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கனவுகள்

Filed under: Entries in Tamil by Hari
Posted on Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:24 IST (last updated: Thu, Aug 5, 2010 @ 10:48 IST)

Dream-like பொதுவாக காலையில் விழிக்கும்முன் கனவுகள் தோன்றுவது பெரும்பாலான மனிதர்களுக்கு இயல்புதான். கனவின் நடுவில் உடனே விழித்தால் மட்டுமே ஞாபகத்தில் வைப்பது சுலபம் - இல்லையென்றால் மற்ற எண்ணங்களால் கலைந்துவிடும். என் கருத்து என்னவென்றால் கனவுகள் நம் உள்மனதில் அழ்ந்து பதிவான நினைவுகள், அனுபவங்கள், ஆசாபாசங்கள், இவையெல்லாம் எண்ணங்களாகக் குழம்பி உறக்கத்திலேயே வண்ணங்களாகவும் வடிவங்களாகவும் தோன்றுவதுதான். எனக்கு அதிகாலையில் தோன்றும் கனவுகள் மிகவும் வினோதமான வடிவங்களில் அமைகின்றன. காரணங்களை ஆராய எனக்கு சுவாரசியமில்லை. ஆனால் கனவுகளை ஆராய்ச்சி செய்யும் சிலர் இதற்காகவே நினைவுக் குறிப்பேடுகளைப் பராமரித்து வருகின்றனர். கனவுக் குறிப்பேடுகளை பராமரிப்பதால் தினம்தோரும் நாம் காணும் கனவுகளை ஞாபகத்தில் வைத்து வந்து, அதில் தோன்றும் குறிப்புகளை ஆராயலாம்.

ஆயிரத்தல் ஒருவருக்கு கனவுகளை முழு சுயநினைவோடு விருப்பம்போல திசைத்திருப்ப முடியும். இத்திறனை ஒரு சில நுணுக்கங்களை தினம் தூங்கும்முன் பயின்று வந்தால் எல்லோரும் அடையலாம். மனதின் முழு சக்திகளை நம் மனதைப் பயன்படுத்தியே நம்மால் உணர இயலவில்லை. அனால் விஞ்ஞானிகள் கனவுகள் மூலமாக மனதைச்சார்ந்த அந்தரங்கங்களை கண்டுபிடிக்கலாம் என்ற நம்பிக்கையில் ஆராய்ச்சிகளை தீவிரமாகக் கடைப்பிடிக்கின்றனர்.
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Photos I've taken - my favourites

Filed under: Life and Leisure by Hari
Posted on Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 20:07 IST (last updated: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 @ 20:07 IST)

Since I've uploaded some photos of mine on to Flickr, I thought I might as well share a few of my favourites right here. Please feel free to comment on them (either here or at Flickr) if you like any of them.

Barn in a field
The above came out pretty crisp (it was a moving train I took it from) and I'm very happy with the result!

Mount Titlis from a distance
A breath-taking view of Mount Titlis (again taken from a moving train). I am glad I took these snaps when I did, because they are rare opportunities!

Geneva Lake
A view of Geneva lake in the night. I kept the camera on a nearby ledge to get a crisp night-mode shot in the absence of a tripod.

Desert sunset (near Doha)
I'm sure many of my blog regulars will recognize this sunset photo. I used a part of this image in a header of an earlier blog theme.

Sunset tree
Tree in the sunset. This was again a rare opportunity and I took it (while on a road trip near my native place). I took two of these with different camera modes, but this one is the more natural lighting.

Hillock
A photo of a hillock in the distance. Taken from a moving car during a road trip to my native place.

Skyline of Singapore
A photo taken during a Singapore visit. This one was during the obligatory boat ride on the Singapore river.

Lake @ Singapore Zoo
Photo taken during our visit to Singapore Zoo. The little bit of greenery on the island provided a splash of colour to the picture which I found very attractive.

So do please take a look at my Flickr photostream and let me know which ones you like.
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Added a photos page to my website

Filed under: Site management by Hari
Posted on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:22 IST (last updated: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 @ 11:22 IST)

I've now added a photos page to this website. It pulls out the RSS feed of my public Flickr photostream and displays it neatly in a table.

Hopefully this is a good solution. Flickr is quite convenient as a desktop tool as well, so this way of embedding photos on my page saves me my website bandwidth as well :)
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Want a simple PHP based photo album with commenting

Filed under: Software and Technology by Hari
Posted on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 17:14 IST (last updated: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 @ 17:15 IST)

I am looking for a simple PHP based photo album tool to display a gallery on this website, but I am surprised to find that the majority of PHP based albums are huge and bloated (gallery 2 is the biggest monster I've found so far).

I don't want multiple users, I don't want unlimited depth of categories - I just want to create a simple set of albums of photos and display them in a neat way.

And oh, it should be easily themeable. So far I've found only tools that are either upwards of 5 MB and come with severe bloat in terms of features or those which are so lightweight that they don't even have a commenting system.

If nothing else, I might be tempted to brush up my PHP skills again and write my own. (or should I use Python?)
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Apologies for my lack of posts lately

Filed under: Site management by Hari
Posted on Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 18:38 IST (last updated: Tue, Jul 6, 2010 @ 18:38 IST)

I have been busy writing content and promoting my new forum website Law Students Community and I haven't had much time or energy left to write on general topics.

Yes, writing on specific topics is demanding, especially because I have to verify the accuracy of the information I supply. Opinions can be expressed far more easily.

It is rewarding though. Hopefully you can find some topics of interest on my forum. Registration is not necessary so do drop by with your comments if you find something interesting.
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LiteraryForums.org is now officially closed

Filed under: Site management by Hari
Posted on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:03 IST (last updated: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 @ 10:12 IST)

Message from the admin/owner

Since October 2004, LiteraryForums.org has been live and I've had plenty of time and opportunity to make it a success. For the last few years however, it has not grown large enough to sustain itself as a forum community. I have done my best to promote it and I thank all the users who have participated in the forum. For myself, I feel sad at having to close it down at this stage, but I think it is in my best interests that I move on with other projects and other interests.

Having invested several years in my online community it was not easy to make this decision, but I must face the fact that it has lost direction and is no longer active as a community for the last year or so even. If one member were interested I would have kept it alive, but facts are facts. The majority of the few posts I got in the last few months are by spammers. It wasn't worth continuing.

If you have found this page through a search engine and are looking for any particular page, I apologize again for wasting a few minutes of your time. Please check the google cache of the URL you found and if you are lucky you might find the original content.

What I am going to do with the domain I've not yet decided. Keep it, sell it or let it expire?
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