New Cable Internet Connection

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

Fracture and Phallic

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

Tooth Fairy and stuff

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…

Circle

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

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

Pleasure – Priceless

EN EL1 Battery – Rs1650/- 128MB CF Card – Rs2000/- Pleasure of uninterrupted photography – Priceless

Latest acquisitions for my studio

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 😉

Just for the record

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…