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I was just going through my old posts, reliving some old memories and I landed upon a post that reminded of the numerous things I've wanted to do, places I've wanted to visit and so on.

Well, lets check one off the list! R and I visited Oahu, HI about a month ago. Ahh ... the beauty of the place. It is mind-boggling and calming at the same time! 

Take note, life flies by. Take charge and be everything you can be. Do everything that you can do. And make something of yourself, so, when you are old and shriveled, when you are physically incapable of doing what you want to do, you have no regrets.

So get out there, run, bike, swim, play, work out, eat, drink, have fun... spend money on yourself, and stop complaining. Because, life is short, and it flies by.

I read a very good article on Wired.com today about shooting good pictures under low light. Here is the full article - http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Shoot_Better_Low-Light_Pictures?oldid=69136

Highlights -

1 Avoid using the flash when possible
2 Zoom out as much as possible
3 Use a tripod
4. Use the timer function to avoid blur from your hand shaking
5 Adjust white balance to allow for type of lighting
6 Kill the noise in post

I tried a few things with my Canon PowerShot S3 IS, the results seem much better than what I could get without these tips.

Subclipse does not use the Eclipse proxy information, which causes errors like the following when trying to connect to a SVN repository -

RA layer request failed
svn: OPTIONS of 'https://svn.server.net/svnroot/project': could not connect to server (https://svn.server.net)

To use Subclipse behind a proxy server, perform the following steps -
1. Open file C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserId\Application Data\Subversion\servers in your favorite text editor.
2. Near the bottom of that file is a [global] section with http-proxy-host and http-proxy-port settings.
3. Uncomment those two lines, modify them for your corporate proxy server
4. Go back to the SVN Repository view in Eclipse and refresh the repository!

*Courtesy http://www.mkville.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/11/8/Using-Subclipse-Behind-a-Proxy-Server

I've been testing twitter4j ... http://twitter4j.org/en/index.html

Got my first status update working. Yeah yeah!

A very good collection of photos from India [Smashing Magazine] - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/20/the-beauty-of-india-50-amazing-photos/

Here is how to do a Quick Search through the command history on Ubuntu -
From Terminal, hit CTRL + R. That switches the terminal mode to "reverse-i-search". Search away!
To exit the "reverse-i-search" mode, hit ESC.

Today marks the day Sachin Tendulkar scored 200* of 147 balls, including 25 fours and 3 sixes, against South Africa at Gwalior. I have no words that describe how happy I feel. It could not have happened to a better player, or a better man.

Sachin - I Salute You!