Going to Thailand again

Tomorrow morning we leave for Bangkok and then to Pattaya – yep the same old client from two years ago, hope he still has his Ferrari around

Second by .02 points!

Damn – I missed the first spot in Skin2(NWS) contest at Worth 1000 by a .02 point margin, but I did manage the second as well as the third spot and what the heck I don’t get the cups anyways as I had not paid for the entry nor did anyone sponsor me. Oh! the chosen theme picture for the contest was also by me…

VC funded projects are like shooting stars, spectacular! but most burn up before making an impact.

It is amazing what you can learn if you know how to read Apache logs. Like I know precisely who has has been googleing with phrases like sanisoft+bad+php and landed at my site, came here to Live Journal and what all was read, hilarious? amateurish? unprofessional?

(18:43:38) Tarique: Got the daily reports from me?
(18:43:42) Swati: Looking
(18:43:46) Tarique: 24 hours
(18:43:57) Tarique: and mail for Gilad
(18:44:01) Swati: Yes got all of them
(18:44:05) Tarique: kewl
(18:44:13) Tarique: I am going home now
(18:44:24) Swati: 🙁 I have to still be in the office
(18:44:38) Tarique: OK will come to your office

What happened next

Speechless…

Aasim is cross with his barber!

Why?

The barber did not cut his hair as short as he wanted!

How short did Aasim want it to be? 😮

A true 0.5 cm mushroom cut!!

Mushroom cut!! but why??

So that he could walk up to his PT teacher and point out that he has had his “what he thought already short” hair cut!!!

Pearls and Casting

It is really a pain when people assume technical superiority just because they are from a “Developed Country” and a double pain when they think that Alpha version of softwares means the best version there is!

So is this the time for surfacing for air kind of post?

I don’t think I have been underground or underwater for long in fact I have been around… there are a lot of interesting, intriguing and insignificant things which have been happening in my life and I have the power of all 27 alphabets at my finger tips to put them here… but it been some time now that my alphabets seem to be in conflict with the words who are in turn breaking apart the sentences in my thoughts – a battle with a forgone conclusion, still I want to resist the temptation to finish the post by writing “Life Sux”, the most powerful of the words ‘Why?’ hurls a stone in the smooth stream of my thoughts. Damn it! I will complete this post.

So whats been so interesting in my life?

I would rather put that question as what I see as having learned, enjoyed, done differently in past few days. The thing that surprised me most was that I tend to pursue my hobbies more intently when I have more daytime work heaped upon I have tried to rationalize it to job security etc but would like to believe thats because I love my work and when I work I like to do more things that I love – confusing?

My current passion seems to have been stalled due to lack of money to buy the lights I want BUT I did attend my first commercial model shoot on Saturday. The complexity of using a minimum of 5 lights seemed like an overkill but Vivek explained with practicals as to why each one of them was necessary, the shoot was for a calendar and stretched more than 6 hours (I guess this was for just three pictures), Since my camera is radically different from D70 I could not use it as the adjustments in lights etc would have been too painful but a big thanks to Vivek for letting me intrude in his work and top it with teaching me.

Work on coding Coppermine continues but I was tickled when sometime during the past week I sat down skimmed the code for Gallery and wrote a Gallery to Coppermine converter. We are nearing half a million download mark at Sourceforge for Coppermine.

For some time now me and Swati have been collecting Guru Dutt movies we now have in our collection
1) Pyasa
2) Kaagaz ke phool
3) Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam
4) Aar paar
5) Baazi
6) Mr and Mrs 55

After a long time I decided to read a book which was not on screen or my PDA – The Ferret Chronicles by Richard Bach and I am in love with Danielle.

Aasim has adjusted to school very well but the flip side is he gets bored on weekends

To Be continued….

You are old when…

Me: When everything and anything you say is taken seriously

Swati: When you are a man and above 40

Aasim: When you are in Std 1st

You: ?

What do you tell a child of 6 who has just realized that there will be times when he has to face “biases” from his teachers…..