Power and awe of a tsunami ...

I start out by conveying my condolences to the families who lost their dear ones in the worst disaster of the year. The people of south asia not being familiar with a phenomenon like this lost their lives. Have a look at these pictures sent by one of the vacationers there.

Off to Hawaii during Labor day weekend

We will be off to Oahu island during the long labor day weekend. I hope to get lots of pictures to upload on my website and some truely picturesque ones... Meanwhile hurricane Frances is coming to the Florida coast during the big weekend. Hope it does not do as much damage :(

Playing around with Flickr

A nice web service for photo blogging brought to us by flickr.com I just added their daily zeitgeist to the right side of this page. You can see my entries at http://www.flickr.com/photos/swapan/ The photos will be there only for three months. I will try to explore the possibility to extend the service to store them on these pages, maybe show a snapshot on the right... oh! I can change it show my pics or my contact list's photos but right now it is empty so I will leave it at that.

Another of those computer jokes

My wife forwarded them which she got from her friends ...

Today we have come out to watch The Wizard of Oz on a big screen outdoors. Its a lovely evening.

Calendar in a box

I was trying to implement the calendar in a rounded box as mentioned at this handcoding post but it failed spectacularly. Images attached to 'table' tag does not behave the same way as attached to 'div' tag. I have to admit that I tried only on IE6 and not much on N7 but still it does not look good. Here is a screen shot with IE at the top and NE at bottom.

Customized the calendar

The php calendar script I mentioned earlier is quite nice. I have customised it to serve the files from the archives. I could make it to look for specific posts on each days from the main file and link to them by passing the days array but why complicate it when I have so few posts.

Yesterday after the happy-hour get together for Rosie at the quarters, we went to for dinner.

Audioblogger should ...

Audioblogger site should have taken me to the main blogger.com website after editing the settings. It is totally non-intuitive where it just leaves your there and doesn't even show the list of audio posts you have made. Just makes an automatic entry on the main page. Quite nice and easy and here is hoping that they make something similar for images.

Changed the layout ...

I have changed the layout from a two column to three to make it more logical. This makes the main post section also more organised and does not span all the way to the right. It only covers 50% of the width which is less straining to the eye. Only problem might be with posted images which span more than 50% of the width. We will see ...

Not many good web based calendars ...

I have my central calendar on Yahoo! and wanted to import it to my blog/webpage but I couldn't. They have a print view of the calendar but you cannot embed it into another page. They should provide a small monthly view of the calendar ala the ones you see as archive links on many blogs.
I found a nice php script to generate a calendar at keithdevens.com which looks very customizable. I have put a rudimentary one on this page and see if I can extend it's functionality.

Kinda crude that I have to do it this way ...

Blogger should make it seamless to handle image/sound
object files instead of me doing all this. Its only a
matter of identifying attachment type and making an
<img> link. The following is linked to one of
the images at http://www.phlog.net/user/cyrus007

Update: well seems like you have to go into blogger.com
to publish email postings.



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Today morning I opened my inbox ...

I opened my inbox to find some good cartoons. Here's some of them ...

Hey I did it !!!

Cool... now I can send emails to my blog. Lets see if
it can send it directly or do I need to publish it
inside blogger.com

Nice thing about blogger.com now that it is part of
google is that it has so many other tools to play
with. I am sure photo blogging would work without any
problems, let's see if audioblogger can be integrated
too ?

Update: turns out you cannot send pictures in emails
to your blog. Lets see if I can use phlog.net instead.
Oh well!

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I am a grammar god because ...

Just took a grammar test here and the result came out as


You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!


How grammatically sound are you?
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This is my first post to my new blog. Let's see how it works out this time. It is supposed to post to my own website using the ftp service. I will try to integrate it with other tools.