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:: Saturday, September 01, 2007 ::

Picture in 2008 UNICEF Calendar

A courier guy banged the door early in the morning and handed me a huge package, which seemed to be from overseas. I did not remember ordering anything recently and wondered what it would be, and checked for the sender. It was from UNICEF, and I was delighted to see it. It has 2008 calendars with one of my photographs in it.



See the larger sized image here.

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posted by Arun at 9:33 PM

Thadiyandamol remembered..

I was looking at some photos in my gallery just now and memories of Thadiyandamol came rushing. We had a so-so weather and so-so scenery the previous day and we weren't expecting much. But when I woke up in the morning just before sunrise, I was awed. It all was too beautiful to be true. No more words, just pictures...


Views from the place where we had camped


sights of the morning


Another picture



I guess Thadi is a place I can't stay away from for long. It was my third trip there 2 months ago, and have been toying with the idea of making another trip this winter.

Labels: photos, travel

posted by Arun at 3:27 PM

Some changes with the layout

Today I sat down and decided that I can give some pep to this blog template. I did not want to change the template itself, since I was happy with the simple and convenient template. After thinking about it, I decided to stream thumbnails from my image gallery. Googling around for tools which could do this did not result in much. There did exist some tools, but only for wordpress. My next choice was to design one myself, but I had no clue of programming in PHP, the language in which my image gallery is written in. In the end, I decided to work with it, dug up the code of the image gallery, made some guesses about what to change and where. After spending almost three hours on it, I finally have a widget up and running, which you can see on the right side.

Now tell me if this image streaming widget was a good idea, and tell me if you like it.. Next step - to get rid of the vertical scroll bar, but I think that requires some more scratching of the head!

The widget can be hosted on any website, and you are welcome to use it too. Just cut and paste the code below.

<iframe src="http://www.paintedstork.com/pictures/rand.php" width="130" height="350"></iframe>

Labels: images, photos, pictures

posted by Arun at 1:26 AM