Taaa Daaaaa – Highlights of 2003

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

New Year?

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

Bodyscapes

Bodyscapes

Finally with willing and apt models I am able to start photographing the human form in the way I have envisaged for years… Despite having seen countless pictures similar to what I would like to capture it is, as said by most photographers a very hard task. Out of the 40 odd pictures only 2

End of the world

End of the world

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach A rather satisfactory end to a day which began in lousy manner. Early morning just as I was about to do that “little bit more” it started raining. Had to rush out in the cold to get the

A better day…

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

Some days are just not mine…

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

Sunday source

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

White on White

White on White

Managed a colored white on white picture. A colored white on white is more difficult to take than a B/W white on white like the “Hint of Mint” shot. The picture on left was taken in sunlight, the only bright white light source I have, on a sheet of plain A4 copier paper, for several

Insects!!

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