When I bought my first lens (18-200mm VR) I asked for a UV filter to go with it. It was the Right Thing™ to do. I had to "protect" my lens, right?

The second I bought was on a bit of a tight budget. Lots of planning and saving went into it. Then came the incidental expense. $40 for a 52mm multi-coated filter. Wham! That's what Mumbaikars call a ( Read more... )

I got out of the arrival lounge and spotted the man holding a placard with my name on it. Soon I was inside a cab taking me down the beautiful but narrow road outside the airport ( Read more... )

As a continuation of my previous post, let me mention what happened with the Thrift experiment I blogged about some time back ( Read more... )

This isn't the first time I'm writing a blog post to sing praises of Python, the programming language, but still, go ahead and read ESR's quote in my earlier postAnyhow, lately I've been busy writing what I call a "web service delivery platform", which is what required me to hack a lot (~125 lines) of Python. While writing this thing, I was just ( Read more... )

Flickr Stats is one of the most awesome things from flickr for pro accounts. It gives you referer stats for your photos. Interestingly, you can use it to track hits on other pages ( Read more... )

kalyan has given a nice summary of reasons why LiveJournal is just not "it" anymore. I don't know if it has to do with all of us growing old or whatever, but participation on LiveJournal has fallen to dismal levels.

People like peeyush, yathin and dagoski are the only ones from my network updating regularly. 3 out of 100+ friends? That so doesn't cut it! And thus I wonder ( Read more... )

It's been about a year since I bought my XBox 360. I wouldn't have considered it had the PS3 supported feeding HD output to my TV. There's really not much fun gaming at NTSC/PAL resolutions ( Read more... )

We've just started moving some of the baseline application stuff to Python services running on independent app servers (no, not like J2EE app servers). One of the key aspects to consider in such a setup is the scalability of the bridge between the webserver and app server ( Read more... )

This post comes to you from my blackberry curve 8900. This isn't the first time I've posted an entry from a mobile device but it's definitely the best so far ( Read more... )