The UIC-IGSA(Univeristy of illinois at chicago-indian graduate student association) for the year 2005-2006... hmm i was also a part of it... so not so bad..

At last i found ym home in madipakkam on google earth.. not at the best clarity... but still this is atleast better than nothing i suppose..

Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic

Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic:

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/11/the_zen_estheti.html

Well, serious i did take this thing seriously. 3 presentations so far. All done with keynote of course, using the minimum pictures and still lesser text

Believe me the first one i kinda stumbled upon what to say, cauz there as nothing in the screen. So the next time i had notes.

I love to present with keynote except for one issue, it doesnt support mousepose(http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/). Such a awesome piece of s/w and yet no keynote support. too bad.

So i had to convert them all into stupid powerpoint presentations. I hate to walk across the room to show something on the screen..

oh. end of the day, i know my presentation looked a lot better than what others did... a couple more trust me i will be as good as the man with the reality distortion himself in presentations of course

http://www.slate.com/id/2130480/

well thanks Bidisha, for including my comments in your post...

Bidisha Banerjee

well i have seen quite a few taj mahal shots.. but this one is quite different.. they have not pictured about symmetry here but instead a little to the left when you see it. this gives a nice view of the place, national geographic right what more to expect

Why firefox sucks

Well, i am no supporter of firefox. As a matter of fact i would stay with IE sometimes. But whatever said and done, in the windows platform you cannot beat Opera.

I frequently use a dell(oh ya dell too sucks in the desktop/laptop area, more on that later). A combination on opera and naviscope(not many of you have heard about this, do a google search to leanr more abt it) just rocks.

No crap spyware, its crazy faster and the tabs behave so very well compared to firefox. i dont care for all those crazy extensions that you can do when opera has them within the browser. yes greasemonkey is cool but i dont need it everyday.

ya maybe some sites dont display good with opera but i dotn care abt that. sites that i want to see look good and i am happy with it. i would say this
if the kill bill browser is firefox, the kill bill 2 browser is opera

mac os x 10.4.4

Hmm i guess from what i read in all those rumour sites... it could be a nice christmas present.. i hope it is.. but gosh i dont know where i can download a 100+mb file update in india and talking abt that.. its somewhere just short of a month before i go to india after i guess a long time a year and a half now.

and i am still guessing what i should be buying believe it or not..

this was just a xerox copy of my hand.. but it looks nice

the A after it got some photoshopping and scanned...

my hand...

i know its lame.. this is a A i drew

last years insititute for the humanities brochure.. 2004 - 2005 outside cover

last years insititute for the humanities brichure.. 2004 - 2005 inside cover

sharon holland lecture piece.. guess what that white something on the right was actually the dvd cover of monsters ball - after a few smudges, polar twist, a few blurs and some dragging around provided a nice visual... and the black colour looked gorgeous

this was my design.. austin sarat lecture piece.. hmm a simple sephia in iphoto can do a lot of changes to how a poster looks

GWS lecture series poster for last year.. i didnt design it totally but i hope u get the phun intented here...

THis is why i donwload music (SPELLING MISTAKES NOTED)

Time for a design change

Well i guess i am impressed with the flock website. i mean not the browser(yet..?) but with their website.. all text no graphics, big fonts pretty neat. so i decided i am going to follow their lead and kind of redesign my website too. (http://www.uic.edu/~mvenka2)

lets see how long that project takes...

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