iPhone Wallpapers

Painted Hills

Hatsheput Temple

Let there be light

Heceta Head Lighthouse

Sun Temple, Luxor

Painted Hills, Oregon

Huntington beach pier

Madam Tussauds, NY

Sea Lions Cave, Florence

Huntington beach

Luxor Temple

Kelley Art Work, EECS Building, Oregon State

Morning Dew

Half Dome, Yosemite

Virtuoso

Ken Rockwell and Laurie Excell have the ability to teach photography to an Equipment Measurbator like myself. Ken had posted an article on how to learn photography. It is an illuminating read to all the equipment measurbators out there. If you are wondering what is equipment measurbator, read this.

I had recently bought, Composition, Snapshots to Great Shots by Laurie Excell, John Batdorff, David Brommer, Rick Rickman and Steve Simon. The book is a very good read and we get to see through the process of making a photograph from experts. Rather than explaining camera settings, the book explains emotions, ideas, some intuitive techniques and general guidelines. None of these require knowledge of how to use a complicated camera. The book conveys the message shared by Ken Rockwell, " Camera doesnot matter". The book conveys that the idea for the photograph is far more important than the camera itself.  I cannot agree more with this statement.

International Conference on Microelectronics - 2010 Cairo, Egypt

My first presentation in a conference. The paper was on calibration of VCO based ADCs, "H. Venkatram, R. Inti, U.-K. Moon, "Least Mean Square calibration method for VCO non-linearity". My colleague, Dr. Skyler Weaver, had written a paper on, " ENOB Calculation for ADCs with Input-Correlated Quantization Error Using a Sine-Wave Test". The session chair was, Prof. Mohamed Dessouky from Ain Shams University. Adel Sedra, author of Microelectronic Circuits and Walden C. Rhines, CEO of Mentor graphics attended my presentation.

Wiki-Page

After trying out Pmwiki and looking at Meta-Wiki, I have decided to go with meta-wiki for my website.

The reasons for choosing meta-wiki are,
1. It is cool.
2. It is the wikipedia engine.
3. Documentation and Support.
4. Login creation by default.
5. Web-install.
6. Talk page is also available as default.
I can easily add more reasons to choose meta-wiki. 
This is by far the easiest software installation over web. Check out  My Wiki-Page.

Food, Inc.

I watched Food, Inc. It has changed the way I look at the food or the food industry in North America. Watch Food, Inc, before you eat your next meal. It has helped me look beyond the curtain, drawn delibrately to hide what are the origins of the food that you eat.

Training Plan - LA Marathon 2011

This training plan follows 10% increase of the total mileage per week. Also, the long runs cannot be more than 50% of the total mileage from last week. The day before the long run is a rest-day. The day after the long-run is for cross-training. The longest run during the training period is 26 miles. I have added this after reading Jeff Galloway's book, "Marathon!". The running is restricted to three/four days per week. This increases the mileage consistently during the week-runs.

Legend for the table.
XT - Cross Training.
PT - Physical Training.
R   - Rest.
% Incr - % Increase of Long Run.

Pegasus-27

I got Nike - Pegasus yesterday. Thanks to Runners High shop at Long Beach, CA. They were very helpful in finding me the right shoe.  I have my center of gravity towards my left feet and I put more pressure on my left toe. My old shoes wear pattern was even. I had tried the nike lunar glide and zoom triax (stability shoes), before choosing pegasus. Pegasus is a neutral shoe without the arch support from nike. If I still have problems with the left toe, I plan to get the meta-torsal support for my shoe. My previous pair, nike-air, lasted for 462.81 miles. Its is being honorably retired for day-to-day activities.