30 Mar 2011 Craziest Batch to Join MBEM (SPA)
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Had made this comic just after we graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture. Found it in my archives today – so thought of posting it here ;
You can meet Lambu, Horse, CSP, Fish & Duck, Jack & Jill, Pawan & Sarang, Bagchi & Psycho, Pankaj and me (the Devil)

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06 Mar 2011 New Theme – Handcoded
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I finally sat down to code my own theme –

Wrote the entire thing from scratch (except the comments section, which I copied from another theme). Used a lot of help from the net for the actual coding – the XHTML, PHP ans CSS bits – and a lot of help from Sonali and Madhur in designing the layout. The logo was designed by Madhur.

I now have something I like. Comments welcome, also if you see any errors – please let me know asap – as this is still a work in progress. Let me know if you can see the slideshow on the top right hand side properly – its been giving me errors intermittently. . .
And the toolbar at the bottom is the Wibiya toolbar from wibiya.com

24 Feb 2011 Blog To-Do
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Have been ignoring my blog for quite some time now, so decided to make a to-do list of things yet to come on my blog:

  1. Kamshet trip in 2009 for my Paragliding P2
  2. Jaisalmer trip in 2010 for valentines
  3. Kesroli and Neemrana trips
  4. Trip to Sanawar for founders
  5. Going back a bit – Srisailam trip in 2009
  6. Trip to Vaishno Devi

Am going to keep this list on top and get down to writing the blogs.

25 Jan 2011 Cottage Cheese Pancakes
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EDIT: Found a much easier and better recipe at Epicurious:

Ingredients

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 cups whole-milk cottage cheese
  • 3 large eggs
  • 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour

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18 Oct 2010 Kingdom of Dreams – some photos
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We had gone to the Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon. Lovely place – here are a few photos. Most clicked by Papa and Madhur:

16 Jul 2010 DIY – Digital Picture Frame

I had an old Dell Inspiron 6400 lying around at home and decided to install Linux on it – had been dabbling with Linux for many years – but as it was never the only operating system on the computer – didn’t really get ahead with it. Also the plan was to make a multimedia center that I could control with my mobile. I had been doing this on my mac using Salling Clicker, but had no idea what I would do with the Dell – so, as is usual in such cases – Google came to my help.

The feature-set I had planned includes:

  1. Digital Photo Frame – slideshow starts as soon as the computer boots
  2. Media Centre (controlled via Bluetooth mobile):
  3. Control wi-fi router through Bluetooth mobile
  4. E-book server – Serve e-books to the nook over wi-fi
  5. Remote access via ssh and vnc
  6. Sync music, videos and photos from usb HDD (to-do)
  7. Send commands via email – e.g start slideshow, suspend, start/ stop torrents, etc. (to-do)
  8. Act as a wireless server for my macbook time machine
  9. Display clock while in slideshow mode

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