Of late, the “recommend this” script which I’d set up for the free Vastu book was getting hit in a big way by spambots. After much procrastination (and stupidly hoping they would just go away!) I finally pulled it down a couple of weekends ago. Now it’s back with some CAPTCHA protection.
It’s based on this [...]
It’s been ages since I started making changes to this site and finally, there is visible progress. Almost nothing of the old site remains apart from the Vastu Book and the now-slightly-outdated workshops. The design area has been revamped and a new section has been added on sustainability. Both still need a little fleshing out [...]
I can hardly believe it. This is what happens when IT is foisted upon hapless governmental organisations that don’t have a shred of tech-savvy.
I visited the Bombay Electric Supply & Transport website to see if I could find a form for payment through the Electronic Clearing System, ECS. I found the download page easily enough [...]
This link was sent to me by a client of mine and has a bunch of books, in PDF format, not just about - and by - Laurie Baker but also on other subjects of interest like trees and ecological sanitation. Most books are in English but some are in Hindi or Marathi as well.
Go [...]
Since I exclusively use Open Office, I had very little hope that this would work for me but it does without a hitch! I was able to create a number format that shows up as 12,34,56,789.00 instead of the western 123,456,789.00. The trick is to use a conditional format. On my system I’ve called it [...]
When asked if I would join this JCWP project, I naturally jumped at the chance. I had no idea at the time that 2000 volunteers would be taking part! Come to think of it, we probably need those numbers if we’re going to try and build 100 homes within a week!
And the architect in me [...]
You will, of course, have noticed that the news pages look different from the rest of this site. That’s because after months of trying to get the site working on the new template, I’ve realised that I don’t have the time to do it all in one shot - so I’m doing it one section [...]
Testing the flickr photo album. How do I insert photos? Oh, this is fantastic!
After being chased by the vendors, I finally bit the bullet and purchased Archicad 9.0 from Adroitec almost a year after seeing the demo. If it makes as much difference to my productivity as I hope it will, then it’s definitely worth the price. Graphisoft’s agents are selling it at a lower rate in India [...]
I’d been meaning to bump up the RAM of my PC to 1 Gigabyte once prices dropped and then clean forgotten about it. Well, it just happened on Saturday the 5th. Initially, when I checked, the speed showed up as 166MHz while I was sure I’d bought 333MHz. Apparently AMD motherboards display the speed as [...]