Author: Tarique Sani

She is the nicest thing that ever happened to me.

Happy Birthday to

Today we got a new cable internet connection this time from a different person who has proper papers and is running this business since past 2 years. Judging from the traffic on my eth1 this network is much better managed and sanely configured. Though a slightly irksome part is, for some reasons they have blocked all out going pings.

My affair with photography continues…

suffered unicortical fracture of right thumb metacarpal head. Translated in layman terms, there is a minor avulsion of covering of the bone of the right thumb. Hand not in plaster but is supposed to be immobile for 2 weeks

In a totally unrelated question I have been trying to find the correct antonym for the word “Phallic”

Aasim lost his lower two incisors. Had to be extracted as the permanent ones were already peeking from behind, to his credit he did not cry at all, and though he does not believe in tooth fairy stuff he gets to buy a lego for himself…

An Ukranian Programmer asking references of (from) an American client who in turn asks their Indian programmers to provide one.

I find this ironic to the point of being comic 🙂

Unreal Tournament 2004 demo is real kewl – unfortunately we have only one machine which is really capable of running it decently… That’s Aasim’s machine needless to say I hardly got any machine time to play it.

Lots of other things are happening about which I just can’t seem to find time enough to write about.

Among notable things – I have decided that I want a DSLR in addition to my Nikon 5700 and I also need some professional grade studio flash lights, budget Rs120000, to fund this I am starting an interesting experiment, sell customised copies of Coppermine. Lets see how it goes

Shifted to using Digikam instead of

mount /mnt/camera/
cp -r /mnt/camera/dcim/* ./

Yes now the camera is in PTP mode, instead of USB mass storage

EN EL1 Battery – Rs1650/-
128MB CF Card – Rs2000/-

Pleasure of uninterrupted photography – Priceless

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 😉

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…