an Innocent Life

that s it. its the end of the fourth semester.. and well vacations are here. very much needed. Lot of things are stacked and waiting. Wondering if they will all be done by the time college re-opens.

i read Chetan Bhagat’s The 3 mistakes of my life. i liked it. Some parts were real good. while some i didnt like. Right now am addicted to Satyajit Ray’s Feluda. am reading The Complete Adventures of Feluda: Volume 1.

yes. after the much yes and no, only one exam of ours is supposed to be postponed and that too from 26th june to 15 july-for me its Microcontroller and Graph theory and Combinatories for the CS/IS students. read more here. we got it confirmed from college too although there’s no news on the official website of the VTU.

there was a time when all the photos that we got were caught on film and developed in a ‘dark room’. All that took quite a bit of time and when we had to take a passport photo we could get it only on the next day. with the advent of digital cameras and their widespread use they 24 hour(min) wait reduced to barely an hour. that was a huge difference; a revolution. Taking photos became very easy and easily procurable. but one problem still remained which had risen up now; there were no Negatives. that meant that if you ran out one print of photos, you would have to go and take another snap of yourself every single time. yeah there was no waste of time due to the express procedure. but you still ended up paying up for it. you know all along it would have been easier if the photo shop would keep a record of all the photos which it takes. you know, like a back up copy; after all it isnt much of a space hogger. but then what would they get out of it ?? every time you go for a new photo they make more moolah from the processing. hence largely that feature isnt available with the photo shops.

well i thought of writing about this because i do know a place which offers this service-The PAX photoshop at AB Shetty circle next to Cochin Bakery . it stores the photos in CDs and you get a serial number which you can refer to if you need to for future use. i had come to know of this in March but wanted to try it out before i blogged about it. so today as my bro needed stamp sized photos made and i remembered about this. so i did go to the place and they said it was true that they could do it in about half an hour. Cool!

This Photo lab is actually a very busy one . as i waited i watched lots of small time photographers- the ones that take photos at a wedding and other functions getting their photos developed and albums being made.

Thats pretty much it

so here we are again. another study holidays. another boring set of days.

ok so here is one of things that got me interested. Comic Books. Yes, Comic Books. i’ve always been a fan of Comics; Marvel and DC. Xmen and alternate stories especially. Read quite a few and bought whenever i could. but the fact that comics are very rare to come by in India i had to be content with the books in the Local libraries. the only fault with that was that you couldnt get to read continuous series. ok so the other day when i visited Demonoid i came across torrent links for COMICS!! i didnt know there were people out there who actually scanned comics and put them on torrents. well being a customer of BSNL ’s HOME 250 plan i’ve never gone hunting for torrents if you think that i was ignorant or a noob or something. And so was completely surprised to find the torrents.

Ok so how do you read these comics?? they usually come in compressed formats: zip, rar, ace or tar archive file. i thought you needed to unzip those files and then somehow read them. well i dint have the time that day after i downloaded my first comic, DC Universe 0. after 2 days, during a casual conversation about loafing during study holidays , i came to know that my friend was reading Naruto Manga. thats how i came across “Cdisplay“, an awesome reader to read comics. It auto decompresses the files and allows you to read the comic. read more at the page.

ok so here’s to the future!! will be reading more soon. sent the files to a couple of friends to get me some more as i cant do it myself. something to wait for these hols. apart from more SouthPark Episodes

Currently very interested with Final Crisis-a new series on DC.

Thanks to: Sindhu for the Demonoid invitation code ( even though i hadnt asked )  and to Rahul for letting me know about Cdisplay.