Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

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I have added Re_Invigorate site statistics module to the blog. It is a good one.


I think that rain may spoil the second test match between India and Australia here at Chennai, MA Chidambaram stadium. The weather seems to be so dull yesterday and today.


Yesterday I downloaded the first disc of Debian GNU/Hurd from thier NA site and installed on my PC. I have already tried Hurd before 2 years. It was J2. Lot of changes since J2. J2 was not installable from the CD directly. This time, the installer seems to be ...


This news item states that France is going to allow theatres to jamm the mobile phones in their premises. Too bad! I pray that Satyam cineplex owners don't read this news. Else, they will consider doing the same here too!


Here is a pointer to a good collection of panoramic photography tools for Linux.


This small article gives good tips on using the polarizing filter effectively.

And this one too. Courtesy Suraj.


Here is a good FAQ on UV, skylight and polarizer filters.


As I got a decent tripod now, I am planning to take some panoramic shots. I will post them once I get some nice shots. Panoguide seems to be a good guide for beginners as well as intermediate photographers.


I bought a new circular polarizer (Kenko 55mm) and a tripod (Glottos HD324G) from "Ebbey photos" at Spenzer plaza. The circular polarizer was INR. 1000 and the the tripod was INR. 2200. I think this is the best time to try some good photo shots.