typings of a random clicker

Its been a while I wrote something.. finally coming to realize what work+load is.
I switched to DIY hosting at Gandi. So will take some effort in maintaining it.. than just point & click.

Thanks to having a hoodman lcd cover, I realized a little late I was shooting with no CF card!! But this still is not as bad as when I shot a roll on Vivitar 3800N without advancing the film (since I never put it in sprocket properly in first place), and missing a whole set of photos, of a memorable trek in Bhutan! My A70 did save me that time.

Gnunify’09 is on, be there if you can not to miss some learning & fun.

PLUG bookmarks are worth taking

visited 18 states (51.4%)

World map

visited 7 states (3.11%)

Ever since I read about it couple of years back, I wished to make the Kangra Valley narrow gauge trip. Also with the aim to complete all Hill trains.. Trips done till now
Neral – Matheran
Shimla – Kalka
Pathankot – Baijnath Paprola

Next in target Ooty & Darjeeling hill trains.

KVR is the longest route of all, 164kms from Pathankot till Jogindernagar reaching peak altitude of 1210m. For the first 50kms it runs fast enough covering the distance in couple of hours, with halts extra, then gradually ascending, until Kangra and coming closer to Dhauladhar range, then a steeper ascent upto Palampur, Baijnath with highest point at Ajhu – 1210m (near Bir), then descending down to Jogindernagar at 1139m.

Photo set on flickr

More on this in a photo blog post

night skies are getting better again after 3 months of clouds.. and we have an unexpected guest.. in comet holmes (to be correct comet 17p/holmes ), it suddenly turned bright enough to be visible by naked eye..from a very faint magnitude of 17.. at the moment it is located in constellation perseus (see path map ) or read more here.
A good time to see if would be after 8pm, looking towards north eastern side & slowly moving up, till an angle of 30-40 degrees. or towards midnight look up straight over head & then turn little north (abt looking at abt 70-80 deg).. refer to star chart ( or try in kstars – close to star named Mirfak going towards pole star ).
If you are in a place with least light pollution, then can easily make it out amont the fine stars, as it appears as a tiny hazy globe (with bright center when seen through binoculars).
gee.. time to clean up my 4″ reflector

officially i turn thirty today!.. gifting myself a 400D .. also good that india kept its record intact

thanks to prakash for this link. Now you can hack on your digicam (only Canon models with Digic II chip), using CHDK. I cant wait to try it out..!

Jujo

Originally uploaded by karunakarg.

I am a Jujo! .. Joined Symantec Pune on 30th July!

after dilly dallying for long.. finally upgrade to pro account on flickr.

so now should sort out the 32K photos… to put up some good ones..

for a start for all roopali fans (& pluggies)

Gnunify’07 mugshots here
more photos to come… as usual gnunify was fun..

After a quiet december, I am back to doing some more travelling.. arrived in bangalore couple of hours back, to attend friends wedding..

my trip will be like   delhi – bangalore – hampi – bangalore – pune – mumbai – delhi.  originally this was to be a extended holiday, to some place down south.. but had to change plan for Gnunify07 on 27-28th in Pune… the schedule is out, I will be speaking again 4th time.. no prizes for guessing the topic