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On Saturday, August 14th, my Nikon F80 camera and my Zoom lens, were stolen from my car. Of course, I’m a moron and didn’t have any insurance, so my loss isn’t covered. So I’ve started this fundraiser to try to recover some costs. I’ve done the math, and I figure I lost about 30,000 Rupees ($600) in equipment if I were to buy it all new again. I worked hard to save up for each of those purchases and it was bitter blow when this theft took place. Please don’t feel obligated to help me in anyway. I’m not the…

Found this on someone’s mail signature : “…justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people’s rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them.” – Osama Bin Laden “There aught to be limits to freedom!” – George Bush Which one scares you more?

After whole day of running around the cops, managed to get hold of the CSI team of Bangalore police yesterday evening. They are in pretty sad state… there is only one CSI team and they have 2 people who knows how to get fingerprints from a crime scene and each one of them take 24 hour long non-stop shifts. After attending to 6 other crime scenes, they came over to my place and got to work. They carefully brushed both the cars ( insides and outsides ) with a very fine silver power ( I think its sodium nitrate )…

Some fucker broke into my car last night (and my dad’s) and got away with my new Nikon F80 camera with lens and my dad’s stereo system. I came home at 3am and slept at 4am, so this guy made his move between 4 -5am and I’m pretty sure he knew there was my camera in the car under the seat.( I know its damn stupid of me to leave it in the car ). Luckily I removed my laptop and the D70 out before I slept. He neatly removed the front glass, kept it aside and finished his work.The…

Traveled to Ranganathittu and Mysore zoo last sunday along with my newly armed film camera. I shot my first 2 rolls of slide film and I am pretty happy with the results. The development and scanning costed me a bomb and the pictures are slightly underexposed and the contrast was too high ( this was due to the slide film I shot with ). The above picture was taken using my Nikon F80 with elitechrome kodak Slide film. Rest of the pictures along with the pictures from my Nikon D70 are here.

Sometimes I wish I had formal Computer Science background instead of Mechanical engineering. There are some things which you only learn in college course, which you’d never go out of your way to learn/master. Maybe its not too late yet.

Few folks in office decided to challenge me for karting and hence 6 of us went back to speedzone and had a proper race with prelims and finals. I managed to beat everyone again (including yathin) with the same 61 sec best lap. If you race there the next time, pick the kart No 6. I think thats the fastest one out there. In other news, I got my car back from servicing today. The brakes were totally worn off the the rattling noise that my car was making turns out to be a worn out bearing which cost me…

Like any other software company, we had the team outing today ( my actual team is very small here.. but I come under a bigger team within the company ) which was karting at speedzone followed by dinner. I’m amazed by the quality of SpeedZone. The track is really big and the karts have 13 horsepower engines instead of the 7 horsepower ones that you find elsewhere. Since the karts were powerful, it did not matter if I raced with a person who was 30kg’s lighter them I am .Surprisingly I made it to the finals and I managed to…

Jeremy‘s written an excellent piece on how people forget the ‘beta’ label on products. Traditionally we are familiar with beta software which we could install on our machine and try out the product before it went live.. and usually there was a gap of couple of months between a beta and the final launch of a product. With Internet services the same cycle continued, but some companies choose to stay in the ‘beta’ mode for longer then usual.. and the company leading the pack is Google. Almost all google products other then search have the ‘beta’ stamp on them. But…

Hellmuth ConzMeister of Photography Couple of weeks ago, I woke up one morning and decided I’ll learn the good-ol-fashioned film photography. From developing negatives to printing pictures and rest of the works in the dark room. Then I met Hellmuth Conz. Originally from Germany, he teaches photography for living in Bangalore. I signed up for the advanced course which includes dark room development and working with lighting etc. I completed the darkroom course last week(Only black&white) and now I can’t wait to shoot in film. Its amazing all the things you can do in the darkroom to your image.. and…