I had recorded this post during my early morning walk at last week. The below post has been edited and updated at the time of publishing. On the morning of September 14th 2022, I decided to change my morning routine a bit- after walking Buddy early in the morning, I…
Images of Animals created using AI Tools
Over the weekend I tested some more tools to create images using Artificial Intelligence tools. This time, the theme was animals. Below are some of the results. Some of the tools I used include Huggingface, Thumbsnap, and Elbo.
Learning the English language using “old school” ways
I was a participant in a recent discussion on “How to learn English”. I could relate to the discussion quite a bit, because till the time I was 15 years old, my English was sub-par. Some great teachers, a school that encouraged reading and creative writing, and several novels helped…
Obituary: E. Alexandra Mary
A 96 year old widow E. Alexandra Mary breathed her last in her family’s vacation home yesterday. She leaves behind four children – Anne, Andrew, Edward and Charles, and their spouses and offspring. Alexandra Mary’s husband Philip had died last year, and she herself was unwell for the past several…
My thoughts on Digital Ocean’s Acquisition of Cloudways
Below is my “Gut feeling” take on the acquisition, read it as such. Digital Ocean’s acquisition of Cloudways appears to be a defensive move to fend off hostile takeover or investor appeasement, that is, it is a finance driven investment rather than a strategic one. BACKGROUND In the last week,…
How I created a video from AI generated images of dogs.
This morning I was tinkering around with a couple of different AI based image generators like Satndard Diffusion and Dalle2, and ended up creating a few images of dogs. I created the below video from those images. I have titled this video as “Dogs galore”, a play on words on…
Introduction to Bengaluru Business Literature Festival (BBLF) 2022
Welcome to a new season of MyKitaab Podcast! In this episode, learn all about Bengaluru Business Literature Festival (BBLF) 2022 from Author, Blogger, Book coach and Voice artist Ganesh Vancheeshwaran. Ganesh is a past guest on MyKitaab Podcast and is on the advisory panel of BBLF. The co-founder of this…
New Look- July Updates
A short update: I am back into the blogging groove, but before that I had to complete a long pending update on this site. Many things needed tweaking, and I thought that a new, simpler, cleaner look was much needed. So here we are: Twenty Twentyone theme of WordPress, with…
Random Updates – May 2022
The end of May is approaching and I have not published any new post for over two months now. Which does not mean I have NOT been writing- quite the contrary. But more on that later. Thanks for all the visits, comments and feedback in the meantime!
VPS from Virtual Machines (Virmach) : Benchmarks in 2022
In this post, you will find results from benchmarks on two Virtual Private Servers from Virmach, located in Amsterdam and New Jersey, respectively.These servers had been ‘idling’ for the past few months. In 2022, I had decided to really cut down on the number of VPS benchmarks and reviews I…