Sangita! If there was anyone in my life I place after my mother it would be her. Even though she is just a year older to me she always held that place of a woman I could go to for comfort. I have known her since I was fifteen. We grew up together, kept in touch for a long long time but as fate would have it, life took somewhat divergent paths about ten years ago.

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Tags: life, photography, sangita, wisdom

Over at SANIsoft in the past few days we released two small but very useful bits of code. The code was written to itch the classical ‘I need it’ itch. I do hope there will be more like me out there who would like to solve the same problems.

• jQuery auto-correct plugin – Once attached to an input field of a form this plugin will automatically replace / correct common typos like ‘teh’ and ‘taht’
• DateTitle – A WordPress plugin for automatic post titles If a title of a post is left blank this plugin will automatically insert todays date in a format of your choice.

The links to downloads and demo are on the pages which I have linked above

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Tags: foss, jquery, programming, wordpress

• Sitting in the bedroom balcony enjoying cool breeze and the lightening show. No rains yet #weather #
• Testing out Gravity twitter client – seems the $10 is worth it for the group feature alone! #
• http://twitpic.com/80cf1 – Heh! I found a 'For reasons of hygiene' sticker #
• Eating low fat probiotic yogurt – sounds awfully healthy #
• Damn! Where did the weekend go? #monday #
• @qtfan No one likes it but we mere mortals can't avoid it in reply to qtfan #
• @fox2mike Post a twitpic of the cards in reply to fox2mike #
• Announcing #jquery Auto-correct plugin – no more having to correct your teh and taht http://is.gd/18Wrw #
• @fox2mike cool does the back have to same photo in every card ? in reply to fox2mike #
• @sunshin3girl I am sure it would be creepy if they always talked about guys. Seriously is it that bad? in reply to sunshin3girl #
• @kalyanvarma The header image on this http://kalyanvarma.net/rainforest_faq page is broken in reply to kalyanvarma #
• RT @fossdotin: Not bad – The FOSS.IN page on Facebook (http://tinyurl.com/nszdx8) is seeing lots of signups #
• And then there were none!! My #wordpress stats seem to have been wiped off #
• @derherr Twitpic it man! in reply to derherr #
• SANIsoft: blog : jQuery auto-correct plugin http://tinyurl.com/my3dd6 #
• Livejournal: Reviving the journal: After a lot of reluctance I am pushing myself to revive the journ.. http://tinyurl.com/lrulov #
• LOL http://twittch.com/23/ I love the firefox girl in this #toon #
• @bluesmoon got any URL for amora? in reply to bluesmoon #
• @kbhargava @louiswu Thanks will look it up. in reply to kbhargava #
• Aasim seems to have acquired a good reading speed about 300 pages a day and he is not skipping #
• Livejournal: Taking screenshots on E71: My current home screenSince I decided that I want to be able.. http://tinyurl.com/nkrugz #
• @bluesmoon Thanks, Yes, I read the description of Amora – will try it out looks really really useful in reply to bluesmoon #
• Note to self: #wordpress silently gobbles up < and > instead to converting them to < and > if you are editing in the HTML mode #
• Heh! and twitter does not let type htmlentities I meant < is not converted to & lt; etc #
• Twitter feed seems to be very messed up at the moment guess should halt it for a while #
• RT @meerasapra: "I have all these great genes but they're recessive that's the problem here" #C&H @clubcalvin #
• http://twitpic.com/89o9z – Flowers sent by a client as congratulations to the programming team #sanisoft #
• http://twitpic.com/89t3x – After god awful days of heat looks like it will rain now. Continuous rolling thunder! #
• RT @BoBennett: If a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, it doesn't necessarily mean it's good advice. #
• Just back after a drive around in the rain and back to work – can happen only in #nagpur #
• Reviewing the hReview microformat #
• @gulpanag yes attempting 4×4 terrain in an innova is a bad idea. Learned it the hard way – a Pajero is best for that in reply to gulpanag #
• @ranjeet_walunj Are you not confusing schooling with education? in reply to ranjeet_walunj #
• A swiss card is indeed a handy thing to have – managed to repair my reading glasses – W00t for #insomnia #
• Final CakeFest Schedule Announced! http://cakefest.org/talks #cakefest #cakephp Soooo wishing that I was there #
• Bookmark: Wordpress Option Reference http://tinyurl.com/levllq #
• RT @kbhargava: HR Managers are vampires, always on the look-out for "fresh" blood. #
• Sitting watching rain and lightening while romantic songs of Rafi play in the background #
• RT @achitnis: In the end, he couldn't Beat It. Rest in Peace, Michael Jackson. #
• @nateabele Doing a Cakefest in India can be indeed considered in reply to nateabele #
• Bahaaron phool barsao, mera mehboob aaya hai… the Modh. Rafi mood continues #music #
• @codemaverik Not yet raining but the temperature is down to a bearable degree in reply to codemaverik #
• http://twitpic.com/8go15 – Sunset – the picture does not capture the lovely breeze blowing #
• My M$ Windows PC had unprotected sex with a strange Pen drive and is now infected with a nasty variant of W32 worm. AVG un able to cure #
• http://twitpic.com/8nht5 – It finally feels like the rains have arrived! #
• Combofix removes the 'Google is banned' variant of W32 worm. #virus #
• @shortwing Pictures? in reply to shortwing #
• Hoping for a midnight photo shoot #

