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May 16th, 2008
04:56 pm - Travel and photography update
Last couple of weeks have been quite exciting in terms of travel.
A very fruitful trip to Bandipur where I got to see 2 tigers. And got my first and only shot of the south indian tiger
Then a quick trip to bhadra and teerthalli.
Pictures of River terns, Pratin coles and more here:
http://amoghavarsha.com/recent
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May 12th, 2008
10:41 am - Polls
Its a pity that Bangalore has just 44% turnout at the polls and then we crib about bad roads, bad that and this.
I know the usual argument of there's no candidate righteous enough to vote, but I find this an excuse. Its better choose the lesser of the evils. Shame, real shame. I've heard of villages having 99% turnout. Wow! what an educated world.
PS: I did vote!
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May 2nd, 2008
02:55 pm - Update :: Photographs
Some photographs from the recent Agumbe and Wayand trips
http://amoghavarsha.com/recent
Agumbe rainforest research station (Gowri shankar and researchers)
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April 30th, 2008
04:10 pm - Karaga photos on citizen matters
Spent a sunday midnight in mad crowd shooting this.
http://www.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/143-spectacle-under-the-full-moon
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12:27 pm - Tech nicety
Yesterday as it was raining heavily, the power went off and I was quite jobless. So I figured out how to tether my macbook to iphone so I can surf from the mac through iphone's edge. And it worked beautifully. You can get the instructions here
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April 28th, 2008
02:46 pm - Naturalist training programme
Jungle lodges and resorts is conducting a naturalist training programme with Chief naturalist Karthik heading it.
Here are the details
Date : 9-11 May 2008
Venue : JLR’s Bannerghatta Nature Camp, Bannerghatta National Park
Fee : Rs. 4250/- (incl. board, lodge, training, workshop material and kit)
Registrations : Will be on first come first serve basis as there are limited seats available. A passport size photograph is necessary for registration.
Last Date : On or before May 02, 2008
You can contact karthik for further details and to enroll.
Karthik's email id -> palmfly [at] gmail [dot] com
( Tentaive schedule )
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April 23rd, 2008
02:21 pm - Facebook chat is cool!
Goto facebook and you'll see a bottom chat bar.
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April 22nd, 2008
02:53 pm - Happy Earth day
Lets save nanda road
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April 19th, 2008
12:00 am - Back from Wayanad and Agumbe
Been traveling for the last two weeks, Wayanad and then Agumbe. At Agumbe we waited for 3 days but missed a lot of action that followed after I left. Will be traveling for the next month aswell. Promise to post pics in a couple of days.
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April 7th, 2008
08:25 am - Update
Been busy traveling and planning things for the coming weeks. Will be traveling quite a bit in the coming weeks.
Found some time to upgrade the gallery to support tags, put up an about page and process some photos long pending.
You can view the recent 15 photos here http://amoghavarsha.com/recent
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April 1st, 2008
March 25th, 2008
12:23 pm - Life changes and so do email ids
Due to some unseen issues, I'm migrating to a new mail id
amoghavarsha [at] gmail [dot] com
Please update your addressbooks and gtalk handles
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March 13th, 2008
February 21st, 2008
12:29 pm - Mungaru male in hindi! ROTFL!
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February 13th, 2008
11:49 am - NY times and their apathy towards issues
I wrote a letter to NY times editor almost a month back regarding http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/world/asia/11indiacar.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=tata+nano&oref=slogin
and so did a couple of my friends and still no one has received a reply.
---mail begins---
I wanted to bring to your notice, the article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/world/asia/11indiacar.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=tata+nano&oref=slogin
Which is about the launch of the world's cheapest car released in India.
This article's content I think is uncalled for, it is at one level falsification of facts or fictitious if I may call so. The author though being an Indian, clearly has a disconnect with India, and probably is trying to paint an image that's only in his imagination. In the era while a country is at pace with the world with nano technology and houses the Silicon city of the world, the title "Indians Hit the Road Amid Elephants", is so very unreal. A lot of my media friends share the same opinion, as NYTIMES and such are the face of Indian News around the world, such reports clearly damage the country's reputation. Clearly no report in the world mentions indian roads and drivers as the worst, on the contrary a google search just triggers almost all other countries than India. I think a note of apology from the author is called for.
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February 10th, 2008
February 1st, 2008
08:08 pm - Wallpapers
I like colorful, unintrusive and fresh looking wallpapers.
here are some wallpapers for desktop and iphone, shot at the lalbagh flower show.
http://amoghavarsha.com/v/miscellaneous/wallpapers/
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January 29th, 2008
11:29 pm - Slender loris!!!
My first slender loris sighting!!!
Slender loris sunlit
Slender loris in thicket
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January 23rd, 2008
January 22nd, 2008
10:15 pm - A hack day
Yesterday was a complete hack day.
1. I began by hacking my speaker stereo jack to fit into the iphone.
2. I wanted the song "Come all ye fair and tender maidens" by Joan Baez, and after hunting for days to download it for free/listen to it for free, I came across no sites. One of those obscure songs it happens to be. So it was available on itunes but then you need a US Credit card. So I went to rhapsody, they too wanted a US IP to play a f*&^ing song. I decided its time to screw every rule, I put a US proxy and went to rhapsody played the song, plugged in a cable from the stereo out to line in and recorded it on audacity. And then it was sweet bliss!
3. Then there were some permissions/driver issues on mac and iphone wouldn't get recognized, also my login had lost admin permissions for some weird reason, fixed that too!
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