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I miss the days when people had journals and not blogs, but as I have written before Facebook and Twitter have killed that. Writing a post about birthdays use to be an event in itself. I for one would wait for friends to write their birthday post to wish them and read about what they felt about the year gone by or what they were looking forward to in the coming days. Facebook and Twitter satiate in real time the exhibitionist / voyeuristic delights we indulge in the name of “keeping in touch”

I will not write anything here because it will just be repeating myself, if you still want to read you can always look that the “Twitter digest” posts that I keep, but yes once again a big thanks to everyone who wished me by whatever means – Feels nice!

Not a worm – Beaked Blind Snake

Not a worm – Beaked Blind Snake

We were on our regular morning walk when I noticed a very huge fat earthworm across a road but the moment it moved I realized that it was not a worm but a blind snake. However this was the biggest blind snake I had seen to date!! Thankfully I had a camera with me and

750words.com – Stream your consciousness

750words.com – Stream your consciousness

For past couple of months I have been undergoing a writing crisis of sorts. Reviving this journal was a part of the plan to over come the writers block. The plan did work for a while and then I slipped up again. I don’t really know if the thing I call a ‘block’ is real

Last month @ SANIsoft blog September 1, 2010

[CakePHP] How to re-size images at run-time This is a helper + controller combo for CakePHP which I often use. It helps to re-size images at run-time and also aid display them. Oh yes! once the image is resized it also caches them. First let’s look at helper method. PLAIN TEXT PHP: class MyHelper extends

The boy who harnessed the wind – A Review

The boy who harnessed the wind – A Review

A thought that struck my mind as I was finishing this book was – How would the story of Wright brothers and their One day at Kitty Hawk be if they lived in an era with internet? I read the Wright brothers story when I was in school and at that time all I was

Last month @ SANIsoft blog August 1, 2010

[Zend Framework] Slug filter While studying for my Zend Framework certification, I tried to build a small application to test my knowledge. One of the tasks in that project was to try and build a slug filter which converts a particular string to slug, for example, ‘My Test String’ to ‘my-test-string’. It also checks for

African Big Five

African Big Five

With so many pictures from our Tanzania trip I wanted to something different than my usual wildlife photography style. I have tried to compile a series of five pictures which I call “Animal Portraits”. Each of these animals are from a group referred to as the African Big Five.

Lion lessons!

Lion lessons!

On the morning of our departure from Kirawira, western Serengeti it was cloudy and we had almost given up all hopes of seeing anything but then as it can happen with any jungle safari our luck changed. Just 20 meter form the road was sitting a part of a lion pride three lioness with two

My top 10 iPad gripes

It is heavy and does not lend itself well to being held in a single hand due to the smooth metal back – I remedied this by ordering a silicon rubber sleeve. Safari for iPad does not offer search within a page. This can also be remedied by following the instructions here Screen should have

Vulture on stilts!!

Vulture on stilts!!

As we drove towards the Central Serengeti plains a head bobbed up from behind a rising – I immediately exclaimed – Vulture!! But as the bird continued to come towards us it became apparent that the bird was taller than any vulture I know of, as the legs came into view they were more like