http://sgowtham.net/blog Rambling About Life's Little Things Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:57:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During the Christmas break of 2005-06 (while I was a graduate student in Michigan Technological University), I thought it would be nice to have a tool to store details pertaining to our research group publications in a MySQL database (instead of a flat HTML file). Some underlying motives were as ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/25/storing-and-querying-information-with-perl-mysql/ A while ago, I wrote about uploading files to a web server via PHP and this post follows along similar lines - only accomplishing the same task using PERL. There are numerous articles on the web and in the books, but what follows here is what worked for me - ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/24/file-uploads-via-perl-and-cgi/ Most of us take photographs and many of us post them in this vast, nearly infinite internet. Inherent to this process is a desire to put our name on the pictures - either to protect them from plagiarism or to feed our ego or whatever other reason. There are many ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/21/copyrighting-images-with-images-using-adobe-photoshop/ March 29, 2008 - a warm, yet pleasant Saturday afternoon - I was driving back from my first visit to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area when I saw the signs to mineral museum - not one, but two!! I should have carried The Picking Table (Journal of The ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/19/a-tour-of-two-mines-sterling-hill-and-franklin/ It has been a couple days since most of the mankind, including myself, went through the pains of updating to the latest and greatest iPhone software yet, and I have had some time to play around with some of its new features and try out some of the free cool ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/13/iphone-20-apps-i-like/ Belonging to the kind of neophiliacs who just can't prevent the itch for new things as well as cannot rest until trying it out, I too connected my iPhone (the 2G version) to iTunes and hit the Update button. Things looked slow yet promising but then came a series of ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/11/iphone-software-update-20/ The Days (Years) Leading Up To The Day It was the mid 90s - while much of our community was enjoying the new found concept of Satellite TV (Star Sports, BBC, CNN and Chinese Entertainment were the only satellite channels on the menu), the concept of TV itself - ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/07/an-evening-in-yankees-universe/ Following my previous post, about importing comments from flickr.com to my home-made photoblog, buddy Kyle thought it would be useful to have a similar API which can import comments from flickr.com into a photoblog powered by Pixelpost. Although posting the same pictures on two different platforms - once in a ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/04/importing-comments-from-flickrcom-into-pixelpost/ As much as I would like to see my photographs being commented in my personally satisfying photoblog, I have recently come to realize (thanks to suggestions from several friends - Nagesh & Kyle) that it's not a bad idea to post the same pictures on flickr.com. For one, the latter ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/07/01/importing-comments-from-flickrcom/ It has been nearly five months since I moved from Upper Michigan to the East Coast. I would be lying if I said I liked this move and that I have been enjoying my stay here in general. I would also be lying if I said I haven't met cool/kind/friendlier ... http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/06/29/moving-on/