http://www.rajatarya.com rajatarya.com - a portal to me Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Very minor site update to report.  Gallery2 is updated and correctly integrated with Wordpress 2.7 and the WPG2 plugin.  Also using an updated image processing library so things should be speedier now. To check out our wedding pictures online (working correctly finally): go here.  Also notice there is ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2009/01/minor-site-update-wedding-pictures-working-online-now I am super proud my dad has become CEO of Moser Baer Photovoltaic (MBPV).  Though I don’t get to see him as much with his job primarily being in India, I am really happy he is bringing his expertise in Thin Film solar cell manufacturing to India.  He ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2008/12/daddy-becomes-ceo Problem Description: Crappy interface for playing .avi files with .srt files for subtitles on Media Center PC.  This interface is what I predominantly use My Media Center PC for these days – simply to play movies sitting on my home network, with subtitles.  Since Windows Media Player ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2008/10/boxee-installed-on-apple-tv-the-little-box-comes-to-life Finally got around to cleaning things up on my website.  Upgraded Gallery2 and Wordpress.  I also started separating my Twitter Tweets as a separate category so the daily digests will keep from cluttering the main page and my RSS feeds.  Thanks to this article for explaining how. Though I ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2008/09/backlog-of-reading-posts-and-updated-site This is a quick post saying that pictures from Shaily and my wedding are finally online. They are missing captions (right now) and need another round of organization, but the pictures there.     Check them out here, and leave us comments on the ones you like. http://www.rajatarya.com/2008/02/wedding-pictures-online My website has become remarkably stale. And honestly I don't have the time to document all the changes that have gone on in my life since the last time I've posted. But I also cannot just ignore this past year and pretend nothing has happened. So, in classic, boring, corporate style, ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2007/12/2007-in-review-the-briefest-of-catch-up-posts Read in October 2007. This is a book about India's problems as they relate to the world.  The position that Kamdar writes from is that India is a microcosm of the world's problems - and if India can solve them - so can the world.  She writes about the ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2007/10/planet-india-by-mira-kamdar Read in September 2007. I read this book after watching the movie with my parents in a Portland OR theater.  It was the first time all three of us left the theater with our eyes swelled up.  The story resonated so perfectly with my parents' generation as first generation ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2007/09/the-namesake-by-jhumpa-lahiri Read in July - August 2007 A sweet story by Hosseini about two female characters and their lives/hardships through war-torn Afghanistan.  I found his character development and story development to be less cheesy than "The Kite Runner" and quite enjoyable.  This story does not pull at the emotional heartstrings ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2007/08/a-thousand-splendid-suns-by-khaled-hosseini Read in June 2007. Short book on how innovation can come from many different places.  Good to keep around and read whenever you feel your creative juices are stifled.  Consider it a feel good / self-help book for the entrepreneur. Read more about it and buy ... http://www.rajatarya.com/2007/06/the-myths-of-innovation-by-scott-berkun