My exper­i­men­ta­tion with back­lit pho­tog­ra­phy dur­ing the last week­end trip to Bandipur and Ooty. This was early morn­ing at the guest house in Ooty. With the sun illu­mi­nat­ing the flower from the back, it made a really pretty picture.

The ‘get­ting locked out’ of my own house was the bad thing that hap­pened on Sat­ur­day. The good thing that hap­pened was pass­ing my dri­ving test. The wait for the RTO inspec­tor stretched on for 3 hours. I nearly played hop-scotch on the pave­ment out­side the RTO. To make mat­ters dou­bly dif­fi­cult, the dri­ving school brought […]

…of your own house, can be a frus­trat­ing expe­ri­ence. I’ve been mean­ing to get dupli­cates made of my house key, but was pro­cras­ti­nat­ing. Finally, what I was dread­ing hap­pened. I locked myself out of the house. Get­ting ready to join Deki and Jil for Sat­ur­day lunch, I went down­stairs to find out some­thing from the […]

A pile of study mate­r­ial has arrived for a course I am com­plet­ing via dis­tance edu­ca­tion (I started it years ago and could not fin­ish it because I ran out of money. I am hop­ing to fin­ish it now). I had kept in touch with one of my pro­fes­sors from the uni­ver­sity and he told […]

The lat­est del­uge of MT com­ments spam is cre­at­ing havoc. Though I am using Jay Allen’s black­list, it has to be updated almost every­day. Today, while clean­ing up, a lot of valid com­ments got wiped out as they were show­ing up in the black­list and I didn’t really notice. So in case, you left a […]