Day 4 in India. We are in Mumbai. We are still adjusting to the new timezone. The kids have more trouble with jet lag than us. Weather is horrible. It’s not too hot, around 24-25C but extremely humid. This makes it very very uncomfortable without air conditioning. It’s always sticky and sweaty. Monsoon is here.…
WOW! This feels really good. I’m here near our departure gate at Portland airport just checking mails etc. on my laptop and I just realized for next two months I don’t have to worry about work! No early morning meetings, no labs, no customer visits, nothing! That’s great. In another 24 hours or so I’ll…
Apple today announced Safari 3.0 will be available for Windows XP and Vista too! That’s great news! Since Firefox 1.0 I’ve been using it exclusively except when I need to visit sites with Indic Scripts. Indic script rendering is not perfect in Firefox. There are already bugs filed against it in bugzilla but Firefox community has not given high…
I am so looking forward to my upcoming sabbatical. We are going to India. This is going to be right in the middle of the monsoon season, so it’s going to be very interesting. I never missed the sweaty, humid and dusty springs and summers in Mumbai while living here in Pacific northwest, but I…
I had been searching for a powerful, easy-to-use blogging client and I have found one! I use Firefox and ScribeFire integrate well with it. On a click it splits the window into two and offers anice blogger client. It is a good mash-up product with technorati anddel.icio.us integration. I am yet to explore all the features but this sounds…
It’s March 11 already and at least for me everything seems fine. This year the clocks in US changed 3 weeks earlier than normal due to a new legislation by US congress. All my computers (Linux, Windows and Macs) had been patched and they adjusted for DST correctly. But PC World is reporting that some people had problems…
Holi is a festival of colors. It is mainly celebrated in western and northern India. It coincides with the harvest season. In some parts of India it is a major festival. This is also thought to be the beginning of spring season in India. In fact it is known as Vasant Utsav (Spring Festival) in…
SMS has become very popular now a days. But what I don’t like about SMS is typing a long message with the 12 key keypad on a cell phone. If given a choice I would quickly send an email rather than SMS. But what if your recipient is away from computer and you quickly want…
I have moved my pages (blog and photo album) to new address. This site was earlier available at http://amit.bapat.net:8080. I have now moved it to http://amitbapat.com.The bapat.net site is still hosted on home computers and Shraddha’s site is still hosted there. The new site amitbapat.com is hosted by HostMonster which offer to host unlimited number of domains with single account. They…
In October 2006, I finally bit the bullet and decided to buy a digital SLR camera. Since the digital SLRs started coming to market in 1999, I had been waiting for an affordable, full frame digital SLR. And in August 2005 we saw Canon announce their first full frame digital SLR camera Canon EOS 5D. But…