Author: Tarique Sani

Felt lost as to how the last year went, so started reading my own journal, Logjam makes it easy with neatly organized offline xml files, here are some random things which I would like to remember

Aasim started sleeping in his own room. All my original programmers left SANIsoft one by one. SANIsoft shifted to switched network and got cable Internet. Started photography as a serious hobby again, one of my articles was published in php|architect, I never wrote anything after that but did speak at IDRBT Hyderabad. Our marriage survived the 9th year and I slowly started to come out of my quarter life crisis. I started wishing for my new camera and finally got it. Aasim learned how to ride the bicycle and I was there the see it. Got involved with the development of Coppermine Picture Gallery. Aasim observed his first Roza. We attended and spoke at LB/2003. My photography has improved a lot.

Hmm…. all said and done a whole lot of insipid things

Ekum January hai, naya saal hai!!
December maiN pooChoo ga kya Haal hai…
                                           Anon.

This cynical and mocking couplet roughly translates to

Its first of January, Its a new year (implying you are all thrilled about it)
Will ask in December how you are…

The eve was more or less a repeat of last year

1) Made myself as tired as I could with a loong walk

2) Stole some of Swati’s time and took her to a book expo – purchased Khuswant Singh’s translation of “Umrao Jaan”

dropped in for a while in the afternoon. A pity he is going back tomorrow.

Today for the first time I tried a paper print of my cam from an Image Lab – an 8“ x 6” cost me Rs12/- which is a bit on the expensive side but this lab is 5 min walking distance from the house and I get to see on-screen previews. I am really pleased with the print quality. It is frame-able and gift-able 🙂

1) Mount an nfs share from an older RH7.3 server – I can do it from RH9 and down client but  FC1 persists on blaming the  “Server said: Permission denied”.

2) Continue a Multisession CDR, again I could do it using K3B on Knoppix, Nero on WinXP but cdrecord(via K3B) on FC1 kept saying unknow error 🙁

And these are the most trivial of the things which kept bugging me through the day – Heck hopefully tommorow is a New day

Yeah, merry Christmas to everyone

People who love the color Yellow – Click

Been a slowly progressing lazy Sunday, been sitting in the sun talking to Swati about distant dreams… lots of them from far very far in future.

Also been reading the Extending PHP chapter from Rasmus’s book. That is the single most useful resource on writing C extensions….

In many ways learning to code PHP extensions is  more about learning the meta language which is defined by the API macros than C itself. It reminds me of the days when I had begun adding snippets of Z80 machine code to my Spectrum Basic programs.

Swati now intends to get a Hindi flick to watch and most likely we men will fall asleep about 45min into it 😀

Cut to 3 and a half hours later

Finished watching KHNH – Did not sleep, in fact rather enjoyed the humour

BTW,  I am posting this using Deepest Sender the Mozilla based LJ Client. While I wouldn’t recommend it as your primary LJ client I find it rather feature rich.

Aasim wants us to go out for Dinner

Finally a decent insect macro shot, this cam takes a bit of getting used to… but I was able to do this 1/30 sec shot without a tripod and pretty decent depth of field. I would have been more happy if I had taken precaution to frame the shot such that the tail of the grasshopper was not touching the top of the frame.

Also discovered that if I do a right click and Save As from Kuickshow it saves a compressed image and destroys the EXIF data as it does so…

In other things I am reading some poetry by Javed Akhter – since reading in devnaagrii is slow for me I am taking more time to enjoy the verses as well 🙂