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Looks like Amazon is setting up its development center in Bangalore in next couple of months. Personally I rank amazon as one of the best tech companies out there and Wired seems to think the same too. They stuck to their roots, never compromised on anything and though its not a cash cow company, they retained the passion of silicon valley. Though people rave about google so much, I am waiting to see how google would look 3 – 4 years from now. In other news Infosys has been ranked above IBM and Microsoft in The Wired 40 companies driving…

70mm – ISO 200 – f/4.5 – 1/1000sec Took the picture using a black polymer sun-filter which is used to normal viewing. Could not zoom in and take the pic coz of the small size of the filter (1x1cm). And NO, this is not a photoshop/gimp trick

I got myself a turtle 2 days ago as a pet. This is the first real pet I’ve ever had and so far I seem to be having nice time with it. I am yet to name the small bugger, but he is very jumpy and takes every chance to splash in water. The four month old turtle I managed to get some really nice shots in the evening, post rain with my totally out-of-focus black front gate as the backdrop. I cut the pics into 1024×768 versions in case any of you want to use it as a wallpaper….

Sushanth ( khorgath ), the bum decided to call it quits and today happens to be his last day at work. He is planning to chill out for couple of months and pursue his higher studies after that. What can I say.. I met him 7 years ago on the 2nd day of college . He overheard me talking about pascal with someone and joined in the conversation. We introduced ourselves and then ended up talking a lot about games, internet etc. We became friends, organized the tech events together in out 1st college fest, started working on linux, he…

Tomorrow is Memorial Day in the US and its a national holiday there. Since no one in the US will turn up for work, this means holiday for all the people in India who work/support for the US companies from here. Ofcourse we indians still get holidays for all the local festivals. I, for one, plan to chill out and take-it-easy tomorrow 🙂

I’m addicted to Addictions

Yesterday’s Monaco F1 race has been one of best I’ve seen in a very long time. Not because Michael Schumacher crashed up, but the race itself was spectacular. Someday when I’m rich, I *will* attend the monaco GP. Good relaxing weekend. Did not touch work at all and spent my time either with the camera or the TV. Nothing like watching some old episodes of South Park. The weather was very smoothing to make things perfect. Third day of monsoon in Bangalore

Update : Woohoo.. The picture is coming on the front page of Vijay times tomorrow. So kindly do buy it if you can 😀 Ack kingsly for calling me up to tell me about the moon and all the other people who called up to tell me about it as well.. esp geetanjali. Wallpaper version of the pic here

You can finish 80% of you work (atleast pretend to) by spending 20% of your time replying to emails. It works each and every time I’ve tried 🙂

All this while, I was under the impression that someone figured out a decent way to do micropayments online. Well, I was wrong. I see the paypal “Donate now” buttons on many blogs and thought paypal offered a decent micropayment system. When I finally got the first buck, paypal said it needs 30¢ for the Credit card transaction and it will also change me 2% of the amount. So I finally got 0.67¢ in hand. Now that’s insane. I am not going to pay paypal 33% of the money I make. What are the alternatives ? Amazon’s honor system :…