Proper Props

My studio stuck for a want of a proper backdrop system, just not getting the time. This is in a way good – it simply means that I have more work which means more money which means a better camera sooner….

Wait a min – I do not get paid for working anyways 🙁

A backdrop did not prevent me from having a photo shoot however – this time it was using available light and experiments with shallow DoF, this(NWS) was the result, I would have really liked the picture to be in color with the vase being in one of the primary colors but in this case the vase was almost the same as the model’s skin tone.

Aasim already knows at least 2 things better than me

#1 Flying kites
#2 Playing tabla and identifying the taals

Makes me feel proud – Guess we are still doing pretty well as parents 🙂

Paypal now sends cheques to India

We had wished that this would happen. Paypal now sends cheques to India, there are few riders like the amount is remitted in INR (read you don’t get benefits of getting FOREX in), there is no electronic transfer to your account (read takes very long), there is a charge of US$5/- per cheque, the conversion

We finally wrenched ourselves from the sentimental attachments and got rid of the 40 year old wooden sofa set which we had. We have it with what is commonly known as “Ferro work” sofa, basically tubular iron with black powder coating. I know that this new one will not last as long as the

Mind Maps and Javascripts

A client wants an on line Mind Mapping software, I had said that Java Applets / Flash + PHP was the way to go, however he wanted it using JS + PHP. I would have given up on the project had one of the specification not been – should run in Firefox 1.0 and above.

Books and books

Yesterday myself and Swati hopped into a book exhibition though we had only 45 min we were able to get two books – An annotated guide published by DK for ARTS which has about 80 paintings by great masters explained. The second book I got is on Making Paper Airplanes which has 30 models (yeah

Programming &stuff

Have started teaching Aasim Logo programming about a week ago, we started with KTurtle, Aasim also liked the very nice KDE interface but to my dismay it has a bug in displaying the correct line numbers when errors occur. While this is OK of now when I can tell Aasim which line he went wrong

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Since I have not written much in this journal this year there is no nicely hyperlinked entry summarizing my life of past 365 days in a paragraph. So nothing remarkable happened in 2004? hmmm… not sure except that it was the best year ever for SANIsoft. I guess a new year resolution is indeed needed

Merry Christmas to everyone

Merry Christmas to everyone

Fill in the balloon, what is the little girl saying to the boy – If you, like me are working today, here is a chance to….  😉

Overheard!

Swati: Aaaaasimmm…. No answer… Swati: Aaaaasimmmmmmm No answer! He is finally located sitting in his room busy with something arcane Swati: Why don’t you reply? Aasim: Sssh! don’t disturb me I am inside a (computer) game and someone else is controlling me