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April 20, 2009, 5:14 pm
I dabble a bit with astronomy and like to discuss it. The latest series of pictures in the Big Picture blog are breathtaking.
Shadow of the rings
The cool thing about this particular picture is not the big shadow running down on the rings. It’s the shadow of the smaller particles that form the white ring towards the center.. if you notice closely, thay cast a shadow on the next set of rings.
Watch the entire series of images here.
On a related note, I’m reading Arthur C Clarke’s Rama series..
November 15, 2008, 7:03 pm
Recently I had been hunting around the web for a very lightweight, simple to use, flat file using, php based wiki. And I managed to find one. It’s called Pawfaliki
Pawfaliki
This wiki package is under 50 kb in size, has an easy to use wiki syntax, is CSS based, and has a very cool dark look. It matched my needs almost perfectly.
Test it out at www.pawfal.org
Fancy URLs
One minor nit I had was how the URL looked.. for example the About page would look like
http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=About
rather than a nice wiki like
http://www.pawfal.org/About
So like any good FOSS denizen, I went ahead and implemented small changes for this. Get the modified sources: pawfaliki052-modified.tar.gz
If you’d like to see the changes, get the diff for the original package at this bug I raised. (Note, I’ve renamed pawfaliki.php to index.php, and added a .htaccess file). The changes would go in if theres another release (the last one was a while back).
So there. Give this very small wiki package a try.
November 12, 2008, 5:29 pm
There area few things one wants to do in their lifetime. Lots for me; and one of them is taking a magnet to latitude -90S, drop center to the south pole and watching how it behaves.
I came across this page with astonishing pictures of Antarctica, on the Big Picture
The Commonwealth Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains
an Iceberg
And, by far my favourite, this picture of an ice carved cave, titled “Ice Tunnel”
"Ice Tunnel" by Brooks de Wetter-Smith
Go take a look at the whole series.. the cold, dark, brooding, star-filled, aurora clothed, ice-covered continent will take your breath away.
And to plan your future travel, IAATO is a good place to star.
Thats it for now.. we should be getting some pictures of our natural satellite from our man-made satellite soon.. will blog then.