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Since I decided that I want to be able to write reviews of software on my E71 phone (yeah, that will kind of make this journal bloggy ) the first thing which I wanted to do was ability to take screenshots.

A bit of Googling brought me to Antony Pranata’s website and his freeware application very intuitively named Screenshot for Symbian OS. Great!

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Tags: e71, review, symbian

After a lot of reluctance I am pushing myself to revive the journal writing, this time though I am going to use a self hosted Wordpress on my site at http://tariquesani.net/blog/. Yes the URL says blog but I essentially want to keep this as a journal. No! I do not want to revive the journal vs. blog flame wars.

If you are reading this on the Live Journal site – you will notice that the entry has been cross posted, I will cross post perhaps for a few days and then stop… All the entries right from 2002 have been imported in to the Wordpress install.

In a reversal of sorts I have decided to host my pictures at flickr and will be using the blog to post links to them. The current Coppermine install at http://tariquesani.net/ will stay because of SEO reasons, but sooner or later I will make the complete site Wordpress based.

For the interested the theme used is a modification of Amazing grace theme – I chose this theme for the rotating headers and warm colors – am finally getting bored of dark colors for my websites Anyone having any suggestions for themes are most welcome.

Some day I will make a list of all the widgets and plugins I use.

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Tags: life, wordpress

Want to try out the Searchmoney beta but looks like the invites are pretty restricted.

Can any Yahooligan on my friends list help?

• 14:11 Catching up with school friends is always much nicer than with college friends #
• 22:02 Re-reading stories by Sadat Hasan Manto... #

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Aasim read Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the first time. Title of the post is what he had to say when he finished!

Tags: aasim, innocence, wisdom
Current Mood: enthralled

Tags: hmmmm...., innuendo, photography

Soon we will be crossing 25 years to our admission into medical college and some great celebrations are planned, but something more interesting is happening right now - one of my friends Dr. Anup Marar got an idea of creating an SMS based list and we have around 45 people exchanging titbits of nostalgia through out the day.

Here are some hilarious lines attributed to an Anatomy lecturer we had

"Don't you talk in front of my back!"
"Keep quite Dr. Patki (the hod) is revolving in the department"
A note to a surgeon "Pt.(patient) not passed urine since 2 day. Pl.(please) come and pass urine."


P.S. As a techno-social side note - an SMS list has worked much better than say a regular email list would have because very few doctors are constantly online but almost everyone has their phones 24x7 with them.

Tags: 1984, funny, igmc