Upgraded myself to WP-2.0 , Did I say that it Rocks and it rocks big time …
Just love the interface and everything…
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Wordpress 2.0 rocks!!!!
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006Happy New Year
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Wish you all a very very *Happy New Year*. This new year brings me a lot of responsibilities, many debts to fullfill and hopefully… lots of oppurtunities.
It’ll be wrong for me to say that the last year didnt bring it… It did, but I failed to make proper use of it. The new year resolution is *I wont give up* proper Naruto style 
Oh yes, and I promise to be regular from now on…
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Adobe takes over Macromedia!
Monday, April 18th, 2005The Merger of the Decade has happened. Adobe takes over Macromedia today, 18th of April, 2005 to become a Mega-Super-Duper-Giant of the Visual Media Industry.
The news is here on both Adobe and Macromedia sites. I am an advance user of both Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia’s Dreamweaver and Flash, but to me, Macromedia is a better company, I love the way they do things, I love the tagline “What the web can be” and I love their file sizes. I was seeing Macromedia as a rival to Adobe in the near future, with thier Freehand becoming better and more popular than Adobe’s Illustrator. Adobe has been known to kill small companies and acquire them ( and so is Macromedia) but Adobe more so than Macromedia 
:P
The name Macromedia will be erased and the joint thing will be known as Adobe Systems.
Further Reading:
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PS: Thx to Anand for pointing out the above links.
Photographer Blues :(
Sunday, April 3rd, 2005Yesterday I was caught photographing my OWN campus from accross the Lake by a policeman. Now there was an inconspicous sign there in marathi saying that Lake photography is not allowed. The damn fellow wanted my camera for custody or 300 cash without reciept. I guess you all know what option I went for.
Also the day I took the Marine Plaza snap, I was planning to take a snap of Queen’s Necklace, and this BrihannaMumbahi Nagar Palika( Mumbai City Administration) van catches up and says that I am not allowed to take snaps there either and at one end of that 7.5km drive there is a sign which says that. I got off that one saying that you should put those sign at prominent places and not at one end of that 7.5 km stretch, but still that fellow was yelling that I should pay more attention to signs.
Now the main problem is that how are we the Photo-enthusiasts supposed to know about such obscure rules ? In India, I’ve been to a lot of museums who dont have a proper information brochure of collectible standards ready for purchase, but they do have a NO PHOTOGRAPHY rule in application. The same rule applies in Malls and other hangout places.
I dont see whats the problem anyway? I am giving a free advertisement to those who visit my blog, I am only enticing more people to go there and visit the DAMN place. A photograph can replace a 10000 words. What are these guys afraid of ? That the pic will look so yucky that no one will come at all ?? Some places you get to take pictures after paying the local authority, but the question is that that pic is still illegal !!!
I see Tom @ ZoomVienna covering the City of Vienna beautifully. I wish I could do that to Mumbai.
If you want daily life check Zee’s blog. He missed the photobloggies, but he’s good at daily life.
-Thakkar
PS: As a corollary I also suffer from the fear that many of us may be violating many trespassing and such laws unknowingly… So I am just taking it one day at a time and pleading ignorance whenever I can..
Vote for Zishaan
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005Zishaan, a friend, a teammate and a Junior has a photoblog: Point and Shoot. He has been shortlisted into the best S.E.Asian category for the Photobloggies 2005 awards. Visit Point and Shoot and if you like it then do vote and support him here.
Had a wonderful and stomachfull weekend!
Monday, March 21st, 2005Coupe of ex-batchmates, Alok and Shariq landed up from states, alok on Friday and Rizvi on Sunday and it was a weekend rushing from one treat to another. Went to Gorai Beach on Saturday, Dinner at Saffron Spice, next morning lunch again at Saffron Spice, Tea @ mocha’s , Light early dinner at pizza hut ending up with a Midnight buffet @ Le’ meredian! … More details will follow!
A heart is like a FTP server…
Friday, March 18th, 2005All hearts are like FTP servers, with all the usual type of logins one has in a default server, like Anonymous and priviledged. You Ping them constantly with your senses, as in when you casually look on a passerby or acknowledge someone’s presence, you also give a port scan when you flirt with someone, and you know of some by word-of-mouth publicity.
Emotions are files kept on this server, they are of different types: Affection, Anger, Admiration, Love, Lust, Happiness, Sadness, Hate etc.. and like wise are distributed accross different logins available for download. Love here is like an infinitely big DVD rip 0-day warez file which everyone wants but only a few previledged users are able to have access to it.
