Thank God its Friday
Friendly catch-up with old pal Tapas, French class escapades and a dilemma over selling vintage shoe laces linked to Intel's offer for Dr. Moore's historic paper.
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We have been writing since early 2000, around travel, food , running and anything. In total we have written 424posts. Hope you enjoy them. Subscribe to the RSS feedto stay updated.
Metro in Paris
Parisian life sans Metro: Traffic jams & parking woes overshadowed by biking'dempires, missing out on cultural events and trends. A tale of lost connections in the city that never sleeps!
Create Typewriter Effect with Ming Php for Flash (swf) movie
Create a PHP script for the typewriter effect using SWFText and save it as an .swf file. The CSS method is also provided for modern browsers.
Create Banner with mirror effect by ImageMagick
Create mirror text image in seconds with ImageMagick using one line code for Windows users! See the detailed steps and updated method below: ...
Reached 10K and folding
Folding@Home, a Stanford project on protein folding using distributed computing with PCs worldwide offers minimal impact on personal computer performance while contributing significantly to...
Orsay revisited
Struggling with digital backups, I lost Orsay photos. Now paranoid about data loss; considering DVD backup for artworks in Russia's mid-19th to WWI exhibit too! Paris living anxieties aside. #ArtLoss...
Diwali at Paris
"Paris suburb riots: Amidst unrest, celebrating Diwali with friends at Vendanta Society and Maison de l'Inde; Mayor hosts event in City Hall for first time."
photo album : imagemagick (part -1)
This bash script resizes jpg images to a thumbnail with either width or height set at 500 pixels, adding a black border. It creates an output directory if missing and processes all .jpg files in the...
Place de la Concorde
Experience Parisian charm at sunny **Place de la Concorde** with its grand fountains reminiscent of Vatican's St. Peter’s Square, surrounded by iconic landmarks like the Arc de Triomphe and Louvre...
Tibx Shoe Laces
A blogger shares their experience getting shoe laces from a closing office and contrasts them with luxurious Bay Area lifestyles, questioning their value compared to material possessions like race...
Migrating rrd database between different architecture
This script efficiently migrates RRD files between Linux and Solaris, compresses them with gzip-tar for space savings during transfer, then restores the original data on the destination machine using...