A sampling of anything significant related to travel, photography or personally, all timestamped and jotted down on one page.

September 24, 2006 Changed the entire look and feel of the site to be javascript based. So now, there is one central location from where the site feel can be changed. Also, jumped on the CSS bandwagon. July 1-4, 2006 Trip to San Simeon, Morro Bay, and a ride back via El Camino Real, while stopping at some of the missions along the way. March 11-12, 2006 Heard the weather report about heaps and mounds of snow in Yosemite Valley, booked a quick hotel room, and drove to see winter paradise. February 11-13, 2006 A long overdue trip to Lake Tahoe, Virginia City and nearby areas. It was sunny, freezing cold with heaps on snow on the mountains. December 2005 Trip to India. This time I lugged my SLR and took some decent images of Calcutta. October 16-19, 2005 Rachna had to present a paper at a conference in San Diego, so Anika and I werefree to roam about the town. Couldn't see much because of the conference schedules, but managed to sneak in all the highlights. September 3-5, 2005 As a last minute decision, we decided to go to Kings Canyon, even though this was probably the worst time to visit the Park. As a bonus, we decided to drive through some of the backroads of the Central California Valley. July 2-5, 2005 First foray into the magical land of the Eastern Sierras. We had seen parts of this area near Death Valley and Lone Pine, but this time we perched ourselves at Mammoth Lakes and drove into Bodie, Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest and the nearby lakes and rivers. June 7-11, 2005 SuperComm at Chicago. We were perched right at the Navy Pier, a few blocks from everything. Had a blast. First trip with the kid - not too bad. The weather reminded me of Calcutta, though. March, 2005 I have been recently discovering my immediate neighborhood of South San Jose and Morgan Hill. The Santa Teresa Hills, Almaden Valley and the numerous reservoirs provide spectacular photography opportunities, and are only 15 minutes away. What have I been doing for the past 5 years? December 30, 2004 Anika, our first, was born at 4:40pm. Suddenly, I am having to re-learn portrait photography, and shelve my landscape skills for a while. October 16-17, 2004 A repeat Yosemite Fall colors trip, but given my current lucky streak, there were heavy rains and Tioga Pass was closed, because someone sneezed. A very disappointing Valley tour. August 19-24, 2004 A long awaited trip to the Canadian Rockies - Banff and Jasper National Parks. As with almost ALL of my long distance trips, heavy rain was forecast for all 5 days of the trip, with the sun peeking out for a couple of hours on the 21st. May 29-31, 2004 Repeat trip to the Redwood National and State parks. This time, we ventured further north, towards Jedediah Smith and drove all the way to Gold's Beach in Oregon. Since I wanted foggy weather to Velvia-fy the lush green redwood forests, I got blazing sun in the forecast. April 28-May15, 2004 Trip to India (Calcutta and Bhopal). Lugged my (now aging) Olympus digital camera and pointed it at some facets of Indian life. In hindsight, I wish I had lugged the Canon EOS 7e instead. March 12-14, 2004 Death Valley for the second time after a 3 year hiatus. This time the experiences were completely different. December 8-16, 2003 IPv6 Summit in Washington DC, and therefore a small detour to New York, Providence and Boston. September 2-13, 2003 A trip through the chocolate and cheese fantasyland of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It was bright and sunny for the first third of the trip, and gloomy and rainy for the rest of the trip. Nevertheless, a lot of fun. May 24-26, 2003 Revisiting the Lava Beds, Shasta, Lassen, Klamath corner of Northern California. Lava Beds were very impressive, as usual, but very difficult to capture on film. Lassen was closed most of the way due to heavy snow (17 inches) in April. The Shasta region was lush green when cloudy, but sadly, I couldn't take any photographs due to time constraints. March 29-31, 2003 Trip to the overly crowded Disneyand, and the extremely disappointing Anza Borrego State Park spring wildflower blooms. January 1, 2003 Photos from the Yosemite/June Lake loop fall colors, and the trip to Western Utah get uploaded. December 15-21, 2002 Trip to Kings Canyon National Park, Las Vegas, Zion Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Las Vegas and back. Unfortunately or fortunately, we took the trip during the week that 3 waves of intense Pacific storms wreaked havoc all across the West, including dumping feet of snow to the western Utah parks. Photos from this trip can be found here. October 10-14, 2002 Fall colors over Yosemite (and Tioga Pass), June Lake loop. Small detour to Lake Tahoe, Reno, and Emerald Bay. Adding more ammunition to the Yosemite page. September 22, 2002 San Diego Wild Animal Park, California. Images from this trip have been scattered all over the website. July 3-6, 2002 Trip to Eureka, Redwood National and State Parks. June 22-23, 2002 Trip to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. June 9, 2002 Trip to the overcrowded Yosemite National Park. Got to see the waterfalls in better shape, but the crowd was unbearable. June 4th, 2002 iOta - Image Organization Tool and Archiver pages go up. iOta is placed on Freshmeat, and RPMs/src/Pkgs are available for download. June 1st, 2002 Point Lobos State Reserve, Andrew Molera State Park images are placed. May 17, 2002 San Francisco Zoo images go online. May 10, 2002 Photo section reorg. New main photo page, sub-digital pages. New travel section. Apr 22, 2002 Photos and travelogue from Point Reyes National Seashore go online. Apr 1, 2002 Photos from Lassen Volcanic National Park and travelogue from Las Vegas go online. Mar 15, 2002 Photographs from the Yosemite trip. Feb 14, 2002 New hoster. Moved from my school account to aplus.net. Added site-search. Jan 4, 2002 Los Angeles pictures and notes go online. Nov 2, 2001 Trip to Yosemite National Park and Mono Lake. Sep 20, 2001 Kazi's images go online. Sep 7, 2001 A brand spanking new logo, and a new website layout, for better or for worse. Sep 3, 2001 Trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park and Lava Beds National Monument, with a sprinkling of the Klamath Refuge, Shasta Trinity Recreational Area and the amazing Burney Falls. Aug 28, 2001 Houses of the Holy, Ramble On, SiteMap go live. Intros for Vijoy and Rachna get shifted to different pages. Aug 25, 2001 Travelogue for Kings Canyon National Park completed. Aug 15, 2001 Captioning for all images complete. Digital Photography for BSD/Linux users goes live. Aug 10, 2001 The CGI script for displaying image files in a nicer format went live. Captioning for some images (In the Light page) completed. July 25, 2001 Death Valley National Monument travelogue completed. July 6-8, 2001 Trip to Kings Canyon National Park and Death Valley National Monument, with a diversion to Red Rocks Canyon State Park. June 15, 2001 Started putting up my digiphotos on this site. Revamped my old website to a newer, cleaner look.