Diwali was here and now its gone. It is without a doubt the best Indian festival in my opinion. The lights and the fireworks make the atmosphere the most festive possible, unfortunately also adding to the smoke in the atmosphere. The fireworks are loud and irritating, but it wouldn’t be diwali without them.
This was the [...]

I am very interested in photography. Although I am not a professional or even looking to be a professional in the field, I do enjoy using my DSLR and trying out new things when I can. I like posting my pictures to websites like Flickr and seeing how people react to my work. Since I [...]

You may have noticed that this site has undergone a change. I have decided to clean up my act, literally, and use a theme thats easy on the eyes and easy to maintain too. I had been using magazine styled themes for some time on this blog and realized that the amount of work required [...]

A couple of weeks ago the Softies announced the availability of Microsoft Office Web Apps as a Technical Preview to a few thousand people by invitation. They also plan to make the beta available to the public at a later date. An online version of Office has always been expected and there has always been [...]

I decided to refresh my laptop after it recently came back from repairs. While there was nothing wrong with it software wise, I was getting bored and wanted to try something new. Having heard good things about the mint KDE release, I decided to install that instead of my existing Windows + mint Gnome installation. [...]

The Angsana Resort and Spa is located about an hour outside Bengaluru city in Karnataka. This particular resort is constructed and operated by the Prestige Group of builders based in Bengaluru under license from The Banyan Tree Group that operate the Angsana brand in Asia. This is a photo tour of the Bengaluru resort and [...]

If you are like me and dual boot your computer with Windows and Linux (pick a flavour, any flavour), then you might have come across the need to access your ext partitions while you are booted into Windows. While the opposite (accessing ntfs partitions in Linux) requires no “doing” as such, you do need additional [...]

District 9 was an awesome movie. So long since I have seen a Sci-Fi movie that dazzled me with its plot and not with its special effects. Wikus’s acting was just so natural. Reminded me of Leonardo DeCaprio in Blood Diamond. Can’t wait for District 10.

A few days ago, my one and a half year old Acer laptop developed a display problem (I think). The system would boot to a display littered with small lines and then freeze. I have a Acer 4520 service guide that is supposed to be standard issue to the Acer service centers. This guide didn’t [...]

It took quite a lot of effort on my part to be able to see G I Joe. Since I did not catch it in the first week of release, all the shows in the next week were in the day time. Apparently the movie was not a priority for the theaters. Finally after a [...]

I am big fan of Google Maps. The sheer amount of time I can spend on maps planning routes, looking at landmarks and generally loitering about, is simply astonishing. If I am still not satisfied I can continue to waste my time on views from Google Street View, which is just an amazing way to [...]

Xmen Origins featured the motormouth katana slinging character Wade Wilson (played by Ryan Reynolds) who goes on to become Deadpool as part of the Weapon X program and tries to take out Wolverine. The character has earned its own movie which is currently looking for writers. The movie will give the real picture of Deadpool [...]

As soon as Google provided the developer release of Google Chrome for Linux a few weeks ago, I have been using it regularly as a replacement of Firefox 3.0 that has been my main browser on Linux Mint. Right from first use the speed of Chrome blew me away without even conducting any benchmarks. Chrome [...]

Exposure blending is a good starting step to create realistic and also not so realistic HDR images. Getting an image that has an enhanced dynamic range has also given me better tone mapping results. Having spoken about using the Advanced Tone Mapping plugin for GIMP in another article, I figured that it is only logical [...]