botswana trip I planned with Amit Sharma materialized and we camped in the heart of Moremi and Savuti.

The most significant event of the year for me was the last foss.in, it was an amazing journey for all of us. For the curious Atul has written why it was the last. We stayed one day more and took the last wildlife trip of the year to B.R. Hills with Kalyan and stayed at the awesome Gorukana Resort

Resolutions: I have never been too much of a new year resolutions person but this year I have decided that starting 1st Jan for 100 days I will be a vegetarian and not take any alcohol. The second resolution is to continue with writing 750 Words daily for next 100 days