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The earthquake occurred at north-western Indonesia which is right at the continental plate boundry and usually most earthquakes happen at these boundries. I presume the Indian Geological survey team knew that. The earthquake occurred at around 8am IST and alerts went out to all the countries in Asia right away (Including the Indian Geological survey ) . At about 10am, the huge tsunami waves hit the Indian and srilankan coast and killing thousands of people. So at about 8:30am, the Indian geological survey team knew there was a large earthquake and there could be huge tsunami’s heading towards our country….

Last night, some dude broke into my car while my car was parked near cambridge layout by breaking the small glass window behind. This time I had not left anything in my car and luckily was carrying the camera and the palm with me. The thief broke in, rolled down my back seat window and stole a pack of choco-brandy cookies which where in the back seat (I had got from CookieMan earlier in the day ). There were few other small stuff in the back seat, which the thief left intact. I’ll have to go get the glass fixed…

My baby knows me best. noelladsa got me the The Ultimate Matrix Collection, Nice box of whiskey chocolates, an official McLaren Cap and my fav jar of mexican salsa sauce. This week is going to be good… 🙂

Starting tomorrow morning, I’m off to a 3 day naturalist training workshop being conducted by Jungle lodges Training Institute at Bannerghatta Nature Camp. The course will consist of Role of Naturalists, Interpretive Skills, Introduction to reptiles, mammals, insects, butterfly’s, birds, Conservation issues etc. At the end of the course, time to ask them for a job 😀

Instead of waiting for big game like tigers and elephants, I’ve started to appreciate little things in the jungle which most people just ignore or don’t bother to have a closer look. For example, take this desert succulent plant. This is found almost all over india and many species of this plant develop spikes at the edge of their leaves filled with toxins to keep enemies away. This one here clearly advertising the fact that the spikes have toxins by color coding them and hence asking everyone to stay away. Who says plants do not communicate 🙂 I’ve uploaded rest…

When it comes to innovation and trying out new hacks, google rocks. If you are a Unix user, you are just going to love the new Google Suggest feature. Auto-completion of search keywords 🙂 Yahoo and MSN are finally catching up on desktop search and I presume after today, they will start working on the Auto-completion feature and roll it out after couple of months.

<Commercial Mode On> In case you want your portfolio done, portrait of you taken for an online dating service, interiors of your office photographed, need pictures for your company PR kit, themed images for your a calender, just ping your friendly neighborhood photographer 😉 </Commercial Mode Off> Trying to make a living out of photography is *very* *very* tough.

Linux-Bangalore/2004 finally comes to an end. I attended exactly 3 talks. Slept through one, the other two were quite interesting and the rest were pure tech talks which frankly I can learn by reading up online. For me, LB has been an excellent place to catch up with loads of old friends, meeting people from online communities (LJ, LUG’s) for the first time (now you can associate a face to that person), people from my college etc. Many folks came up to introduce themselves and mentioned that they read by blog. Cool! Thanks for dropping by to say hi. There…

No wifi, no LAN, no GPRS, no Internet at LB2004. So jace jumps in, dials out via his reliance phone, makes his powerbook a wifi router and now the speaker lounge has wifi access. Yay to jace and may the force be with you. Now back to my slides. Remember : If you want to attend, my talk is at 10am tomorrow.

The trip to bandipur and kabini was *Excellent* and I already can’t wait to get back to this place. Though we could not see many mammals, we had a gala time spotting the birds, insects and best of all the appreciating the flora. Will post some of the lovely plant pictures later when I have time. Eventful week coming up. Me and my IISC prof are doing a combined keynote at the Storage Area Network CEO summit on Dec 1st. This will be my first major talk in front of a non-tech audience and I hope I can print my…