I have been visiting the World Press Photo (WPP) Exhibition since last year. This is partly because I admire photography & also appreciate the great work that’s done by the photo journalists around the globe. It’s really amazing how these guys work under the most unfriendliest sometime hostile situation to bring to us these myriad talking images.
Retro is Back
I had always liked retro figures right from my earlier website and I had also got some good reviews regarding the same. I decided to move away from it because I wanted to try out something different. Now that the earlier design has outlived my expectations it was time for a new set of rules.
Firstly I had to re-install WordPress on my local machine which wasn’t as tedious as I initially thought it would be. Installing it offline meant that I can carry my design development on WordPress without disturbing the original website. For those of you who are interested in knowing more about it, click here. I had always had a colour scheme in my mind which was more youthful then it’s previous avatar and I just had to build a theme around it. The RetroGal – as I like to call all my retro figures, is also back on the header. The entire development took me just over a day & the end result was very satisfying. I hope this small change would enhance the user-experience to a great extent.
Leave Mumbai Alone For Us
Mumbaikars (natives of Mumbai city) are well aware of the hardships which they face everyday. To name some of the few – train travels, bad roads, polluted water supplies, growing slums, etc. Just recently I had an argument with a friend who has come down from Delhi to work with us and he was unapologetically critical about this city. The fact of the matter is that I know what plagues us and I know that the solution lies entirely in the hands of the administration which is not focusing on the city right now. I lost my temper and hit back with strong words on this.
Move Over Konfabulator
Here comes Kapsules, a freeware desktop widget engine built exclusively for the Windows system. It is built upon the Windows Scripting Technology and is reliant on the .NET framework for it’s working. While Konfabulator was earlier written for the Mac OS X System and later ported for Windows, Kapsules is exclusively designed to be used by Windows components. Check out the widgets available for Kapsules and also preview the Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets.
Of Tarts, Beer & All That
When will I know everything and attain nirvana? This is a question I keep asking myself everytime I find myself in an embarassingly idiotic situation. We ordered some desserts in the office and it was my longtime wish to eat a tart. Let me honestly say that apart from a few references (and perhaps with some visual ones as well) from books, I had no clue how a tart tasted. This is my time to experiment with my palate, I told myself. So I went ahead and ordered a Lemon Tart and it finally arrived and before anyone could realise what I was doing I had started eating the lemon ‘cream’ from the so called ‘cup’. I also invited my friend Aadesh to the table to have a scoop and he did the same until everyone laughed their guts out. The tart was supposed to be eaten entirely with the ‘cup’ which was a bread. That explains why the cream tasted pretty much like our local shrikhand. Everyone had a good time laughing at me including our VP who’s going to speak to my Group Leader about the kind of “mentoring” he’s giving his lads.