Shantibhushan Naik

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  • Nicolas grows

    Getting hell of a lot busy these days with 2 children – Nicolas, and Amrita.

    Yep, that’s it. Some photos – Photos speak louder than words?

  • Crazy summer in Japan

    Weather in Japan seems to get crazier each day. Though extremely hot & humid, weather signs show confusion what to expect anytime

  • My slick HTC X02HT with spiced up WM 6

    Recently I visited smartphone-freeware. It has quiet a good amount of freeware goodies to spice up your Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone.

    I downloaded some good ones, particularly TotalCommander, slick-new theme Leopard OSX, and the must-have SmartToolkit.

    Guess how my mobile looks?
    WM6

    WM6

    Couldn’t get Skype to install due to insufficient space. 🙁 Need to free up some programs.

  • Amrita turns 1 year today

    Our most beloved (did I mention adorable?) daughter turned 1 year today at exact 14:15H Japan time. Phew, it seems ages ago! She took full 3 days to choose to come out of mama’s cozy stomach room. She did give a hard time to her mother – got a sore throat from screaming with contraction pains.

    No matter what, she is the hearbeat of our life. There isn’t a single moment when we do not think of her. Our day starts only to end with her every time. Amrita is the most beautiful daughter for us.

    Today she got in the park with her mama, playing , enjoying the cool weather with mama of course 🙂 and then coming home for a NICE treat – a mango stuffed delicious yummy cake , which of course wasn’t to be eaten alone without her new friend , little Fumi.

    We wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY dearest Amrita!
    Roses are red, violets are blue,… whatever – we will always LOVE you! 😀

  • Elephant Land – Amazing elephant show

    Our weekend got spent in Ichihara Elephant Land. The elephant show was a major attraction there.

     

    Wasn’t it amazing? Might go again sometime to see the monkey show too 😉

  • Amrita doesn’t want to talk to you

    Our wonderful little daughter, Amrita, turned 7 months on Feb 15th.

    Writing back after quite a few months – have some more to share. Stay tuned!

  • Are camels black?

    Perhaps, you can find the answer hidden here…

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  • Honda advert

    Some say it cost some millions, and over 600 re-takes to shoot this?

    What do you think?

  • Run a job every first Sun of a month

    I came across an interesting cron issue recently. The requirement was to run a job every _first_ Sunday at 12:00PM of each month.

    After searching across various sites, skimming through cron manpages, I finally found the following one-liner

    0 0 1-7 * 0 <user> <job>

    Can you believe this simple solution? The reasoning is that Sun will be between 1 to 7th of each month. Once a Sun comes, the job will execute between 1st and 7th just once. After that any further Sundays will have a date greater than 7, and thus never execute!

    Sometimes, the simplest solution is the most elegant. BTW, I had read about many other complicated solutions, such as having your own logic to determine the day, apple script, bash script solutions. I was about to give up, when I hit the jackpot! 😀

  • Stunning Acrobats

    Awesome acrobats… impressive!