The software to capture this was developed by Anatoly Zenkov, a Russian graphic designer and programmer. The software runs on windows as well as Macintosh . Mr Zenkov is a Russian graphic designer and programmer. More images of these type can be seen in his flickr page

The picture below is the flow of mouse on my screen when i really “kirukked’ on the touch pad using the pen from our new acquisition Bamboo touch Pad and Pen.

Is this Modern art or Digital Kolam . Guess

Coimbatore Ayyappan Pooja Sangam final day procession December 2009

“This permission issued only for hobby of taking photographs
The permission is valid for 23.1.10 & 26.1.10 only
“Three copies of Publication/ colour slides will be given to the ASI free of cost. ASI will be at liberty to use the same for its own publications only. The copyright of the photographer shall duly be acknowledged either in the preface or below the material reproduced by ASI in its own publications” .

They are really true to their name, archaic. In this age of Digital Photography, they want colour slides and that too three copies free !!!!

Anyway we did not use the tripod.But the highlight is that even if we had used the tripod at Belur nobody would have bothered us.

The next one is just still better. There is small museum at Halebid run by the same department. The entrance fee is Rs.5/. Here visitors are not allowed to photograph any exhibit (stone carvings) though they are lying in a open yard exposed to all elements of nature. Inscrutable are the ways of god and the archaeology department.

The icing on the cake is captions that have been put out about each exhibit. One brilliant caption was in front of a huge stone slab . The caption ”Inscriptions“ stated the obvious.Probably nobody in the department knows to read the Kannada inscription. So we do not know what the inscriptions are. They have a created a new god also. The caption in front of one female sculpture read as ”Diety “ Probably there was a god to whom those dieting used to pray to cure obesity during Hoysala rule. Unfortunately we could not photograph ”Diety” as we are not allowed to do so.

I overheard three children (big,medium small) reading a board in front of a sculpture in Halebid. (This board was in many places) The board reads as ” Do not Touch and Damage“ The small kid read aloud ”do not Touch“ and stopped. On prompting by the eldest the middle one read ”and Damage“. The eldest then asked the mother ” Ma can i then damage without touching“

I always thought that in India, unlike some western country, citizens do not get dole. I am wrong . We have employment in government !!.

The following subscribers showed up on this blog also:

Username: MikeWink
E-mail: bugbeemershonyhe@gmail.com

Username: Andrianq
E-mail: pulvillarrac@gmail.com

I also found another curious uninvited subscriber named Heribertolsom85. What was curious? The subscriber does not show up when I go to the “User” pane. When I click “User” I see this subscriber for a fraction of a second and then he disappears!! This hacker has managed to list himself as “Administrator”. The Administrator tab says there are 2 administrators (in fact this is what alerted me, before I noticed the disappearing act above).

I kept clicking on Administrator/User several times and then quickly tried to click on the name of the interloper before it disappeared. After several attempts I managed to click on “Heribertolsom85″ before he disappeared and that led me to the “Edit User” page for Heribertolsom85.

Heribertolsom85 entered some php code for the “First name” field.  I am not familiar with php but from cursory examination I suspect this code is what kept his name from appearing when I listed users.

Code

After I removed the php code above Heribertolsom85 appeared along with other users.

BBC article

“The Student’s Sanskrit English Dictionary”, Vaman Shivram Apte
Page 225

झंपः, झंपा A spring, jump, leap;