Servers are also of many types: Introverts, Averge and Extroverts . An Introvert server is behind a firewall so you cannot ping to it, or know its there by a casual portscan, you only get to know it by Word-of-mouth publicity. An Average server on the other hand has an anonymous login open at all times 24×7, Mest Hearts are of this category while an Extrovert server is available to all and publicizes itself on bulletin boards.
I’ll now explain the User groups.
Anonymous: This is like a preview login, all basic emotions are kept here. The content is mostly a preview of the main user accounts, and largly depends on the instantaneous mood of the FTP host. By default when you contact a server this is the user group to which a user is assigned to, and if . you behave yourself then you get higher usergroups assigned to you.
Acquaintance: This is an advanced form of the Anonymous user group, and is kept for leechers you cannot avoid. This account has a Bandwidth cap per day which is very strict. The only way to exceed your bandwidth is uploading wanted emotions at this server. It should be noted that main files are not kept at this account. You’ll get things likes Wisecracks,
Friends: This group is a group of previledged users who gain trust and are upgraded from the Acquaintances user group. One doesnt have to barter for any files and can download w/o uploading. This user group has a sense of communion and these hearts link in unison. All except love.avi is available to this account group. However, since this group is based on trust, if you reveal the logins and password to too many people, you may get banned.
Family: Administrators, mostly have the full control over the content and access priviledeges.
Soulmate: Ahha, the prized account, sort of like a super user, whose login and password is given to the most trusted of the friends. This account shares almost the same content base as the family base and sometimes even more. When ever a soulmate connects to the heart it starts uploading and Downloading the Love.Avi file at full throttle. A soulmate can login even when there are other friends/family already logged in to the heart.
This finishes the account summary. Some more analogies from this metaphor comes as:
Hammering: If any account Hammers the heart server (save for Family and Soulmate users) it may get banned.
Extrovert servers are easily accesible, allow more connections per account, but as a result give very low bandwidth, on the other hand, Introvert servers are harder to find, can take less load, but allow higher bandwidth per connection.
Connection Closed by Foreign Host error may occur sometimes when someone from the Family Group sets puts you in the ban list. This may happen due to any reason.
Last but not the least, its also important to realize that many a times people give the Soulmate previleges to a wrong person and later regret it. In such cases when you have half downloaded the Love file (what is half of infinite ?? ) and the connection is closed by the host, one should not despair and should try looking for another server with the same content. There are numerous FTP servers out there on the network, and you are bound to find one. 
:D
If your network has none that you are conviced of, then you can hop networks and shit to a different City and start afresh!
just random thoughts
-Thakkar
First Law of Friendship
Thursday, March 17th, 2005v = u + at
This only applies to me (and a few others… ), for the hidden meaning of this rule is:
v(We) = u(You) + at (Abhishek Thakkar) :D
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Confoosions….
Saturday, March 12th, 2005Let me say this … the photoblog template is a mod of the the “GreyCard” template by Tim::Hollosy… He has some confusion that I am trying to claim it as my own. So here goes the Disclaimer.. You can read the rest at PixelPost
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Leo Employees…
Sunday, March 6th, 2005Jayshree sent a forward today about how employees are according to Zodiac Signs, here’s what it says about LEO:
Leo workers want to be first and at the center of the office. Even if they cannot lead, they will look for every opportunity to increase their own status — and if someone else seems ahead of them, look out. They will make it clear that they are not happy by pouting and complaining. They want advancement so much that they will take on more responsibility and carry a heavier load than anyone else does in the office. And they are self-promoters. It is likely that they are telling everyone in the office what a great job they are doing as well as giving everyone unwanted advice. They know they are superior and want everyone to know it as well. This arrogance can sometimes cause problems when working with management. But typically, they are just hard workers out to demonstrate just how good they really are. They thrive in sales positions - they can promote a product or company just as well as they promote themselves. Their strength and arrogance is not just show either. In a crisis situation, Leos really demonstrate their true courage. Leos want to lead and will be pushing for more responsibility and rewards. They are happy to train and mentor new co-workers as they enjoy giving advice and being in positions of authority. If you are trying to manage a Leo employee, you will need to give them plenty of raise, responsibility, and independence. They will certainly want to help lighten your load of management responsibilities. Just be careful- the next thing you know they could be taking over your job.
I’m a LEO, in case you wondering why I posted this ..
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