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Oh well….it was indeed a wonderful vacation out at Koh Samui with Aarthi! We spent 2.5 days and 2 nights to be more exact enjoying lovely beaches, tropical rainforests and splendid landscapes! Take a look at some breathtaking moments snapped during our trip!
Check out more photos here! Trust me - this is a must place to go!
I had to visit Singapore for official reasons from 17 October 2008 to 22 October 2008. Aarthi tagged along with me. We had great fun over the weekend visiting a few places of interest. Singapore Zoo was one of them!
The Singapore Zoo is perhaps one of the best planned zoos in the world! It has a rich collection of flora and fauna and its simply soothing to take a stroll around the zoo, which is built pretty much to accomodate the animal’s natural habitat.
As the trip was pretty much a casual getaway, I did not manage to completely focus on photography. However, here are some good ones for viewing!
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Shri Mangala Vinayagar is the presiding deity at our home shrine. He was energized (blessed) during our House Warming Ceremony on Sunday, 25 May 2008.
Since I am back to my blogging, I wanted to start fresh with His blessings 
May He Shower all with His Blessings!
Hi everyone!
I am back! Yes! I really mean it It has been indeed a real long time. Other tasks of higher priorities just came in and I was not able to write more of what I enjoy doing. Well, action speaks louder than words - that’s what I had to follow and lived with for the past 11 months.
Stay tuned!
IT Security is of paramount importance to an organization. Having vender-independent and neutral security information at hand is crucial to ensure you preserve you confidentiality and maintain availability.
SECURITY FOCUS is an interesting site that is perhaps the only site with the most comprehensive and trusted source of security information.
I got to know about this site from a good friend of mine and am finding it very useful. Hope it helps you too!
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Today I found a real cool article that helped me solve an annoying problem! I was in the midst of setting up some virtual machines and was not able to boot from my windows 2003 shared folder! Yikes!
I browsed around for some solution and found this real cool article. Read it! It solved my problem.
The article explains how you can create a Windows Server 2003 CDROM or iso-image to be used during virtual machine setup or mass-deployment. Better still, it explains how to slipstream a SP1 deployment along with the setup.
My initial problem was that my shared folder (installation files) did not have a boot image and that was a real problem getting virtual machine to boot from my image. Through this article, I managed to download a standard boot image which then was used to create a bootable CD-ROM and an iso image of Windows Server 2003!
Try it and you’ll love it!
First time ever in my life I snapped a few water drops Trust me, it wasn’t easy at all! The challenge was using my Canon Powershot A570IS, trying to snap drops of water flowing from leaves on a windy Christmas Day!
All photos were taken using the camera’s Manual Exposure Mode with MACRO option set to ON No flash was used. Cropping was definetely done to give a better composition. Mild sharpening was done in picasa.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging is a set of techniques used commonly these days in computer graphics and photography. With the advent of advanced technologies in graphics and digital photography software and hardware, a wide variety of techniques have emerged to take an individual’s photographic experience to a totally different level with a different perspective!
HDR technique allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (range of values between light and dark areas).In other words, it is a technique to tone map multiple bracketed exposures together, resulting in high dynamic range representation of an image. In laymen terms, you are merely merging multiple photos of varying exposure compensation to make up for the high extremes of light and darkness to achieve a balance. Now I am confused…
There are useful information available on the web to learn this technique. Give it a try at:
HDR Landscape Photography Tutorial
I like the latter tutorial as it gives you more detailed information about how HDR can be applied in landscape photography.
I am about to try out these techniques with my available images and will post for viewing shortly. Meanwhile, get started and rock on!
Finally Aarthi had uploaded a few. The first 3 photos are taken by me, while the rest are Aarthi’s.
I did a dry brush filter effect for this one:
What qualities an employee expects out of his/her manager? Read this article!
Very true indeed as management is all about trust and integrity and balancing management role between people and technical is quite a daunting task. Regardless of how technical a manager is, his people management skills truly reflect if he is a good one!
For all those inspiring to become a manager or climb up the management ladder, read this article
Have fun reading!